By Kyle Howard
Rainier Beach visited West Seattle in a Metro Sound Division game Tuesday night. Rainier Beach is currently ranked number one in state for 3A boy’s basketball and they showed why against West Seattle with another victory, 76-53. With this win Rainier Beach's record now stands at to 9-0 overall and 5-0 in league. West Seattle's record is 5-4 overall and 1-3 in league.

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Rainier Beach senior guard Anrio Adams scored a game high 21 points, Will Dorsey also added 19 points of his own. On West Seattle’s side both Vidal Griffin II and Latrey Newsome scored 16 for the Wildcats.

Defense and shot selection was the key to Rainier Beach’s win. They were able to penetrate well to the basket and played solid Defense, causing over 20 turnovers from West Seattle and racking up 13 steals.

“Our defense was very intense”, Rainier Beach coach Mike Bethea stated after the game.

West Seattle played a solid game and hung in there, but it’s always hard when you go against an opponent such as Rainer Beach who has a long history of winning. West Seattle head coach Don Watts said, “As a program were trying to learn and do the right things no matter what the competition is, regardless if it’s a great team your playing against or not, we team ball, we play hard, and play together, we’ll be fine”.

Both Rainier Beach and West Seattle’s next game will be on the road on January 6. Rainier Beach is at Eastside Catholic and West Seattle will play at Bishop Blanchet, both games are scheduled for 6:15 pm.