The Redmond High boys’ basketball team had a big weekend of basketball, notching two key wins against Inglemoor (68-60) and Eastlake (84-66) to finish the regular season 10-4 and 15-5 overall.
On Friday night, the Mustangs jumped out to a big lead against the Vikings, 35-22 at the half, and despite Inglemoor’s 23-point effort in the fourth-quarter, the home team held them off to win by eight.
Leslie Ellis and Jason Harrington both had big games, scoring 22 for Redmond in the win.
On Saturday during their Senior Night and league finale, the offense was firing on all cylinders as Redmond put up a season-high 84 points, including two quarters of 25 points or more.
Eight different players scored for the Mustangs, led by Harrington with 20 – his third straight 20-point game and sixth in his last seven games – followed by Leslie Ellis and Conner Floan with 18 each.
With the wins, Redmond took the No. 2 seed in the Crest Division and will play the No. 3 Crown seed, Ballard (8-7, 10-10) on Tuesday night at home in their Kingco Tournament opener, tipoff at 7:30 p.m.
In their previous meeting this year, Redmond edged out the Beavers 54-50 back on Dec. 20.
The Lady Mustangs lost twice over the weekend, 60-38 to Inglemoor and 72-52 to Eastlake, to finish their league season 2-12 (6-14 overall).
Overlake boys, girls advance to Emerald City League Tournament
The Owl boys fell to league-leading Bellevue Christian on Friday night at home, 64-39, to finish their regular season 5-7 in league play and 9-11 overall.
For the Owls, senior Dean Poplawski scored 12 points, putting him in the elite 1,000-point club at the Overlake School for his four-year varsity career.
The Owls advance to play University Prep at Seattle Academy on Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. in a winner-to-Districts, loser-out game.
The girls’ team edged out Forest Ridge in a 35-33 thriller on Friday to end their regular season 4-10.
After being held to just two first-quarter points, Katherine Hill led the Owls with nine, followed by Julia Turner with eight.
The Lady Owls took the last spot in the tournament and will battle Northwest (7-6, 12-7) in a loser-out, winner-to-Districts game on Wednesday night at Seattle Academy, tipoff at 5:30 p.m.
De Faria only Mustang wrestler to advance from Kingco
The Redmond High wrestling team had a tough league tournament last weekend at Issaquah High School, as nearly all the Mustangs’ state hopefuls came up one match short of earning a placing spot into this weekend’s regional tournament against the South Puget Sound League.
Marcio De Faria, a sophomore, was the Mustangs’ only advancer, placing fifth in the 138 weight class.
De Faria opened up his tournament with a 12-3 win over Dean Patrick of Inglemoor, and punched his ticket to districts with a second-round pin of Eastlake’s Ryan Martinez in 3:29.
After losing a tough match to Jerdon Helgeson of Issaquah 5-4, De Faria came back and won his 5th/6th final against Mark Smith of Eastlake, 13-5.
De Faria will wrestle at Rogers High School in Puyallup this weekend as the team’s only representative, where the top five placers in each division will advance to the Tacoma Dome’s Mat Classic Feb. 17 and 18.
