By Tim Clinton
Baseball
Decatur 2, Snohomish 1
Decatur slipped past Snohomish in a Saturday evening game at Auburn High School to earn its way into next week's state Class 3A baseball semofinals.
The Gators will take on either Eastside Catholic or Roosevelt from the Metro League of Seattle at 7 p.m. Friday at Everett Memorial Stadium.
The winner advances to the 7 p.m. Saturday championship on the same field and the loser plays for third and fourth place at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Decatur 8, Shorewood 6
Decatur earned its way into the Saturday evening state quarterfinal by defeating Shorewood in its regional opener early that afternoon.
That game was also hosted by the Gators on the Auburn diamond.
Decatur came into regional action as the No. 4 state seed.
Boys soccer
Mountain View 3, Decatur 2
Decatur also hosted a state opener of the Class 3A boys soccer tournament but came up one goal short in the Wednesday match at Federal Way Memorial.
Boys tennis
State tournament
Thomas Jefferson scored 12 points as a team to capture second place in Class 3A tournament action played Friday and Saturday.
Wesley Curran led the way for the Raiders, scoring eight of those points with a fifth place individual finish.
Curran won his fifth place match by a 2-0 score, rebounding from an opening round loss to win his next three.
Teammate Jason Pham tacked on two points in singles action as well, winning his first match but losing his next two.
The TJ doubles team of V. Pham and D. Pham also scored two points, losing their opener, winning the second match and losing the third.
Vlad Sharak scored three singles points for Decatur, winning his first match, losing his second, winning his third and losing his fourth.
Girls tennis
Thomas Jefferson scored eight points on the girls side at state, with all of them picked up by the doubles team of A. Buchan and C. Moore.
The Raiders' duo finished fifth, bouncing back from an opening loss to win its next three.
The TJ team of J. DeRocher and E. Tran scored no points on an early round loss.
Boys golf
Andrew Lettice of Federal Way was the only area golfer to reach this week's state Class 3A action, finishing 35th with a first day round of 74 and a second day round of 76 for a total score of 150.