Six games into their basketball schedule the Klondike Cougars are playing .500 ball but Coach Xavier Elizondo’s hoopsters are only a shot or two away from being so much better.
Klondike’s boys were at Class 2A Sundown Friday afternoon and the Cougars had a chance to bring home a victory before falling to the Roughnecks, 43-41.
“We played another very good opponent today and again we were right there with them,” Elizondo said.
Sundown was up 8-6 at the end of the first quarter and 22-15 a the half. Sundown led 36-25 at the end of the third quarter before a late Cougar ...