The Friday Morning Blast

This Day – Scores from around The Blast Zone; plus R.A. Long vs Prosser basketball ('08), and Naselle vs Wilbur-Creston (1992)

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Mar 06, 2026

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High School Boys Basketball

(2 of 9) — R.A. Long’s Brenner Coates (middle) fights for possession of the basketball while teammate Cam Newsome (foreground) tries not to get crushed during a 55-45 win over Renton in the 2A State quarterfinals, Thursday, March 5, at the Yakima SunDome. / Photo by Candy Durgeloh for Blast Zone Media

2A State Quarterfinals

R.A. Long 55, Renton 45

— VIDEO: Highlights from R.A. Long’s 55-45 win over Renton in the 2A State quarterfinals, Thursday, March 5, at the Yakima SunDome. / Video by Patrick Durgeloh for Blast Zone Media —

High School Girls Basketball

2B State Quarterfinals

Cle Elum-Roslyn 68, Toutle Lake 43

College Men’s Basketball

LCC’s Shane Douma-Shancez fires a pass up court during a contest this week in the NWAC Basketball Championships at Columbia Basin College in Paco. On Thursday the defending NWAC champion Red Devils defeated Treasure Valley 96-74 to return to the Final Four. / Photo by Daniel Acosta

NWAC / Elite 8

Lower Columbia 96, Treasture Valley 74

This Day In History

Mar. 6, 1992: Trailing by a point with a minute to play, the Naselle boys basketball team rips off a 7-0 run to overcome Wilbur-Creston 57-51 and punch its ticket to the State B title game in Spokane. Brett Kimbal sparked the run with a steal, feeding Craig Smith, who made a layup through contact for a three-point play to put the Comets in front. Ryan Erickson stole the next inbounds pass and took it to the rack to make it a four-point game, and Steve Mattson came away with a steal on the next Wildcat possession, leading to two more Erickson free throws. Mattson finished with 24 points and 15 rebounds, and Smith had 17 points.
Mar. 6, 2008: The R.A. Long boys basketball team goes the distance for a 79-70 win over Prosser in overtime in a loser-out contest at the 2A state tournament, giving the Jacks their first state win since 1956.
“If we’re gonna make history, we might as well do it in overtime,” said RAL senior Marcus Irwin, who scored nine of his 16 points in the extra period. Tanner Bradley led the Lumberjacks with 21 points, Edwin Frauenfeld added 14, and Scott Pisapia had 12.

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