No. 1 seed Colton girls crush MRL, head to Spokane

After a delay crossing the state in a morning snowstorm Feb. 24, the Mt. Rainier Lutheran High School band set up in the Pullman High bleachers and struck up that Coldplay song that goes, “When I Ruled the World.”

The Colton girls came out and said, “We still do.”

Or they might as well have in a dominant state 1B regional win over the Hawks Saturday, 72-17, which started 45 minutes late due to the late arrival of the MRLHS bus.

Colton (21-1), which had a string of eight consecutive state championships stopped last year in the state semifinals, will now go to Spokane Arena again as the no. 1 se...