MUKILTEO — For three quarters at Kamiak High School on Friday, King’s girls basketball couldn’t quite shake the home team.

After pulling ahead by 11 points late in the second quarter, King’s got blitzed by a 9-2 Kamiak run to cut the score to 26-22 at halftime. Throughout the third, it seemed like Kamiak had a response any time King’s tried to pull ahead, and that continued into the fourth when Kamiak sophomore Annika Hastings hit a shot to cut it to 49-43 with just over six minutes remaining.

For the reigning 1A state finalists, the thought-process was simple.

“Just staying positive,” King’s senior Kaitlin Cramer said. “(Shots) weren’t falling that normally do, so just staying out of our heads and just keep pushing.”

Alongside fellow senior Kaleo Anderson and junior Molly Kyler, Crame

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