The Mescalero Apache Chiefs basketball team scored 44 points and held the visiting Hondo Valley Eagles to 26 in the Chiefs non-league triumph on Monday.
The Chiefs now sport a 2-0 record. They put it on the line next when they travel to Capitan for a non-league contest on Friday, December 10. Mescalero Apache will battle a Tigers team coming off a 42-32 non-league win over Alamo Navajo (Magdalena, NM). The Tigers record now stands at 3-3.
The Eagles (2-4) will now prepare for their contest against Elida (Elida, NM). The Tigers enter the non-league contest with a 3-1 record. In their last contest, Elida was defeated by Fort Sumner (Fort Sumner, NM), 83-73, in a non-league contest.