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The Tucumcari girls basketball team’s season-opener Thursday night against Robertson was postponed due to snowy weather in northern New Mexico. The Cardinals decided Thursday morning to not make the trip to Tucumcari as heavy snow fell in the northern part of the state. Several basketball teams were delayed Thursday in arriving at the West Las Vegas Shootout tournament because of icy roads. The Tucumcari-Robertson game was rescheduled to Jan. 19. The Lady Rattlers’ season-opener instead was slated be at Texico on Tuesday evening. That game was...
After a season-opening loss, the Logan girls basketball team rebounded with two wins during the Dora Tournament, including a 51-46 victory over the host team Saturday in the consolation final. With the Lady Longhorns clinging to a slim lead, Desta Rose drove into the paint for two baskets in the final 1:15 to preserve the win. Rose totaled 17 points to lead Logan. Logan’s defense also held Dora scoreless for more than 2 1/2 minutes late in the fourth quarter. The Lady Longhorns took a lead it never would relinquish with a 10-1 run in the s...
The Logan boys basketball team won the season-opening Dora Tournament in resounding fashion, including a 78-46 victory over Roy-Mosquero in the championship game Saturday. Logan raced to a 16-0 lead in the first quarter and commanded a 36-21 lead at intermission. Mason Wallin led the Longhorns with 17 points, and Hayden Bruhn added 15. Logan won the tournament’s three games by an average of over 35 points. “Sharing the basketball, rebounding and defense were the keys to our success” at the tournament, Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said. “This...
Though longtime Tucumcari boys basketball coach John Span is sitting out this season, don't expect many changes as his assistant coach from last season, Gary Hittson, takes over the helm. Span decided this fall to temporarily step down from his post because he's recovering from major cancer surgery in August. It would have been Span's 21st season. Hittson, a veteran coach himself, said he'd been in touch occasionally with Span over the summer, but their philosophies remain mostly similar...
Tucumcari will have an early measuring stick on how good its girls basketball team is when its hosts (Las Vegas) Robertson in its season opener on Thursday. The perennially tough Cardinals have defeated the Lady Rattlers by an average of more than 30 points the last three seasons. But THS coach Patrick Benavidez thinks his team has a good opportunity for payback. "They've had our number the last few years," he said. "Their being physical really wore us down in the second half. This year, I...
Four Tucumcari football players earned first-team all-district honors, with eight others earning second-team or honorable mention awards. Sophomore wide receiver and defensive back Kamren Apodaca, senior running back and linebacker Antonio Gonzales, junior running back and linebacker Jordan Rincones and sophomore wide receiver and defensive back Daymion Urioste each made the first team in District 4 of Class 3A. Urioste totaled a team-high 768 all-purpose yards and seven touchdowns during the...
Four players from Tucumcari High School’s volleyball team earned first-team honors last week in District 4 of Class 3A. First-team members for the Lady Rattlers were: — Senior defensive specialist and outside hitter Haisley Huffman (146 kills, a team-high 258 digs, 255 receptions); — Junior setter Caylee Benavidez (166 kills, a team-high 602 assists and 63 aces, 242 digs and 37 blocks); — Freshman outside hitter Cambree Benavidez (a team-high 232 kills, 56 aces and 154 digs); — Senior libero Alexis Ramirez (53 aces, 205 digs, a team-high...
Five Logan High School volleyball players earned first-team honors in recent voting by District 6 coaches in Class 1A. The Lady Longhorns' first-team all-district players were: - Senior libero Hailee Robertson; - Senior outside hitter Kaylee Williams; - Sophomore outside hitter Desta Rose; - Junior middle blocker Haylie Bidegain; - Senior defensive specialist Bella Coronado. Robertson also was named to the Red Team as a defensive specialist in the New Mexico High School Coaches Association's...
RIO RANCHO - A Class 1A volleyball championship clash of No. 1 Melrose vs. No. 2 Logan seemed inevitable virtually all season, but Gateway Christian had other ideas Saturday morning. The Warriors, seeded fourth in the tournament, ousted the Lady Longhorns 21-25, 25-23, 25-11, 16-25, 15-10 in the semifinals. In the fifth and deciding set, Gateway's Kimber Balok made three kills and an ace during a critical 5-2 scoring run to give her team a 13-9 lead. Balok totaled 11 kills and a team-high six sc...
The Logan Municipal Schools board voted reluctantly to drop its football program from its current eight-man format to the six-man division for two years starting in 2024 due to declining participation. The vote was 4-1, with Kene Terry casting the only “no” vote during the board’s Nov. 13 meeting. Terry said he wanted to table the item until a later date. Athletic director Billy Burns recommended Logan going to six-man football because of projected low participation numbers by underclassmen and junior-high students. He faced a Nov. 29 deadl...
RIO RANCHO - The Lady Rattlers didn't bring home a trophy, nor did they advance to the Class 3A semifinals. What they did, however, was solidify their claim as the best volleyball team in school history. The Lady Rattlers not only earned their first-ever victory at the state tournament on Thursday, but they notched another win on Friday. Tohatchi finally brought Tucumcari's postseason to an end with 15-25, 25-14, 16-25, 19-25 loss Friday afternoon at the Rio Rancho Events Center. The Lady...
Logan senior Brock Burns recently was named co-Offensive Player of the Year for District 3-1A in eight-man football. Burns shared the award with Melrose wide receiver Michael Cardonita. As Logan's quarterback, Burns went 92-for-178 passing for 1,791 yards, 21 touchdowns and just nine interceptions. He also ran for 292 yards and six touchdowns. He even caught a pass for a TD. Burns was named a first-team all-district selection as quarterback, defensive end and punter. Logan finished 7-3 overall...
LOGAN - The Lady Longhorns defeated top-ranked Melrose for the first time in two years and notched their first district championship since 2018, though they didn't know the latter until about 20 minutes after Friday's match ended. Logan, ranked No. 2 in Class 1A by MaxPreps.com, prevailed in a 21-25, 26-24, 23-25, 25-16, 15-13 epic in the regular season finale for both teams that took about two hours. Melrose (20-3) and Logan (17-5) each finished district play with 7-1 records. Logan athletic di...
Tucumcari's volleyball team won its second district title in three years Thursday night, and they did it at home this time. The Lady Rattlers conquered defending district champ Ruidoso 18-25, 25-15, 25-19, 26-24 in front of an estimated 600 people, the largest volleyball crowd in many years at Rattler Gymnasium. With the fourth set tied 24-24 and the Warriors trying to force a fifth and deciding set, Tucumcari's July Lafferty executed a kill to give her team a slim lead. Next, senior Haisley...
Tucumcari’s volleyball team landed the No. 5 seed in this week’s Class 3A tournament and will face a familiar foe — Ruidoso — in the first round on Thursday morning. Logan earned a No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the 1A tournament. The Lady Longhorns (17-5) will play the winner of seventh-seed Pine Hill (16-6) vs. 10th-seed Quemado (17-5) at 4 p.m. Thursday at Bernalillo High School. During a watch party at Rattler Gymnasium on Sunday afternoon, applause broke out from players and fans when the bracket for Class 3A pairings that include...
Runners from Tucumcari and San Jon competed Saturday in the state cross-country championships, with the lone Rattler representative finishing in the top half of his field. Tucumcari’s Alex Bueno De La O finished the 5,000-meter course at Albuquerque Academy in 18 minutes, 39.49 seconds. That was good for 38th place of 92 runners in the Class 3A boys field. Bueno De La O will have another shot next year to make the state meet, as he is a junior. Landen Sandoval of St. Michael’s won the Class 3A boys individual title in 16:01.04, which was 12...
Tucumcari High School’s Alex Bueno De La O was the school’s lone runner to qualify for the state cross-country meet during Friday’s district event at Socorro. Also, San Jon runner Rayna Sena qualified for state during Saturday’s district meet at Fort Stanton. Bueno De La O, a junior, ran the primitive 5,000-meter course at the Socorro Rodeo & Sports Complex in 19 minutes, 39.3 seconds. That was good enough for sixth place. The top 10 individual finishers advanced to the state meet. Eddie Encinias, who coached the team while Tim Clark is side...
Tucumcari's volleyball team ran its winning streak to 11 and tightened its grip on first place in its district with a 25-11, 25-22, 25-15 victory over visiting Dexter on Thursday. The Lady Rattlers, who improved to 17-4 overall and 4-0 in District 4, knocked the Lady Demons (10-11, 1-3) out of district contention. Tucumcari can wrap up an undisputed district title with wins Tuesday at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell and at home Thursday against contender Ruidoso. The Lady Rattlers,...
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...
Tucumcari's volleyball team took sole possession of first place in the district standings with a 25-22, 26-24, 25-17 victory Thursday over New Mexico Military Institute during the Lady Rattlers' annual Think Pink event for breast-cancer awareness. The Lady Rattlers, ranked fourth in Class 3A by MaxPreps.com, won their 10th straight. They improved to 16-4 overall and 3-0 in District 4. Cambree Benavidez led Tucumcari with 12 kills, and Haisley Huffman added nine kills. Tucumcari held a 30-20...
Hampered by injuries to its quarterback and nearly all of its offensive line, Tucumcari struggled against district champ New Mexico Military Institute during a 60-6 loss in the regular-season finale Friday night at Roswell. Tucumcari first-year coach Tarik Embrack said starting quarterback Nick Romero was out with a concussion suffered during the previous game against Dexter. Four of the Rattlers’ five linemen were out with injuries, as well. “That old saying, ‘You don’t know what you got until it’s gone,’” Embrack said of the injuries. “It...
LOGAN - For the Foxes, what a difference three weeks - and two healthy starters - make. Fifth-seeded Fort Sumner-House scored early and often against fourth-seeded Logan during a 52-0 victory Friday in the eight-man football playoffs. The game ended midway through the third quarter due to the mercy rule. The Foxes avenged a 38-34 district loss to the Longhorns on Oct. 6 where Fort Sumner blew a three-touchdown lead in the third quarter. One of those Foxes players who didn't play during the earli...
A girl with Tucumcari ties will be part of Team USA in two events at the Parapan American Games later this month in Santiago, Chile. Chloe Chavez of Panhandle High School in Panhandle, Texas, an amputee below her left knee after a birth defect, will compete in the 200-meter dash and discus throw. Chavez, a junior, is the daughter of Tucumcari native Terry Chavez and granddaughter of Ted and Rose Chavez of Tucumcari. The girl was fitted with a prosthetic at 11 months old after the leg was...
Tucumcari’s cross-country runners competed in their final tuneup of the regular season at Santa Rosa before they run at the district meet this week at Socorro. Results of Saturday’s 18-team City of Natural Lakes Invitational at Santa Rosa weren’t available due to technical problems. Tucumcari coach Tim Clark said junior Alex Bueno De La O finished in the top 10 at the meet. A better measurement of how his runners might stack up in the postseason was at the recent Albuquerque Academy Extravaganza, which took place on a course identical to the s...
Longtime Tucumcari High School boys basketball coach John Span is temporarily stepping down from his post this coming season because he's recovering from major cancer surgery in August. During a school board meeting Oct. 16, athletic director Wayne Ferguson said Span would not coach the team this season because he is not yet able to handle the rigors of those duties. It would have been Span's 21st season. Span had been listed as the Rattlers' head coach on their schedule just a few weeks ago....