Santa Fe High hopes to end its football winless streak

The winless road continues for the Santa Fe High football team.

It resumes after its scheduled night game at Ivan Head Stadium last Saturday was postponed until the next morning at 9:15because of numerous lightning strikes and a heavy downpour.

So the Demons go from one morning kickoff to another. Now it heads for a winnable game in Albuquerque Saturday that is scheduled for an 11 a.m. start. The Demons bring an 0-4 record to play winless 0-3 Manzano at Wilson Stadium.

Head coach Andrew Martinez’ team has had its share of problems. After losing at West Mesa in the opener, it has been shut out the next three times at home to Roswell, at St. Michael’s, and the Silver setback at home.

Manzano has been worse. The Monarchs, the only winless team in Albuquerque, have yet to score while giving up 140 points. They have lost to Albuquerque Atrisco Heritage, Mayfield and Belen. They have a roster that numbers 61 and includes 25 sophomores and seven freshmen.

They are young but they do have 12 seniors and 12 juniors. But none of this matters if you can’t win, worse, if you can’t score.

So this game is right what Santa Fe High needs. Now it has to turn it up on both sides of the ball instead of making mistakes with a number of key injured players. This has been since game one, but Coach Martinez now has some of them back and that could provide a lift.

Manzano, who knows. It obviously does have its share of injuries and has been run over on offense, defense and special teams.

Elsewhere, the daily newspaper may have undefeated St. Michael’s playing at Aztec Saturday, but to be correct it’s bye weekend for the 4-0 Horsemen and they play next Friday in a non-district game at Aztec.

But Santa Fe Indian School is playing on Saturday afternoon following last week’s scoreless tie against Pojoaque Valley that put its overall record at 1-2-1 as it heads to winless Espanola McCurdy (0-4) for a 1 o’clock kickoff non-district contest.

On Friday night, Capital is home to Albuquerque Academy, which brings a 3-1 record to the 7 o’clock start while the Jaguars are all even at 2-2 for this non-district tilt.

Also on Friday night, unbeaten Raton is 4-0 and is at Escalante (2-2) in non-district play, with the Tigers currently ranked No. 2 in 3A. Then there’s West Las Vegas (2-2) traveling to winless non-district opponent Albuquerque Rio Grande (0-3), Pojoaque Valley (0-2-1) looking for its first win at Los Alamos (1-3), and Espanola Valley taking a 2-2 mark to play at winless Gallup (0-4).