Durango’s boys basketball team showed resiliency through a late-season coaching change and battled through the challenging Class 5A Southern League to win the state title.
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Vying for its first state title since 1996, the Durango boys basketball team has rallied around interim coach Mike Lee, who retired after 30 years as a firefighter.
Jaden Hardy scored a game-high 23 points to lead Coronado’s boys basketball team to a 75-61 victory over Durango in the Orleans Division at Desert Oasis on Saturday.
Dreuna Edwards scored 14 of her game-high 21 points in overtime to lead Libertys girls basketball team to a 62-54 victory over Valor Christian (Colorado) in the title game of the Tarkanian Classic at Durango on Saturday.
Ian Alexander blocked Demetrius Valdez’s potential game-tying 3-point attempt to help second-ranked Clark escape with a 59-54 road win over Durango.
Maka Ellis poured in 52 points Monday night to lead the Sierra Vista boys basketball team to an 86-79 win over visiting Desert Oasis.
Savannah Blanchard-Davis was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all of her shots with 7.2 seconds remaining to lift Mojave’s girls basketball team to a 36-35 home win over Valley on Monday.
Taft (Calif.) made 6 of 7 free throws in the final 32 seconds Saturday to hold off Centennial for a 59-54 boys basketball victory at South Point Arena.
Ja Morgan scored 24 points Friday as Palo Verde’s boys basketball team rolled to an 88-51 win at Shadow Ridge.
Nina Carpenter had 12 points, 16 rebounds and six blocked shots Friday to help Sunrise Mountain’s girls basketball team rally to top visiting Chaparral, 46-37 in overtime.