TACOMA — Glacier Peak had no answer for Andre Winston Jr.

A bandage under his right eye and a missing contact lens still wasn’t enough to handcuff the senior guard as he sprinted to a game-high 36 points and the Lakes Lancers handed the Glacier Peak boys basketball team its first loss in the 3A state tournament at the Tacoma Dome.

Glacier Peak failed to keep pace with Winston Jr., a James Madison University recruit, and a Lakes squad that played at warp speed for 32 minutes in a 74-61 quarterfinal round loss Thursday night.

Winston Jr., who was cut under the right eye and lost his contact lens following an elbow to the face in the first quarter, shot 13-for-21 and added five rebounds as Lakes maintained a double-digit lead for much of the contest.

“We have a lot of speed and it’s constant,” Lakes fourth-year head coach JoJo Rodriguez said. “When you get out there with that constant speed over and over and over, and you’re not used to playing against that speed, it makes you rush and I thought we rushed them (Glacier Peak) a little bit ... they looked uncomfortable with the speed that we were going.”

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