The top-seeded teams in the District 5-A high school basketball tournament looked just that Wednesday.
Silverdale Baptist Academy's girls and Arts & Sciences' boys led from start to finish in their respective championship games against each school's other team.
The Silverdale girls defeated CSAS 54-38 and the CSAS boys beat Silverdale 65-40 at CSAS.
"Now we'll see if we can be the best team in the region," Patriots boys' coach Mark Dragoo said.
All four of those teams will be at home in the first round of the Region 3 tournament. Silverdale's girls will play Friday against South Pittsburg and the Patriots will take on Sale Creek on Saturday. All first-round region games are scheduled to start at 7 p.m. local time of the host schools.
Boyd-Buchanan and Copper Basin split consolation games with the Lady Buccaneers prevailing 42-25 and the Cougars winning 59-42. Copper Basin's girls will play at Marion County on Friday and the boys will play at Richard Hardy.
Because both Boyd-Buchanan teams are scheduled to play at Van Buren, school representatives are planning to ask the TSSAA for permission to play the games on one night.
Silverdale's girls (20-6) scored the first five points in their game and the CSAS boys scored the first six in theirs. Both teams led by nine at the end of the first quarter.
The Lady Seahawks twice led by 12 in the second quarter of their game. Their boys' counterpart was limited to Davis King's basket at the 3:28 mark of the second quarter, and CSAS went to the half up 29-9.
The Patriots' 24-point third quarter included a 9-0 run, and Dragoo pulled his starters from the court with 17.6 seconds left in the period with a 33-point lead.
CSAS (21-8) went unbeaten on the way to the district regular-season championship, but incorporated in that was an overtime victory over Silverdale on the same floor Nov. 29.
"We didn't play very well in that game," Dragoo said. "That was our third game and we hadn't scrimmaged anybody. We weren't moving yet."
He cited differences between then and now.
"I think offensively we move the ball much better and we're taking better shots," the coach said. "Defensively, as a group, I think we're putting more pressure on the ball. I think our pressure bothered them."
Once the Lady Seahawks got their lead to double digits early in the second half, the Lady Patriots never got closer than 10 the rest of the way.
"The girls were just inspired when they came out, and they executed," SBA coach Victor Underwood said. "It was a great effort. This was our goal all year. These seniors had never had the opportunity to win a district championship. This didn't just happen. This was four years in the making."
Cahlib Edwards led four CSAS boys in double-figure scoring with 14 points. Miquel Hamilton scored 12, tournament most valuable player Darius Graves had 11 and Kobe Clark added 10 in a reserve role.
Christian Rogers scored 11 of his 13 points for Silverdale (14-10) in the second half and Brannon Walls had all 11 of his after halftime.
Girls' tournament MVP Emily Harkleroad paced SBA with 18 points. Rachel Sanders worked the post area for her 16.
Lennex Walker scored the Lady Patriots' first 17 points and finished with 25, including five 3-point goals. The first points scored by a player from CSAS (14-14) other than her came when Lamiah Walker made a 3-point shot from the right wing at 2:37 of the third quarter. She added nine points and two others had two apiece.
"Lennex is a great player," Underwood said. "She's going to make some shots. You just hope you can do something to throw her off a little. We were just fortunate none of the others did enough to hurt us."
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