Hondo Anvil Herald

Cowboys climb to 6-0 in district basketball

 

     Two more home wins in the past week kept the D’Hanis boys’ basketball team atop the leader board in the District 31-A race.

     On Friday, Jan. 9, the Cowboys dominated Rocksprings for 32 minutes in a 49-25 win. 

     Leakey threw a brief scare into D’Hanis on Tuesday, Jan. 13, leading by two points after one quarter, before the Cowboys turned up the heat, and pulled away for a big 70-32 win over the Eagles.

     Now 6-0 in district (20-4 season), the Cowboys will travel to Nueces Canyon on Friday, Jan. 16, to wrap up the first half of league play. Game time is 6:30. On Tuesday, Jan. 20, D’Hanis will return home to take on Knippa in a 7:30 p.m. contest.

     Against the Angoras on Friday, Jackson Cross scored 23 points, with 10 from Evan Craft and nine from Cannon Zachry.

     Cross was again the leading scorer in the Leakey game, pouring in 25 points, which included four threes. Kase Braden was also in double figures with 14 points, with nine from Aiden Enriquez and eight from Zachry.