LSI Recap Day 4: Rainier Beach Wins Title

All Tournament Team:

Shaqquan Aaron: Rainier Beach (MVP)

Jahlil Okafor – Whiteny Young

Paul White – Whitney Young

David Crisp: Rainier Beach

Payton Pritchard: West Linn

Championship: Rainier Beach 95, Bishop Gorman 67

Rainier Beach continued to blow the nets off at the Les Schwab Invitational and nothing was going to stand in their way of a championship. Rainier Beach made 13-19 threes on the night on their way to a 95-47 Bishop Gorman win. David Crisp who was hot all tournament led Rainier Beach with 27 points on 6-7 from three. Five Rainier Beach players scored in double digits: Shaqquan Aaron had 16 points and 7 assists and Dejounte Murray scored 17 points.

Noah Robotham scored 23 points for Bishop Gorman in a losing effort. Chase Jeter had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds and highly touted recruit Stephen Zimmerman finished with 12 points and 6 rebounds.

All week no one could stay with Rainier Beach as they pushed the tempo and just out ran and out scored teams. Congratulations to Rainier Beach on becoming the 2013 LSI champions.

3rd Place game: West Linn 68, Whitney Young 67

Payton Pritchard’s fall away leaner in from 15 feet went down with 1.8 seconds to play to power West Linn to a big win 68-67 over nationally ranked Whitney Young.

West Linn survived despite the nations top recruit, Duke bound Jahlil Okafor shooting 13-14 from the field in route to scroing 32 points to go along with 12 rebounds. Whitney Young out rebounded the Lions 31-19 and Whitney Young scored 46 points in the paint and made 19-24 free throws that accounted for all but two of their points on the night.

Anthony Mathis led four West Linn players in double figures scoring 15 points. Pritchard was huge again for the Lions with 13 points and 7 assists. West Linn’s supporting cast stepped up big as Ryan Shearmire had 14 points including three 3-pointers. Hayden Coppedge scored 11 points in 18 minutes of work.

This was a huge win not only for West Linn but for the state of Oregon. Whitney Young was a preseason top 10 team in the country. West Linn bounced back from a tough loss against Bishop Gorman in a game they should have won. They were up 29-14 at the half and let the game slip away late.

Okafor was unstoppable Monday night. Facing double and triple teams he had his way missing only one shot in the contest. Whitney Young was 0-10 from three and large in part to Miles Reynolds going 0-9 and shooting 6-22 from the field.

For the game West Linn shot 53.3% FG, 9-21 3pt (42.9%), and 11-12 FT (91.7%). They shared the ball extremely well and 17 of their 24 baskets were assisted and they only had 8 turnovers on the night.

West Linn finished the tournament in third place and Payton Pritchard was named to the all tournament team.

5th Place Game: Jefferson 64, Tigard 52

Silas Melson led Jefferson with 23 points and Devaunte Paschal added 18 points and 7 rebounds in Jefferson’s 64-52 win Monday night. Kadeem Stickland controlled the tempo with 10 points and 5 assists.

Tigard was led by Bryan Berg’s 18 points and contributed AJ Hotchkins 16 points. Joel Johnson scored 8 points and had a team-high 13 rebounds in a losing effort.

Consolation:

Lake Oswego 73, South Eugene 58:

Jazz Johnson’s 35 points powered Lake Oswego to the win. Yale commit, Eli Lininger scored 21 points and had 8 rebounds in a losing effort.

Sunset 58, Beaverton 50

Tyler Gutierrez had 22 points and 11 rebounds in the win. Beaverton was led by Martin Tannler’s 16 points.

Timberline 62, Grant 59

Donaven Dorsey scored 26 points in the win and Jarryn Bush added 15. Oscar Griffin came of the bench to score 14 points for Grant in the loss. Deiondre Bird had 13 points and 7 rebounds for Grant.

Churchill 64, Jesuit 62

Churchill was led by a balanced attack with four players in double figures. David Shdrick led the Lancers with 15 points, Deshone Brooks scored 13 points and Andrew Smith and Malik Morgan scored 12 and 11 points respectively in a close win over Jesuit.

Jack Nadelhoffer scored 20 points in a losing effort for Jesuit.