Joseph City finished the regular season as the runner-up in the 1A central region, finishing one game behind Williams. At the 1A central region tournament held last week they flipped the table on Williams, winning the region tournament title with a 55-48 title game win over Williams on Friday night.
Joseph City started the week with a regular season road loss at Williams on Monday night, which cost them the regular season crown. In a back-and-forth game the Cats used a big second quarter to lead 40-26 at the break. Williams trimmed 10 off that lead in the third then closed out the game on a 27-17 run to defeat Joseph City 73-67.
Heston Miller led the team in scoring with 18 points. Eli James added 12; Jaimen Tsosie, 11; Cort Miller, 10; Kase Fish, 6; Jaxon Arnell, 5; Trenton Deets, 3; and King Robinson helped with 2.
Their first region tournament game on Thursday was an 81-42 win over Ash Fork. Fifty-three first half points put the game well out of reach early.
Anakin Hutchins led with 13; Cort Miller, 12; Deets, 10; Fish, 9; Heston Miller, 9; Benson Moss, 6; Tsosie, 6; Eli James, 5; and Coltran James, 4.
