For the fourth year in a row, the Shalhevet Firehawks have advanced to the Red Sarachek Tournament Tier I championship game, which will be played tomorrow Mar. 18 at 11:30 a.m PST against the Magen David Warriors of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Yeshiva University gym.

The top-seeded Firehawks will be vying for back-to-back Sarachek Tier I championship titles, which no team has ever done before in the tournament’s 29-year history.

Here at home, students will be able to root for their team during school. Officials have set aside two-and-a-half hours starting at 11:40 a.m. for everyone to watch a livestream of the game in the gym.

On their path to the championship game, the Firehawks beat the eighth-seeded YULA Panthers in the quarterfinals, 46-38, in a hometown rivalry matchup 3,000 miles away last Friday afternoon. The game was very close — the Panthers led  21-20 at half — but the Firehawks pulled away late in the fourth quarter thanks to a three-point play by forward Asher Dauer and five pivotal free-throws by guard Zack Muller, who was named last year’s Sarachek MVP. The Firehawks outscored the Panthers 22-12 in the fourth quarter.

In the semifinals, the Firehawks beat the DRS Wildcats 60-41, using a 14-0 run to end the half and power to a comfortable victory.

The No.2-seeded Warriors narrowly avoided an upset quarterfinal defeat against the Maimonides MCATS on Friday afternoon, prevailing by a score of 52-51.  But they rebounded Sunday afternoon to beat the SAR Sting 51-37.

Tomorrow’s game will mark the second time in two years that the two top-seeded teams are squaring off in the championship game. Last year, the top-seeded Firehawks beat the No. 2-seeded Valley Torah Wolfpack 53-51 in overtime. The Wolfpack had beaten the Warriors in the semifinals. The championship game can be livestreamed with play-by-play and commentary by YU student broadcasters.