Boys Hoops: Mt Tahoma Holiday Showcase Kennedy Catholic tops Host T-Birds, Lewis & Clark tips Garfield

12/27/2025

(Lakewood, WA) The Mt Tahoma Thunderbirds Holiday Showcase began on Friday evening with two games and wrapped up with a shuffle of match-ups on Saturday. Below is our coverage of all 4 games with game re-caps, link to our postgame shows, scoring stats, video highlights and more.

Day 1 Friday, 12/26

Game 1
Kennedy Catholic 82, Garfield 63

Kennedy Catholic and Garfield played neck and neck within the opening quarter. Kennedy Catholic utilized their junior talent to stretch the lead and take a 36-27 going into halftime. Zion Stone and CJ Lambert combined for 38 points. While seniors Ira Smith’s perimeter shooting and Jonathan Bernez’s post play help pad the Kennedy Catholic lead.

The Sumner Holiday Inn Game MVP

Zion Stone played a vital role in putting the game out of reach in the second half scoring from all three levels. He comes away with Game MVP Honors thanks to his 22 point effort in the win.

Scoring Stats

Garfield: Ohmono Bomet 24; Zane Moreland 12; Nas Souleyman 10; Bryson Hotter-Knight 7; Drew Hamant 5; Kayden Brooks 4; Isaiah McMillion 1;

Kennedy Catholic: Zion Stone 22; CJ Lambert 16; Ira Smith 10; Jordan Noel 9; Enoch Berry 9; Jonathan Bernez 7; Jamari Jones 3;

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Video Highlights

Game 2
Mt Tahoma 62, Lewis and Clark 49

Mt. Tahoma jumped out to a 24-8 lead in the first quarter and did not look back. Three different Thunderbird seniors scored double figures. Mikkah Cordero (19), Zion Norman (13), Peter Pilcher (10), and Logan Walker (9). This came in spite of a 23 point performance from Lewis and Clark’s Gus Gehn.

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The switch from the gridiron to the hardcourt is an adjustment in more ways than one. Mikkah Cordero shined against Lewis and Clark being in command of the offense and scoring 19 points in the win.

Scoring Stats

Mt. Tahoma: Mikkah Cordero 19; Zion Norman 13; Peter Pilcher 10; Logan Walker 9; Tyson Tschabold 5; Evin Nyoro 3; Rydah Griffin 3;

Lewis and Clark: Gus Gehn 23; Chase Partch 7; KJ Kinkade 6; Dara Adebiya 5; Colin O’Donnell 4; Porter Pearson 2; David Conklin 2;

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Video Highlights

Day 2, Saturday 12/27

Game 3
Lewis and Clark 75, Garfield 62

The Lewis and Clark Tigers and Garfield Bulldogs kept this game close through 29 of the 32 minutes with the Bulldogs leading by 3 after the 1st quarter and the Tigers up by 3 at the half and after 3 quarters. Ohmono Bemet led the Dogs withg 13 at the half and Gus Gehn had 10 for L&C.

As the two squads both scrambled to get the win it was the Tigers who found a late groove as Garfield went cold. It was tied 62-62 with 4:00 to play and the Tigers would shut out the Bulldogs while extending their lead with a 13-0 run to end the game. The big sequence was back-to-back 3 balls from KJ Kinkade and Colin O’Donnell to push their lead to 11 with time running out.

The Tigers had 10 players in the scorebook and improve to 5-5 on the season. L&C is back in action on January 6 with a home game against Cheney.

Garfield drops to 1-5 and is off until January 6 when they host O’Dea in Metro league play.

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Our Holiday Inn Express MVP of the game went to Gus Gehn for Lewis and Clark. Gehn led the Tigers with 22 points and went 6-8 from the line while recording many rebounds and assists.

Scoring Stats
Lewis and Clark: Gus Gehn 22, Brady Dowling 8 Calvin Killian 8, KJ Kinkade 7, Ben Conklin 6, Jonah Ebert 5, Colin O’Connell 5, Kruz Kimmet 4, Landon Mejia 2

Garfield: Ohmono Bomet 25, Kayden Brooks 25, Zane Moreland 6, Nas Soulyman 5, Isaiah McMillion 1

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Video Highlights

L & C’s Kruz Kimmet with a 3, Garfield’s Kayden Brooks answers

Late back to back 3 balls and the Tigers ice it

Game 4
Kennedy Catholic 70, Mt Tahoma 67

Both Kennedy Catholic and Mt Tahoma got wins on day 1 so the battle for the lone 2-0 team was on. The host Mt Tahoma T-Birds would go to the half with a 7 point lead up 40-33. Peter Pilcher led the T-Birds at the break with 15 while KC’s Jonathan Bernez topped the Lancers with 9.

In the 2nd half, the T-Birds would go up by as much as 51-38 in the 3rd quarter when the Lancers changed up their defense and came out super aggressive. They clawed back within 6 after 3 down 56-50.

In the 4th, the defense remained stubborn and the Lancers started the air raid with 3-point bombs dropping in from all over. In the end, KC sunk 12 3-pointers led by CJ Lambert’s 4. Zion Stone would get 3, part of his game high 24 points and also went 9-11 from the free throw line. Stone also drained his 3rd 3 with about 23 seconds to play breaking the 67-67 tie to give the Lancer the lead.

The T-Birds called time-out with 8 seconds to play to set up a game-tying 3 pointer but Zion Norman’s shot came up short off the front of the rim as time expired giving the win to KC.

The Lancers improve their season record to 6-4 and return to action next Tuesday at home against Bremerton. Mt Tahoma drops to 3-3 for the year, and travels to Lincoln next Friday in a conference game with the Abes.

The Sumner Holiday Inn Game MVP

Zion Stone easily could have been named the MVP but he was awarded it Friday night and we like to spread the credit around. So, CJ Lambert’s 4 long balls and 12 points stood out to us and earned our Holiday Inn Express MVP.

Scoring Stats
Kennedy Catholic: Zion Stone 24, CJ Lambert 12, Ira Smith 11, Jonathan Berenz 9, Jordan Noel 7, Thomas Marshall 5, Enoch Berry 2

Mt Tahoma: Peter Pilcher 24, Mikkah Cordero 20, Logan Walker 14, Zion Norman 9, Tyson Tschabold 1

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