YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

If the Pullman boys looked profoundly unhappy as they accepted the team trophy for seventh place, it’s understandable. Saturday marked the second time in four games that the Greyhounds blew a double-digit lead late in the game. They led Grandview by 10 points in the fourth quarter, only to lose, and on Saturday Cashmere scored the last 11 points in regulation play to send the game into overtime, when the Bulldogs won going away. And the Greyhounds shot themselves in the final 2:01, drawing both a technical foul (hanging on the rim on a missed dunk attempt) and an offensive foul.

Where were those Grandview guys on the first three days? The Greyhounds scored more in each half Saturday than they scored all game against Quincy; for that matter, so was their 25 points in the fourth quarter.

Riverside’s third-place finish earned the Ram girls the school’s first state-tournament basketball trophy — girls OR boys. The boys’ sixth-place trophy for Chimacum is only that school’s second. (The Cowboys were fifth in Class B in 1979.)

Jamie Green, once a standout baseball pitcher for Goldendale and for the Yakima Beetles (1990-91), was one of the officials selected to work Saturday night’s boys championship game between Medical Lake and Quincy. One of the other officials working the game was Jack Clerf, a member of the Yakima Valley officiating association. Green now lives and works in Western Washington.

Neither of the two teams in the boys final, Medical Lake or Quincy, won its regular-season league title.