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The Salpointe Lancers improved to 5-2 on the year after the defending 4A state champions beat Tucson High 58-33 at home Monday night. The Badgers are now 4-4 on the season.
Led by sophomore Taliyah Henderson, the Lancers opened up with a 19-5 lead after the first quarter with Henderson scoring 12 of her game-high 23 points in the period. Salpointe took a 28-16 lead at the half and 48-24 after three. Tucson senior Gabriella Sanchez led the Badgers with 14 points and Makayla Luna added 7.
Bria Medina scored 11 for Salpointe, Jordan Watts added 8 and Allison Even scored 7 to go along with the 23 by Taliyah……
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Salpointe head coach Joseph Luevano added assistant coaches Ben Hurley and Kent Senzee to his staff. Hurley won a state championship coaching the Amphitheater boys team and Senzee moved over from being the head coach at Canyon del Oro. Tucson head coach Annette Gutierrez is joined by former University of Arizona player Greta Naranjo and former assistant Felicia “Fee” Greenhouse is now with Pima.
Greenhouse, and fellow Pima assistants Pete Fajardo and Jim Rosborough, were on in the stands to evaluate the exceptional talent playing in the game. Gutierrez played at Salpointe and she was the head coach of the Lancers in the mid-1990s. Gutierrez and Naranjo also coached together at Pima.
Former Sunnyside standout Jermaine Watts was in the stands to watch his daughter Jordan play for Salpointe. Only a sophomore, Watts is already scoring almost 8 points a game after helping the Lancers win a state title last year to go along with the trophy her father won with the Blue Devils in 1993 and her grand uncles Randall and Jeff Moore won with Pueblo a generation before.
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