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  • Family Mourns Sisters; 'Basketball Was Their Life' (Another NM DWI tragedy)

    03/07/2010 8:14:33 PM PST · by CedarDave · 23 replies · 255+ views
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | March 7, 2010 | Jessica Dyer And Karen Peterson
    SANTA FE — Ask about teenage sisters Deshauna and Del Lynn Peshlakai, and the conversation repeatedly shifts to basketball. "They were athletes — the whole family," said the girls' aunt, Virginia Garcia. "They'd played basketball since they were little girls. Their father played; the whole family played. Basketball was their life." It was basketball that brought Deshauna and Del to Santa Fe on Friday night, where they were killed by a suspected drunken driver in a five-car pileup on Cerrillos Road. The Peshlakais, who are from the Navajo community of Naschitti, south of Shiprock, were headed home after Newcomb High...