Swink Lions End Trinidad Miners Girls Basketball Season, 38-27

The Trinidad Miners girls basketball team's season ended Friday at Sanford High School, where the Swink Lions pulled away for a 38-27 victory in the CHSAA Class 2A regional round of 32.

Trinidad had entered the tournament as the 19th seed, facing a Swink squad ranked 14th in Class 2A. The Miners had left Donnelly Gym earlier that afternoon with a police escort, part of a send-off the Trinidad School District #1 organized for both the boys and girls teams heading into the state playoffs.

The 11-point defeat closed what had been a milestone season for the program. The Trinidad School District noted before the game that the THS girls had qualified for the CHSAA Class 2A State Tournament for the third consecutive season, a run of consistency that has made postseason basketball a fixture at the school.

Trinidad had earned its tournament berth in part by defeating Crested Butte in a late-February league tournament game on February 28. That loss knocked the Titans to 33rd in the Class 2A rankings, one spot out of the state field, while Trinidad advanced as the 19th seed.

No box score or individual scoring totals for the March 6 game were available in the initial reports. Swink advances; both teams have no further games scheduled in the Class 2A bracket.