Boys basketball

TJ 66, Beamer 56

Thomas Jefferson came away from Todd Beamer's home gymnasium with a 66-56 boys basketball win over the Titans Monday, Nov. 30. The game was non-league, however, putting the Raiders at 1-0 overall and 0-0 in South Puget Sound League North Division action.
Brigham buried 30 points to lead TJ to victory, while Lanier and Radford hit nine apiece, Baklund seven, Braxmeyer five, Hicks four and Sanford two.
Davis sank 18 points to top the Beamer scorers and Coggins contributed 12. M. Aficuc and Nefi scored five each and V. Aficuc and Moore hit four apiece. Gridley and Holcomb threw in three apiece and Rhodes added one.

Decatur 58, Stadium 52

Jerron Smith hit 18 points to lead the Gators in non-league action Tuesday, Dec. 1 and Terrell Williams backed him up with 17. Jordan McCloud added 12, Peters eight and Davis four.

TJ 62, Stadium 38

Thomas Jefferson tamed the Tigers convincingly in a non-league game Wednesday.

Federal Way 79, Aub.-Riv. 41

Federal Way carried its winning ways into its South Puget Sound League North Division opener Friday.

TJ 60, Auburn 56

Thomas Jefferson ran its overall record to 3-0 with Friday's South Puget Sound League North Division opening victory.

Decatur 83, Span. Lk. 71

Decatur outgunned the Sentinels in Friday's SPSL South Division opener.

Beamer 73, Em. Ridge 60

Beamer also broke into the SPSL South win column early Friday.

Girls basketball

TJ 52, Auburn 39

Thomas Jefferson opened SPSL North play by knocking off the Trojans.

Aub.-Riv. 61, Federal Way 47

No. 1-ranked Federal Way fell to Auburn-Riverside to open SPSL North action Friday.

Em. Ridge 59, Beamer 26

Beamer took a beating in its loss to Emerald Ridge of Puyallup Friday.

Span. Lk. 45, Decatur 38

Spanaway Lake sank Decatur in SPSL South play Friday.

Wrestling

TJ Tournament

Thomas Jefferson hosted its own tournament Thursday, and it included one surprise visitor. Decatur showed up and turned a three-team event into a four-team festival.

The tournament was then set into two first round matches followed by junior varsity action and then the second varsity round.

Thomas Jefferson opened with a narrow 36-35 loss to Kentlake, and Tahoma defeated Decatur in the other first round match, 48-27.

Tahoma handled TJ in the second round, 64-11, and Decatur defeated Kentlake, 48-30.

The Decatur tournament was scheduled for Saturday, only the site was set to be back at the Thomas Jefferson gymnasium.