The Lake Washington baseball team advanced to the championship game of the KingCo tournament Thursday with a 6-3 victory against Bellevue at Bannerwood Park in Bellevue.

The Kangs will play Mount Si for the second consecutive year for the KingCo title at Bannerwood Park on Friday, May 11 at 7 p.m. Lake Washington has played in the KingCo title game during five of the last eight seasons.

Against Bellevue, the Kangs jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a first inning Jordan LaFave RBI. That lead was pushed to 4-0 during the third inning as Steve Semler hit a base-clearing double.

Starting pitcher Zach Johnson stifled the Wolverines through six innings before Lake Washington pushed its advantage to 6-0 during the bottom of the sixth.

Bellevue showed life during the top of the seventh, scoring two unearned runs and one earned run to cut the lead in half but Johnson finished off the Wolverines for the win. The starting pitcher threw a complete game six-hitter, striking out just one and walking five.

Jeremy Parkhurst scored three of the Kangs’ runs.