The Pirates brought a wealth of returning talent and experience to this year's event and came in favored to take the 2003 crown. They proved to be the real deal once more when they took the championship by defeating Los Gatos 64-40 in the title game.

The Pirates got off to a fast start, scoring quickly and often with 30 points in the first quarter, and never looked back. The talent and experience of the Pirates was just too much for the young and inexperienced Wildcats.

Aaron Buckner, Ryan Cooper and Andre Hayes of Piedmont Hills were selected to the all-tournament team. It was the second year in a row for Buckner and Hayes and the third year for Cooper. Michael Robards and Ted Hull from Los Gatos were also picked to the team. The remainder of the all-tourney team included Irving Chien and Aron Mitsunaga of Saratoga, Dan Bergeron and Lance DeWitt of Fremont and Joel Lopez of Westmont.

Saratoga faced off with Fremont in the tournament's third-place game. It was a close contest with Saratoga sitting on a 22-21 lead at the half and then building on that lead in the second half to come away with 55-48 win and the third place trophy.

The consolation championship went to the host Warriors when they grabbed a 44-31 victory over Leland. The Warriors stifled the Chargers offensive efforts with a tough defense that held Leland to only 11 points in the first half and allowed Westmont to build a 29-11 lead at the break.

"We played a lot better in this game," said Westmont coach Bill Gerth. "The more games you play the better you work together, and we played good team defense. We were also playing a team that was more at our level of competition than the first round."

The Chargers came out cold as ice in the third quarter and were able to put only one point on the board. "We couldn't buy a shot," said Leland coach Dave Frandsen. However, the Chargers didn't throw in the towel, but fought back relentlessly in the fourth quarter, scoring 19 points­seven more than they scored in the first three quarters combined.

The Chargers relied on Doug Proudfoot for their offensive punch as he connected for 10 points. The rest of the Charger attack was balanced between Jimi Kogura (five points), Iasias Asfaha (four), Kyle Yoshioka (six) and David Farsai (six).

Leland had a very tough draw for round one action when the Chargers squared off against the defending champs, Piedmont Hills. The Pirates just had too much talent and experience for the young Chargers. Leland hung in there and played hard but was unable to pull off the upset. The Pirates built a 41-13 halftime lead and coasted to a 73-33 win.

The Chargers' effort was led by Farsai and Proudfoot, who had 10 points each in the loss. Yoshioka contributed six points, Matt Zuvella added five and Kogura completed the scoring with two.

Leland went on to face Prospect in a second round contest, which proved to be an evenly matched game for three quarters. Leland put together an offensive spurt that allowed the Chargers to pull out a 50-41 victory, sending Prospect home and giving Leland a shot at the consolation championship. The Chargers had double figure performances from Proudfoot (15 points), Farsai (14 ) and Asfaha (10).