The Skyview boys basketball team needed to do a little extra work on a holiday, but it was all good.
Malakai Weimer had a double-double of 16 points and 11 rebounds, plus Jaxson Filler had 15 points and nine rebounds in a 56-52 overtime victory against West Valley of Yakima on Monday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational game held at Renton High School.
Gavin Perdue added 12 points and Demaree Collins had 11 for the Storm (9-5 overall) won their fourth consecutive game.
“Without practicing the past three days due to weather, it was a touch thing to travel three hours north and play a really tough state-level playoff team,” Skyview coach Matt Gruhler said. “I give a lot of credit to our team for the gutsy win.”
The game featured 13 lead changes with neither team leading by more than five points.
Gruhler praised the defense of Filler and Javen Fletch, who played solid defense against two of West Valley’s top players especially in the fourth quarter and overtime.
Girls basketball
CAMAS 64, GARFIELD 62 (OT) — The Papermakers also had to work long on the holiday before getting past Garfield in the MLK Holiday Classic at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.
Addison Harris led Camas (11-6) with a double-double of 23 points and 14 rebounds. Reagan Jamison had 15 points and six rebounds, and Keirra Thompson put in nine points to go with eight assists and five rebounds plus was 6 for 6 from the free-throw line down the stretch.
Garfield led 17-8 after the first quarter thanks to a seven-rebound advantage, and Camas quickly raced back to lead 30-26 at the half.
Jamison made a 3-pointer with about a minute to play in regulation to put Camas ahead only for Oregon commit Katie Fiso of Garfield sending the game into overtime with a 3 at the buzzer.
Camas scored first in the OT with Harris putting the Papermakers ahead. Jamison would add a 3-point play along with Thompson’s free throws.
Garfield (8-2) had its five-game win streak end.
KELSO 41, TUMWATER 30 — Bregan Ruhland scored 13 points and Karsyn Hall scored 10 as the Hilanders beat Tumwater in the non-league game at Lower Columbia in Longview.
