The boys basketball team hosted Patagonia Tuesday night with the Lobos beating Patagonia 56-20 to improve to 9-8 in ranking games and ASDB is now 1-14.
PATA 21-16-13-11: 56
ASDB 9-6-5-0: 20
PATA: Kannon Shore 7 0-1: 14; Marco Vasquez 4 (1) 0-2: 9; Gus Varela 3 (1) 1-1; 8; Diego Padilla 4: 8; Troy Hawkins 3: 6; Jose Quiroz 2 (1): 5; Gavin Arbizo 2: 4; Jaxon Yslava 1: 2. TOTALS: 26 (3) 1-4: 56.
ASDB: Zephianh Little 3 2-3: 8; Irving Arizmendi 2: 4; Brennen Green 1 1-2: 3; Zamian Little 1 (1): 3; Buba Gannes 1 0-2: 2; Jonathan Antondo 0-2: 0. TOTALS: 8 (1) 3-9: 20.
The 1A South Tournament will be held from Feb. 5-7 at St. David and the region champion will earn a spot in the play-in or state playoffs.
FUTURE OF ASDB IS UP IN THE AIR
Prior to 1912, children who were declared deaf or blind were educated in Berkeley, California but the deaf children were relocated to the University of Arizona after HB 56 was passed by the state legislature with the blind students soon to follow. (The Arizona Constitution drafted in 1910 called for the legislature to provide education). From 1912 to 1922, children attended campus at Arizona until the facility at West Speedway was available. Children participated in athletics before the move, which makes the Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind (ASDB) one of the oldest school systems in Arizona to do so.
ASDB went on to win a state championship in football in 1976, won boys track and field championship in 1961, 1962, 1969 and 1977, a girls track field championship in 1988 and the program took third place in wrestling in 1971. In addition, 10 wrestlers took home individual championships.
Plans are underway to move the campus next year to an elementary school located in Oro Valley, a northern suburb of Tucson, and there is no word on the future of athletics for ASDB. There were no official comments on this and efforts to get word on this were not returned.
ASDB senior Zephianh Little scored a team-high 8 points against Patagonia. ASDB’s last home game at the school will be played Wednesday night. Plans are underway to move the school to a soon-to-be empty elementary school in Oro Valley, ending 103 years at the school #azpreps365 pic.twitter.com/ip6cHIyzu2
— Andy Morales (@AZPreps365Andy) February 4, 2026
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