YAKIMA – It’s twofer time for the West Valley boys basketball team.

Win Wednesday, and the Rams get a couple more games in the Tacoma Dome. Lose, however, and the season is over.

“That’s exactly what we told them – you win one, you get two more games, but you got to win this one,” West Valley coach Tyson Whitfield said. “This is the closest team I’ve had, and they want to spend more time together.”

That’ll mean the eighth-seeded Rams will have to topple No. 9 Auburn in Wednesday night’s play-in finale at 9. The Trojans, who many tourney pundits believed were worthy of a protected top-eight seed, rolled past No. 16 Sunnyside, 81-50, on their homecourt Saturday.

Earlier in the day, West Valley took it to No. 1 Mount Si at Issaquah High School, leading by as many as 10 before the star-laden Wildcats responded, and pulled away late for an 80-71 victory.

Freshman Jrayden Whitfield sank six 3-pointers and led the Rams with 20 points, Austin Birley had 17 and CBBN MVP Parker Mills added 16.

“We were focused on a fast start and we got it,” Whitfield said. “But they came back and we got away from the gameplan.”

The late start won’t change the Rams itinerary – they’ll hit the road after school Tuesday, get to the pre-tournament social, and meet up with their host family, the same one from last year.

Then they’ll wait.

“We remember last year,” said Whitfield, recalling how seven games of action can creep later into the night than expected. “It is what it is. The guys will get to sleep in Wednesday, watch some games, have a shootaround and then eat dinner.”

And follow that with the contest against the NPSL regular-season champs, who got 20 points from conference co-MVP Daniel Johnson and 19 from Matthew Fredrickson against the Grizzlies.

A victory gets the Rams a Thursday quarterfinal – also at 9 – against former Big Nine rival Richland, seeded second. West Valley outlasted the Bombers, 73-70, in last year’s quarterfinals.

A year after dropping into Wednesday’s loser-out action, the top-ranked and defending champion Davis avoided the extra game by handling No. 8 Sumner, 73-48.

The Spartans won at the Pirate Ship a year, forcing the Pirates to win three games to get to the title game, where they avenged their loss to Sumner.

Junior guard Isa Garcia netted 32 points, and Davis rolled despite the foul trouble of reigning state Player of the Year Cheyenne Hull.

It’s the third straight quarterfinal for the Pirates, who haven’t lost to an in-state opponent since last year’s round-of-16 against Sumner.

Up next is the winner of Wednesday’s play-in between No. 10 Lake Stevens and seventh-seeded Bothell at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

That gives the Pirates a day off to settle in, watch games and relax. 

OK, not so much on the latter.

“Honestly, we don’t really relax, all of us are very anxious to play,” Garcia said after Saturday’s victory. “We were anxious waiting until 8 o’clock (Saturday), so who knows how a whole day is going to be.”