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Mingus Rams battle for and defend hoops titles

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The walls of the Clarkdale-Jerome School gym are carpeted with 10 state and league basketball championship banners, which makes goal-setting easy for the boys and girls teams.

“My goal is to three-peat, and to win the Small Schools [State],” boys basketball head coach Rudy Sandoval said. “We haven’t since 2002-03, my second year here, we won. I was like, ‘This is going to be easy,’ and then never again.”

The Mingus Rams are currently working on chest passes and general ball control skills. Garrett Newman, a player on the Clarkdale-Jerome School “B” team, dribbles around Mingus Rams assistant coach Brandon Islas at practice.

For the full story and Mingus Rams basketball schedules, please see the Wednesday, Nov. 26, issue of the Cottonwood Journal Extra.

George Werner

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