In a No. 1-vs.-No. 1 almost-impromptu matchup that became an event Wednesday night, it was defending Class 4A champion Davis that proved to be in a class of its own.

The Pirates used their size and quickness to handle top-ranked 1A Zillah 78-45 at Davis High.

Junior sharp-shooter Isa Garcia knocked down all but the last of her nine shots, including four 3-pointers, to finish with a game-high 24 points, and fellow 11th-grader Cheyenne added 12 points and 14 rebounds to lead Davis, which has won six straight.

Added to both team’s schedules earlier this month, the atmosphere was fit for a regional or state matchup, with the Pirate Ship bleachers nearly full, and the student sections boisterous for each.

But the Pirates, coming off a 54-48 grinder of a victory Monday against No. 6 Lake Washington at Federal Way High School, took much of the suspense out of Wednesday’s game before halftime.

Davis turned a six-point lead after the first quarter into a 16-point advantage teetering on a blowout after shooting 67% and scoring 26 points in the second quarter.

“We’re at our best when we’re just running down the floor and we’re sharing it and everybody gets it,” Davis coach Akil White said. “That’s our Pirate basketball.”

Hull, whose points were only about half here per-game season average, displayed the complete game that has colleges longing for her services. She stepped into passing several times, capping many of those interceptions with an assist to a teammate.

“She came up to me and said, ‘I may not have it tonight, but we’ll find other ways to win,’” White said. “That’s what her M.O. is.”

Averie Brandt added 11 points and Deets Parrish chipped in 10 first-half points in her fifth game back from an injury. Davis (12-2) on Friday heads to Wenatchee.

Zillah saw its 13-game winning streak end, but first-year coach Joel Yellow Owl was happy to test his team against the state’s top squad.

“You only learn from losing,” Yellow Owl said. “One thing we’ve got to understand is when you take Ls, you’ve got to turn them into learning curves and not let them eat at us.”

 The Leopards went up against a combo of size and talent that they’ll not see in the SCAC, or anywhere else for that matter, and a team that’s lost just one game the past two seasons against an in-state opponent.

“From a coach’s perspective, when you see a team that looks really good on film, sometimes you watch them and you’re like, ‘I don’t know about them, maybe they’re OK,’” Yellow Owl said. “But when they are really good on film, they’re even better in person and I think that was an eye-opener for our girls and an eye-opener for our coaching staff.”

Bella Valadez hit four 3-pointers and finished with a team-best 15 points, and Addison Johnston added 12 for Zillah (13-2), which hosts Wahluke on Friday.