NM HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

Time out, substitution. Whereas Santa Fe High’s softball team had to inform St. Michael’s it had to cancel its Wednesday visit and scheduled non-district game, Lady Horsemen head coach Joe Alvarez needed to fill the spot and did so with Wednesday’s non-district contest at Pecos.

“Santa Fe High said it had played too many games in a short space of time,” Alvarez said, “and so I was fortunate I could get another game because that’s better than just practicing.”

And so it was a 20-5 football score final St.Michael’s ended a 7-game losing streak and upped its overall record to 8-9, while the 2A Panthers became all even overall at 5-5.

The 3A Lady Horsemen struck quickly with seven runs in the first inning and five in the second, and after scoring four more in the third, the lead was extended to13-5 after Pecos tallied twice in the bottom of the opening frame and three times in the third. That was it and it became a run-rule shortened game of five innings when St. Michael’s added two more runs each in the fourth and fifth frames.

Senior Mariah Valdez, the usual Lady Horsemen starter in the circle, went the first four innings, upped her record to 8-8, and freshman Emily Montoya finished up.

At the plate, freshman Helena Prevatt led the way with a 5-for-5 game, batted in three runs via a single and two doubles, and scored once. Then there was 8th-grader Mariella Ruiz who had three hits in five at-bats and tallied three times. Plus senior Isabella Lopez added a solo home run.

The next stop for the Lady Horsemen is Saturday’s District 2 doubleheader at West Las Vegas, with 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. the scheduled times.

The Dons played at Santa Fe Indian School Wednesday and dropped the District 2 test, 9-2, to put their overall record at 6-9 and 4-3 in district. They scored a run each in the second and fourth innings. The Braves advanced to 13-7 overall and 5-1 in district while scoring a run apiece in the first two frames, three more in the third, and four more in the last of the seventh.

On the baseball diamond, it was West Las Vegas at Indian School again, and this time the Dons came out on top 5-4 to up their overall mark to 5-9 and 2-4 in district. They tallied once each in the top of the first and fourth and erased a 4-2 deficit with a 3-run sixth while coming away with five hits and committing one errors. For the Braves, it dropped them to 9-9 overall and 1-6 in district,

as they scored a run each in the second, third, fourth and fifth and totaled four hits and a pair of miscues.

One baseball game today, Capital at St. Michael’s in non-district play.