The 79th annual Trinidad State Junior College basketball tournament took place over three days and featured 24 games between teams from various schools. In the end, Hoehne won the girls' division championship while the Trinidad Miners earned the boys' division championship. The tournament featured competitive games as well as events like cheerleading competitions and a parade of princesses. Rebecca Suazo from John Mall was named tournament queen.

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TSJC TOURNAMENT BRACKET
TSJC Basketball Tourny kicks
off basketball season at Scott Gym
Staff report
The Chronicle-News
The high school basketball season kicked off this past
weekend with the 79th annual Trinidad State Junior Col-lege
(TSJC) Tournament that took place at Scott Gym.
Teams from Trinidad, Primero, Hoehne, Raton, Spring-er,
John Mall, La Junta, Custer County and Pueblo West
all took part in the event, which featured 24 games in three
exciting days of great basketball play. Once the dust settled
the Hoehne girls took the Girl’s Division Championship,
while the hometown Trinidad Miner’s earned the Boy’s Di-vision
Championship.
On Thursday evening the cheerleaders shone, compet-ing
between the 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. games. In that, also,
Hoehne would take home the hardware. On Friday the an-nual
Parade of Princesses took place following the 7:30 p.m.
contest. On Saturday, following the final game, the Tour-nament
Queen was announced. Earning a scholarship to
TSJC, as the Tournament Queen, was Rebecca Suazo from
John Mall. Look for more awards from the tournament
at right.
It was an exciting weekend of games to kickoff the 2014-
15 high school basketball season.
79th TSJC
Tourny Awards
Queen
Rebecca Suazo– John Mall
Miss Congeniality
Krissey Serra– Goal Academy
Cheerleading
Hoehne
Rich Arguello Coaching Award
Justin Harris- Primero
Girl’s Division
Champion: Hoehne
Runner-up: Trinidad
Third Place: La Junta
Consolation: Springer
Sportsmanship: Primero
Boy’s Division
Champion: Trinidad
Runner-up: Pueblo West JV
Third Place: Primero
Consolation: Springer
Sportsmanship: Pueblo West JV
Girl’s Division All Tournament
Angelica Montoya– Springer
Whitni Oquist– La Junta
Devon Sandoval– Trinidad
Casey Lafon– Trinidad
Aspen Anderson– Hoehne
Cydney Kreutzer– Hoehne (Tourny MVP)
Boy’s Division All Tournament
Estevan Romero– Springer
James Lujan– Primero
Nyieme Williams– Pueblo West JV
Tanner Smith– Trinidad
Lane Velarde– Trinidad
Jared Hernandez– Trinidad (Tourny MVP)
Tournament Agate
(Day 2 &3 game scores, leading scorers)
Day3
Game 24 (Champion-ship):
Trinidad boys defeated
Pueblo West - 68–65
Leading scorers
Trinidad: Jared Hernandez
– 23, Isaiah Vensor – 13, Lane
Velarde – 13, Tanner Smith – 12
Pueblo West JV: Nyieme
Williams – 20, Jared Davidson
– 15, Hunter Louther – 12
Game 23 (Champion-ship):
Hoehne girls defeated
Trinidad 36-22
Leading scorers
Trinidad: Casey Lafon – 10
Hoehne: Cydney Kreutzer
– 14
Game 22 (Third Place):
Primero boys defeated La Jun-ta
- 51–49
Leading scorers
Primero: James Lujan – 17,
Vince Damelio - 15
La Junta: Isaiah Mendoza –
12, Cody Knoell – 10
Game 21 (Third Place):
La Junta girls defeated Prim-ero
58-14
Leading scorers
Primero: Taylor Mestas – 5
La Junta: Lauren Adding-ton
– 13, Caitlyn Nuschy – 11,
Brooklyn Waddles – 11
Game 20 (Consolation):
Springer boys defeated Hoehne
- 62–52
Leading scorers
Springer: Estevan Romero
– 33, Anthony Romero – 13
Hoehne: Brandon Hazlitt –
16, Jacob Elsberry – 11
Game 19 (Consolation):
Springer girls defeated Custer
County 45-39
Leading scorers
Springer: Angelica Mon-toya
– 19, Kara Burton – 12
Custer County: McKensie
Penkoff – 12
Game 18 (Seventh Place):
Raton boys defeated John Mall
- 74–49
Leading scorers
Raton: Jodus Gonzales – 24,
Jesse Espinoza – 17, Jonathan
Cabrieles – 10
John Mall: Destry Crockett
– 20, Devon Vallejos – 11
Game 17 (Seventh Place):
John Mall girls defeated Raton
48-39
Leading scorers
Raton: Briana Pais – 13,
Tarryn Trujillo – 10
John Mall: Erika Bradsby –
17, Kaylee Summers – 12
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Day2
Game 16: Trinidad boys
defeated Primero - 62–30
Leading scorers
Primero: James Lujan – 14
Trinidad: Tanner Smith –
12, J.J. Miera – 11, Jared Her-nandez
– 10
Game 15: Trinidad girls
defeated Primero 57-9
Leading scorers
Trinidad: Brittnee Cobe-rly
– 16, Casey Lafon – 11, Katy
Rael – 10
Primero: Lexie Robinson
– 7
Game 14: Pueblo West JV
boys defeated La Junta - 70–60
Leading scorers
La Junta: Cole Bryant – 23,
Garron Espinoza – 10, Nathan
Torres – 10
Pueblo West: Nyieme Wil-liams
– 23, Jordan Lopez – 12,
Jacob Wilkinson – 10
Game 13: Hoehne girls de-feated
La Junta 45-32
Leading scorers
Hoehne: Cydney Kreutzer –
21, Aspen Anderson – 10
La Junta: Caitlyn Nuschy
– 10
Game 12: Springer boys
defeated Raton -29
Leading scorers
Raton: Jonathan Cabrieles
– 7, Connel Ware – 7
Springer: Anthony Romero
– 31, Estevan Romero – 11
Game 11: Springer girls de-feated
Raton 50-34
Leading scorers
Springer: Angelica Mon-toya
– 14, Kara Burton – 11, Ali-cia
Arias – 10
Raton: Tarryn Trujillo – 12,
Briana Pais – 10
Game 10: Hoehne boys de-feated
John Mall 66-40
Leading scorers
John Mall – Trey Neely – 11,
Santos Reyna – 10
Hoehne – Brandon Hazlitt –
12, Zane Gilmore – 11
Game 9: Custer County
girls defeated John Mall 40-37
Leading scorers
Custer: Serenity Ham – 9,
Taylor Staton – 9
John Mall: Erika Bradsby
– 13