{"id":134762,"date":"2026-01-23T06:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/134762\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:43:21","slug":"dominant-second-half-sees-coronado-basketball-surge-past-franklin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/134762\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant second half sees Coronado basketball surge past Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Coronado Thunderbirds defeated the Franklin Cougars 52-29 at Coronado High School on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Coronado moves to 15-7 (4-1 6A). Franklin falls to 17-6 (3-2 6A). <\/p>\n<p>The first half was a low-scoring affair with Coronado leading 17-15 at the break. <\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds came out of the half firing, dominating the remainder of the game on both ends of the floor. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu-eyeing-redemption-ahead-of-rematches-with-missouri-state-and-fiu-aggies-basketball-college-anthony-wrzeszcz-las-cruces-nm-draftkings?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Mexico State eyeing redemption ahead of rematches with Missouri State and FIU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This win sees Coronado take sole second place in the District 1 6A standings behind Eastlake. <\/p>\n<p>Franklin drops to a tie for third with Montwood. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Coronado will take on Pebble Hills. <\/p>\n<p>Franklin will face Montwood for control of third place.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/plays-of-the-week-jan-12-18-delaware-new-mexico-state-nmsu-chapin-utep-university-texas-el-paso-riverside-liberty?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plays of the Week: Jan. 12-18<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Coronado Thunderbirds defeated the Franklin Cougars 52-29 at Coronado High School on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-134762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}