DOUGLAS – The Cochise College men’s basketball team pulled out the ladder and the scissors Friday night to cut down the net after holding off Phoenix College 101-98 in the regular-season finale.
The Apaches will be back at it on their home court on Thursday to open the NJCAA Region I playoffs against Central Arizona. The win Friday night gave the Apaches their sixth ACCAC championship in the last 14 years, but this one may have been a little more special.
“This one may have more meaning in the sense we have nine sophomores,” Cochise head coach Jerry Carrillo said. “Our guys honored the process, practiced hard and I think the proof