In Friday night CIBACOPA action, Hermosillo improved to 10-3 with a win over Tepic 92-75. Tepic is still searching for their first victory of the season and made some bigtime changes a few days ago in hopes to get things going in the right direction...De'Angelo Riley was one of those new comers to Tepic and he had 17 points and 16 boards. Laro Morinia, an LNBP All Star, was also recently secured by Tepic, he dropped 19. For the Rayos, Steve Monreal, continued his hot shooting tallying 23 for Hermosillo... Tijuana kept pace with a 94-87 win over…CONTINUE READING

Wednesday night in the CIBACOPA was en fuego with all teams battling to improve their overall standing 12 games into the season. The Rayos, after falling Tuesday night to the Ostioneros, fought back last night and won 93-82 to maintain a first place tie at the top of the league with Guayamas. The Zonkeys also won, beating Los Mochis 85-80 improving to 8-3 in the process. Nogales beat Tepic again 83-73 and is 7-5. The Frayles beat Cananea 88-81. Cananea, last season's champion is 6-6, the Frayles are 5-7. Culiacan got their fourth win of the…CONTINUE READING

Tonight all teams in the CIBACOPA run it back against the same teams they faced Tuesday night. The Ostioneros and Rayos is the marquee match up. A win by the Ostioneros would put them two games up on the Rayos while sending Hermosillo on a three game slide in the process. If that happens, Tijuana, with another win over the Pioneros of Los Mochis tonight would move ahead of the Rayos into second place overall at 9-3. Nogales should likely improve to 7-5 with another win over Tepic who is still winless this season. Cananea, the current CIBACOPA champion,…CONTINUE READING

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CIBACOPA action resumes tomorrow night with a full slate of games on Tuesday. Hermosillo and Guayamas lead the way at the top of the league standings at 8-2, followed by Tijuana at 6-3. After those top three teams there is a log jam with Navolato, Nogales, Cananea, and Los Mochis even at 5-5, followed by Guasave at 4-6 and Culiacan at 3-7 and Tepic, who is winless at 0-9. Tomorrow nights match up sets up like this: Nogales vs Tepic Tijuana vs Los Mochis Guayamas vs Hermosillo Cananea vs Guasave Navolato vs CuliacanCONTINUE READING

All teams played in the CIBACOPA Friday night with the Rayos of Hermosillo solidifying their top spot overall with a 92-82 win over Culiacan. Los Mochis fell to a Fuerza Guinda squad, 74-69. Tijuana got back on the winning track with an 85-74 win over Guasave. The Mineros outran the Coras of Tepic, who are in a world of winless hurt, 86-70. Guayamas improved to 7-2 overall with a 97-79 victory over Navolato. Tonight there will be CIBACOPA madness with all teams playing Saturday.CONTINUE READING

Last night was Big Miercoles in the CIBACOPA (Mex) with a full slate of games on tap. The Zonkeys (Tijuana) and the Rayos (Hermosillo) took top billing as both teams jockeyed for the top spot overall in the league. After dealing the Zonkey's their first loss of the season Tuesday night in overtime, Hermosillo won again last night but in different fashion as the Rayos ran away from the Zonkeys 87-66 winning for the second time in as many nights. Jorge Camacho and Steve Monreal led Hermosillo combining for 33 points. Omar Quintero dropped 18 for…CONTINUE READING

The Zonkey's of Tijuana and the Rayos of Hermosillo will run it back tonight in Hermosillo for the second game in a high powered early season match up. Last night, Hermosillo got the better of Tijuana winning 98-93 in OT while taking over the top spot overall in the league in the process. Omar Quintero paced the Zonkeys in the first half with 18 but it wasn't enough in the end. Both teams run it back tonight in Hermosillo. Guayamas ran past Tepic 108-70 en route to their fifth win of the season, Tepic is still winless. Cananea, 3-4, continues…CONTINUE READING

Just six games into the CIBACOPA season and you can see some separation. The Zonkey's have done their tarea in the off season and cleary have made a mission to improve upon last years campaign by making a deeper run into the post season and possibly even winning a title. Though they are still unbeaten at 5-0, TJ doesn't have a top scorer, rebounder or dime dropper in the league overall. What they do have, however, is six players that average double figures led by Cyrus Tate's 18 ppg, PG Omar Quintero's  17 ppg and Bud Seay's…CONTINUE READING

The Zonkey's improved to 5-0 after beating Fuerza Guinda 76-68 last nigt in CIBACOPA action. Omar Quintero led the Zonkey's with 19 and Louis McCollough put up 17 in the loss. Patrick Sander tallied 22 and Juan Manuel Estrada notched a double double, 13-11, for the Rayos who snuck by Los Mochis, 86-85. Cameron Wyley led all scorers with a game high 28 for Mochis.  Hakim Johnson and Desmond Holloway had 20 each to lead four Ostioneros in double figures in an 83-78 victory over the Caballeros, Hector Nungary dished 11 assists for the…CONTINUE READING

On on the eve of March Madness, the CIBACOPA rolled on with three games on tap. Hermosillo took down Cananea for the second time in as many games, 93-84. Emmanuel Little dropped 27 for Hermosillo and Derick Thomas had 28 and 10 in the loss...Brandon Wyley led the Pioneros for the second night in a row with 25 and 10 while his teammate, newcomer to Mexico, Tyloe Taylor had 18 as they beat the Caballeros 88-83. Big man Adrian Zamora led the Caballeros with 23 and 12 boards...Navolato stayed unbeaten rolling past the Frayles 70-58 behind Ron Selleaze's…CONTINUE READING

Four games on the slate last night in Mexico's CIBACOPA. Navolato stayed unbeaten after downing the Frayles (1-2) 100-91. Damien Mcswine paced Navolato with 30 while teammates Mathew Gibson and Ronald Selleaze dropped 27 each. Selleaze also collected 10 boards. Gabriel Giron and Alonso Izaguirre combined for 41. Hermosillo got some regular season revenge after losing to the Mineros in last year's CIBACOPA Finals, they beat Cananea 79-66 last night. Jesus Hiram Lopez led Hermosillo with a double double, 17 and 13 while Franco Harris was the…CONTINUE READING

Just one game out of Mexico's CIBACOPA last night and Fuerza Guinda improved to 2-1 taking down Guayamas 101-92 Monday night. Fuerza got double figures from five players led by Brandon Heredia and Kent George's 22 points each. Markhuri Sanders Frison had 19 off the bench and Mike Strobbe added 16 and 8. For the Ostioneros, Jerome Habel led the way with 22 and Desmond Holloway chipped in with 19 in the loss...CIBACOPA rolls on tonight with four games on tap...in other league news, the Caballeros bring in foreigner Andre Opouh and release…CONTINUE READING

The Cocdrillos (VEN) and the Captianes (P.Rico) took care of business in the FIBA League of the Americas this weekend and advance out of Group C to the next round. Group D kicks off next weekend, after which we'll have our final 8 squads to play for title of the best pro club in the Americas...in the CIBACOPA (Mex), the Zonkey's made it a clean sweep over the Coras of Tepic winning Sunday night 100-103 and taking all three  games from the Coras the opening weekend of CIBACOPA play. Zach Alvidrez went nueces with 27 hitting 9 of 14 from…CONTINUE READING

Group C action out of the FIBA League of the Americas kicked off last night in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The Leones of Santo Domingo picked up their first LOA win taking down Joinville (Brazil) 74-66. Evan Brock who did some damage at the end of this LNBP season in Mexico, led all scorers with 19 points and 13 boards...in the second match up the Captianes (P.R.)  took care of business against the Cocodrilos (Ven) 88-70 with Elias Ayuso pacing all scorers with 21. FIBA LOA runs it back tonight, check the schedule here...From Mexico last night the…CONTINUE READING