The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (15-0, 5-0 in ACCAC) won its 15th straight game on Saturday as it opened 2026 against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (8-7, 0-4) at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium.
The No. 8 ranked Aztecs used a couple of 12-0 runs to take down the Coyotes 81-56.
Leading 12-8, the Aztecs got a couple of three-pointers from freshman Will Feagles (Notre Dame Prep), which led to a 12-0 run to make it 24-8. The Aztecs took their biggest lead of the half at 40-17 after freshman Isaiah Hill (Premier Prep Academy) hit a pair of free throws.
The Coyotes put together a 15-2 run in almost six minutes between the first and second half to close the gap to 42-32. They got the differential to seven points on two occasions in the second half.
Pima led 55-48 with 9:56 remaining and got huge buckets from sophomores Brock Mendoza and Mason Hunt (Bradshaw Mountain HS) as well as a three-pointer by freshman Rowan McKenzie (Boulder Creek HS) to get the score back to double digits at 62-48.
The Coyotes scored their final points of the game off of two free throws and went scoreless for the final 4:51. The Aztecs finished the game on a 12-0 run.
Mendoza posted his fourth straight double-double as he finished with a game-high 17 points and 16 rebounds. He was 7 for 10 from the field and also had three blocks.
Feagles scored 15 points as he went 5 for 6 from beyond the arc.
Hill closed out the game with 14 points, four rebounds and four assists while Hunt also posted 14 points to go with five rebounds and three assists.
Sophomore Isaac Johnson added nine points, four rebounds, three assists and two steals.
The Aztecs shot 50 percent from the field (30-60) and outrebounded the Coyotes 42-28.
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (12-3, 4-1 in ACCAC) opened 2026 with a victory on Saturday against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (8-6, 1-3).
The No. 5 ranked Aztecs put together a double digit run in the first quarter and maintained their advantage in a 73-42 win over the Coyotes at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium.
Chandler-Gilbert scored the first points of the game but the Aztecs went on a 15-2 run and held the Coyotes scoreless for almost six minutes, and without a field goal for eight minutes as Pima went up 18-6 after the opening stanza.
The Coyotes cut Pima’s lead to 10 points at 23-13 in the second quarter but the Aztecs scored eight straight and used a 10-2 run to go up 33-15 at halftime.
The Aztecs took their biggest lead in the fourth quarter after freshman Lucy Fisher’s (Mesquite HS) basket made it 68-34 with 3:51 left.
Sophomore Kiley Sours-Miller (Dream City Christian) scored a game-high 17 points and completed the double-double by adding 13 rebounds. She also had two blocks.
Fisher also closed it out with a double-double of 13 points and 13 rebounds to go with two assists and two steals.
Sophomore Melicia Nelson (Window Rock HS) was also a starter in double figures as she added 10 points after going 4 for 5 from the field. She posted seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals.
The bench production of sophomore Cassie Coolidge (Sahuaro HS) and Gabriella Sanchez (Tucson Magnet HS) provided a spark in the second half. Coolidge scored all 10 of her points in the second half as she went 3 for 3 from the field and 2 for 2 from beyond the arc. Sanchez also scored 10 points as she was 3 for 5 from the field, adding five rebounds and one block.
The Aztecs shot 40.7 percent from the field (24-59). They outrebounded the Coyotes 53-30 for the game.
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