Cavemen romp past Cats

CARLSBAD — The Carlsbad Cavemen were on a mission Tuesday night, and there was little Clovis High’s boys could do to slow them down.

Especially in the second quarter, when the Cavemen went on a 23-2 rampage en route to a 66-31 District 4-6A win over the Wildcats.

Carlsbad (19-5, 5-1) shared the regular-season district title with Hobbs (24-2, 5-1), and will play a seeding tiebreaker on Saturday night at Artesia.

Meantime, the Cats (5-21, 1-5) open district tourney play in a 7 p.m. tipoff on Tuesday at Alamogordo.

“They had a lot to play for,” CHS coach Scott Robinson said of the Cavemen. “It was Senior Night for them, and they were coming off a big win over Hobbs (last Friday).”

For a while, the Cats — who lost late here to the Cavemen 51-50 in late January — kept it relatively close for a quarter, trailing 16-11, before finding themselves down by 26 at halftime.

“It gets back to if we make a few easy shots around the basket (early), we might have been tied or even in the lead,” CHS coach Scott Robinson said. “You just can’t give up quarters like that in 6A.

“We just don’t have the offensive punch right now to get down that many points and come back.”

Senior guard Trevin Ramirez scored 19 points for Carlsbad, while senior forward Jason Sullivan added 11. Senior guard Tristen Pautler topped the Cats with 11 points.