Boys basketball tournament

In addition to the girls tournament, the boys were also in action this weekend. I was at the girls tournament and was not at the boys games, but Coach Washington sent me the following about the weekend's varsity games in Mt. Vernon:

We went 1 and 3 this weekend. In the first game we lost to WESCO South Jackson HS. The Jackson was led by Brett Kingma, and our defense held him to about 10 points. Jackson is a district playoff team but we started out strong and had them 12 to 0 to start off with. Our youth showed in the second as we committed several turnovers that Jackson capitalized on. Mike Washington Jr. and Jay Stout led the scoring, while Josh Fikse, Rashaad Smith and Aaron Boesh led the defensive end with rebounding and solid defensive play. Next we played Union, a strong team from Vancouver, Washington. Again we started out strong and held a 6 point advantage late in the first half and trailed by 6 with 6 minutes left but again we revealed our our youth late in the game with more costly turnovers. Again, Washington, and Stout led the scoring with Boesch and Fiske showing strong defensive skills.

Sunday matched us up with South Whidbey and Everett but without Rashaad Smith. The first game, against OH teacher Scott Collins' South Whidbey team, went back and forth throughout. With 2 seconds left, South Whidbey hit a 3 point basket to win it. Washington and Stout again led Wildcat scorers, while Denzel Massey did a nice job running the point. Fikse and Boesh did another good job on the defensive end with rebounds.

Our last game of the day saw us being matched up with WESCO member Everett. The game was played up and down but the Wildcats ended up victorious. This game saw Washington, Stout and Massey leading the way in scoring, with Stout scoring 12 of his points on four 3 point baskets. Fikse again was the Wildcat power on the defensive end with some great rebounding.

The Varsity wildcats will not play again until they travel to the University of Portland the weekend of June 20th-23rd. However, the JV wildcats will play Wednesday June 4th at 6:30 at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon. They will also play in a JV Tourney June 7th and 8th at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham. Many of the previously mentioned Wildcats will also participate in the JV league. Said Coach Washington: "I feel the younger players need to play as much as they can, no matter if it is at the Varsity or JV Level".

Sorry, no photos to share from this tournament.