California High School Basketball - Merced trounces El Capitan
January 26, 2022: Merced, CA 95344 The Merced Bears (Merced, CA) basketball crushed the visiting El Capitan Gauchos (Merced, CA), 63-41 in Wednesday's league test.
The Bears (12-9) will now prepare for their test against Central Valley (Ceres, CA). The Hawks go into the Central California Conference test with a 8-11 record. In their last test, Central Valley was trounced by Atwater (Atwater, CA), 72-51, in a league test.
The Gauchos now own a 13-7 record. They play next when they host Buhach Colony for a Central California Conference test on Friday, January 28. El Capitan will encounter a Thunder squad coming off a 63-50 league loss to Golden Valley (Merced, CA). The Thunder record now stands at 6-16.