Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
RESERVE — Melrose’s basketball teams completed a sweep of the championships on Saturday in Reserve’s Mountaineer Invitational.
All of the games for both were relatively lopsided, except for the boys final in which the Buffaloes turned back Maxwell 49-41. Meantime, the Lady Buffs coasted to a 58-29 title-game victory over Mountainair.
Tristan Sena led the Melrose boys in the finale with 17 points, while Dylan Valentine added 12. The Buffs (14-1) were up 12-10 after one period, and increased the margin slightly at each of the remaining quarter stops.
Bothers Kolton and Kaden Riggs netted 18 and 10 points, respectively, for the Bears (11-4), who have now suffered two of their losses this season to Melrose.
The Lady Buffs (12-2) cruised to a 26-8 halftime lead and had no trouble beating Mountainair for the second time this season. Shannon May led Melrose with 15 points, followed by 13 from Nataley Mondragon and 12 from Johanna Roybal.
Zoey Bargas topped the Lady Mountaineers (9-7) with 10 points.
Also on Saturday:
Logan 84, Clovis Christian boys 63 — The teams combined for 19 3-pointers, including 10 by CCS, but the host Eagles couldn’t overcome a 30-9 first-quarter blitz by the Longhorns in a District 4-1A matchup.
Junior Dante Sanchez scored 13 of his 38 points in the first quarter for Logan (11-6, 1-0 district), while Wyatt Wright finished with 12 points. Junior Tyler Lingnau had five 3s and 28 points for the Eagles (6-10, 0-2) and freshman Carter Teune added 14.
Logan 63, CCS girls 21 — Sophomore Kyndall Ragland led a balanced attack with 12 points and the Lady Longhorns (14-3, 1-0), the recent EPAC tournament champions, opened an 18-2 lead after one quarter.
Logan also got 11 points from Karlee Cantrell and 10 each from Kambry Burns and Karli Webb. Junior Lola DeGroot scored 11 points to pace the Lady Eagles (10-7, 0-2).
In games played on Monday night:
Texico boys 60, Tatum 46 — The Wolverines, who saw their run of four consecutive EPAC tournament championships end earlier this month in an overtime loss to Tatum, gained a measure of revenge on the Coyotes’ home court.
Freshman Jahvon Askew scored 20 points, including two 3-pointers and 10 points in the fourth period to help Texico (9-4) put the game out of reach. Senior Marcus Loera also had a pair of 3s in the fourth period, while senior Luke Phipps finished the night with 11 points.
Sebastian Jimenez led Tatum (10-6) with 16 points.
Texico girls 41, Tatum 36 — After seeing an eight-point lead at the quarter disappear by the end of the third stanza, the Lady Wolverines (6-7) posted a 13-7 scoring edge over the final eight minutes to claim the victory. It was the first of four games on tap this week for Texico.
Only three players scored for Texico, led by senior Ashley Hill with 25 points and junior Rachel Phipps with 12. Ashlyn Griffin topped the Lady Coyotes (8-7) with 11 points.
Another girls game scheduled for Monday night, sending Clovis Christian to the Portales junior varsity, was canceled. The teams are slated to meet next Monday at CCS.
