Escaping the rain of Washington, the Lake Washington baseball team headed to Arizona for the Chris Moon Memorial Classic in Tucson last week.

During the team’s first game, against Ironwood Ridge, the Kangs lost 1-0, after a fourth inning run by Ironwood sealed the game.

Against Arvada West on March 31, the Kangs lost 6-2. Aravada West led the game 6-0 before Lake Washington score it’s only run of the game in the fifth. The Kangs had four hits in the game, with no errors, while Arvada West put up 10 hits with two errors.

On Friday, April 1 the team blanked Lakewood with a 10-0 final score. The Kangs scored in every inning, including three runs in the second, two in the third and two in the sixth. Later in the afternoon, the Kangs lost 10-8 to Juan Diego Catholic.

On April 2, the last day of the tournament, the Kangs beat Bear Creek 9-6. While Bear Creek got up 2-0 in the first inning, Lake Washington came back in the second to take a 3-2 lead. They kept the team in the third, going up 4-2, before Bear Creek added three runs in the fourth to take a 6-5 lead. The Kangs rallied in the fifth, scoring four runs to take the lead and the game. They had nine runs off of 12 hits and two errors in the match.

The team returned to Washington and faced off against Sammamish on April 4 in the first league game of the season. The Kangs won 9-2. Despite remaining scoreless in the first two innings while the Totems rounded the bases twice, Lake Washington quickly changed the score, with seven runs in three innings. They had nine runs on 11 hits.

Theo Alexander was 1-4 during the game, with 2 RBI, while Bob Cruiskhank was 3-4, with two runs, an RBI and a home run, while teammate Zach Johnson made his lone hit count with a home run.