By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

SPOKANE--The West Seattle area had two finishes in the top eight of the state Class 1B boys basketball tournament.

Seattle Lutheran captured sixth place, winning one of three games in the tournament action held in the Spokane Arena while Shorewood Christian had a two-and-out stay in the final eight -- including a close loss to Seattle Lutheran.

Seattle Lutheran opened the tournament with a 50-44 loss to Almira-Coulee-Hartline on Thursday and Shorewood Christian opened with a 59-49 loss to the Yakima Tribal school.

That set up a rematch between the two SeaTac League schools in the consolation bracket Friday.
Seattle Lutheran had won the SeaTac regular season title over Shorewood Christian, but Shorewood Christian took the recent Tri-District tournament championship game rematch by a 65-57 score.

This time it was Seattle Lutheran's Saints who prevailed, 52-47, to advance to Saturday's game for fourth and sixth place.

Seattle Lutheran met Garfield-Palouse and lost, 59-54, to come away with the sixth place trophy.
The Saints are coached by Brett Kapels, who is assisted by Andrew Burza, Jack Menashe, Steffond Brown and Bryce Morgan.

Senior players are Xavier Turner, Brandon Lulow, Ryan Okabayashi and JT Gallant, while the junior class consists of Grant Ball, Isaiah Dowding-Albrecht, Roberto Duenaz and Josh Meyer.

Sophomores are Matt Smith and Joe Meehan and freshmen are Gavin Doerr and Simon Solomon.

Shorewood Christian's Lions are coached by Alfonso Gonzales, who is assisted by David Nguyen.

Senior players are Axel Yemane, Matt Munson, Stan Domingo Jr., Nicko Morris, Parker Boyd and Quin Malo and the juniors are Lucas Sollesvik, Jovi Fevaleaki and JJ Young.

The lone sophomore is Spencer Howell and there are no freshmen on the team.

Seattle Lutheran finished with a 22-4 overall record as the Lions went 20-5.