NWAC basketball tournaments resume Saturday at Everett CC
Published 1:30 am Friday, March 17, 2017
EVERETT — No top seeds remain in the Northwest Athletic Conference Basketball Championships men’s tournament, which resumes Saturday at Everett Community College.
North Idaho, Clark and Shoreline lost first-round games to No. 4-seeds last Thursday, and South Puget Sound was defeated by No. 2 Umpqua in a quarterfinal game Friday. Two of the four remaining teams — Walla Walla and Lower Columbia — are No. 3 seeds. Tacoma, another semifinal qualifier, is a No. 4 seed.
Tacoma plays Umpqua in one semifinal at 6 p.m. Saturday. That game will be followed by Walla Walla and Lower Columbia in the other semifinal at 8 p.m. The winners of those contests play in the championship game at 5:15 p.m. Sunday.
In the NWAC women’s basketball tournament, also held at EvCC, things are much different.
Three of the four top seeds cruised into the semifinals with victories last weekend. Umpqua, Spokane and Skagit Valley will be joined in the semifinals by Walla Walla, a No. 2-seed that knocked off a No. 1 seed, Lower Columbia, in a quarterfinal game Sunday.
On Saturday, Umpqua plays Spokane at 2 p.m., and Walla Walla faces Skagit Valley at 4 p.m. The winners of those contests play in the title game, to be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
The NWAC sophomore all-star games will be played Sunday at 9 a.m. (women) and 11:15 a.m. (men) at EvCC. Everett’s Brevin Brown, a Cascade graduate, will play for the North-East team in the men’s contest.
