What to Watch on Thursday
Aztec at Farmington
Bloomfield at Gallup
Laguna-Acoma at Estancia
Magdalena at Tohatchi
McCurdy at Tierra Encantada
Mesa Vista at Penasco
Miyamura at Kirtland Central
Rehoboth at Zuni
Ruidoso at NMMI
Santa Fe Indian at Bernalillo
Santa Fe Prep at Pecos
Shiprock at Navajo Prep
Tucumcari at Dexter
Wingate at Thoreau

What Matters: Aztec could play upset tonight in Farmington but Miyamura can't afford to slip against Kirtland Central either. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened tonight. Farmington and Miyamura are the better teams but the direction 5A is going this season a loss isn't out of the question. How good is Santa Fe Indian? A game with Bernalillo could be a test for a 4-5A district that has plenty of uncertainty.

What Happened on Wednesday
Albuquerque Academy 7, Valley 2
Espanola Valley 11, Del Norte 1
Mora 21, Questa 0
Rio Grande 12, Manzano 4
Robertson 7, Pojoaque Valley 3

What Mattered: Del Norte falling to Espanola could be the biggest collapse of the night. The Knights could now be in jeopardy of missing the playoffs as they drop into the 3rd slot in 2-5A. Albuquerque Academy could be the biggest wildcard in 5A baseball as they now could climb into the top-8 playoff seed talks (we had them behind DN at 13 yesterday) and now move up. Rio Grande continues to build for the playoffs and Manzano could be all but popped.

Which coach andor program has a breakout season?

Please Post here to highlight your guys

How do you see teams doing in their new district? Preseason predictions?

Today, is National Burrito day. What is the best burrito in town? Red or Green? What inside the burrito?

TUESDAY SCORES
Alamogordo 11, Chaparral 4
Alamogordo 5, Chaparral 0
Artesia 14, Lovington 4
Artesia 19, Lovington 5
Atrisco Heritage 5, Albuquerque 3
Aztec 5, Bloomfield 2
Deming 10, Santa Teresa 2
Deming 7, Santa Teresa 6
Dexter 4, Capitan 1
East Mountain 8, Bernalillo 3
Farmington 8, Kirtland Central 7
Goddard 10, Roswell 0
Goddard 13, Roswell 2
Grants 6, Belen 3
Hatch Valley 15, Hot Springs 12
Los Lunas 9, Valencia 5
Mesilla Valley 17, Lordsburg 5
Mesilla Valley 9, Lordsburg 5
Miyamura 18, Gallup 0
Navajo Prep 11, Newcomb 1
Navajo Prep 15, Newcomb 5
NMMI 18, Eunice 8
Piedra Vista 5, Rio Rancho 2
Raton 13, McCurdy 3
Rio Grande 11, West Mesa 1
Santa Fe Indian 14, Sandia Prep 3
Silver 17, Cobre 0
St. Mikes 6, Pojoaque 0
Taos 16, West Las Vegas 6
Texcio 11, Santa Rosa 9
Texico 10, Santa Rosa 0
Thoreau 9, Zuni 3
Tohatchi 10, Wingate 0
Valley 11, Highland 6
Volcano Vista 8, Cleveland 6
Wingate 5, Tohatchi 4

TUESDAY TAKEAWAYS - BIG THREE
1) Grants beating Belen, 6-3, is that standout score in terms of upset. Grants also adds to their resume and now should be off the bubble for good.

2) On the player notes - what a day for Aaron Natera (Artesia). The young man hit 4 homeruns and 10 RBIs in a district contest against Lovington.

3) Deming with the sweep of Santa Teresa (10-2; 7-6) is number three of the big three from Tuesday. This shakes up the bracket watch for later today.

WEDNESDAY
Manzano and Rio Grande square off today. Rio Grande looking to stay within the 10-12 range of potential seeds. Manzano is a bubble team in need of a big win or it'll burst.
Del Norte needs to beat Espanola Valley in order to stay with Albuquerque Academy for the 2-5A title.

Who goes 1st?
Who is your team and who are you guys taking?

What follows is a list of senior New Mexico high school soccer players (Class of 2018) believed to be committed to play at the college level. If you know of others, or have corrections or updates, please post below and I will update the top post.

Girls:
Academy- Mikaela Montoya -- Point Loma Nazarene Univ.
Alamogordo- Kristin Guin -- CSU-Pueblo
Albuquerque High- MacKenna Havenor – UNM
Aztec- Alycea Aviles -- NMSU
Aztec- Grace Olson -- NMSU
Aztec- Autumn Peterson -- Otero Junior College
Bernalillo- Indiana Madrid -- Trinidad St.
Bernalillo- Mia Montano — NMSU
Bosque- Genevieve Gray -- Pomona
Cibola- Emily Avila -- West Texas A&M
Cibola- Lexi Baca – UNM
Cibola- Dominique Buddenhagen -- Ursuline
Cibola- Kayla Martinez -- Texas Southern
Cleveland- Chloe Galler -- NMSU
Cleveland- Analise Pacheco -- NMSU
Cleveland- Corey Kizer -- NMSU
Cleveland - Kailey Peña -- Grambling
Eldorado- Taylor Jones — Colorado Mesa
Eldorado- Nicole Petrino -- SW Oklahoma State
Hobbs- Briana Brock — Univ. of the Southwest
Hobbs- Jennifer Schroder — Univ. of the Southwest
La Cueva- Senna Garcia — ENMU
La Cueva- Karlee Maes – UNM
La Cueva- Kat Robinson -- Pittsburgh
La Cueva- Cayla Sanchez -- Fort Lewis
La Cueva- Jacklyn Stinnet -- Fort Lewis
Los Alamos- Jacqueline Linn -- Colorado Mesa
Los Lunas- Tianna Castillo -- NM Highlands
Rio Rancho- Kylee Friedland -- Western Texas College
Rio Rancho- Kayla Montoya -- Colorado College
Sandia- Ava Bishop — Trinidad St.
Sandia- Adelita Macias — West Texas A&M
Sandia- Nicole Powers — Univ. of the Southwest
Sandia- Laraina Romero -- NM Highands
St. Pius- Miranda Hart -- Michigan State
Valley- Alex Jurado — West Texas A&M
Valley- Hailey Velarde— Trinidad St.
Volcano Vista- Brianna Martinez – Notre Dame
Volcano Vista- Daron Vigil-Scott — NMHU

Boys:
Academy- Owen Keleher — Knox College
Academy- Nick Williams -- UNM
Alamogordo- Adam Foltz — Univ. of the Southwest
Alamogordo- Antonio Silva -- Univ. of the Southwest
Albuquerque High- Carlos Gutierrez -- UNM
Albuquerque High- Alex Jimenez — Univ. of the Southwest
Highland- Giovanny Vidana -- Univ. of the Southwest
La Cueva- Chris Manning — Colorado Mesa
La Cueva- Anthony Munoz -- UNM
Los Alamos- Tristan Semelsberger -- Colorado School of Mines
St. Pius- Julian Garcia -- UNM
St. Pius- Alex Nana -- El Camino JC (CA)
Volcano Vista- Zach Lemasters — Trinity (TX)
Volcano Vista- Larsen Rogers -- UNM (following church mission)

Some other signings of interest: Logan Sullivan, who formerly played at Santa Fe Prep before going to a school out of state, signed with Yale. Jack Rembe, formerly of Academy, signed with Gonzaga. Milo Garvanian, formerly of Sandia Prep, signed with North Carolina.

TOP OFFENSIVE TEAMS IN 2018

Link: La Cueva Bears

LAS CRUCES BULLDAWGS

Points For in 2017: 518 (43.1 ppg)
Record in 2017: 10-2
Why: They return RB Chase Chaloupek who rushed for 25-touchdowns last season. They also return one of the top WRs in New Mexico in Ivan Molina. They Bulldawgs has 5-games out of 12 that they scored over 50-points, four others in the 40-point range. This team could be an early favorite (No. 2 in the NMPreps.com Spring Rankings). Haven't seen their entire schedule yet but four games list and two out of district games - at La Cueva (9/7), at Rio Rancho (9/14) - could be a season they will need to light up the scoreboard.

LOS LUNAS TIGERS

Points For in 2017: 512 (42.6 ppg)
Record in 2017: 8-4, 3-1
Why: The Los Lunas Tigers went off for nearly 43 points per game last season and opened the season with a 60 point game followed by a 54 game. The Tigers had 6-games for over 50 points last season; half of their contests going 6-0 in those games. The Tigers also return one of the top quarterbacks in the state of New Mexico in Nicholas Gaerlan who passed for 1,894-yards (28 touchdown passes) along with rushing for 1,487-yards (23 rushing touchdowns).

Link: West Las Vegas Dons


This will be an on-going feature that we will update daily.

Daily Diamond: Tuesday, April 10th

MONDAY
Melrose 11, Floyd 1
Raton 19, Santa Fe Prep 3
Rehoboth 15, Newcomb 1

MONDAY TAKEAWAYS
Melrose has their win streak extend to 6-games and improve their record to 9-1 overall.
Raton improved their record to 7-9 and 4-0 in district play. They are on a 3-game win streak. SFP drops their 4-straight game.
Rehoboth is now on a 5-game streak and move to 7-1 overall on the season.

TUESDAY
Alamogordo at Chaparral
Albuquerque at Atrisco Heritage
Artesia at Lovington
Belen at Grants
Bernalillo at East Mountain
Bloomfield at Aztec
Capitan at Dexter
Eunice at NMMI
Farmington at Kirtland Central
Gallup at Miyamura
Hatch Valley at Hot Springs
Lordsburg at Mesilla Valley
Los Lunas at Valencia
Loving at Tularosa
McCurdy at Raton
Mesa Vista at Cimarron
Newcomb at Navajo Prep
Penasco at Mesa Vista
Pojoaque Valley at St. Michael's
Rio Rancho at Piedra Vista
Roswell at Goddard
Santa Fe Indian at Sandia Prep
Santa Fe Teresa at Deming
Texico at Santa Rosa
Valley at Highland
Volcano Vista at Cleveland
West Las Vegas at Taos
West Mesa at Rio Grande
Wimgate at Tohatchi
Zuni at Thoreau

BIG THREE FOR TUESDAY
Deming vs Santa Teresa: The Deming Wildcats (7-7) have a showdown and get the first crack at Santa Teresa (11-2) on their home field today. It is a doubleheader. One of these could come down to the final innings as both teams warmup as the game goes on. Prediction: Santa Teresa 7, Deming 4; Deming 5, Santa Teresa 4.

Rio Rancho at Piedra Vista: Both teams ranked in the NMPreps.com Top-10 and both looking as favorites to make noise in the state tournament. Piedra Vista (14-7) has opened district play going 3-0 and look to close out the first round of games perfect. Rio Rancho (15-6) has recovered winning the last two games after losing the district opener.

Texico at Santa Rosa: These two continue their battle across all sports. Santa Rosa (13-4) is on a 4-game win streak heading into the contest, 4-0 in April. Texico (11-1) is perfect against New Mexico teams and haven't lost since their second game of the season. Both can put runs on the board but Texico has put about 13 per game in their last four. Santa Rosa will need to limit the Wolverines getting hot around the 3rd inning along with starting hot and staying hot on the bats.

The Rest with Meaning
West Mesa at Rio Grande
Volcano Vista at Cleveland

Is AAU bad for basketball?

Who has stood out during he aau season?

Who are some top ones out there?

Week 8 Rankings

Class 6A
Class 5A

Congrats Coach. I’m guessing that there was a New Mexico kid on his roster for all 1000 wins. I’d love to have him coach my son any day of the week!

Post all scores here for this week.

congrats to Eunice’s Coach Reynolds who won his 100 game this past weekend. What a historic weekend for head coaches.

Congratulations to Coach Alan Edmonson on his 300 career win.

Congrats to Coach Mike McGaha on his 200th wins today vs Volcano!

Looking for teams that want to play on saturdays and sundays from May to June. 13 & 14 year old teams. All games played at Valencia High School . Contact me for more info 505-440-3420

Who do you have?

What have you learned during week 7?

Rumor is that it is about to open up. Will follow up and confirm.

What are your thoughts on Zags to the Mountain West?

Chief Bridgforth was named Texas Girls Coaches Association Coach of the Year. Great Job.