by Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

With 5.3 seconds left in the fourth quarter, ahead, 39-38, over the Shorewood Christian Lions, Seattle Lutheran held on when two long shots taken from deep in the corner both clanged off the rim, keeping the final score a one-point Saints win in Sea-Tac 1B basketball action at Chinook Middle School in Sea-Tac.
Both teams came into the game with 5-1 records, tied atop the 1B standings, along with Northwest Yeshiva and Mount Rainier Lutheran.

"We were playing a zone, but, they had a couple good looks," said Brett Kapels, Saints coach. "It was a battle the whole night."

Good game. Some times the Saints distanced themselves from the Lions, but the Lions, based in White Center, kept roaring back. It was 20-17, Saints' lead, at halftime, and, stretching to 34-26, at the three-minute mark of the third quarter, with the high-flying, Xavier Turner bucket inside the paint. But, the Lions ended the third on a 4-0 run, and, were down, 34-30, heading into the fourth quarter.
The Saint led, 39-34 with three minutes left in the game, and, the Lions scored the final four points of the game, but it wasn't enough.

Turner led the Saints with eight points, followed by Hermon Rusom and Roberto Duenaz with seven apiece. Ryan Okabayashi chipped in six. Isaiah Dowding Albrecht scored three. For the Lions, Stan Domingo scored 13 and Jovi Fevaleaki, 10, JJ Young, nine, Spencer Howell, two, four, and, Lucas Sollesvik, two.

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