Cochise Men's Basketball falls short to #14 Pima at home

DOUGLAS, Ariz. --- After a convincing win on the road at South Mountain last week, the Cochise Men's Basketball team struggled to find an answer at home when they hosted DII #14 Pima Community College Saturday evening. The Apaches were without key sophomore guard Riley Parker who is out recovering from an injury. The Aztecs visited Cochise Stronghold having only lost one game this season, and was looking for revenge after suffering a dramatically close loss to Cochise on the road just a year ago. 

Cochise went into halftime trailing the Aztecs 27-45, despite a strong effort from sophomore standouts Jordan Herandez and Diego Sharp in the first half. Hernandez finished the game scoring 17 points leading Cochise, along with 8 assists and two steals. Sharp was 3 for 4 from three-point land scoring 13 points and collecting four steals. In the second half, the Apaches scratched and clawed back into the game getting from within eight points of a Pima team who simply could not miss their shots going 14 for 31 and 4 for 12 in 3-pointers. Pima's Kota Benson scored 21 points off of the bench including five three-pointers. 

"We gave it a hard fight in the second half and showed some character" head coach Jerry Carrillo stated on the Coolfmonline post-game interview yesterday, "but at the end of the day, we got to be better."

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The Apaches (10-8,3-4) will have time to get healthy and correct any mistakes as they will not play until January 20th when they head to Glendale, AZ to take on GCC (6-8,1-5) led by Ken Carillo who is Cochise Head Coach Jerry Carillo's older brother.