St. Michael’s rolling along, dominating Santa Fe Prep, 71-39, on the road Wednesday night for its 8th straight win, 11th in its last 13 starts, unbeaten in 2-3A at 7-0 and has Robertson, West Las Vegas and SF Indian School in its next three games

Surging along by winning 11 of its last 13 games and on an 8-game win streak, St. Michael’s prepared for Friday night‘s District 2-3A Valentine Day visit to Robertson by overwhelming Santa Fe Prep, 71-39, on the road Wednesday night.

The Horsemen, on top the district at 7-0and at 16-7 overall, the Griffins (5-14, 0-7) lost their 10th in a row and were no match for soaring St. Michael’s, which was at 9-0 in the standings last year before losing to West Las Vegas and then defeating Santa Fe Indian School in a playoff for first place, while finishing at 21-9 and losing to the Braves in the state tournament semifinals.

Now it is in quest of a sweep over the two main challenges, the Cardinals and the Dons. The Horsemen previous topped Robertson, 60-51, at home, and winning at West Las Vegas, 52-44. The Cards are 18-5 overall, 5-2 in district, and have their last four. The Dons are 14-9 overall, 6-1 in district, and have won their last two.

It will be a key test when WLV visits St. Michael’s Feb. 19 and then the Horsemen take the short ride to Indian School (11-11, 1-5) on Feb. 22 in the regular-season finale. In district, Robertson has scored 420 overall points and have allowed 269, the least. West Las Vegas is at 372-306, and the Horsemen, at 467, the most, and have given up 291.

Against Prep, Dave Rodriguez’ team took a 20-7 after the first quarter and increased it to 44-17 at the intermission. Sophomore Lucas Coriz and senior Thomas Wood and Rico Gurule combined for 43 points, with Coriz having the game-high 16 points, Wood adding 15 and Gurule scoring a dozen.