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A disastrous sequence of five touchdowns allowed in a seven-minute span Friday spoiled Tucumcari's annual Homecoming game during a 56-0 loss to Robertson at Rattler Stadium. The game ended midway through the fourth quarter due to the mercy rule, but the Cardinals (3-2) had all but won the game against the Rattlers (0-6) before the first period ended. Tucumcari was hampered by five turnovers and only 29 yards of offense. The Rattlers' coaches knew their young team faced a tough task before...
The Logan football team had little trouble controlling host Dulce during a 60-6 Longhorns non-district victory Friday in eight-man football action. The game ended at halftime due to the mercy rule. Logan led 46-6 after one quarter. The Longhorns improved to 5-1 overall. The Hawks fell to 1-3. Logan coach Dwayne Roberts hadn’t compiled stats when contacted by phone Saturday but estimated that quarterback Kaeden Stoner threw for up to 300 yards against the Hawks. Those who scored TDs for the Longhorns were Stoner, Christian Kotara, Brock Burns, D...
The Tucumcari High School volleyball team on Saturday took home its second first-place trophy this season after winning its bracket at the Lady Braves Pink Classic tournament at Santa Fe Indian School. After splitting three two-set matches during pool play Friday, the Lady Rattlers were assigned to the Bronze Bracket, one of four at the tourney. There, Tucumcari defeated Zuni 25-9, 25-21, 25-15 in the opener and downed Mora 25-21, 25-21, 25-17 in the finale. Against Mora, Caylee Benavidez led the Lady Rattlers with 11 kills, while Haisley...
Tucumcari's football faced a tall order Friday in slowing a Santa Rosa team that was beginning to click with its offense amid its flurry of fakes and misdirection plays. That tough task was made in impossible by penalties, bad snaps and other mistakes during a 54-0 non-district loss at Rattler Stadium. The game was halted early in the fourth quarter by the mercy rule. The Lions (3-2), who struggled early in the season, racked up almost 500 yards of offense against an often bewildered Rattler...
LOGAN - The Logan volleyball team looked out of sorts, trailed 17-10 in the first set and seem destined to lose to Santa Rosa for a third time this season. Then the Lady Longhorns began making blocks. Logan blocked three shots in a row at one point, ultimately rallying the team to win the set and setting the tone in a 25-20, 25-22, 23-25, 25-15 non-district victory Thursday. The Lady Longhorns dominated the net, making 11 blocks to the Lady Lions' two. Logan also made 41 kills to Santa Rosa's...
The Logan football team bounced back after a tough road loss the previous week with a 56-6 non-district victory Friday over visiting Mesilla Valley Christian in eight-man football action. The Longhorns (4-1) raced to a 14-0 lead after one quarter and commanded a 34-6 advantage over the SonBlazers (1-3) at halftime. The game was halted early in the third quarter due to the mercy rule after the Longhorns scored three quick touchdowns. The Longhorns were looking for a better performance after a slew of turnovers led to a 32-20 non-district loss...
Tucumcari High School athletes paid tribute to a fallen Dalhart football player last week, and players for the Rattlers football team will wear the player's No. 22 affixed to the back of their helmets the rest of the season. Yahir Cancino, a sophomore on the junior varsity football team at Dalhart High School in Texas, suffered a head injury during a game on Sept. 1. He died of his injury a day later in a Lubbock hospital. Dalhart canceled all sports events the weekend after Cancino's death. Not...
The Tucumcari High School volleyball team racked up two more non-district victories last week, giving it its best start in recent memory and earning a top-10 ranking in the state. The Lady Rattlers downed Raton 25-11, 25-13, 15-25, 25-15 on Thursday and defeated West Las Vegas 27-25, 25-20, 25-21 two days before. Tucumcari improved to 7-2 and rose to third in the latest Class 3A rankings by MaxPreps.com. In the coaches poll released Thursday, Tucumcari tied with Thoreau for the No. 7. Unbeaten...
Turnovers — especially in the fourth quarter — doomed Logan during a 32-20 loss Friday at non-district foe Magdalena during eight-man football action. The Longhorns, ranked fifth in the latest coaches poll, suffered their first loss of the season and fell to 3-1. Magdalena, ranked sixth, improved to 3-1. Kaeden Stoner scored two touchdowns for Logan, and teammate Bill DeLuca added another TD. Both teams battled to a 20-20 tie early in the fourth quarter before the Steers broke through. “We had a few too many turnovers in the whole game,...
The Tucumcari High School football team didn’t have much of an answer for Raton star running back Cayden Walton during a 58-8 loss Friday at the Tigers’ home stadium. Walton, a senior, ran for 254 yards and four touchdowns in just 10 carries on Friday. Walton already has amassed more than 1,000 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns in just four games this season for the unbeaten Tigers. Tucumcari coach Donnie Garcia said Walton, whom he said is fifth in the nation in rushing, was a handful for his defenders. “He is very, very intelligent on when...
Changing up their schedule, the Tucumcari cross-country program headed east and participated Saturday at the sprawling Amarillo ISD Invitational meet. The Rattlers had been scheduled to go south to compete at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, but Tucumcari coach Tim Clark reconsidered for another meet that was closer. Clark said up to 30 teams participated in the Amarillo meet. “It was packed,” he said. Creed Owen was the top runner for the Rattlers, finishing the 5-kilometer course in 21 minutes, 22.86 seconds for a 75th place in the...
The youthful Tucumcari football team suffered another loss, but it scored its first touchdown of the season during 54-6 non-district loss Friday at Loving. The Rattlers’ first score of the year occurred in the first quarter after the Falcons scored their second touchdown. On the ensuring kickoff, Daymion Urioste found a seam down the sideline and streaked to a 78-yard score. “We got some good blocking on the front line, he got around, got outside and took it to the house,” Tucumcari first-year coach Donnie Garcia said. “Any way to score i...
Tucumcari’s runners all saw improvements in their times during Saturday morning’s Lovington Invitational compared their previous week’s season-opening meet, but it didn’t field a full boys squad at the six-team event. The top runner for the Rattlers was eighth-grader Creed Owen, who finished the three-mile course in 23 minutes, 16 seconds. Tucumcari first-year coach Tim Clark said he didn’t have final results available but said Owen finished out of the top 10 at the event. Other Tucumcari boys runners were Alex Bueno De La O (23:28), Logan Laf...
Logan won the hard-fought battle against Tucumcari but lost the war Saturday night during the Tucumcari Invitational volleyball tournament. A few hours after a two-hour, five-set semifinal victory over the host team, an apparently less-sharp Lady Longhorns squad fell 18-25, 14-25, 16-25 to state-ranked Santa Rosa. The Lady Lions (6-0) captured their second straight title at the Tucumcari Invite and saw four players make the all-tourney team, including Most Valuable Player Daelyn Pacheco. Logan (...
LOGAN - You wouldn't know it from the final score, but Menaul trailed Logan by only two touchdowns during the second period of Friday's non-district game. The Longhorns responded to the challenge with four unanswered scores in the second half to secure a 54-14 victory in eight-man football action. Logan (3-0) largely dominated despite six turnovers against the Panthers (1-2). Logan quarterback Brock Burns passed for 130 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another 69 yards. Devin Kotara and...
Tucumcari football coach Donnie Garcia was looking for progress after the opening-week loss at Jal, and he found it with his defense during the Rattlers' home opener Friday night against Thoreau. Tucumcari's offense remains a work in progress, however. The Rattlers D showed grit by forcing two turnovers and halting several Hawks drives. However, the Rattlers offense didn't get much going for a second straight week, and Thoreau kept plugging away with its run game to turn a 16-0 halftime lead...
The first meet of the season for Tucumcari High School cross-country runners was a learning experience not just for its athletes, but the coach. Virtually all of the Rattler runners this year are first-time participants in the sport. In addition, this is Tim Clark’s first time coaching such a team, replacing previous coach Gary Hittson after he became an assistant football coach. The Clovis Invitational on Friday wasn’t a meet full of creampuffs, either. “We were running against Carlsbad, Clovis, big schools ... and for our kids, it was their...
LOGAN - At the end of match point of the Lady Longhorn Volleyball Tournament championship, the Lady Rattlers celebrated like they never had won it before. That's because they hadn't. Tucumcari captured its first-ever title Saturday in the season-opening Logan tournament by defeating Springer 23-25, 25-16, 25-17, 25-23. The Lady Rattlers went 3-0 in the tourney and earned a high seed after winning all their games in pool play Thursday. With Tucumcari clinging to a 24-23 advantage in the final...
LOGAN - Even without their best player for nearly the entire game, the Longhorns cruised to a 50-0 non-district victory over visiting Questa on Friday afternoon during nine-man football action. The game ended early in the third quarter by the mercy rule as Logan (2-0) racked up more than 300 yards of offense on the winless Wildcats. Logan quarterback Kaeden Stoner threw for 167 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another TD. Receiver Brock Burns caught three passes for 110 yards and a...
Jal came into its home-opening game ranked second in the Class 2A coaches poll, and it largely justified it during a 65-0 drubbing Thursday of a young and inexperienced Tucumcari team. The game ended at halftime due to the mercy rule. The Panthers ran only 11 offensive plays but scored touchdowns on six. Jacob Lujan scored three rushing touchdowns, and quarterback Alexavier Carreon ran for two TDs and threw for another. The besieged Rattlers committed seven turnovers, logged only one first down (on a Jal penalty) and moved the ball past...
Logan’s defense scored four touchdowns on interception returns during a 74-0 season-opening rout Saturday of host Alamo Navajo in eight-man football action. The game near Magdalena ended at halftime due to the mercy rule. The Longhorns, ranked sixth in the state in eight-man football in the most recent coaches poll, romped to a 44-0 lead after just one quarter. Logan head coach Dwayne Roberts said his team played well but admitted Alamo Navajo was overmatched. “You couldn’t tell a whole lot,” he said. “We were a lot better team. The kids all...
New Tucumcari cross country coach Tim Clark apparently made a successful pitch to the boys in his high school to participate in the sport. The gist is, if you go out for cross country, it will get you in better shape for other sports. As a result, the Rattlers will take seven runners on its boys team when it opens its season at the Clovis Invitational on Friday afternoon at Ned Houk Park. Clark took over for previous coach Gary Hittson when he was tapped as an assistant football coach under new THS head coach Donnie Garcia. Last season,...
SAN JON - The host Lady Coyotes struggled with their serve-receive game during a season-opening volleyball loss Saturday against Roy-Mosquero, but a come-from-behind win in the first set may have provided a sliver of hope for the rest of the year. The Lady Pirates had more frontline firepower and depth in their lineup, and they often showed it during their 21-25, 25-10, 25-7, 25-11 non-district victory. It looked as if it was going to be more of a dogfight when the Lady Coyotes, down 7-15 in...
New Tucumcari High School football coach Donnie Garcia was mostly pleased with what he saw last week during a scrimmage at Texico – a hopeful sign for his Rattlers when they go on the road to face Jal for their season opener on Thursday night. Garcia said the first bit of good news from the scrimmage was his players suffered no injuries. The second bit was the Rattlers defense performed better than expected and didn't allow any scores. "Our defense definitely is ahead of our offense, although w...
The Tucumcari High School volleyball team may be in a rebuilding mode with its offense, but it has a lot of bricks from which to choose in that rebuild. About 35 girls were competing for a varsity spot during the first official practices last week. Not only can Tucumcari amply fill a varsity and junior-varsity roster, but it also can field a full "C" team. "We have a lot of depth, which is great," head coach Dana Benavidez said during an interview last week. "You can fill rosters for positions y...