The Capitan Tigers (Capitan, NM) basketball felled the visiting Cloudcroft Bears (Cloudcroft, NM), 45-35 in Thursday's league test.

The Bears now own a 7-13 record. They play next when they travel to Mescalero Apache for a 2A District 3 test on Friday, February 23. Cloudcroft will encounter a Chiefs squad coming off a 59-32 league loss to Tularosa (Tularosa, NM). The Chiefs record now stands at 11-12.