Young Jania Jackson and her Southern Ute Police Department teammates hoist high the Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge trophy after SUPD, with help from players repping the Boys & Girls Club of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, defeated Los Pinos Fire District 41-24 – LPFD had won the previous two clashes – in the 2019 edition Wednesday night, March 20, inside IHS Gymnasium.

Los Pinos Fire District team captain Brad Egger reminds the Southern Ute Police Department side that the previous two editions of the Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge went his squad’s way, prior to the 2019 battle Wednesday night, March 20, inside IHS Gymnasium.

Young Boys & Girls Club of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe players, aiding either the Southern Ute Police Department (blue) or the Los Pinos Fire District (green), scrap for the ball during the 2019 Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge fundraiser event Wednesday night, March 20, inside IHS Gymnasium. In this particular moment, players were joined in pairs at the ankle, allowing hilarity to ensue at every turn.

Reinforcing the Southern Ute Police Department squad during the 2019 Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge Wednesday night, March 20, inside IHS Gymnasium, young Joseph Atencio hustles the ball forward on a fast break. SUPD would win the yearly showdown 41-24, earning the traveling trophy for the first time in the event’s young three-year history.

Bruce LeClaire (right), CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, offers some future luck to the winning Southern Ute Police Department team – captained by Raymond Coriz – after a 41-24 win over the Los Pinos Fire District in the 2019 Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge.

Members of the Los Pinos Fire District team observe the paper-airplane throwing contest held between the first and second quarters of the 2019 Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge Wednesday night, March 20, inside IHS Gymnasium.

Los Pinos Fire District team player Jim Owens, left, readies a hard hat…just in case, during a pause in play against the Southern Ute Police Department in the 2019 Guns ’N’ Hoses Basketball Challenge Wednesday night, March 20, inside IHS Gymnasium.

Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum