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By Santa Fe County  From the Manager March just may be the lucky month we have been waiting for. Not only because of St. Patrick’s Day on the 17th, but because we are seeing a consistent drop in COVID cases around the state and county. As of the first of …

WEDNESDAY: BASEBALL — Santa Fe Indian School at Laguna-Acuma, DH 3 and 5 p.m. games.   SOFTBALL — Laguna-Acuma at Santa Fe Indian School, 3 p.m.                         Pojoaque Valley at Miyamura, DH 1 and 3 p.m. games.     …

By Arnie Leshin  You can tell that the coronavirus pandemic isn’t as dreadful as before by checking the sports pages, turning on the television, and listening to the radio. No doubt there’s still COVID-19 victims, but there will always be sports in the good old USA. No other nation comes …

 By Arnie Leshin It had nothing to do with the current high prices at the gas pump, it was simply the St. Michael’s boys basketball team running out of gas after a long and winding road that followed a dismal start. The dismal starts of 0-10 and 2-12 became history …

By Arnie Leshin Undefeated and number one in the land, Oklahoma got a historic home run Friday from senior Jocelyn Alo in her native state of Hawaii and it brought a thunderous reception from her team and fans and family before an overflow crowd in Honolulu. It had taken Alo eight …

By Arnie Leshin  A familiar scene, Santa Fe Indian School versus Robertson on the basketball court. The Braves’ boys are 0-2 and the girls 0-3, and today they get together again, the 11th-seeded boys against the 2nd-seeded Cardinals at the Pit in a scheduled 4 o’clockstart, and at the Rio …

By Arnie Leshin  In the boys 4A and 5A of the state basketball tournament, both have the No. 1 seeds into the Friday semifinals. In the big school 5A, there’s the top team in the state in undefeated Las Cruces (30-0) in 4A it’s No. 1 Albuquerque Highland (24-3), and …

By Arnie Leshin  Whoops, another tight tussle goes to the St. Michael’s boys basketball team in Wednesday night‘s state tournament quarterfinals against visiting Navajo Prep. It was the second of back-to-back adventures at Perez-Shelley Memorial gymnasium for the 4th-seeded Horsemen. And with this cliff-hanger 41-40 survival over the 5th-seeded Eagles, …

By Arnie Leshin  It’s a match-up of 2A boys state champions when 2nd-seeded Pecos meets up with reigning 3rd-seeded champion RehobothChristian in Friday night‘s semifinals at the Rio Rancho Events Center, with the tip-off scheduled for 5:30. While Rehoboth (22-3) was surviving a tough 48-47 win over 6th-seeded Jal in …

By Arnie Leshin Tuesday Girls Quarterfinals Results:   2A — (1) Escalante 64, (8) Albuquerque Menaul, 48          (2) Clayton 51, (10) Mesa Vista 43          (4) Penasco 52, (5) Rehoboth Christian 43          (6) Laguna-Acuma 37, (3) Eunice 35    …