When Northwest Conference champion Anacortes was eliminated from the Class 2A boys basketball state tournament barely an hour earlier, it should have been a warning to the Sehome Mariners: If you don’t play your best, you won’t last long in Yakima. The Mariners didn’t play their best and they were the second NWC team sent … Read more
Eight of our Whatcom high school basketball teams are headed for their respective state tournaments this week with dreams of capturing the “gold ball” state championship trophy. Not all of them can win, of course, because several are in the same classification. But Whatcom hoopsters have certainly collected their share of state titles. In the … Read more
Lummi Nation traveled the farthest of our Whatcom teams but the trip to Richland proved to be unsuccessful as the sixth-seeded Blackhawks fell to third seed DeSales of Walla Walla, 74-56, in the Class 1B state regionals Saturday. Despite the loss, the Blackhawks (19-8) advance to the state tournament in the Spokane Arena and will … Read more
Mark Morris of Longview came out hot and left Sehome behind by 10 after the first quarter and while the Mariners played the Monarchs even after that it was too late as Sehome lost, 84-72, in the Class 2A state regionals in Chehalis on Saturday, Feb. 25. Fortunately, the fifth-seeded Mariners (18-5) still get to … Read more
When it comes to state tournaments, there are no “gimmes” even for the No.1 team in the state. The top-seeded Lynden Christian boys basketball team was reminded of that when they were pushed by eighth-seeded Overlake before finally pulling away from the Owls for a 69-49 victory in the Class 1A state regionals at Mount … Read more
All season long, the Blaine boys basketball team has lived in the shadow. Despite a successful season and going to the state tournament for the second straight year, the Borderites have always been Whatcom’s No.2 Class 1A team. No longer. Not after Blaine used its stifling defense and clutch play to shock Zillah, the No.2 … Read more
Things didn’t come easy for our Whatcom basketball teams as only three of the six won their state regional games on Saturday, Feb. 25. Lynden Christian’s two teams were tested by lower seeds in the Class 1A regionals at Mount Vernon High School but came out on top. The LC boys defeated Overlake, 69-49, in … Read more
It isn’t often the Lynden boys basketball team is an “underdog,” but it didn’t matter much on Friday, Feb. 24, as the sixth-seeded Lions went on the road to knock off third seed Renton, 70-52, in a Class 2A state regional contest. Lynden (21-4) used a 19-0 run to start the second half to run … Read more
The high school basketball state playoffs begin this weekend with the state regionals, and Whatcom Hoops has all the information you’ll need to follow all nine of our teams. Three squads — the Nooksack Valley and Sehome girls and the Lynden boys — play on Friday with the girls at Mount Vernon High School and … Read more
For the Sehome boys basketball team, this is the Class 2A state tournament the Mariners have been pointing to for years. For Lynden, this is just the latest one. Whatcom’s two best Class 2A boys teams will begin their state quests on the road this weekend in the state regionals. The sixth-seeded Lions take on … Read more
