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Sports Highlights
Aven Benavente at Mayfield High with David Gallegos.
They were just the kids with the water. At least that was how Melanie Trevino remembers some athletes looking at the student athletic trainers when she was just starting out at Las Cruces High School. Then she learned and she watched and she...
James Jones breaks loose for some good yardage Saturday against UNM.
With 25,024 in attendance, NM State concluded its non-conference schedule on Saturday afternoon at Aggie Memorial Stadium as it hosted New Mexico in the 116th playing of the Rio Grande Rivalry. After a competitive first half, the Aggies fell to...
NM State made its first trip to the Cowboy Jamboree since the 2011-12 season on Saturday morning, competing with some of the best talent in the nation. Thomas Croshaw made his season debut, taking 11th after crossing the line with a time of...
Las Cruces High School senior linebacker Denton Walter takes the field during a game earlier this season. The unbeaten Bulldawgs enter Week 6 ranked No. 2 in New Mexico by MaxPreps.
September is nearing its end, and the local football picture is beginning to sharpen.  Las Cruces has yet to lose, Centennial carries a three-game winning streak into Albuquerque, and Mayfield finally has a victory behind it. Organ Mountain...

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Photo of NMSU team taken just before the first rivalry game.
Their average weight was around 147 pounds and most of them had barely even touched a football. But in November 1893, the newly formed football team at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts laid down the gauntlet, challenging the...
The running of James Jones is critical to NMSU's success.
The Rio Grande Rivalry has been around for 116 games, but most of the Aggies playing Saturday haven’t experienced much of it. That is one of the contradictions of college football’s changing landscape. New Mexico State and New Mexico have played...
The NM State volleyball team closed out play at the Bradley Invitational on Saturday morning, taking UTRGV to five sets inside Renaissance Coliseum. After dropping the first set, the Aggies responded by claiming the next two frames. However, the...
Two weeks removed from the season opening Art Morgan Classic, NM State returned to action for the 40th annual Lori Fitzgerald Memorial Open, hosted by UTEP at Ascarate Park in El Paso. A select group of student-athletes made the short drive...

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High School Sports
Coach David Nunez (right) is back at Organ Mountain after one year away from coaching.

Nuñez returns to the sport he wasn’t yet ready to leave

Retirement was supposed to mean finding other things to do. There was travel and time for things that had been pushed aside during decades of practices, meets and seasons that rolled almost immediately into the next one. But somehow there were...

Under the lights

Four weeks are in the books. Now the local football schedule is starting to get heavier.  Las Cruces takes its unbeaten record across town for a district matchup with Organ Mountain, while Gadsden puts its own perfect start on the line...

NMAA announces disciplinary action after Mayfield/Organ Mountain incident

The New Mexico Activities Association has completed its review of the fighting incident that took place during the second quarter of Friday night's football game between Mayfield and Organ Mountain. It announced disciplinary action today. The is...

Knights roll past Mayfield; Bulldawgs stay unbeaten

Organ Mountain and Las Cruces remained unbeaten Friday night, highlighting a week that saw the city’s four public high school football teams go 2-2 — including one game that became notable for more than the final score. Organ Mountain rolled past...
Mayfield quarterback Angelo Martos stands with a teammate during the Trojans’ season opener against Los Lunas on Aug. 21 at the Field of Dreams. Martos threw two touchdown passes in Mayfield’s 23-13 loss.

City football takes center stage

Mayfield showed it could fight back. Organ Mountain showed how quickly it could pull away. Now, two teams coming off opposite opening-night results meet Friday at the Field of Dreams for Las Cruces’ first intercity matchup of the...
Las Cruces' Addison Massey leaves the Bulldawgs riding a 57-match winning streak.

Addison Massey is three-time player of the year

For three years now, Massey has been the dominant force in the state of New Mexico on the volleyball court. Now headed to Manhattan, Kansas to play collegiately for Kansas State, Massey guided the Las Cruces High volleyball team to an unbeaten...

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