Basketball Recap: Hatch Valley Piles Up the Points Against Tucumcari

Bears

Team Score

01/04/25 @ Tucumcari	58
01/03/25 vs East Mountain	42
12/14/24 vs Carrizozo	42
12/13/24 @ Mountainair	27
12/12/24 vs Lordsburg	26

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hatch Valley). They really took it to the Tucumcari Rattlers for the full four quarters, racking up a 58-11 win. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 41-5.

Alaya Martinez was Hatch Valley's leading scorer, having posted six points.

Hatch Valley's victory bumped their record up to 2-7. As for Tucumcari, their defeat ended a 12-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 8-4.

Hatch Valley will take on Dexter at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. As for Tucumcari, they wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next matchup, a 41-37 win against Thoreau on the 4th.