Like most high school coaches often do, Dawson head girls basketball coach A.J. Mendez spent part of his holiday break doing some scouting at last month’s big Caprock Holiday Classic at Lubbock.
Klondike’s basketball boys finished up 2024 right by getting a couple of wins on the final two days of that now old calendar year.
The Sands Mustang basketball girls appear to be playing some of their best hoop action of this season. It is at the right time with District 6-1A play around the corner.
A young Golden Tornado boys’ basketball team continued its growing pains last weekend, by dropping three straight in the Canyon Tournament.
The O’Donnell Eagles are considered the team to beat in District 7-1A girls hoops this season.
Borden County’s basketball boys came home with third place honors from last weekend’s Sterling City Tournament. It was one of those weekends where Coach Rocky Feliciano’s hoopsters couldn’t help but feel like it should have been that much more.
Klondike’s basketball boys had to rank right up there as one of the smallest high schools participating in last weekend’s huge Caprock Holiday Classic at Lubbock. That didn’t keep the Cougars from flashing signs of a program which appears ready to battle it out for another District 6-1A crown.
As much as Klondike’s Jared Quintanilla has never thrived on the headlines, he’s definitely helped make a few of them.
Offensive MVP: Jared Quintanilla, junior, Klondike.
Defensive MVP: Xavier Cisneros, senior, Sands.
Newcomer of the Year: Gordo Soliz, freshman, Sands.
Billy Grumbles is one of this area’s most highly respected head basketball coaches, mainly because of thinking it’s never about him, but the game he coaches and the youngsters he coaches it to.
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