Volcano Vista-Hobbs. Times three. The Class 5A girls state basketball championship game is a marriage of familiar names and faces, as the top-seeded Hawks (2.
Volcano Vista-Hobbs. Times three. The Class 5A girls state basketball championship game is a marriage of familiar names and faces, as the top-seeded Hawks (2.
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Natalia Chavez, center, is mobbed by her teammates after hitting a half-court shot at the buzzer to beat Hobbs in overtime. (Jim Thompson/Journal)
It will forever be remembered as one of the greatest baskets and one of the most indelible moments in the century-long history of the New Mexico high school state basketball tournament.
On the 100th anniversary of the first recognized state tournament in 1921, this was an ending almost too good to be true.
“It felt like a movie,” Jaelyn Bates said. She wasn’t wrong.
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Her Volcano Vista teammate, junior guard Natalia Chavez, banked in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from mid-court on Saturday afternoon in overtime, no less in the championship game of the Class 5A girls final at the Pit.