Davis double: Pirates repeat as 4A champs

TACOMA — New statewide rival Sumner definitely got “The Full Pirates Experience” on Saturday night.

Defending Class 4A girls basketball champion Davis knew it had not put on its usual fiery display of transition dominance in the previous two rounds of these WIAA championships.

That changed in prime time as the top-seeded dynamos ran right past the Spartans, 62-51, in a game that wasn’t that close.

Isa Garcia led three scorers with 20 points, and reigning state player of the year Cheyenne Hull added 17 as Davis became the first repeat Class 4A champion since Gonzaga Prep (2014, 2015).

“This was harder,” said Davis girls coach Akil White, who came up with the ‘Full Pirates Experience’ slogan for his squad. “We had a target on our back.”

It sure didn’t seem like it was.

The Pirates were crisp from the get-go, running a play to get Kobe Johnson an open look at a 3-pointer. She knocked it down.

It was a sign of things to come.

While Davis put on a transition-game clinic, building as large as a 17-point lead in the first half, Sumner seemed a step behind. The Spartans had 13 first-half turnovers and no assists.

Another Johnson 3-pointer capped a 10-0 Davis run, giving the Pirates a 21-9 lead with 6:14 remaining in the first half.

It ballooned to 32-15 on Hull’s easy basket with 11 seconds to go before intermission.

And Davis scored on its first four possessions of the second half, capped by Deets Parrish’s layin on a pass from Hull, and the Pirates had a 40-20 lead with 5:20 remaining in the third quarter.

“We weren’t defending the title,” Garcia said. “We were attacking the title, because we wanted it even more than last year.”

These two schools have now played five times in the WIAA playoffs since 2024, including in last season’s Class 4A championship game. Davis emerged with a 61-45 victory to capture its first WIAA title.

Last week, the Pirates handily won again in a regional game in Yakima. And they repeated that effort Saturday.

“We work off pressure, and build on it,” Hull said.