Tahoma had the opportunity to get a little revenge against two teams it had lost to this spring and did just that on both counts in the West Central Southwest Bi-District tournament at Kent Memorial Park on Saturday.

First Tahoma beat Todd Beamer, 8-7 in 10 innings, after being down 6-2 late in the game.

The Bears had lost to the Titans in the South Puget Sound League seeding game on May 4 in what Coach Russ Hayden had described as his team’s “worst meltdown of the season.”

Once that marathon game was complete Kentwood took the field at KMP looking for a little revenge of its own against Puyallup.

When the Conquerors met up with the Vikings on May 4 in the SPSL seeding game they had an unblemished record.

Puyallup won that contest in extra innings.

This time, though, Kentwood pitcher Skyler Genger said he was throwing the best stuff he had unlike the last time he faced Puyallup. The Seattle University-bound senior pitched a complete game for the Conks in a 3-0 win in which his defense made some spectacular plays behind him.

Genger said he felt so good before the game, he figured if his offense only got one run, that would be enough.

With that Kentwood got the chance to take on Tahoma.

During the regular season the Conks got the better of the Bears both times.

Tahoma senior shortstop Ryan Malone said after beating Beamer he looked forward to the chance to get Kentwood back.

And that’s exactly what the Bears did, putting together a 5-3 win Saturday night, earning the No. 1 seed out of the district.

Though Tahoma had secured a state berth with its first district tournament win earlier in the week, Malone said, he was happy this year’s team had earned a higher seed into state than last year’s team which lost one game during league play and won the SPSL North.