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.

Los Gatos worked hard at containing the firepower of the Pirates but the one-two punch of Aaron Buckner (16 points) and Ryan Cooper (15 points) was too much to overcome. The Wildcats put together a balanced attack on their offensive end of the court and were led by Vincent Bellotti, Jordon Senner and Michael Robards, who put in seven points each. Tommy Morrissey added five from the outside and Jordon Vandenberg and Chris Danser tossed in four each. The Wildcats' scoring was rounded out by Chris Cuthbert and Matt Martini who chipped in two points apiece.

Buckner, 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. 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 halftime and then building on that lead in the second half to come away with 55-48 win and the third place trophy. The Falcons got outstanding play from Chien, who the led the scoring with 14 points, and Danny Wallace, who was not far behind dumping in 12 points of his own. Saratoga had a well-rounded attack with many Falcons getting points on the board. Mitsunata dropped in seven and he was matched by Nima Rad. Ben Coggins put in six points while David Orasin (four points), Matt Russell (four) and Chris Etterman (one) completed the scoring for the Falcons.

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).

The Warriors offensive efforts were led by Ricky Meinhold, who fired in 11 points, including three from beyond the arc. He had support from outside by Michael Johnson with seven points and Casey Modiri with five, and from closer in by Matt Hosack with six and Lopez with eight. Other Warriors getting in on the scoring action were Andrew McFarland (two), Colin Cates (three), and Jason Garcia (two).

Westmont went into the consolation bracket after losing its opening round game to Los Gatos in a very close, hard-fought contest. The Warriors went to work with their tough defense preventing the Wildcats from getting untracked. At the same time, Lopez (16 points) and Brent Duren (12) were working hard at the offensive end of the court resulting in Westmont going into the final quarter of action with a solid 37-26 lead. Unfortunately for the Warriors, Los Gatos got hot and lit up the scoreboard from the outside scoring 21 fourth quarter points to come away with a 49-45 victory. The Wildcats offensive punch was led by Hull with 20 points and Robards with 16 points while Vandenberg chipped in seven.