Andrea Aragon, the prolific Las Cruces High shooting guard, has signed to play for New Mexico Junior College in the 2010-11 campaign.

Aragon lead the Lady Bulldawgs in 3-point field goal percentage, assists, deflections and steals over the last two years. She also finished up her prep career with a total of 1,060 points, second in state history, according to the NMAA.

Good luck, and congrats, Andrea!

Aragon scored her 1,000th point in the Bulldawg win against Oñate on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010.

Like many other great players, Andrea will often dish out the ball for the assist rather than go for the points herself. She is currently averaging 14 points and 5.2 assists per game.

A basketball signed by her teammates was presented to Andrea by coach Matt Abney before the Mayfield-Las Cruces contest on Friday evening.

Rio Grande’s Bernadette Sanchez racked up 26 points, Monique Macias had 25 against Manzano. They also brought along Jocelyn Gamboa to the score-fest; she had 17.

Haleigh Glass from Menaul: 19 points in Menaul’s loss to To’Hajiilee.

Las Cruces’ Devon Mulheron had 17 points and 10 rebounds; Jade Brown had 18 on the night against Mayfield.

Oñate’s Andrea Reiff and Cindy Burciaga had 17 points apiece against Alamogordo.

Tularosa’s Hannah Syling had 15 points against Mesilla Valley.

Scores from last night

Links

Alamogordo Daily News on Tularosa’s decisive win over Mesilla Valley

Chaves County Sports Report covers Roswell’s victory against Carlsbad

The Current-Argus’ side of the Carlsbad loss

Las Cruces Sun-News reports on the Las Cruces-Mayfield thriller

Cibola 63, La Cueva 57

The Lady Cougars handed the Lady Bears their first loss in eight games, and do it in La Cueva’s house.

Looks like Cibola got a little more production off their bench, with Edwina Peele contributing 13 points to Amber Battles’ 19, Korina Chapman’s 13 and Elyse Brewster’s 12–every little bit helps. Just as important, Chapman was the only Cougar to foul out.

La Cueva’s Jamie Parker lead all scorers, including two treys, followed by Erika Baca’s 13 and Amy Kelly’s 9.

Lori Stephenson and company face Manzano next Thursday, and while the Lady Monarchs sit at 9-2, there are maybe only one or quality wins under their belts.

Next up for the Bears: #1 Eldorado on Tuesday.

Other observations…

In the 52-2 Logan shut-out of House, House’s only points came off free-throws–one in the third and one in the fourth…Magdalena (9-0) has beat their opponents by an average of 35 points on the season, many of them Class AA teams

The rest of the results…

Games to watch

Las Cruces hosts Rio Grande @7:00

From a mile-high view, this may not look to be the best game on the schedule.

What you will see is some of the best guards in the state playing each other. Las Cruces point guard Andrea Aragon, fresh off winning the Hoop-La and earning the tourney MVP, will be facing the Class 5A scoring leaders Bernadette Sanchez, and Monique Macias. Sanchez is averaging an incredible 25.6 PPG, with Macias following at 17.5 PPG. Macias is also tied at third in rebounding with 8.o RPG.

The Rio Grande Achilles’ heel looks to be under the boards. Center Olivia Legarda is getting 5.5 rebounds per game, second to Macias. Cruces plays more of a balanced game; I think Las Cruces posts Jade Brown, Devon Mulheron and Sharayah Newton will be too much for the Ravens.

Links

Carlsbad Current-Argus covers the Cavegirl’s win over Santa Teresa on Thursday night

Silver City Sun-News’ blow by blow of Silver’s 2nd quarter “eruption” against Cobre on Tuesday

El Defensor Chieftan’s coverage of Socorro’s win over Robertson