The Lake Washington season came to an end Friday, Feb. 18 with a 75-61 loss to Rainier Beach at the SeaKing district tournament.

Lake Washington was in the hunt for the final state berth out of the district tournament, but ran into the No. 2 team in the state, after Rainier Beach was pushed to the consolation bracket with a loss to Bellevue.

The Kangs had lost earlier in the tournament to another top ranked team out of Seattle, O’Dea. On Tuesday, Feb. 15, the Kangs lost 78-71 in a close battle during the district quarterfinals. Lake Washington led early in the game, but fell behind and never regain the lead. Darien Nelson-Henry had 25 points for Lake Washington during the match against O’Dea, Kramer Taylor had 24 and Guy Lynott added 11.

During the season Matt Staudacher was one of the KingCo conference’s leading scorers, averaging 16 points a game over the season’s 22 matches. Nelson-Henry had a 14.4 game point average, while Taylor earned an average of 12.7 for the team.

The Kangs ended the season with a 15-11 record.