Ignacio hosting Tigers, visiting Bulldogs 

Home for the holidays. And now, at last, home for competition on the hardwood. 

For the first time in the 2024-25 basketball season, Ignacio’s boys and girls were to show their skills inside IHS Gymnasium, and were slated to do so Thursday, Jan. 9, against 2A Del Norte. Results were unavailable by the time the Drum went to print, but IHS head coach Trae Seibel’s boys would have had to like their chances at victory in their first game since before the recently concluded winter break. 

After going a competitive 1-2 at Aztec, New Mexico’s Rumble in ‘The Jungle’ in late December, the Bobcats hosted DNHS standing 4-4 overall but still awaiting the start of 3A/4A Intermountain work. Skipper Austin Dillon’s Tigers, meanwhile, most recently took part in La Junta’s Holiday Shootout, but struck out with a 0-3 event record – dropping Del Norte to 1-4 overall. The team’s only win was thin, 54-52 over Leadville-based 3A Lake County on Day 2 of the early-December Buena Vista Invite. 

Travis Nanaeto’s Lady ’Cats stood 4-3 overall after also winning one of three Rumble contests, while Gilbert Sanchez’s Lady Tigers (3-2) heralded the holidays having lost 51-41 to Southern Peaks League rival Sanford – after defeating both 2A Fowler and 4A LJHS – on the Shootout’s third and last day. 

Looking ahead, Ignacio is slated to next travel westward to now-2A Dove Creek for boys’ and girls’ action Saturday afternoon, Jan. 11, then journey easterly on the 14th to 2A Sargent. IML play finally begins on Saturday, Jan. 18, when 4A Pagosa Springs comes to town.