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Faidley Leads King's
to Semis Chris Faidley is on the verge of history, and the King’s Knights are on the verge of getting into the championship game once again. Faidley, the MVP of the 1A tournament two years ago when the Knights won their second straight title, opened King’s semifinal game Thursday against Toledo with back-to-back-to-back 3-point shots — making all three — as King’s raced out to a big early lead and cruised to a 57-42 victory. “The kid comes out and shoots three 3’s ... what does that tell your team: ‘Hey, I came here to play,’” Knights coach Marv Morris said of his senior guard, who would finish the game with 29 points on 9-for-16 shooting (5-for-9 from beyond the arc). “It’s a lift when that happens to any team.” Faidley scored the first 13 points for King’s — giving the Knights an early 13-2 lead — and had 15 in the first half, despite playing less than five minutes in the opening two periods. Morris pulled him to the bench for the rest of the half after Faidley picked up his second foul only six minutes into the game. Faidley’s 29 points gave him a career total of 249, just three points shy of the tournament record of 252, set by La Center’s Dustin Van Weerdhuizen (1995-98). The senior guard will certainly break the mark Friday in the Knights’ 4 p.m. semifinal game against N.W. Christian, a 51-44 victor over Zillah on Thursday. The decidedly undersized Knights held 6-foot-8 Toledo junior Artem Wallace to 14 points and 11 rebounds, parking a defender in front of and behind the powerful 220-pounder whenever possible. “We didn’t want him ever to get the ball without somebody in front of him and somebody behind him,” Morris said. The strategy worked, and the Indians never got closer than nine points after the intermission. Chad Amrine added 12 points for Toledo (20-6), while Calvin Fujii finished with 10 for King’s, which — Faidley aside — look younger and are usually smaller than any team they play.
“You can’t grade their heart on their appearance,”
Morris said of the Knights (17-9). “They may be little, but they have big
hearts.”
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