Basketball

The Bloomfield girls basketball team soared as high as No. 3 in the New Mexico High School Coaches poll the first week of January.

Miyamura’s girls basketball team stormed back from a 10-point third quarter deficit to escape with a 39-34 road win over Grants Friday night.

The boys basketball pairings for the Arizona 3A state playoffs will be announced early next month.

The Arizona team outpointed Tsé Yi’ Gai 20 to 5 en route to a 55-39 win on Friday night. In the eight-team tournament, Red Mesa will play Menaul High School for the title at 3:30 p.m. today. The Albuquerque private school withstood a second-half rally from Zuni and escaped with a 50-42 triumph in the other semis.

The top-ranked Monument Valley, Utah, girls basketball team ran its record to 12-1 on Tuesday night