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LOGAN - The San Jon boys basketball team appeared to be OK early in their district clash against Logan, taking a 3-2 lead. Then the roof caved in. The Longhorns scored 58 unanswered points over the next two quarters en route to a 90-10 victory on Jan. 24. Logan coach Kyle Griffiths emptied his bench throughout the game and saw 12 of his 13 players score. Brock Burns led the Longhorns with 14 points, while Haden Judd and Diego Sanchez each added 12. Tristan Reed and Marvin Reese each scored four...
LOGAN - Both the San Jon and Logan girls basketball teams were missing key players due to illness. How they responded couldn't have been more different. The Lady Longhorns, missing potent eighth-grader Desta Rose, dominated from start to finish in a 60-14 victory over the Lady Coyotes during a district clash Jan. 24. Logan made nine 3-pointers, including five by Hailee Robertson in a 15-point performance. Kyra Conway scored a team-high 16 points. In all, nine players scored for Logan. Logan coac...
Robert Young was honored for his 38 years in coaching - including 10 at Logan - with his induction Saturday into the New Mexico High School Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association's Hall of Fame at Albuquerque. In his decade at Logan, Young's girls track teams have won three state championships (including the last two seasons) and tw with the boys track squads. Logan's boys have won 27 individual state championships during Young's tenure and the Lady Longhorns have captured 19 individual...
The Tucumcari boys wrestling team finished third in its district after a loss Thursday to eventual champion and host West Las Vegas and wins over district foes Fort Wingate and (Shiprock) Northwest. The shorthanded Rattlers, which forfeited three weight classes, lost to West Las Vegas 48-30. The Dons went on to edge Roberson, which finished runner-up, for the District 1 championship. “Against West, I think we looked pretty good,” Tucumcari coach Eddie Encinias said. “We made some mistakes in matches that could have gone either way. We want to g...
Tucumcari's scoring drought in the second quarter was all Clayton needed during its 59-50 victory Thursday in the Rattlers' annual Homecoming game at the Snake Pit. Tucumcari's problems with inconsistent play and missing point-blank shots persisted, and coach John Span said time is running out for his team to remedy those before district play begins on Feb. 1 at Dexter. Span insisted his team is better than its 5-12 record, and Thursday's loss inspired a litany of laments - especially after...
Lizzy Horner hit two 3-pointers during a critical stretch to help lift the Logan girls basketball team to a 35-34 win over host Melrose in an important district-opening game Thursday. Horner led the Lady Longhorns with 12 points, and Desta Rose added 11. Logan coach Glynna Strand said her team overcame early obstacles for the win. “We came out super slow and got down 13-2 in the first half and didn’t start playing decent until the second half and crawled our way back in,” she said. For Melrose, Sorrell Allen, Isabelle Sena and Graci Odom each...
Playing without its chief ball-handler and top scorer, the Tucumcari girls basketball team fell to a talented Clayton squad 44-28 Thursday at the Snake Pit during Tucumcari's annual Homecoming night. Junior guard Alexus Lafferty had been in close contract with a confirmed COVID-19 case last week, requiring her to quarantine for five days. To make matters worse, freshman guard July Lafferty banged up her knee midway through the third quarter when it appeared the Lady Rattlers might make a run,...
The New Mexico Activities Association last week made a few changes to its wrestling and basketball championships. Boys athletes in the A-3A and 4A wrestling classifications will compete on Friday only, Feb. 18, with 5A athletes, teams and all girls will compete Saturday, Feb. 19. State wrestling at the Rio Rancho Events Center traditionally has been a two-day event. “It’s going to start a little bit later in the morning on those days so that schools can determine whether they want to travel in the day before and whether they want to spend the...
The young Logan boys basketball team lost two games last week, including a 66-39 non-district decision Saturday at Texico. The Wolverines outscored the Longhorns 25-8 in the second quarter to seize control. “We came out pretty flat and never really got going the entire game,” Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said. Brock Burns led the Longhorns with 13 points, which fell to 4-12 overall. Texico improved to 7-5 overall. Melrose 63, Logan 47 Melrose turned a close game into a comfortable district win by outscoring Logan 19-6 in the fourth period Thursda...
The Logan school district plans to request $1 million in capital outlay funds from the New Mexico Legislature to install artificial turf on the football field and a catchment drainage system there. Superintendent Dennis Roch and athletic director Billy Burns outlined the proposal during the school board’s regular meeting Jan. 10, which was streamed on the internet. The legislature’s 30-day session began this week. Burns showed a preliminary report from a prospective bidder, South Carolina-based Sprinturf, and he said two other contractors may...
The Tucumcari girls basketball team grabbed an early lead at East Mountain and kept building on it during a 49-22 victory on Jan. 11. Tucumcari led 18-10 at halftime and effectively seized control with a 14-3 run in the third quarter. Alexus Lafferty scored 21 points to lead the Lady Rattlers, and Caylee Benavidez added 17. “Overall, we played a good game on both ends of the floor,” Tucumcari coach Patrick Benavidez said. “We have struggled putting up points coming out of the half, so the girls really wanted to make that their best quart...
The Tucumcari boys basketball team went 1-2 and finished sixth at the 15th annual Lions Classic tournament at Santa Rosa, including a 55-45 loss Saturday to Santa Fe Prep in the Rattlers' tourney finale. Santa Fe Prep grabbed a 29-20 lead by intermission and made it stand up. "We had a tough time matching up with them with their size," Tucumcari coach John Span said. "I thought it was a winnable game. We got ourselves down a little bit and battled back. Free throws was another big key to the gam...
The Tucumcari wrestling team’s scheduled dual meet Saturday at Fort Wingate was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak there. Instead, the Rattlers will face previously scheduled district foes of Fort Wingate and (Shiprock) Northwest during a meet Thursday at West Las Vegas, Tucumcari coach Eddie Encinias said. On Saturday, Tucumcari will travel to Bernalillo to face district foe West Las Vegas and at least one other non-district opponent there. “I’m hoping it’s Socorro so we can see how we match up,” Encinias said....
The Clovis Christian boys basketball team jumped out to big early lead against Logan and cruised to a 74-58 victory Saturday in the district opener for both teams. The Eagles (10-2) surged to a 22-6 lead in the first quarter against the visiting Longhorns (4-10), which never recovered. Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said his team was hampered by several players in foul trouble. “Clovis Christian is very good,” he said. “They play hard and have some guards that can really shoot it.” Park Strong led the Longhorns with 12 points, while Kaeden Stoner...
Fresh off its EPAC tournament title, the Logan girls basketball team continued racking up wins last week. The latest was a hard-fought 39-31 victory Saturday over Magdalena at the Mountaineer Invitational in Reserve. Kyra Conway and Reese Goldston each scored 12 points to lead the Lady Longhorns. “We didn’t play very well, but we muddled through it,” Logan coach Glynna Strand said. Conway also was picked for the event’s all-tournament team and earned the Pride, Hustle and Heart award. Reserve was scheduled to hold a full tournament last we...
TEXICO - Two years, a pandemic and a change of venue. But the Logan Longhorns were back like they never left. The defending champion Longhorns made it two straight titles in the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference girls bracket, using a series of timely runs to outlast top-seeded Fort Sumner 42-36 Saturday night at the Texico Sports Arena. Kyra Conway had 19 points to lead all scorers, including five points in a 9-0 Logan run that bridged the third and fourth quarters and gave the Longhorns the...
The Tucumcari girls basketball team secured third place Saturday in the BVC Invitational tournament at Estancia in resounding fashion by draining 13 3-point shots and walloping Mountainair 66-37. Caylee Benavidez accomplished a triple-double for Tucumcari with 22 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds. Alexus Lafferty added 15 points and seven assists, and Haisley Huffman also scored 15 points. Tucumcari went 2-1 in the event, with its only loss to tourney champion Santa Rosa, which blasted Cottonwood Classical Prep 63-30 in the final. Benavidez,...
The Tucumcari boys basketball team regularly practices its free-throw shooting. Honest. Regardless, the Rattlers' performance from the foul line proved to be a glaring shortcoming during a 66-54 non-district loss Thursday to Robertson at the Snake Pit. Tucumcari (3-8) made just 12 of 27 free throws, and coach John Span could be heard repeatedly muttering to his players about that. "We missed enough free throws, we could have won the game ... again," a mystified Span said after the game. ""We do...
The Tucumcari wrestling team went 2-2 on during a series of dual meets Saturday at Moriarty despite giving up forfeits in four weight classes due to departures, injury or illness. Tucumcari coach Eddie Encinias didn’t have complete scores but said his Rattlers lost by 30 points to Robertson, defeated St. Michael’s by 40 points, defeated Newcomb 39-36 and lost to Del Norte by one point. Robertson, St. Michael’s and Newcomb all are in Tucumcari’s district. The Rattlers’ record is 6-5 in dual matches this season. “In the lower weights, we...
A great day at the free-throw line helped lift Logan to a 33-25 victory Friday over district rival Melrose in the semifinals of the Plateau EPAC Tournament at Texico. Nials led the Lady Longhorns with 10 points, while Goldston added eight. Strand said the game was a defensive battle, with neither team making a 3-point shot. Asked about the key to victory, Strand said: “We hit free throws better than they did.” At the foul line, Logan converted 13 of 17 shots. Melrose went just 9-of-20. Melrose fell to 6-4. Logan 73, Grady 30 Logan began the...
The Logan boys basketball team went 1-2 during the Plateau EPAC Tournament at Texico after an 83-61 loss to Elida on Saturday in the consolation round. Brock Burns led the Longhorns (4-9) with 12 points. “Elida came out firing on all cylinders,” Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said. “We never got in a rhythm offensively and struggled to stop them on defense.” Griffiths added that Elida (12-2) is a “very physical team and athletic.” Fort Sumner (7-2) won the EPAC crown with a 72-70 victory over Melrose (7-3) in the title game between district ri...
LOGAN – Alexus Lafferty sank a go-ahead 3-point shot with just over a minute remaining and Haisley Huffman scored on a fastbreak with eight seconds left to secure Tucumcari's 45-42 victory Thursday over area rival Logan in girls basketball. Lafferty scored a game-high 18 points, and teammate July Lafferty added 10 as the Lady Rattlers improved to 5-4 overall. The Lady Longhorns, led by Rilee Nials' 16 points, lost their second straight and fell to 7-3 overall. Tucumcari coach Patrick B...
LOGAN – The Longhorns repeatedly used its transition game to score against area rival Tucumcari during their annual clash Thursday. Just as importantly, the Longhorns also saw six 3-point shots and 30 points from sophomore guard Brock Burns. The result was a 64-57 victory for Logan (3-7), despite the Rattlers' 28-6 advantage in free-throw attempts. Of course, attempts from the foul line don't mean much if a team doesn't convert them. Tucumcari (3-7) missed 13. Rattlers coach John Span didn't lik...
The San Jon girls basketball team vaulted back to the .500 mark after crushing host Floyd 49-7 during a non-district matchup Thursday. The Coyotes held Floyd scoreless in the first half while taking a 27-0 lead, despite San Jon missing starter Addie Lafferty, attending a livestock show in Phoenix. “But we had Dakota Fisher step in to that starting spot and she filled in as guard (Addie’s spot) but also as a forward, and she did a great job,” coach Jaree Elliott said. “We executed our press well, and our goal was to be more patient and move th...
The Logan boys basketball team raced to a double-digit lead in the third quarter but didn’t hold it during a 56-51 loss Dec. 28 at Santa Rosa. Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said his team had a 12-point advantage over the Lions “and then just kind of fell apart.” “We ran out of gas a little bit due to a long Christmas break,” he said. “Our youth showed at the end of the game but we did a lot of good things. Have to learn to close.” Brock Burns led the Longhorns with 20 points. Diego Sanchez added 13 points. Santa Rosa improved to 6-4. Floyd 62...