{"id":99284,"date":"2026-01-23T08:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/?p=99284"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:25:27","slug":"raton-host-first-district-game-of-the-season-with-estancia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/2026\/01\/23\/raton-host-first-district-game-of-the-season-with-estancia\/","title":{"rendered":"Raton Host First District Game of the Season with Estancia"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Marty Mayfield
\nKRTN Multi-Media<\/p>\n

Raton hosted the Estancia Lady Bears and Bears for the first district game of the season in Tiger Gym Thursday January 22, 2026, in Tiger Gym while the JV boys played down a Raton Intermediate School and were the only Raton team to mark the win column.<\/p>\n

The JV Girls took the floor at Tiger Gym first Thursday afternoon and trailed in the first half of play going into the locker room down by eight 22-14. Second half action saw the Lady Tigers battle back from a 10 point deficit and after three quarters were tied at 32. The fourth quarter went back and forth and had a tie game at 35 and 39. Estancia pulled out in front with the Lady Tigers hot on the trail when the final buzzer sounded it was a 47-46 win for Estancia.<\/p>\n

Over at RIS the JV boys took the early lead and really never looked back as they held a 33-7 lead at halftime and finished off the game with the win 53-27.<\/p>\n

The varsity girls took to the court next and quickly found themselves behind as Estancia held them to only two points in the first and five point for the first half of play. Raton managed another four in the third and went scoreless in the fourth to finish out the district game 46-9.<\/p>\n

In the boy’s varsity game Raton took the early lead with the help of three 3-pointers by Logan Elliott. Unfortunately the team wasn’t as hot at the free throw line going eight of 18 free throws in the first quarter. At halftime Raton lead the game 42-33 after a 12 point lead in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Second half action saw the Bears work back from the deficit and tie the game at 51 early in the fourth quarter before going ahead and holding that lead the rest of the game. Lorenzo Anaya fouled out early in the fourth quarter followed by Harlem Coley a bit later that loss hurt the Tigers as both boys were Raton’s primary ball handlers and made their mark defensively. At the final buzzer Estancia had an 11 point lead and marked the win column with a 71-60 final score.<\/p>\n

JV Girls
\nEstancia \u00a09 \u00a013 \u00a010 \u00a015 \u00a047
\nRaton \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04 \u00a0 10 \u00a018 \u00a014 \u00a046<\/p>\n

JV Boys
\nEstancia \u00a027
\nRaton \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a053<\/p>\n

Varsity Girls
\nEstancia \u00a018 \u00a014 \u00a012 \u00a02 \u00a046
\nRaton \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02 \u00a0 \u00a03 \u00a0 \u00a04 \u00a0 0 \u00a0 9<\/p>\n

Estancia High Point
\nJhenna Valencia 12 \u00a03 of 6 free throws. 3 \u00a03-pointers
\nLucia Chavez \u00a010 \u00a04 of 13 free throws
\nFree throws 18 of 45 attempts<\/p>\n

Raton High Point
\nAveah Marquez 3
\nMezzo Fanelli \u00a03 \u00a03 of 4 free throws
\nSariah Vigil 2
\nFree throws \u00a04 of 10 attempts<\/p>\n

Varsity Boys
\nEstancia \u00a017 \u00a016 \u00a017 \u00a021 \u00a071
\nRaton \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 27 \u00a015 \u00a0 9 \u00a0 9 \u00a0 60<\/p>\n

Estancia High Point
\nJoshua Villafuerte \u00a016 \u00a04 of 9 free throws
\nMatthew Montoya 8
\nDevon Chavez 14 \u00a03 of 8 free throws
\nDaniel Hernandez 10 2 of 7 free throws
\nBrayden Encinias 10 \u00a02 of 2 free throws
\nFree Throws 16 of 34 attempts<\/p>\n

Raton High Point
\nAiden Riley 21 \u00a07 of 11 free throws
\nLogan Elliott 14 \u00a02 of 4 free throws \u00a04 \u00a03-pointers
\nHarlem Coley 10 \u00a06 of 9 free throws
\nChance Walton 10 \u00a02 of 6 free throws
\nFree throws 18 of 31 attempts<\/p>\n

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K’myiah Romero chases the ball down after it gets loose during the girl’s varsity game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raton’s Leticia Marquez drives the lane as Estancia’s Jhenna Valencia works for the block during the district game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On the rebound Raton’s Reize Trujillo and Estancia’s Brook Eister work for control of the ball during the district game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Leticia Marquez works past Sway Perkins Thursday evening as she drives down the court in the district game in Tiger Gym.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whoops there goes the ball as Raton’s Reize Trujillo gets a fingertip on the loose ball while Brook Eister and Jhenna Valencia add to the mix of hands going for the ball Thursday evening in Tiger Gym.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Up for the basketball on the rebound as Lucia Chavez gets her hands on the ball while Juliana Hightree works to disrupt the catch and Jhenna Valencia gets a hand up to help during the district game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tiger Aiden Riley drives the lane as Bear Devon Chavez works for the block during the district game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raton’s Chance Walton and Estancia’s Daniel Hernandez tussle for control of the ball Thursday evening in Tiger Gym during the first district game of the season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Harlem Coley (21) drives the lane for the shot as Devon Chavez (15) and Brian Carreon (35) work for the block during the district game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Logan Elliot gets fingertips on the ball as he reaches above Devon Chavez (15) and Brian Carreon (35) for the rebound during the district game in Tiger Gym Thursday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aiden Riley (1) drives the lane as Joshua Villafuerte (2) works for the block Thursday evening in Tiger Gym during the first district game of the season for both teams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton hosted the Estancia Lady Bears and Bears for the first district game of the season in Tiger Gym Thursday January 22, 2026, in Tiger Gym while the JV boys played down a Raton Intermediate School and were the only Raton team to mark the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99286,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99284\/revisions\/99286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}