LAS-CRUCES, NM (KTSM) – In one of the most anticipated regular season games of the local high school basketball season recently, Chapin and Las Cruces competed with some of the Borderlands’ top talent for four full quarters. Led by Deuce Benjamin and Isaiah Carr, the Bulldawgs took a 62-61 victory in the dog loo on Tuesday night.
Benjamin, who holds Division I offers from NMSU, FIU and Little Rock, scored a team high of 24 points in the win. Carr, who is committed to the Grand Canyon, added 17 points.
Lewis stole the show with a game high of 43 points in loss and a monstrous put-back jam that electrified the opposing home crowd. As the consensus top 50 recruit in the nation for the 2023 Class, Lewis currently holds 21 Division I offers, including the Blue Bloods of college basketball in Kansas, Kentucky and UCLA.
With the win, Las Cruces, which is number 1 in the state of New Mexico, starts the 2021/22 season 1-0. The Bulldawgs will hold Eldorado on Friday. Chapin, ranked 8th in the state of Texas, drops to 6-2 a year and will play Parkland next Tuesday night.
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