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Texico’s Katlin Luscombe shoots over Bovina’s Yoselin Rueda during Saturday’s Citizens Bank Border Shootout girls championship game at Texico.
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Texico’s Jordyn Cooper looks to make a pass during Saturday’s game against Bovine at Texico.

TEXICO— The Texico boys and girls basketball teams claimed championships on Saturday in the Citizens Bank Border Shootout.

In the boys’ title matchup, junior Seth Bailey followed up his 23-point outing in a semifinal win over Farwell with a 25-point effort to help Texico beat Bosque 59-42. Meantime, the Texico girls handed Bovina its first loss of the season in nine games, taking the title with a 52-30 win over the Fillies.

Texico (3-1) jumped on Bosque for a 19-5 lead after one quarter. The Bobcats made a run, outscoring the Wolverines 20-10 in th third quarter to pull to 42-31, but Bailey collected 12 points in the final period to help Texico pull away for good.

Lucas Walthers added 2 points for the Wolverines. Bosque’s high man was 6-foot-9 senior Ryan Schaefer with 16, all but two coming in the second half.

Texico’s girls held Bovina to a 3-pointer by Mayra Gomez in the first quarter. Katlin Luscombe scored six of her game high 14 points to help stake the Lady Wolverines (3-2) to an 8-3 lead at the quarter.

Texico outscored the Fillies 19-6 in the final period to pull away.

Gomez finished with 11 points to lead Bovina.

In other final-round action:

n Junior guard Alex Flores scored 18 points, including four 3-pointers, to help the Clovis junior varsity beat Farwell 62-50 in the boys third-place game. The Wildcats took control of the game by outscoring the Steers 25-12 in the second quarter for a 10-point halftime cushion.

Sophomore Landry Actkinson led three players in double figures for Farwell (3-4) with 13 points.

n Farwell claimed the girls third-place gamewith a 63-45 win over Springlake-Earth behind seven 3-pointers and 25 points from junior Tiffani Jones. Junior guard Laura Martinez added 20 points, with three 3-pointers.

n Logan beat Bovina 55-43 in the boys’ fifth-place game. Senior Taylor Smith scored 32 points for the Longhorns whilethe Mustangs (4-4) got 16 points from senior Jesus Rocha.

n The Clovis junior varsity beat Mesilla Valley 52-46 for fifth place on the girls side, with Chelsea Wallace and Kayla Ware scoring 13 points each for the Lady Wildcats.

n In seventh-place games, Estancia’s boys edged Logan 50-46, while the Estancia girls topped Springlake-Earth 59-48.