YAKIMA – Some days, as Royal girls basketball coach Farrah Wardenaar and her team were reminded Friday night, just aren’t yours.

The SCAC runners-up and the fifth seed in the Class 1A state tournament in the Yakima Valley SunDome were doing plenty right in their semifinal against top-seeded King’s and star senior Kaleo Anderson.

Royal held the Virginia Tech-bound 6-foot-1 reigning tournament MVP to less than 20 points, and kept King’s to a season-low point total.

The only problem being Royal’s own offense was flirting with the record book – and not in a good – in falling 42-27 in the battle of Knights.

In its first tournament in 25 years, Royal could get nothing going the first three quarters, even needing an untimed free throw after the horn to end the first quarter to avoid being blanked in the period.

“I don’t know what the magic trick was to get some offense going because I tried everything I could think of,” Wardenaar.

King’s (21-4), which will seek its first championship since 2015 in Saturday night’s final against second-seeded Zillah (25-2), also did its work on defense against all-SCAC first-teamers Graycie Kast and Lauren Wardenaar.

“They focused on Graycie and they focused on Lauren and they’re our two scorers,” the Royal coach said.

Knowing a victory might not be there for the taking Friday, Wardenaar homed in on the positives.

“Everybody on our team, their feet hit the floor,” she said. “That was one of my goals. I wanted everybody to come experience this.”

And Royal found an offensive spark, not a huge one, but enough to put up 17 in the fourth quarter and avoid any dubious record.

“We knew it was kind of a long shot, but I’m super proud of how hard we worked,” Wardenaar said.

Lauren Wardenaar finished with a team-best 12 points for Royal (22-5), which meets No. 3 Lynden Christian at 1 p.m. Saturday for third and fifth place.

Kast totaled six points and 10 rebounds, and Briana Cedillo added five points and 10 rebounds.

Anderson finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds.