High School Sports Feature: Todd Beamer's 1st trip to State

On Thursday Federal Way High School boys basketball was featured on Just South of North. And today we're going to shine the spotlight on another Federal Way school. Only this time it's one of the newer schools in the state, and one without a storied background.

Todd Beamer High School.

Todd Beamer High School, named after Todd Morgon Beamer (a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 attacks) opened it's doors in the fall of 2003.

And last night the stars seemed to align as the Beamer boys basketball team beat the highly talented and dominate Bellarmine Prep High School 78-68.

The Beamer Titans beat the Lions in a must win game of the West Central District 4A Tournament. Going into the game both teams knew that the winner would go to state and the loser's season would be over.

Bellarmine's Abdul Gaddy, a senior, is easily one of the best players in the state. He has been invited to the McDonald's All-American game and also the Nike Hoops Summit in Portland, Ore. He also has commited to play for the University of Washington next season.

But on Friday night Gaddy and his Lions met Napa Mefi. Mefi, a 5 foot 9 inch sophomore guard, came to play. He lit up the scoreboard with 28 points, including draining five 3-pointers.

At one point during the first half the Titans trailed by as much as nine points. But during the start of the fourth quarter Beamer went on a 12-0 run and put the game almost out of reach, 64-49.

Bellermine tried to rally back, but had dug themselves in too deep of a hole. In the end they watched as Todd Beamer celebrated their first trip to the 4A state tournament. They will be the Districts Number 5 seed into state.

Kevin Davis also added 25 points for the Titans.

High School Sports Feature: Federal Way...All the Way?

12 in a row! That's the current winning streak of the 4A West Central District Tournaments #1 seeded Federal Way High School boys basketball team after beating 8th seeded Curtis High School on Wednesday night. The Eagles are currently 23-2 overall on the season and look to notch win 24, as well as extend their winning streak to a lucky 13 on Saturday when they take on 5th seeded Foss High School. One of these teams will look to win the tournament as well as continue their winning streak as Foss has also won 12 straight games.

The Eagles came out victorious on Wednesday night by a score of 59-54 over Curtis and where led in scoring by Michael Hale III, who poured in 17 points and Cole Dickerson who added 15. Also contributing to the victory was Isiah Umipig who scored 7 points but more importantly sank 3 of 4 shots from the charity stripe in the last 14.9 seconds of the game.

On Saturday at Puyallup High School, Federal Way will try to win their first district title since 1994. A victory would surely give them a shot at a #1 seed in the state tournament which will be decided on Sunday when the seeding is announced.