El Rancho entered their contest against Santa Fe on Friday without any home losses, but there's a first time for everything. The El Rancho Dons took a blow against the Santa Fe Chiefs, falling 52-24. The Dons were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 30-10.
They got a good chunk of their points from the dynamic duo of Emery Riker and Emma Gonzalez, who each put up eight points. Alexis Saucillo held things down on the boards with ten rebounds. She took the lead distributing the ball, coming up with two assists.
Natalie Rivera went supernova for Santa Fe, going 7 for 14 on her way to 20 points and seven rebounds. The dominant performance gave Rivera a new career-high in points. The team also got some help courtesy of Roxy Beltran, who almost dropped a double-double on 11 points and nine boards.
El Rancho's loss ended a six-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 17-6. As for Santa Fe, the win (which was their sixth in a row) raised their record to 18-2.
El Rancho will welcome Whittier at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. El Rancho is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 50.6 points per game this season. As for Santa Fe, they are taking a road trip to face off against La Serna at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Santa Fe also hasn't been messing around on offense: they've averaged 51.9 points per game.
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