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Tucumcari's air attack might have enabled it to keep up in a shootout Friday with district foe Santa Rosa, but center-snap problems short-circuited that possibility during a 55-7 loss. Bad snaps in the shotgun formation repeatedly lost yardage or threw off the rhythm of quarterback Nick Goen. One snap that sailed over his head led to a Santa Rosa defensive touchdown as the Lions staked a 28-0 lead during the Rattlers' last home game of the season. Goen went 14-for-28 passing for 125 yards and...
Tucumcari’s top two cross-country runners ran fast. But they discovered during the massive Academy Extravaganza meet on Saturday at Albuquerque Academy they’ll need to run faster. Top Rattlers runner Alex Bueno De La O, a senior, ran the 5,000-meter course — which also hosts the sport’s state championships — in 17 minutes, 50.59 seconds. His teammate, Fernando Ureste, ran it in 18:32.79. However, Bueno De La O and Ureste finished only 16th and 24th overall in the Class 1A/2A race, respectively. The top runner, Oak Grove Classical’s Joshua Marq...
Tucumcari's volleyball team won its district opener Thursday against Santa Rosa in part because of the return of a starter from an injury and the emergence of another starter as a hitter. Sophomore Serenity Savala registered eight kills as the Lady Rattlers (10-4) commanded a 34-16 advantage in that over the Lady Lions (3-11) during a 25-22, 25-21, 25-15 victory at a raucous Rattler Gymnasium. Savala had been used primarily as a blocker this season. During the team's nearly two-week break, THS...
The Logan boys cross-country team finished a respectable eighth of 15 teams Saturday at the Los Lunas Invitational. Nearly all of the teams the Longhorns, in their inaugural season, competed against were schools with much higher enrollments. Logan finished with 240 team points. Organ Mountain won the team title with 24 points, while host team Los Lunas was runner-up with 71 points. Taos finished third with 76 points. Kale Griffiths was Logan’s top runner, finishing 46th in 20 minutes, 21.34 seconds on the 5,000-meter course at the Los Lunas H...
Only one Mesalands Community College athlete advanced to compete in Saturday's final of the 16th annual Grand Canyon Region Intercollegiate Rodeo at the Quay County Fairgrounds arena. That finalist, bareback bronc rider Logan Carpenter of Alamogordo, quickly was bucked off Saturday for no score. MCC's Rachel Sova of Newell, South Carolina, on Friday finished just one spot out of Saturday's finals. She finished 13th in the standings in breakaway roping; only the top 12 advanced. Mesalands...
Raton made sure Tucumcari’s potent passing didn’t go wild as it did the previous week. The Tigers stifled the Rattlers’ air attack for most of the game and seized a three-touchdown lead that stood up during a 51-25 district victory Friday at Raton’s Homecoming. Tucumcari quarterback Nick Goen, who amassed more than 350 yards passing and six touchdowns during the previous week against Estancia, managed just 101 yards on 15-of-29 passing with one touchdown and two interceptions against Raton. Tigers defense flooded the deep zones and kept th...
After spotting Holy Cross an early 8-0 lead, Logan scored seven unanswered touchdowns in a 53-8 non-district victory in Midland, Texas, in six-man football. The undefeated Longhorns ended the contest by the mercy rule early in the fourth quarter. In Texas six-man football, games are halted when the margin reaches 45 points. Aydin Kotara threw three touchdowns passes for Logan. Running back Haden Judd scored three TDs and Stratton Schoonover tallied two. The Longhorns’ defense frustrated the Crusaders for much of the game, forcing two t...
The Bears kept scoring points. The Rattlers kept coming back. Tucumcari quarterback Nick Goen scored the game-tying touchdown on a 14-yard run with 1:02 left, then kicked the go-ahead extra point to power the Rattlers to a thrilling 48-47 comeback victory over winless district foe Estancia on Friday at Rattler Stadium. In a career day, Goen went 17-for-35 passing for 352 yards and six touchdowns and one interception. In addition to his rushing TD, he recovered two of his own onside kicks that...
Mesalands Community College will host its annual Grand Canyon Region rodeo on Friday and Saturday at the Quay County Fairgrounds arena in Tucumcari. Gates open at 5 p.m. both days, with performances to begin at 6 p.m. The arena also will host a free slack competition at 9 a.m. Saturday. An addition to the Mesalands squad, teams competing at the rodeo will be Central Arizona College, New Mexico State University, Cochise College, Dine College, Navajo Technical College and the University of Arizona. MCC’s Stampede team is last of the region’s sta...
After losing its first two sets, the Logan volleyball squad rallied to win the next three and capture a key district match Saturday at Fort Sumner. The Lady Longhorns, ranked No. 1 in Class 1A by MaxPreps.com, prevailed by a 13-25, 21-25, 25-19, 25-15, 15-8 score over the Vixens, ranked fifth, in both teams’ district opener. Haylie Bidegain led Logan with 11 kills and four aces. Desta Rose added eight kills and a team-high 24 digs. Makinlee Judd and Aspen Casey each added eight kills. Charli Fuller made 25 assists. Logan improved to 12-3 o...
Tucumcari senior runner Alex Bueno De La O finished first overall while Logan’s boys and girls squads captured team titles during a six-team meet Monday morning at the 12 Shores Golf Club. Complete results weren’t available before press time, but THS coach Tim Clark said Bueno De La O finished the 3.12-mile course in about 18 minutes, 30 seconds. Teammate Fernando Ureste finished about 10 seconds behind Bueno De La O for runner-up. “We did good,” Clark said. “It was nice to come to a meet close to home.” Also for Tucumcari, Bryson Klinger fin...
If drag-racing events are coming to Tucumcari in 2025 and 2026, it won't be on Route 66. Assistant city manager Renee Hayoz said during the city commission meeting last Tuesday the New Mexico Department of Transportation rejected a proposal to hold drag-racing events on the city's Route 66, patterned after the Kingman Route 66 Drags in Kingman, Arizona. Hayoz said NMDOT, which holds jurisdiction over the city's Route 66 corridor, "shot us down" on the idea. The agency cited liability and safety...
A nearly two-week break for the Tucumcari volleyball team couldn't come fast enough after a 25-10, 25-15, 25-14 home loss Friday to No. 2-ranked Legacy Academy. After a 7-1 start, the Lady Rattlers have struggled to a 2-3 record after one of its best hitters and fielders, senior July Lafferty, suffered a sprained ankle during the Mora match. THS coach Dana Benavidez said a back-row player - she didn't say who - also was absent from Friday's match and her top hitter from last season, sophomore...
Joe Bailey, a longtime Moriarty coach who earned multiple Hall of Fame honors and began his career at Tucumcari, died on Sept. 20 due to cancer complications. He was 65. Bailey spent more than 40 years teaching and coaching in New Mexico. He was inducted into the New Mexico Cross Country & Track and Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the New Mexico High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor and the Moriarty High Athletics Hall of Fame. He began his coaching career in 1981 at Tucumcari...
Logan stayed undefeated in six-man football by rolling over district foe Floyd 52-0 in a road game on Friday. The Longhorns (6-0) led 46-0 at halftime and ended the game by the mercy rule midway through the third quarter. Logan, ranked No. 1 in the New Mexico’s six-man division, remained atop its district with a 4-0 mark. Floyd fell to 1-4 overall and 0-4 in district play. Logan coach Dwayne Roberts said he played his starters for only two series against the overmatched Broncos. “It was a good game to get a lot of kids some playing tim...
One decision change late in the first half of Tucumcari's game against Cuba proved critical in the Rattlers' 29-14 victory on Friday. THS coach Doug South thought he would let his quarterback take a knee with one second left in the half and go into the locker room at Rattler Stadium with a 14-14 tie. "My coaching staff talked me out of it," South said after the game. "'What does it hurt if we just throw it up and the clock runs out?' And it worked." Quarterback Nick Goen found Luis Archuleta...
The Logan volleyball team went 2-1 during the rugged Anna Archuleta Memorial Volleyball Tournament in Cimarron on Friday and Saturday, losing only to Class 3A foe Santa Fe Prep in the final. The Lady Longhorns (9-3), ranked No. 1 in Class 1A by MaxPreps.com, conquered Quemado and Raton during the tournament, both which were ranked in the top 10 of their respective divisions. Santa Fe Prep emerged victorious in the championship by defeating Logan 26-24, 23-25, 25-23, 25-23. Logan’s Haylie Bidegain, who was named to the all-tournament team, t...
Two Tucumcari cross-country runners finished in the top 10 on Saturday at the Amarillo ISD Invitational. Alex Bueno De La O finished fourth overall on the 5,000-meter course at Rick Klein Park in Amarillo in a time of 17 minutes, 14 seconds. His teammate, Fernando Ureste, finished sixth in a time of 17:16, said THS coach Tim Clark. “For Alex and Fernando to be near the top, they were smokin’,” Clark said. “Everyone ran well. They all improved their personal records.” Full results from the meet weren’t available. Nearly 30 teams competed. C...
What appeared to be an even matchup on paper turned into a dominating 50-0 victory by Logan over visiting district foe Elida on Friday in six-man football. Elida and Logan both were 4-0 overall and 2-0 in district play going into the game. Elida had outscored its opponents 246-46 before Friday. But the Longhorns grabbed a 16-0 lead after one quarter and held a 30-0 advantage at intermission. Logan ended the game by the mercy rule midway through the fourth quarter. “The boys played a great game,” Logan coach Dwayne Roberts said. “We had a few p...
LOGAN - With a 25-21, 25-16, 25-20 win on Saturday, the Lady Longhorns avenged an earlier volleyball loss this season to the Lady Rattlers, but it was a somewhat hollow one. That's because Tucumcari (8-2) was without one of its top hitters, senior July Lafferty, after she suffered a sprained ankle early in the Mora match on Thursday. Lafferty still was on crutches Saturday, and THS coach Dana Benavidez estimated she will be out for one to two weeks. Tucumcari's Big Three of Lafferty, sophomore C...
Logan started slow but finished strong with a 53-0 district victory Friday over visiting Dora in six-man football action. Haden Judd led the Longhorns (4-0) with 116 yards rushing and four touchdowns on just nine carries. Quarterback Aydin Kotara completed 11 of 18 passes for 156 yards and four touchdowns and one interception. Logan coach Dwayne Roberts acknowledged his team’s slow start during a scoreless first quarter, but he indicated he wasn’t too worried about it. “Our defense is pretty stout,” he explained. “Once we made some adjustmen...
The Falcons were just too much. Loving's front line largely dominated Tucumcari during a 44-3 Rattlers loss Friday in front of a Homecoming crowd of more than 1,000 at Rattler Stadium. The Rattlers (0-4) totaled barely 100 yards in offense and turned the ball over three times on interceptions. Loving defenders made 12 tackles for loss and besieged Tucumcari starting quarterback Nick Goen, who scored his team's only points on a 21-yard field goal in the second quarter. "We had a good week in...
Two of Tucumcari’s top runners shaved a full minute off their previous-best times Saturday during the Rattlers’ eighth-place finish at the Badger Run cross-country meet at Amarillo West College. Alex Bueno De La O finished 19th overall in a time of 17 minutes, 30.7 seconds over the 5,000-meter course. Fernando Ureste finished 20th with a time of 17:35.34. THS coach Tim Clark said he was happy with the pair’s faster times and noted Ureste was leading his teammate during the first half of the race. Other Tucumcari runners were Patric Szaloy (31st...
Thursday night's volleyball match was technically a non-district and regular season matchup. But its play and atmosphere resembled more of a postseason clash: West Las Vegas, ranked No. 2 in Class 3A by MaxPreps.com, versus host Tucumcari, ranked No. 2 in Class 2A. In the end, the Lady Dons (5-1) made fewer mistakes late in the match and prevailed 20-25, 25-17, 22-25, 25-15, 16-14 over the Lady Rattlers (7-1), who suffered their first loss of the season at a raucous Rattler Gymnasium. Alexis...
Tucumcari boasted the top individual boys runner and Logan boasted the top boys team Saturday at the Raton/Maxwell Invitational cross-country meet. Official results from the meet weren’t available before deadline. THS senior Alex Bueno De La O finished the 3 miles on the Raton Golf Course in about 18 minutes, 50 seconds, according to his coach, Tim Clark. His teammate, Fernando Ureste, finished seventh overall with a time of about 19:20. Other Rattlers competing were Bryson Klinger, Patric Szaloy, Jaythen Urioste and Paxton Smith. The T...