The Clovis Wildcats will square off against the Pojoaque Valley Elks/Elkettes at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Clovis is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 58.4 points per game this season.
Clovis will head into Saturday's contest hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Friday (they won by 24) and on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They skirted past Caprock 44-42. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' basketball rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 11th in New Mexico, while the Longhorns are ranked 774th in Texas), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
| 12/28/24 vs Caprock | 9 |
| 12/29/23 vs Santa Fe | 4 |
| 01/20/24 vs Lovington | 4 |
| 11/30/24 @ Valencia | 4 |
| 12/20/23 vs Miyamura | 4 |
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Clovis to victory, but perhaps none more so than Brynn Petner, who almost dropped a double-double on 14 points and nine boards. Those nine rebounds gave Petner a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Kerrington Goff, who posted ten points and six rebounds.
Meanwhile, Pojoaque Valley unfortunately witnessed the end of their three-game winning streak last Saturday. They were outmatched by Gallup and fell 58-24. The game marked the Elks/Elkettes' lowest-scoring match so far this season.
Pojoaque Valley's loss dropped their record down to 7-4. As for Clovis, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-3 record this season.
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