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The New Mexico Activities Association announced Thursday that current Tucumcari athletic director and longtime THS multisport coach Wayne Ferguson would be inducted into the organization's Hall of Fame. Ferguson will be formally inducted during the second annual New Mexico High School Sports Award Show and Dinner on July 25 at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Ferguson, whose career in education spans over 30 years, has coached boys and girls basketball, wrestling, football and, currently, trac...
By Ron Warnick QCS senior writer [email protected] ALBUQUERQUE - It stings for a team to lose to district rival after winning the two previous matchups. It especially stings when the loss occurs in the state championship game. That's what happened to the Logan girls basketball team Saturday at The Pit at the University of New Mexico. District nemesis Fort Sumner-House dominated most of the game and cruised to a 54-36 victory for the Vixens' second Class 1A title in three years. The...
RIO RANCHO – Despite being down by 20 points, the fifth-seeded Logan boys basketball team mounted a furious comeback in the fourth quarter and gave a big scare to No. 1 Magdalena during a 58-54 Longhorns loss in the Class 1A semifinals. The Steers (30-1), which made nine 3-point shots during the contest Thursday at the Rio Rancho Events Center, surged to a 48-28 lead late in the third period and still commanded a 53-36 advantage with 4 1/2 minutes remaining. The Longhorns switched to a f...
Matt Hughes, the rodeo coach at Mesalands Community College since 2017, soon will leave to guide a newly launched rodeo program in his native Missouri. Missouri State University-West Plains is adding a co-ed rodeo team to its athletic programs in the fall that will compete in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association in the Ozarks Region. Hughes is a native of West Plains, Missouri. He was a professional rodeo athlete before becoming a coach. Mesalands interim president Allen Moss talked about Hughes’ imminent departure during the board o...
The Tucumcari baseball team’s first game on its new baseball field Saturday turned out to be a triumphant one, an 8-6 victory over Estancia. Juano Martinez hit a key two-run triple for insurance runs late in the game. Luis Archuleta also went 3-for-4 with three RBI and a double. Josh Griego earned the win, pitching 3 1/3 innings and allowing just one earned run while striking out four. Griego also scored four runs after drawing three walks and being hit by a pitch once. Tucumcari coach George Montano also praised the defense by second baseman A...
It's road-trip time for the Lady Rattlers. The fifth-seeded Tucumcari girls basketball team advanced to the Class 3A quarterfinals with a solid 54-32 victory over 12th-seeded Ruidoso in a first-round playoff game at Rattler Gymnasium. In four games against their district foe, the Lady Rattlers' performance Friday was the most dominating of the lot. Tucumcari grabbed an early lead from the outset, never trailed and commanded a 20-point advantage by the third quarter. Ruidoso ended its season...
The third-seeded Logan girls basketball team punched their ticket to the Class 1A quarterfinals with a dominating 78-29 home victory Friday over 14th-seeded Alamo Navajo in the first round of the tournament. The Lady Longhorns jumped to leads of 23-6 after the first quarter and 42-17 at intermission. Desta Rose led Logan with 31 points. Hailee Robertson made five 3-pointers and totaled 17 points. In all, the Lady Longhorns made 11 3-point shots. Logan coach Dustin Robertson said his team played hard, despite their foe being overmatched....
LOGAN - After a closely fought first half, the big men on the Logan boys basketball team asserted their will on Roy-Mosquero in the second half during an 81-66 victory Saturday in the first round of the Class 1A playoffs. Six-foot-6 forward Hayden Bruhn scored 24 points, and 6-foot-4 center Mason Wallin added 23 - mostly in the critical second half when the Longhorns led by as much as 23. Point guard Brock Burns totaled 21 points. Fifth-seeded Logan (24-5) advanced to the quarterfinals, where...
Home, sweet home - even if it's a new home. Last season, the Tucumcari High School baseball team played all its home games in Logan while a new field was being constructed from a voter-approved $3 million bond issue in 2019. Since about Feb. 1, the Rattler players have been practicing on their new diamond. Hopes are high with them and third-year coach George Montano. "I'm happy I got a field this year, you know?" Montano said. "I couldn't be more grateful. I know Logan's not far away, but it...
With a half-dozen girls still playing basketball this week, Tucumcari High School softball coach CJ Oglesby will have precious little time to prepare his team for its season-opener Saturday at Raton. Oglesby, in his sixth season, said he's been training about eight non-basketball players in the meantime, and he hasn't been taking it easy on them. "We're just trying to condition them a little bit more," he said. "In previous years, we haven't been too conditioned should we get to the state...
Two days after conquering Ruidoso for the district title, the Tucumcari girls basketball team learned Sunday it will play the Warriors again in an opening-round Class 3A home playoff game on Friday. The Logan girls and boys basketball teams earned third and fifth seeds respectively in their Class 1A playoffs. Both will play home games this weekend. Class 3A girls The Lady Rattlers (22-3), winners of 10 in a row, earned the fifth seed in Class 3A tournament pairings announced Sunday by the New Mexico Activities Association. Tucumcari will play...
The third-seeded Logan boys basketball team fell into a 17-point deficit in the third quarter and never could climb back out of it during a 73-66 loss Thursday at second-seeded Melrose in the semifinals of the district tournament. The Longhorns (23-5) trailed 35-28 at intermission, and that gap grew to 54-37 midway through the third period. Logan several times rallied to within six points in the fourth quarter but drew no closer. “We dug ourselves in a hole in the beginning of the third quarter,” Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said. “De...
The Lady Rattlers were in foul trouble during their district tournament championship basketball game against Ruidoso. They solved it by getting the Lady Warriors into even more foul trouble. The result Friday was a 57-41 victory at Rattler Gymnasium for top-seeded Tucumcari, capturing its third straight district tournament title. Caylee Benavidez scored 26 points for the Lady Rattlers, including 11 from the free-throw line. July Lafferty added 16 points. Tucumcari earned a No. 5 seed in the...
The top-seeded Logan girls basketball team used a second-half surge Friday to conquer second-seeded Fort Sumner 58-44 and capture the district tournament title at the Lady Longhorns' gym. The Lady Longhorns (20-7), ranked fourth in Class 1A by MaxPreps.com coming into the game, won their eighth in a row and already had won the regular-season district championship the previous week. Camryn Cantrell scored 17 points and Desta Rose 16 to lead Logan, which outscored the Vixens 32-22 in the second...
The third-seeded Tucumcari boys basketball team struggled to get anything going offensively and were ousted from the district tournament in a 62-37 loss Thursday at second-seeded New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. The Rattlers trailed 14-7 after the first quarter and 32-17 at intermission. "I'm not sure what happened," THS coach Gary Hittson said. "It was not the same team that played Dexter on Wednesday night. They just got in our face, played good defense and out-physicaled us." Luis...
The Tucumcari girls basketball team captured its second straight district title Friday night, but it wasn't easy. Trailing for much of the game, the Lady Rattlers gathered themselves to put together a 14-1 scoring run in the fourth quarter to take the lead, then hung on for dear life during a 54-52 victory over fellow district contender Ruidoso. Kyla Lopez scored 12 of her team-high 15 points during that key fourth quarter as the Lady Rattlers, ranked sixth in Class 3A by MaxPreps.com, improved...
For a little while, it appeared the Tucumcari boys basketball team might act as spoilers in Ruidoso's quest to capture a district championship. However, a scoring drought in the second quarter, plus red-hot shooting from behind the 3-point line in the third quarter by the Warriors, foiled the Rattlers' plans in a 60-42 loss Friday at Rattler Gymnasium. Ruidoso (14-11) captured the regular-season district title with a 5-1 mark and landed the No. 1 seed in this week's district tournament. The...
RIO RANCHO - Tucumcari senior Antonio Gonzales had conquered every opponent in his 172-pound weight class during the Class 4A state wrestling championships. But at the finale, Highland junior Amiri Mumba stood in his way - again. Gonzales (30-6) lost a 6-2 decision to the top-seeded Mumba (31-2) in the finals Saturday at the Rio Rancho Events Center. It was Gonzales' fourth loss to Mumba this season, though Saturday's was his closest against him. Mumba scored a takedown and near-fall in the...
The Logan girls basketball team captured the District 6 regular-season title and the top seed and home court for this week’s district tourney title game with a 73-50 home victory Thursday. Camryn Cantrell scored 26 points to lead the Lady Longhorns, and Desta Rose added 25 points. The Lady Longhorns (19-7) won their seventh in a row. They finished 5-1 in district play to top the standings and earned two byes and a home game in the finals in this week’s district tournament. “I’m very proud of the girls’ hard work and the toughness they’ve s...
SAN JON - The San Jon girls basketball team had one player in particular to worry about during its game Friday against Corona-Vaughn, and it was impossible to not notice her. That player was 6-foot-5 freshman center Harper Dunn, who stands literally heads and shoulders above teammates and opponents. She is believed to be the tallest girls player in New Mexico. She has attracted recruiting attention from national contenders Louisiana State University and Iowa, to name a few. During Friday's...
Tucumcari boasted an individual champion in its first-ever powerlifting competition last week during a seven-team meet at Logan. Nolan Ryen, a senior at THS, lifted a total of 1,095 pounds in the 275-pound boys weight class for the Rattlers’ lone individual title. He lifted 440 pounds in the squat, 215 pounds in the bench press and 440 pounds in the dead lift. “He did fantastic,” Tucumcari coach Matt Benavidez said, noting Ryen had lifted 350 pounds in the squat and 185 pounds in the bench press just weeks ago. “Compared to what he did at the...
The Logan boys basketball team closed its regular season with a 90-50 victory Thursday over visiting Grady in a preview of this week’s district-tourney opener. Mason Wallin scored 32 points to lead the Longhorns, and Hayden Bruhn added 26. The Longhorns (22-4) finished third in District 6 with a 3-3 mark and was seeded third in this week’s district tournament, with the title game hosted by top-seeded Fort Sumner. The Foxes lost at Melrose 60-49 on Thursday but still earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament with a 5-1 mark in district play. Log...
Three Tucumcari High School boy wrestlers earned medals at the at the Region 2 championships Saturday at Belen, all advancing to this weekend's state meet at Rio Rancho. Antonio Gonzales (27-5), a senior in the 172-pound weight class, advanced to the finals at the 19-team meet, losing only to Highland's Amiri Mumba by a 8-0 major decision. Josh Pacheco (34-9), a junior, finished third in the 145-pound division. He lost an 8-4 decision in the semifinals to Academy's Zac Fernandez but prevailed...
A district title is there for the taking for the Tucumcari girls basketball team. After a 57-13 drubbing of Dexter at the Lady Rattlers' home gym on Friday and a 12-point victory over Ruidoso earlier in the week, Tucumcari stands alone in first place in the standings with a 4-0 mark. The Lady Rattlers can secure the district title this week with wins at New Mexico Military Institute on Tuesday and a home game against Ruidoso on Friday. "We're in the driver's seat," THS coach Patrick Benavidez...
Tucumcari High School’s head football coach has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Tucumcari Public Schools interim superintendent Dave Johnson said that coach Tarik Emback was placed on leave after being notified of an allegation in January that Johnson would not specify. Johnson said the investigation should be wrapped up “in a few weeks.” He did not give specifics on the allegation because it is a personnel matter, though he said he might give more information later. Quay County Sheri...
