The Vashon boys basketball team ended regular season play on Tuesday, Feb. 7, with a 60-55 Senior Night win against Chimacum. Seniors Dan Lofland, Dylan Basurto, Jesse Hazzard, Torin Perret and Alex Vanderpool, along with their parents and families, were honored before the home game.

The Pirates started scoring early, with Lofland hitting a 3-point shot in the first quarter. He had three more 3-pointers and ended the night with 17 points.

Hazzard and Owen Brenno each scored 2 points, and Ben Whitaker had 4. Jessie Norton hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer, and the Pirates led 15-14 at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Whitaker had a great steal then a put-back and scored 8 of his team-leading 19 points. Norton scored 8 of his 13 on the night, two of them 3-pointers. At half the Pirates were ahead, 39-26.

Chimacum snuck back in the third quarter with only Lofland and Whitaker scoring 8 points each, and Chimacum came within 6 points of Vashon.

In the fourth quarter Hazzard scored on a sweet layup, Basurto scored 2 and Lofland and Whitaker each scored as well. While Chimacum out-scored the Pirates in the fourth quarter, the Pirates prevailed in the end, winning 60-55. The victory secured a fifth-place Nisqually League standing for Vashon and a playoff game.

On Thursday the Pirates traveled to the Bellingham area and played Meridian High School in a loser-out game where the winner would qualify for the tri-district playoffs. The Pirates lost, 66-37.

Hazzard had a good night, distributing the ball and leading scoring with 11 points. Lofland, Whitaker and Norton each scored 6 points, Brenno scored 4, and Basurto and Vanderpool each scored 2.

Vashon was rattled by the Meridian defensive scheme. The Pirates never got into a scoring rhythm and lost the rebounding battle.

— Brian Brenno is the father of a Vashon basketball player.