Today’s games
A couple of nice match-ups going on Saturday include the Deming/Alamogordo game, and Magdalena/Estancia contest.
The improving Alamogordo Tigers against the scrappy Deming ‘Cats. Alamogordo head coach Warren Thomas reported to me earlier this season his focus in building the program was finding a consistency and creating an “assembly line” of excellent players. Looks like it’s starting to work.
Magdalena is getting a taste of their new 2A competition when they face the Lady Bears of Estancia. The the Lady Steers obviously need some time to get acclimated to their move into 2A, but I’m sure they won’t make easy for Estancia. I’ve always enjoyed watching these two teams play; it should be a good battle.
| 4:00 AM | San Jon High School vs. Clovis Christian School |
| 5:00 AM | Pecos High School vs. Questa High School |
| 10:00 AM | Tucumcari High School vs. Clayton High School |
| 10:59 AM | Onate HS vs Del Norte HS |
| 11:07 AM | Rehoboth @ Bloomfield |
| 12:00 PM | Deming High School vs. Alamogordo High School |
| 12:00 PM | Bosque School vs. Taos High School |
| 12:30 PM | Mayfield High School vs. Cibola High School |
| 1:00 PM | Santa Fe Waldorf School vs. Vaughn High School |
| 1:00 PM | Quemado High School vs. Santa Fe Waldorf School |
| 1:00 PM | Menaul High School vs. Alamo Navajo School |
| 1:00 PM | Santa Rosa at Penasco |
| 0:00 PM | Gallup High School vs. Shiprock High School |
| 1:02 PM | Lovington |
| 1:30 PM | Espanola Valley High School vs. W. Las Vegas High School |
| 2:00 PM | Magdalena vs Estancia |
| 2:00 PM | Evangel Christian Academy vs. Mountainair High School |
| 2:00 PM | Reserve vs. Corona |
| 2:30 PM | Laguna Acoma High School vs. Newcomb High School |
| 4:00 PM | Roy High School vs. Grady High School |
| 6:00 PM | Clovis Christian @ San Jon |
| 6:30 PM | SFPrep vs Coronado H.S. |
| 8:59 PM | Aztec High School vs. Miyamura High School |
Rio Rancho Bash Continues
Pool play continues Saturday, starting at 8:00 AM thru 11:45 AM. The bracket play commences at 1:00 PM at Rio Rancho (Gold) and Cleveland (Silver). The format is best 3/5 games, 5th set to 15.
As of late Friday night, the only results reported were:
- Cleveland split with Gadsden, drops two to Rio Rancho 25-23, 25-23
- Artesia beats Moriarty 25-18, 25-21, and defeats St. Pius 25-18, 25-22
- Gadsden splits with Cleveland 25-21, 21-25, splits with St. Pius and defeats Rio Rancho, Pojoaque and Moriarty, finishing the day 8-2, and in first place.
Somewhat of an upset in No 3. Artesia’s defeat of No. 1 St. Pius (Class 4A). Also of note is Gadsden’s sweep of Rio Rancho, but loss of a set to Cleveland.
I haven’t seen the scores of the Estancia/Magdalena game, but I’m sure if Estancia was playing their game they beat them pretty handily. I know Bosque beat Magdalena 25-11 25-4 25-4, and Estancia beat Bosque in five at the Moriarty tournament, but Bosque took the championship from Estancia in four at the Hope tournament.