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Strong girl’s field includes Academy of Technology and The Classics, Pecos, Santa Fe Prep and St. Michael’s By Arnie Leshin  The new alignment pieced together by the New Mexico Activities has plenty of traveling changes in addition to number changes in the five groups. The increased number of changes put …

By Arnie Leshin  Over the last four seasons, the Portales football team has won 45 times and lost only five. Its program has won four state championships. But on Friday night of the season opener at home, the Rams fell, 10-3, to Albuquerque Hope Christian in overtime. It was a …

Lady Horsemen edge Hilltoppers in four sets, Prep wins in five tight sets over the Bobcats, and in girl’s soccer, Santa Fe Indian School blanks Monte del Sol, 3-0 By Arnie Leshin  Nothing like winning the season-opener. And that the way it went in non-district volleyball victories for St. Michael’s …

TUESDAY:  August 28 GIRLS SOCCER – Monte del Sol at Santa Fe Indian School, 4 p.m. BOYS SOCCER – St. Michael’s at Santa Fe High, 4 p.m. VOLLEYBALL — Los Alamos at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.                             …

Horsemen had routed Tigers in four previous games By Arnie Leshin  Taos figured enough is enough. It has played St. Michael’s four-straight times on the football field and fell each time. Not a game was close, with the Horsemen scoring 141 points and yielding 59. So the two non-district rivals were …

Braves Field had flooding damage and a mess of quagmire following the heavy rainfall, thus the field and area around it had to be repaired for Thursday’s game By Arnie Leshin  Who knows what the final result would have been if Santa Fe Indian School had stayed home for its Friday …

But the long-time football coach couldn’t stop his young Jaguars from scoring and defending against the overmatched Elks By Arnie Leshin  A slow start by the Capital High football team turned into a rout that wasn’t pretty on opening night Friday at Jaguar Field. The final score of 67-14 was not …

Demons had some chances to score, but twice penalties nullified things, and the Cardinals went up 15-0 at the half on the way to a 39-2 victory By Arnie Leshin  It was the season opener and mistakes could work out both ways. For the experienced team that was more prepared, a …

Winners meet Sunday at Lamade Stadium for  International World Series championship                 By Arnie Leshin  One thing that proud Japan has going for it is avenging the recent 10-0 rout by South Korea, expect that what sounds good might fall short this time. …

Caribbean winner Puerto Rico puts together a 9-run burst in the sixth to dispose of Canada’s British Columbia, 9-3, and now faces Japan in quest of the other finals spot By Arnie Leshin  Believe it, Japan has fallen into the loser’s bracket. Not only fallen, but shut out. Not a single …