St. Pius X, Los Lunas, Aztec and Miyamura hosting games.

Story: https://nmpreps.rivals.com/news/class-5a-first-round-playoff-preview-3

Gonna be a great four weeks!

Story: https://nmpreps.rivals.com/news/five-things-that-caught-our-attention-about-the-playoff-brackets

2A CHAMPIONSHIP

1-Fort Sumner vs 2-Escalante, 11/11 at 1PM (at Fort Sumner)

SEMI-FINALS

1-Ft. Sumner def 4-Lordsburg, 64-14
2-Escalante def 3-Jal, 28-16

CHAMPIONSHIPS

1-Animas vs 2-Reserve, 1pm (Saturday)

SEMI-FINALS

1-Animas 54, 4-Vaughn 0
2-Reserve 61, 3-Grady 25

FIRST ROUND

4-Vaugh def 5-Lake Arthur, 48-36
3-Grady def 6-Roy, 48-0

QUARTERFINALS

1-Melrose vs 8-Cloudcroft (11/10 at 7PM)
2-Mountainair vs 7-Gateway Christian
3-Mesilla Valley vs 11-Logan
4-Tatum vs 5-Dora

FIRST ROUND

5-Dora def 12-Pine Hill, 64-0
7-Gateway Christian def 10-Menaul, 50-0
8-Cloudcroft def 9-Carizozo, 38-36
11-Logan def 6-Foothill, 40-38

Which players are must see in the opening round?

495 miles one-way to Hobbs. Anybody longer? I've seen a few around 350-375 miles.

How has opening week or night gone?

How are try outs handled?

Prospect Camp:

http://www.readysetregister.com/Pages/series_display.php?de=291

Who are some newcomers that we will soon know about?

Was saddened to hear that New Mexico lost a legend in Sal Gonzalez. Both as a player and a coach. Remember my father telling me stories about him during his playing days. Gonzalez was the Jim Bown of his era. Prayers to his family and to all that were influenced by him.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lc...x?n=salvador-gonzalez&pid=187176444&fhid=7145

All playoff week and The WHO sang it: I Can See for Miles and Miles and MIles, Journey should have lol. A 4. 5 hour bus trip one way doesnt make the list this week.


10. Cuba at Raton 552 miles
9. Lovington at St. Pius 584 miles
8. Logan at Messila Valley Christ. 676 miles
7.. Deming at Miyamura 700 miles
6. Vaughn at Animas 702 Miles
5. Silver at WLV 717 Miles
4. Goddard at Aztec 750 Miles
3. Shiprock at Hatch 796 Miles
2. Grady at Reserve 854 miles
1. .Piedra Vista at Hobbs 988 Miles New Orleans Boubon Street is closer

My fondest is 2010 Mayfield vs. Manzano @ Wilson! That was hands down the best HS Offensive game I’ve ever seen!

As a Hobbs Native, I am very excited to see the Eagles perform they way that they are doing this year. My ultimate wish is to bring the Football program to match the basketball program but we are still miles away from doing that. Now I'm going to be realistic! As a fan I would love to see us make it to the Semi Finals for the first time since the early 80's but this team reminds me of the 2000 Football team but of course with more success. The 2000 Hobbs Eagle Football team started the season 7-0 but ultimately went on a 3 game losing streak against Eldorado, Carlsbad, and losing in the first round to Valley 42-7. Alot of reason to them starting the season 7-0 was because of Clovis, Artesia, Roswell, and Lovington having a down year. As for this year 17 years later it was Centennial, Onate, Mayfield that has had a down year with the only quality team win coming over Artesia. History says that they will beat Piedra Vista then fall flat to Cleveland 55-17 but I would love to be proved wrong for once..

1. Georgia (9-0)
2. Alabama (9-0)
3. Notre Dame (8-1)
4. Clemson (8-1)
5. Oklahoma (8-1)
6. TCU (8-1)
7. Miami (8-0)
8. Wisconsin (9-0)
9. Washington (8-1)
10. Auburn (7-2)
11. USC (8-2)
12. Michigan State (7-2)
13. Ohio State (7-2)
14. Penn State (7-2)
15. Oklahoma State (7-2)
16. Mississippi State (7-2)
17. Virginia Tech (7-2)
18. UCF (8-0)
19. Washington State (8-2)
20. Iowa (6-3)
21. Iowa State (6-3)
22. Memphis (8-1)
23. NC State (6-3)
24. LSU (6-3)
25. Northwestern (6-3)

Valencia High School RHP Adolfo Iturralde commits to Cochise

Remaining games for each team

New Mexico
Utah State (4-5)
@ Texas A&M (5-3)
UNLV (3-5)
@ San Diego St. (7-2)

New Mexico State
@ Texas State (2-6)
@ Louisiana (3-4)
Idaho (3-6)
South Alabama (3-5)

We are drafting early this week with Halloween tonight

What is the best type of candy? Or best Halloween costume you’ve seen or worn.

So I was up late using every minute of my midnight deadline to finish my research paper for my master class. I chose to do an article review over the affects of underweighted & overweighted baseballs on velocity & accuracy. I based my paper off of 12 different studies on the topic. Here is what I found

1. Not a single study I found reported a single injury. I found 25 of them, but only used 12 for my paper.

2. All of them but one reported increases in velocity after using a program for at least 6 weeks. Most reported velocity increases during bullpen sessions after participants used weighted balls for practice warmups.

3. Accuracy was not affected in a positive or negative way after using any of these velocity programs.

4. Top Velocity uses one of these studies to prove why these programs are bad. If you look on their website they list research done in the Straub study. The study shows no increase at all after a 6 week velocity program with weighted balls. However, what Top Velocity doesn't tell you is Straub picked high school kids who were non-baseball players to do the study on. Straub also used the least amount of throwing reps per week when compared to the other studies. Every other study I found used either college or high school players and they all had increases in throwing velocity. I've always questioned Top Velocity's claims, but now that I've dug deeper I feel like they've lost some credibility.

5. The idea of using overweighted and underweighted devices has been around since WWI. Russian researchers began testing it on their olympians who competed in throwing events with great results.

6. There isn't much research out there in relation to injuries or long term affects of using these velocity programs. For what it's worth we implemented Driveline last year & almost all my guys said their arms felt great all year & we averaged a 7.5mph increase program wide over the course of 8 weeks. However, we also implemented a no icing policy unless swelling or stiffness was present in the arm. Icing delays the healing process, we began using active recovery this last season.

We use the Driveline system, but I have modified it a little bit. I still think of it as a dynamic lift and don't let my guys throw the weighted or plyo balls everyday. We do the recovery stretches, bands, & tennis ball massages everyday. I'd be interested to hear what anyone else thinks. I really just want to share information and learn as much as possible.

Rankings - AFCA Coaches
Last Updated - November 6, 2017
AFCA Coaches
RANK SCHOOL RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS
1 Minnesota State (21) 10-0 829 1
2 Shepherd (7) 9-0 799 2
3 Indiana (Pa.) (2) 10-0 761 3
4 Midwestern State 8-0 702 4
5 Fort Hays State (4) 10-0 695 6
6 Indianapolis 10-0 688 5
7 Central Washington 10-0 664 7
T-8 Assumption 9-0 573 10
T-8 Texas A&M-Commerce 8-1 573 9
10 Ashland 9-1 555 11
11 Ferris State 8-1 487 12
12 Wingate 9-0 453 14
13 Sioux Falls 9-1 452 13
14 Colorado Mesa 9-1 416 15
15 Virginia State 9-0 369 16
16 Humboldt State 8-1 312 17
17 Winona State 9-1 298 18
18 Northwest Missouri State 8-2 256 8
19 Bowie State 9-1 251 20
20 Eastern New Mexico 8-1 219 21
21 Findlay 9-1 190 22
22 West Alabama 8-2 155 23
23 Colorado St.-Pueblo 8-2 107 24
24 West Georgia 8-2 91 25
25 Shippensburg 9-1 83 NR
Dropped Out: Grand Valley St. (Mich.) (19)

Others Receiving Votes: Minnesota-Duluth, 18; Slippery Rock, 12; Ouachita Baptist, 10; Grand Valley St., 9; Arkansas Tech, 7; California (Pa.), 5; Catawba, 5; Notre Dame (Ohio), 4; Delta St., 1; LIU-Post,