On the final day of the month, Salpointe Catholic can cap a fantastic February with a pair of state basketball championships.
The Lancersโ boys and girls basketball teams will play for Class 4A state basketball titles in back-to-back games at Phoenix Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The girls will take on Flagstaff at 6 p.m., with the boysโ game against Gilbert Mesquite to follow.
Itโs been a remarkable winter so far for the Lancers, who won state championships in both boys and girls soccer โ with the girls scoring in the final minute of regulation in the final and then winning in penalty kicks.
The Lancers are, at least on paper, the better teams heading into Mondayโs basketball finals. The girls are seeded second, while Flagstaff is fifth. The boys team is seeded first, with Mesquite sixth.
Kylee Callahan leads Salpointe's girls team with an average of 16.2 points per game.
Salpointeโs girls are led by senior Kylee Callahan, who leads the team with 16.2 points and 3.3 steals per game. Freshman Taliyah Henderson chips in 11.6 points and 5.0 rebounds per game, while senior Tessa Hastings adds an average of 9.1 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.3 steals. She scored a team-high 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting in the Lancersโ 42-29 semifinal win over Chandler Seton Catholic.
Senior Dillan Baker leads the Lancersโ boys team with 14.9 points per game while chipping in 5.5 rebounds per game. Senior Julian Riesgo adds 12.1 points and 3.3 steals per game, with junior Canyon Torres (11.8 ppg) and senior Brett Rosenblatt (10.3 ppg, 6.1 rpg) average double-digit points per game.
Monday night marks the second-to-last day for Southern Arizona basketball games this season. Tuesday, Flowing Wellsโ top-seeded girls team faces No. 3 Goodyear Millennium at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at 6 p.m.
