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By Arnie Leshin  St. Michael’s swept the girls and boys state 3A track and field championships last year, can it repeat? Could be. On the girl’s side, it has two of the finest athletes in the state in freshman Rayee Hunt, the state cross country champion who will be competing …

By NM Game and Fish Catches of the week Elephant Butte Lake: Javier Rubio, age 17, of El Paso, Texascaught and released a 25-pound striper and a 10-pound largemouth bass using live bait and jigs, respectively, March 8. Morphy Lake: Justin Estrada of Las Vegas caught and released an 18-inch cutthroat …

By Arnie Leshin  Until her final season in 2016, Roseanne Noedel, had been St. Michael’s head softball coach since 1988, after she passed away from a battle with cancer, it was sad, and now her former assistant Joe Alvarez begins his fourth season at the helm with the annual Noedel …

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 …