Mica Mountain lost against Sahuaro back in February of 2024 and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Monday. The Mica Mountain Thunderbolts lost to the Sahuaro Cougars at home by a 72-55 margin. While losing is never fun, the Thunderbolts can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Arizona basketball rankings (they are ranked 74th, while the Cougars are ranked 17th).
Cisco Llamas continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines for Sahuaro, almost dropping a double-double on 28 points and nine assists. Llamas has been hot for a while, having also posted three or more steals the last nine times he's played. Elijah Santini was another key player, going 6 of 8 en route to 13 points.
Mica Mountain's defeat ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 12-8. As for Sahuaro, they pushed their record up to 18-2 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road.
Mica Mountain will challenge Salpointe Catholic at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Mica Mountain knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past three contests -- so hopefully Salpointe Catholic likes a good challenge. Sahuaro has already played their next game (against Walden Grove), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
