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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...
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...