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  • Melrose advances to finals with 50-14 win over Ft. Sumner

    Dave Wagner, The Staff of The News|Nov 8, 2023

    MELROSE – It's not like Melrose expected to run roughshod over Fort Sumner on Friday night, as the Buffaloes had done two weeks earlier in district play. In fact, Friday's eight-man semifinal matchup was far more competitive for far longer. In the end, though, the top-ranked Buffaloes simply had too much firepower and pulled away to a 50-14 win over the Foxes. Fort Sumner is in a sports cooperative with House Municipal Schools in southern Quay County, but no House students are on the Foxes' r...

  • Local cowboys maintain busy rodeo schedule

    Dave Wagner CNj sports writer|Jun 9, 2012

    Steer wrestlers Kurt Stallings and Christian Pettigrew saw both ends of the competitive spectrum this weekend. They each won in a rodeo on Friday night at Fort Sumner — Pettigrew in calf-roping — but both cowboys came up empty in Saturday's competition at the 42nd annual Pioneer Days Rodeo at Curry County Events Center. Stallings, 28, a Texico High graduate whose family moved from Albuquerque to the Clovis area when he was about 15, said it's all in the game. CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Tex...