"I was extremely happy with the effort of all our players tonight," Irish coach Eric Wood said. "We had to face some adversity early in the game with the foul trouble, but everyone maximized their opportunities when they were on the court and it was a solid team win."

The Indians went to the fourth quarter clinging to a 33-30 lead before pulling away in the closing minutes.

"We had a great outing," Blue Devils coach Jake Butenhoff said. "We are well pleased with the hard work our team continues to put in. This is our highest finish yet, and we expect to continue to see great things."

Morgan Thomas scored 16 points for the Irish (0-2 record), most of it coming in after intermission as they fought to climb out of a 36-10 hole.

The Blue Devils suffered an 82-65 loss to Central Valley before falling to Gonzaga Prep, 70-49.

Wa-Hi sophomore Jesse Snyder was the top finisher in the standard pentathlon, just ahead of teammate Luke Bona in second place.

The TigerScots suffered a 54-42 loss at Central Linn before crushing Gaston, 66-35.

The loss was the Blue Devils' second in three nights to a Greater Spokane League opponent. Wa-Hi lost its season opener to Ferris, 52-40, on Wednesday night.

Dalana Pickard was the top scoring TigerScot with six points.

The Pirates, who ended their season 10-1, came up short despite 317 yards rushing and four touchdowns from quarterback Trent Gwinn.

"Our girls are so excited to make a run to the state tournament, something that none of them have had the experience of yet," Blue Devils coach Christian Dove said. "We still have goals and are looking forward to working hard, and giving it our best this week as we travel to the Yakima Sundome. I am beyond proud of our team, and am excited to see what else we can accomplish."

The Irish, who had a three-game winning streak snapped, ended their season 7-3 on a day in which the teams combined for 1,146 yards total offense.

"We are more than proud of the girls and what they accomplished," Knights coach Robin Browning said. "And our friends and supporters have just been incredible, coming out the way they did. When we came back home, we had people honking their horns and blinking their headlights. The girls were in tears. I was in tears."

The match was knotted, 2-2, by the end of regulation with Adrian Rubio and Vicente Garcia scoring both goals for the Tigers (10-7 record).

"She just started diving in May of this year," Blue Devils coach Nancy Rose said. "Her tremendous improvement is due to her incredible work ethic, determination, focus, and to the efforts of Wa-Hi's amazing volunteer dive coach, Jamie Coburn."

"Alex had a great race today," TigerScots coach Jeremy Dobos said. "He ran the entire race with the eventual third and fourth place finishers, who were both from our district. He left it all out there on that course today, eventually finishing in seventh place."

Hallan qualified for state, which will be Nov. 12-13 in Federal Way, Wash., by placing second in diving here.

"This was a tough loss and in a season where we have had very few losses, it makes it that much harder," Hawks coach Angie Potts said. "We will definitely be working on some things next week as we get ready for the state tournament. This team is very capable of doing well at state, they just have to continue believing in themselves and each other."

"Individually we had a great day today," Wa-Hi coach Michael Locati said. "It was such a pleasure to watch them run and compete the way they did. You never know when you get to this last race of the season and how the nerves, expectations and emotions are going to affect you. They handled the situation beautifully."

Levie Phillips scored a pair of four-yard rushing touchdowns in the game — one of which was a tie-breaking tally in the fourth quarter — as part of a 22-carry, 83-yard effort for the TigerScots.

Ferris came in fresh off a resounding 32-6 victory over Cheney the previous week, but the Blue Devils kept them off the board until late in the third quarter when quarterback Paxton Page engineered a 12-play, 68-yard scoring drive.