YAKIMA—The King’s Way Christian boys took the floor at the Yakima Valley SunDome with top-seeded Lynden Christian and didn’t see what to seemingly anyone watching was blatantly obvious.

The Knights, whose tallest player is a 6-foot-2 freshman, were vastly undersized. But to them, that didn’t matter.

King’s Way fell 87-63 to the Lyncs in the 1A state quarterfinals and drop to the consolation bracket.

But for the first half, the Knights were the more physical team, won the rebound battle and shot at a high enough clip to make Lynden Christian, a strong contender for the 1A state title, nervous.

“We’re always undersized,” junior guard Kobi Cason said. “Every team we play, they’re bigger than us. It didn’t matter that they were 6-8, 6-7. We bring the same mentality for every game.”