Basketball

For one half of play, the Rock Point girls’ basketball team had to fight through some ragged play on Friday night.

In the past, the concept of pressure had been foreign to the Gallup Bengals.

The buffed wooden floor, the leather seats and the famous tunnel in the Wise Pies (the Pit) Arena was a long way from the multi-purpose room the Red Valley/Cove boy’s basketball team spends their evenings in.

The Alamo Navajo Cougars took advantage of a seismic shift in the third place game of the small schools boys bracket at the 4th annual Striking Eagle Basketball Invitational.

The Wingate Bears withstood a barrage of late threes against the Zuni Thunderbirds in the third place game of the Purpose Bracket at the 4th annual Striking Eagle Basketball Invitational on Saturday night.