TACOMA -- At some point, when players achieve big things, and they do it season after season, they have to shake the tag of "overachievers."

Even if their coach won't let it go.

In a season when Richland baseball took a backseat in the league as well as in the Tri-Cities, the Bombers were the last team standing and, as usual, with the biggest trophy.

Corey Morris went 3-for-3 and drove in a pair of runs, little-used senior Bob Imhoff smacked a big two-run double and Syd Hall went the distance on the mound in Richland's 9-7 win over the Redmond Mustangs on Saturday afternoon at Cheney Stadium to take third place in the 4A state playoffs.

"Third is cool, but I don't think it's what we should have done, what we really wanted," said senior center fielder Zach Rapacz. "It's not first, but it's not last."

It's pretty far from last, and it solidifies this group's place alongside some great Bomber teams that have delivered the program four state titles since 1999.

"We weren't the best team last year," said Richland coach Ben Jacobs, who earlier this season passed 400 wins. "We were overachievers. This is the type of team that has to play 100 percent every game to win."

And against Redmond?

"We played 97 percent," Jacobs said laughing. "That's a heck of a team we played."

All of which made Hall's performance on the mound so impressive, despite giving up nine hits.

After allowing three runs in the first inning -- only two earned -- he avoided any big messes.

"Before the game, coach said I was going three innings," Hall said. "They got a couple hits and an error in the first, but I was feeling pretty good, and I had Zach Rapacz chasing everything down."

Meanwhile, the Bombers' bats were plenty warm. A night after getting two-hit by Bothell ace Brian McAfee, Richland had no trouble against the Mustangs.

"I think we were a little more relaxed today in this game," said Morris, who drove the first pitch of the game solidly into left field for a single.

Cody Poznanski followed with another single, and Kenton Brunson delivered a one-out hit to right for the game's first run.

Jarrod Turner followed with another RBI single, and then Imhoff -- who had just 18 at-bats during the season -- doubled in two more to get Richland off to a big start.

"It made me feel stupid -- I should have played them last night," Jacobs said of giving seniors Imhoff, Boone Myers and Race Ostmun a chance to start in their final games in a Bomber uniform. "It made me feel good seeing those guys compete and do their best."