The Rehoboth Lady Lynx beat the Crownpoint Lady Eagles 68-56 Feb. 2 in a girls basketball game played at Rehoboth Christian School. The game was a District-1 3A game for both teams. Both teams have new coaches with Darrell Kenneth in the top job at Crownpoint and Adrian Pete, the athletic director at Rehoboth, coaching the girls basketball for the first time in two years.
Senior guard Halle Lizer scored 22 points against the Lady Eagles and senior guard Jessica Becenti hit 14 points. The versatile Lizer was able to score on a variety of jump shots and layups.
“That was a good team game,” Rehoboth’s Pete said of the Crownpoint game. “It was a district game, so you always want to play well against a district team.”
Pete noted that Lizer and Becenti proved a practical unstoppable one-two punch in the Crownpoint game. He said the Lady Lynx were literally taking what was given to them from a decent Lady Eagles defensive team.
The Lady Eagles fell to 2-15, 0-4 as a result of the Rehoboth loss. Crownpoint committed 22 fouls in the game and Lady Eagles’ head coach Kenneth continuously told his team during the game to get back on defense so as to avoid cheap fouls. “Get back!” Get back!” Kenneth exclaimed several times during the game.
The Lady Eagles shot 21 of 37 from the free throw line and committed 22 game fouls.
Crownpoint was coming off a 73-32 drubbing on Jan. 30 to St. Michaels High of Arizona. The Lady Cardinals are 15-4, 10-2, in section 1A North and are poised to make a playoff run under new coach Carl Adams.
“The game could have been better,” Quinn Tom of Mariano Lake said. Tom, 25, is a graduate of Crownpoint High. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”
By Bernie Dotson
Sun Correspondent
