New Mexico High School Sports News

Hector Villagran died at 17 in New Mexico after being shot in the throat by another teenager, Fabian Hernandez.

Our world is all about the future. The stock market depends on it. A multibillion-dollar gambling business thrives on it.

Shiprock's volleyball team had two major goals for this season - winning the District 1-4A championship and finishing among the top four teams at the Class 4A state tournament.

Cloudcroft's Cathleen Check runs among a pack of other runners after completing the first mile at the Class 2A state cross country championships Nov.

RIO RANCHO a ' Three more points. Gary Maskaly saw the calm before the storm. If ever a perfect opportunity landed in the laps of he and his Los Alamos High volleyball team, this was it.

RIO RANCHO Throughout the season, the Texico High volleyball team lived by the acronym of COAOC.

Shiprock's volleyball team on Thursday provided more evidence that 2009 is the program's gold standard.

ALBUQUERQUE a ' Ryan Dunham is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Three times a week for the duration of the 2009 boys soccer season, Dunham and his Los Alamos Hilltoppers practiced penalty kicks, just in case they met a shootout situation.

A student playing high school soccer in football/base-ball/NASCAR-crazy America has to feel akin to being a Rodney Dangerfield-like athlete in the world of sports.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

ALBUQUERQUE a ' And 365 days later, the circle is complete. Nov. 7, 2008 is a day Kelsey Neal wants to erase.

Santa Fe Preparatory goalie Danny Quinn punches a ball clear off a Bosque School corner kick Thursday during a quarterfinal of the Class A-AAA Boys State Soccer Tournament at Rio Rancho High School.

Forty-eight stories await to unfold. That's one for every high school soccer team a ' boys and girls a ' remaining in the state soccer tournaments from Class A-AAA to AAAAA.

For the first time, the state soccer tournament finals are being held at the new APS Soccer Complex on Albuquerque's Westside.

There are always rivals in the world of high school sports. "Being a Horsemen, everyone is your rival," said Brian James Baca, 17, who attends St.

With nothing really on the line, Clovis High's volleyball team struggled to get going Saturday.

Portales needed a hop, a kick and an extra 5:30 to notch the first playoff victory in its short history of girls soccer.

Winners of 2009 D3-1A-3A soccer celebrate after defeating Socorro, Oct. 22. Laying down, Jamie Enriquez, front row, l-r, Ceasar Medina, Jorge Varela, Alex Romero, Edgar Medina, Keith Yeager, Scott Thompson, Kyle Rossiter and Matt Collins.

The Clovis High volleyball team hopes it is peaking at the right time. The Lady Wildcats matched a season best with their fourth consecutive win - and sixth in the last seven matches - with a 25-10, 25-20, 25-18 District 4-5A victory over Hobbs on Tuesday night at Rock Staubus Gym.

The Hobbs Eagles volley ball team was up 2-1 after the first three games in their match with the Cavegirls here in Carlsbad Thursday, and it was beginning to look like the Eagles were going to have a great ride back to Hobbs.