Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
TUCUMCARI — Melrose’s girls basketball team still has goals ahead, but Saturday night the Lady Buffaloes reached a big one.
By defeating Logan 64-47 in a District 6-1A tiebreaker game at neutral Tucumcari High School, the Lady Buffs won the regular-season district championship.
Saturday’s game became necessary after both teams finished their regularly-scheduled district slate with 7-1 records and split their regular-season, non-tournament games 1-1. Each beat the other at home, with Melrose winning 48-45 on Jan. 24 and Logan coming out ahead 43-40 on Feb. 7.
Saturday, Melrose jumped to a 19-9 lead by the first quarter’s end and was in command throughout. The Lady Buffaloes led 32-19 by halftime, 44-31 at the end of the third quarter. They closed strong with 20 fourth-quarter points.
Melrose’s Nataley Mondragon led all scorers with 20 points. Hailey Martin tossed in 15 for the Lady Buffaloes.
Harlie Roach paced Logan with 13 points, followed by Makenna Brewer with 10 points.
