Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Logan High School’s trip to the postseason was a short one, with a 48-0 loss Friday to district foe and host Melrose in the first round of the eight-man football playoffs.
“Guys fought hard, and I am very proud of them,” Logan coach Dwayne Roberts said, adding it
“was a night of football that just didn’t go our way.”
The Longhorns also lost to the Buffaloes 46-6 on Oct. 14 during a regular-season district game.
Logan, seeded sixth in the state tournament, ended the season with a 6-5 record.
The third-seeded Buffaloes (7-4) travel to second-seeded Fort Sumner-House on Friday for a semifinal. Fort Sumner (9-0) crushed seventh-seeded Clayton 50-0 on Friday.
Top-seeded Lordsburg (9-0) faces fourth-seed Magdalena (7-3) in the other semifinal.
Lordsburg smashed Menaul 50-0 in its quarterfinal, and Magdalena prevailed 54-6 over defending state champion Tatum in the other game.
The eight-man championship game is scheduled for Nov. 12.
The Longhorns will lose seniors Christian Kotara, Skyler DeLuca, Park Strong, Kelton Jones and Jaxtyn Goen to graduation. Roberts said they’ll be “greatly missed.”
“These gentlemen have been a part of the program since the day one of me taking the head coach position in Logan,” he said. “They have bought in to what we were trying to accomplish and were a big part of the success we have had making the playoffs every year.
“As for next year we will have a great group of young men returning and look at seeing the same success as the previous years.”