The Peak to Peak girl’s basketball team walked into Holy Family’s gym Jan. 24 ranked fourth in the AP media poll and undefeated in the Class 3A Metro League. But that didn’t affect the Tigers at all since they are also unbeatable in league and are the No. 2 ranked team. Well maybe it bothered them, but only for the first five minutes.

The Pumas scored four points right off the bat, but the 4-0 lead was the single advantage Peak to Peak possessed. Holy Family went on a 14-0 run with two minutes left in the first quarter.

“That layup at the beginning really sparked us to have a realization that we need to get out of gate strong,” Tigers sophomore Katie Chavez said. “That was a good wake up call for us and then after that happened, we just played our game.”

The Pumas closed the gap by scoring 12 points and only trailed Holy Family 18-16 at the end of the first quarter. The Tigers then scored nine consecutive points and took over from there.

Holy Family led at halftime 41-25 and held the Pumas to nine points in third quarter and eight in the fourth for the 70-42 win.

“It was a great defensive win by our team today,” Holy family head coach Ron Rossi said. “Our balance offensively was very good. We really did the good game plan of taking away the three big scorers.”

Pumas junior Katharine Kia was averaging 15 points per game, however Holy Family kept Kia to six points throughout the match. Junior Michaela Wildbacher led Peak to Peak with 14 points.

Tigers senior Lindsey Chavez had a double double scoring 16 points and had 10 defensive steals.

“Lindsey got her fast break going and always plays good defense for us,” Rossi said of Chavez. “She hit a couple of really key jumpers that iced the game.”

Katie Chavez led Holy Family in points with 19 and had 10 assists and four steals. She was 4 for 6 at the free throw line.

Junior Maggie Spitzer scored 13 points for the Tigers and junior Alex Jaros scored 11. Both senior Claudia Pena and junior Megan Mcgillin grabbed six rebounds and Spitzer had four. Katie Chavez said she liked how the whole team played a role in the Tigers win.

“All of us contributed in our own way,” Chavez said. “If Alex wouldn’t have come off the bench and scored those points and even our posts were staying strong and getting great rebounds. I think it all just fell into place which really helped us.”

The Tigers will continue their successful season Jan. 31 when they play Manual at home and hit the road Feb. 4 at Colorado Academy.