New Mexico High School Sports News

Rattlers wrestlers practice pace increased as they prepare to host 14 teams Saturday at the annual Rattlers Invite at the Snake Pit.

Jerome Sandoval remembers Hatch Valley all too well. "We handled them on our floor last year, but they gave us a tough time at their house," said Sandoval, head coach for the Lady Wildcats basketball team.

The Moriarty High wrestling team opened the 2009-10 season with a decisive 54-21 dual victory at home against a short-handed Manzano contingent last week.

Kirtland Central nudged the tug-of-war flag back to the center. The Broncos claimed an early-season grudge match Friday, beating Bloomfield 67-63 in the Webb Toyota Basin Tournament semifinals at Bronco Arena.

With three and a half weeks left to go in 2009, it's that time of year where we look back on the past 11-plus months and try to figure out what the most memorable moments were.

The opponents down the road in Conference USA will undoubtedly bring tougher tests for the UTEP women than Grambling State did Saturday in the consolation game of Kansas State's tournament, but the defensive intensity the Miners showed in a routine 54-40 victory will serve them well.

The 2009-2010 Cavemen wrestling season is about to start. Their first tournament is Saturday in El Paso, Texas.

They say the family that plays together, stays together, and it's not like the Hanks High School wrestling team has any choice in either area.

TULAROSA The Signs were everywhere. All over Tularosa, "Tularosa Pride," "Massacre the Mavericks," and "Take State" greeted travelers on U.S. Highway 54.

The Fraser Valley Falcons put aside the disappointment of a first-game loss, and won four in a row to place fifth at the B.C. Senior AA boys high school soccer tournament.

SOCORRO a ' The Las Vegas Robertson Cardinals have half of the championship equation down pat.

There is a distinctive Four Corners flavor to the University of New Mexico baseball program, one that added another ingredient Friday.

Hector Villagran died at 17 in New Mexico after being shot in the throat by another teenager, Fabian Hernandez.

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Shiprock's volleyball team had two major goals for this season - winning the District 1-4A championship and finishing among the top four teams at the Class 4A state tournament.

Cloudcroft's Cathleen Check runs among a pack of other runners after completing the first mile at the Class 2A state cross country championships Nov.

RIO RANCHO a ' Three more points. Gary Maskaly saw the calm before the storm. If ever a perfect opportunity landed in the laps of he and his Los Alamos High volleyball team, this was it.

RIO RANCHO Throughout the season, the Texico High volleyball team lived by the acronym of COAOC.

Shiprock's volleyball team on Thursday provided more evidence that 2009 is the program's gold standard.

ALBUQUERQUE a ' Ryan Dunham is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Three times a week for the duration of the 2009 boys soccer season, Dunham and his Los Alamos Hilltoppers practiced penalty kicks, just in case they met a shootout situation.