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Tucumcari's athletic director finished revisions on the high school's volleyball schedule in anticipation the state will green-light sports resuming next week for the first time since March. The Lady Rattlers' first match is scheduled for March 1 at Elida, with their first home match March 4 against Raton. Because of ongoing health restrictions that forbid public gatherings, spectators wouldn't be allowed at matches. Matches would be live-streamed instead. Athletic director Wayne Ferguson has...
The Logan High School boys last week captured the small-schools title in the inaugural NMAA powerlifting state championships. Logan freshman Izaiah Kneitz also won an individual state title in the 123-pound weight class. The Logan girls team finished sixth of seven teams in the event. Weightlifting in the championships was conducted virtually the previous week, but results weren’t announced until Wednesday. Competing against large and small schools from across the state, Logan boys racked up 22 points in the team scores to defeat s...
Revisions to area high-school sports schedules remain in a holding pattern until after the New Mexico Activities Association meets this week to determine which schools likely will or won’t participate. The future of prep sports also is dependent on the status of coronavirus case numbers after hybrid classes in middle schools and high schools resumed Monday. If those numbers remain under control, sports are scheduled to resume for participating schools on Feb. 22. “The NMAA told us hold off on scheduling until they have their meeting” this...
The New Mexico Activities Association board members during an emergency meeting Monday adopted an adjusted sports calendar where the condensed fall sports seasons of football, cross country and volleyball would begin on Feb. 22. Practices for those traditionally fall sports also would officially begin Feb. 22. If those dates hold, it would be the first time prep sports would be played in New Mexico in nearly a year because of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Football season would be limited to five games, volleyball season to 12...
The New Mexico Activities Association last week released another update for its high-school sports calendar, with football being the first sport to begin its season in mid-February. NMAA executive director Sally Marquez acknowledged in a report last week by the Las Cruces Sun-News the revision was “a last-ditch effort” to salvage sports for the 2020-2021 school year. Tucumcari High School athletic director Wayne Ferguson said Thursday he hadn’t updated the school’s team schedules because the NMAA hadn’t given guidance on how many games sho...
RICHARDSON, Texas — The Lone Star Conference will offer daily steaming passes for its upcoming football, volleyball and basketball seasons under a a new hybrid pricing model announced Wednesday by the conference office. A $10 pass, the release said, will give viewers 24 hours of access to any live football, volleyball or basketball games, as well as access to any previously aired games. Individual games can be downloaded for $10. Select games of all other sports will be available for free or on a pay-per-view basis, at the discretion of the b...
The New Mexico Activities Association again has delayed high-school sports — this time to at least February — because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tucumcari High School athletic director Wayne Ferguson passed along the news at the district’s school board meeting last week about another delay of prep sports amid skyrocketing cases of the coronavirus in New Mexico and many other states. “Nothing will happen in January,” he said during a follow-up interview last week. “The earliest it will happen is February.” The NMAA initially announced in October...
The New Mexico Activities Association last week announced its revised calendar for volleyball and cross country in the wake of ongoing coronavirus restrictions, though Tucumcari’s athletic director expressed some skepticism whether sports would be played in 2021. Volleyball was moved to a March 1 start date, with state championships set for April 26 through May 1. Cross country was moved to a Feb. 15 start date, with state championships set for March 19-20. Like all sports, they will play condensed seasons and no non-state tournaments. The T...
The first domino fell on New Mexico’s fall high school sports season Wednesday, and the rest fell Thursday. The New Mexico Activities Association announced Wednesday the fall season's first prep sports events scheduled for Saturday were canceled because Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hadn't signed off on them. The next day, citing a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases statewide, Lujan Grisham said she wouldn't update the state's public health order regarding high-school sports, thus effectively delaying all fall games until at least early 2021. One d...
Jerry Koile of rural Tucumcari is older than many of his fellow rodeo competitors, and he competes in only two events. That didn't stop him from winning the all-around world title in the men's age 60-and-up division in the National Senior Pro Rodeo Association this year. Koile, 79, also won the circuit's season championship in tiedown roping and finished second overall in breakaway roping in the same age group. Though one rodeo event remained in a season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Coaches who lead high-school volleyball programs in Quay County all are expecting to rebuild their teams as they tentatively begin their COVID-delayed seasons this week, barring any last-minute delays because of the pandemic. San Jon faces as big of a reconstruction project as any. The school district voted in December to end its two-year sports cooperative agreement with Grady. That means the Coyotes are going it alone without help from Grady athletes. Worse yet, they’re without San Jon standout Teryn Foote and her 254 kills for Grady-San J...
Tucumcari High School’s athletic director during a school board meeting last week expressed doubt the volleyball team’s schedule would begin on time in October. Wayne Ferguson said during the meeting Sept. 21 he was “less optimistic” the Lady Rattlers and other area teams would begin their seasons Oct. 10 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tucumcari is scheduled to travel to Pecos for its season-opener that day. In a follow-up phone interview, Ferguson said he and other athletic directors around the state hold “a gut feeling” volleyball season w...
Tucumcari begins its volleyball season with a road game at Pecos on Oct. 10, with its home opener Oct. 13 against Santa Rosa. The Rattlers football team doesn’t begin its season until March 6, with a 2 p.m. road game at Raton. Tucumcari is scheduled to hold its home opener against Santa Rosa at 7 p.m. March 12. Both teams have shortened seasons under the radically revamped calendar announced by the New Mexico Activities Association last month in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Not counting the postseason, Rattlers volleyball would play fe...
The New Mexico Activities Association on Wednesday released its radically altered sports calendar for the coming school year in response to the coronavirus pandemic. As expected, almost all sports will have condensed seasons of 10 to 12 weeks each. Cross country and golf will begin their seasons first in mid-September, with volleyball starting in early October. Basketball season begins Jan. 4 and football season Feb. 22. Wrestling season won't begin until early April. Baseball and softball...
The New Mexico Activities Association on Wednesday released its amended sports calendar for the coming school year. As previously expected, almost all sports will have condensed seasons. Cross country and golf will begin their seasons first in mid-September, with volleyball starting in early October. Basketball season begins Jan. 4 and football season Feb. 22. Wrestling season won’t begin until early April. Baseball and softball seasons will be largely unchanged. Tentative dates for the start of the official season and state championship e...
New Mexico's high-school football season will be at least postponed, and other sports may face delays or shortened seasons because of coronavirus restrictions. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday there would be no full-contact sports such as football and soccer this fall because of rising cases of COVID-19. She acknowledged the planned opening of schools in August also was in jeopardy because of the pandemic. Wayne Ferguson, Tucumcari's football coach and athletic director, said the...
The athletic director at Logan High School detailed the restart of athletic practices in the coming weeks as outlined by the New Mexico Activities Association. Athletic director Billy Burns gave a report about those plans during the Logan Municipal Schools board of education's regular meeting June 8 at the Nara Visa Community Center. The NMAA's eight-page "Guidance for Return to Play" indicates the state is in the midst of Phase One in prep sports emerging from the coronavirus pandemic. It...
Two girls each from Tucumcari and Logan and one boy from the Grady/San Jon were among the seniors named to the New Mexico High School Coaches Association's all-regional basketball teams last week. Tucumcari's Ashley Shipley and Jasmine Jones and Logan's Karli Webb and Jordan Hines each were named Wednesday to the small-school Northeast All-Stars. Shipley, the Lady Rattlers' point guard, amassed team-highs in points per game (21.1), rebounds (9.2), assists (5.4) and free-throw shooting...
Area teams undoubtedly felt disappointment at the cancellation Friday of all spring sports for the rest of the school year. The team that probably felt that anguish the most was Tucumcari's softball team. That's because the Lady Rattlers had 10 seniors returning from a team that finished 17-5 - the program's best season ever - and qualified for the Class 3A state tournament. Combined with offseason workouts since November, the team and its coach held high hopes before the coronavirus pandemic...
Tucumcari senior Ashley Shipley last week earned all-state honors in Class 3A a third straight time. Logan's Karli Webb and Jordan Hines also earned all-state honors in Class 1A after the Lady Longhorns finished runner-up in the state tournament. The New Mexico High School Coaches Association announced its annual all-state teams for both boys and girls basketball last week. Shipley, the Lady Rattlers' point guard and captain, helped lead her team to a 19-11 record and the quarterfinals while...
Grady/San Jon senior forward Chisum Rush was named last week to the all-state team in Class 1A boys basketball. The New Mexico High School Coaches Association announced its annual all-state teams for both boys and girls basketball last week. Rush averaged a team-leading 17.0 points and 9.9 rebounds per game, both team highs for the Bronchos, who finished with a 12-12 record and competed in the rugged District 6 that included state-champion Melrose. The 6-foot-3 Rush was a four-year starter at...
Four Tucumcari girls basketball players were named first-team all-district after their advancement to the Class 3A quarterfinals. Logan, which finished runner-up in the Class 1A tournament, also had four players earn all-district honors. For the Lady Rattlers, first-team honorees in District 4 were senior guard Ashley Shipley, senior center Jasmine Jones, senior power forward Aaliyah Brown and sophomore guard Reece Goldston. Shipley held team-highs in points per game (21.1), rebounds (9.2),...
Three Tucumcari boys basketball players were named to the all-district team in Class 3A’s District 4. Sophomore guard Jesus Ramos, sophomore forward Andrew Henderson-Clark and senior wing Alexander Lujan each made the first team from a squad that went 9-16 during the season and finished third in the district. Ramos averaged a team-high 19.5 points, 6.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 3.4 steals per game. Henderson-Clark averaged 10.1 points and 5.0 rebounds per game. Lujan averaged 9.1 points per c...
The mandatory three-week break from classes at New Mexico public schools because of the coronavirus pandemic also means no games and no practice sessions until at least April 6. Tucumcari High School athletic director and track coach Wayne Ferguson said the meets and games affected by the break won't be made up. That trims at least seven games off the Rattlers' baseball schedule, including the previously scheduled home opener against Santa Rosa on March 24. Tucumcari's boys and girls track...
Depleted by injuries, the ninth-seeded Tucumcari girls basketball team reached the end of the line of the Class 3A quarterfinals during a 67-55 loss March 10 to top-seeded and eventual state champion Navajo Prep, despite senior Ashley Shipley’s heroic 38 points for the Lady Rattlers. Tucumcari, which ended its season with a 19-11 record, fell behind 13-0 and 20-2 in the first half during the game at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, two days before the New Mexico Activities Association banned all fans and media from state-tournament g...