Thanks to their 63-54 win over Cibecue on Dec. 19, the Joseph City Wildcats headed to the Christmas break on a five-game regular season win streak. Their power ranking mark of 6-1 had them ranked 3rd in the AIA rankings before the holiday break.
In the Cibecue contest the Wildcats fell behind by 10 in the first period but rallied over the course of the second and third periods to knot the game at 44-44 heading into the final stanza. In the fourth, Joseph City stepped up their defense limiting the visiting Wildcats to just 10 points while netting 19 of their own to get the nine-point victory.
KJ Kinlicheenie led the charge with 19 points. Matt Fields added 16; Talon Smith, 9; Carlos Sanchez, 8; Jacobson Begay, 7; and Latrelle Kinlicheenie finished with 4.
Joseph City will be in action Dec. 28-30 with play at the Coyote Basketball Invitational tournament held at Arizona Lutheran Academy. The Wildcats are slated to face Arizona College Prep and Wickenburg on Dec. 28. They meet up with Arizona Lutheran, and Odyssey Institute on Dec. 29, then will have bracket games on Saturday.
Joseph City will return to regular season action on Jan. 6 when they face Basis School in Flagstaff. On Jan. 9 they will host Mayer.
