YAKIMA--Seattle Christian's boys baseball team made it somewhere that many other baseball teams wished they made it to -- state championship weekend.

The Warriors lost to the Brewster Bears, 20-1, in a 1A state semifinal at Parker Field in Yakima May 26.

So the Warriors had a bad game on an important day, and, the third time's the charm for a win theory against the Bears did not happen.

But The Warriors can now be considered a traditional power for making it to the state's final four.

"We've been to state tournament and played in this game five of the last seven years," said Warriors head coach Tom Mallory.

The Warriors began baseball as a team in the Nisqually League way back in 1985.

That year they were league doormats, and, the next. Finally, thanks to talent from the likes of Matt Wimmer, who attended the University of Washington on a baseball scholarship, the Warriors made state.

But then, after that, did the Warriors make state, like for all of the 1990s?

"No," said Mallory.

So the Warriors really got things going successfully consistently for so far into the 21st century.

"The program is definitely going in the right direction," said Mallory.

The Warriors trailed 11-0 after the first inning. The Bears in that time benefited not from Warrior errors, but from clean hits, 11 of them.

The Warriors did beat Sequim , a 3A team that made it to the round of 16 for that tourney, but that Sequim win was during the season.

Even with that 15-14 win over Sequim, the Bears were some kind of wonderful.

We hadn't seen a team hit the ball that hard against us all season, " said Travis Sangder, senior catcher for the Warriors.

The Bears scored one run in the second but flooded the scoreboard with something no dam could ever stop -- five more runs in the third to make it 17-0.

The Warriors came back for one run to show they cared about not completely holing up down so much so early.

Said senior captain, Patrick Hill, "We kept our heads up though we were losing by a ton."

That's about it, but to say Brewster is a traditionally great team. They were 1A state champs in 2000 and 2005.

"Brewster is a good baseball team," said Mallory. "We talked about it all year, we wanted to get beat by a better baseball team.

The Bears were best in state, ranked No.1 with a 21-0 record. The unranked Warriors finished their season after a consolation third-fourth game.

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