Grants forward Richie Lucero has verbally committed to Fort Lewis College in Colorado. Lucero, ranked 10th in the NMPreps.com Player Rankings is the 15th player to commit to playing college basketball. Lucero, is expected to sign is NLIO later this week.

More Commitments: See the entire list here.

Bracket: Click Here for Bracket

Miyamura hired Henry Gettler for their girls job. Made official this week

Casimiro Fresquez is the 17th player to commit this season. He has signed with Northern New Mexico College

Position Rankings: Top 10 Returning LB Cores
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Today, we kick off our summer coverage leading up to the 2016 football season. We will take a look at different features before we start the coverage of each team.

More: Top 50 Spring/Summer Rankings

1. ONATE KNIGHTS

Linebackers: Forest McKee (#1/2017), Matt Young (#2/2017)
Skinny: Forest McKee is the number one ranked linebacker in the 2017 classification for 6A football and rightfully so. McKee, is uncommitted at the time but has an offer from division one New Mexico State along with interest from Arizona and the University of New Mexico. McKee, accumulated for 100 tackles on the season. The Knights also featured the number two ranked linebacker from the 2017 classification for 6A in Matt Young, a 6-foot-3, 226 pound linebacker who totaled for 74 tackles in 2015.

2. RIO RANCHO RAMS

Linebackers: Elijah Goodwin (#3/2017), Vincent Palmeri (#4/2017), Trey Parnell (#6/2017)
Skinny: Could very well be ranked as the best LB core returning next season with three players ranked in the top-6 of best returning LB's. Elijah Goodwin and Vincent Palmeri are ranked 3rd and 4th respectfully after both big years, Palmeri had 88-tackles on the season.

3. LA CUEVA BEARS

Linebackers: Josh Woisin (#8 /2017), Derek Loidolt (#2/2018)
Skinny: The Bears were young last season and will look to a junior in 2016 as Derek Loidolt a top prospect returns after totaling 7-tackles as a sophomore. The Bears enter the season with two of the top linebackers in their respected graduating classification.

4. ST. MICHAEL'S HORESEMEN

Linebackers: Xavier Vigil (#1/2017), Joey Fernandez (#1/2018)
Skinny: Both linebackers are ranked number one in 4A football for their respected graduating class. The two create a tandem that could have the Horsemen back in the serious contention for a 4A state title team. Fernandez had 50-tackles last season as a sophomore while Hall in the top ranked prospect in class 4A's 2017 class.

5. HOBBS EAGLES

Linebackers: Caleb Bearid (#9/2017)
Skinny: This core last a lot of it's weapons graduating a pair of top LB's. However, Beaird returns after a 120-tackle, 65-solo season and alone creates depth as he sits directly behind Forest McKee (Onate) in a tough district for next season.

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No. 6 - 10

Sandia Matadors top the list at number six behind Jacob Barnhill who is ranked 5th for returning linebackers in 2017. At the seventh and eight slots are Eldorado and Manzano. Eldorado features Darren Serna and Manzano featuring the top LB from the 2018 class in 6A with Cameron Herrera.

Rounding out the Top 10 is Carlsbad who has Jaykan Willis, ranked 3rd in 2018 (6A). Also, to most surprise from small school division football is Capitan who features Price Brown and Jacob Smith.

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More To Watch

Other linebackers to keep an eye on this season is Jacob Garduno (West Mesa), ranked 9th in 6A-2017. A few of others from 4A and 5A is Santiago Mora (Moriarty), Jared Vigil (St. Pius X) and Jaren Scheider (Del Norte).

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Young Guns

Atrisco Heritage Academy features a sophomore duo Jose Ramirez who totaled for 78-tackles last season as a freshman along Julian Torres.

Joshua J Grine, of NMPreps.com can be reached at grinejosh@yahoo.com.

GIRLS- Onate hires Gadsden Head Coach Evelyn Reyes.

Basketball Recruiting: Cibola's Isaac Maldonado Makes College Commitment

Sent in from Marty Saiz


6'5" Isaac Maldonado, of Cibola High School will be signing his national letter of intent to play for Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds. Isaac is the first recruit from New Mexico to sign for new ENMU head coach, Tres Segler. The three year letterman was instrumental in the Cougars 23-6 season.

Isaac was on the 1st team All-District and 2nd team All-Metro teams. He is one of only 4 seniors in New Mexico to sign with a D1 or D2 university. Isaac was a member of the Danny Granger AAU Club for 4 years. He was one of 7 student-athletes to receive the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame scholarship. He will be playing in the North-South game in July.

"Isaac has worked hard and improved each year to put himself in a position to play at the next level. His ability to shoot 3's and his post game inside will be a great addition to the Greyhound program. Marty Saiz

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Seattle, Washington - Two weeks ago we ran an article highlighting Sandia Defensive Lineman Ben Bertram who powered cleaned a school record 315 pounds. This past weekend at at the Nike Opening Event in Seattle, Washington at the Seattle Seahawks practice facility Bertam impressed on a national level.

Full Story Link Here
https://nmpreps.n.rivals.com/news/ben-bertram-makes-top-performer-list-at-seattle-nike-opening

Weekend Sound Off Chat Session - Anything Goes

What you got for this weekend?

A few questions to get the ball rolling...

1. Do athletics stem from strong administrative support or from athletes?

2. At what age is winning important and how to you create the mentality of a champion?

3. Stranger situation in your opinion: Goddard letting go of Whalen or 17 coaches resigning at Silver City?

Bonus

Give me some buy or sell questions

Sound Off: How will the Lobos and Aggies fare in 2016?

Lobo's Schedule
South Dakota
@ New Mexico State
@ Rutgers
San Jose State
Boise State
Air Force in Dallas, Texas
UL Monroe
At Hawaii
Nevada
@ Utah State
@ Colorado State
Wyoming

Aggie's Schedule
@ UTEP
New Mexico
@ Kentucky
@ Troy
UL Lafayette
@ Idaho
Georgia Southern
@ Texas A&M
@ Arkansas State
Texas State
Appalachian State
@ South Alabama

Who are they?

6-foot-5, 215 pound Christian Jojola from Eldorado has committed to play baseball next year at Siskiyous in Northern California.

More baseball commitments
https://nmpreps.forums.rivals.com/threads/2016-baseball-commits.14837/

How Would You Rank The Top 10 NFL Quarterbacks of All-Time?

Alamogordo Quarterback Kyle Hooper lands offer no. 2 from Western New Mexico. New Mexico Highlands offered Hoops a month ago.

Silver City Super out

Principal on leave after refusing to fire softball, baseball, and basketball coach.

Crazy story

http://www.scdailypress.com/site/2016/05/23/breaking-upheaval-in-silver-schools/

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Originally Posted by @ANR1

Espanola hired Anthony Hinsley, a Los Alamos grad who was an assistant in Albuquerque for several years.

Sean Jimenez takes Cleveland Job

More job postings
https://nmpreps.forums.rivals.com/threads/coaching-board-openings-rumors-and-hirings.18534/unread

Committed Girl Basketball Players

Jaedyn De La Cerda - Roswell - Committed to New Mexico

Juliana Gurule - St. Pius X - Committed to New Mexico Highlands

Raven Herrera Volcano Vista- Committed to Colorado School of Mines

Kendra Butler - Mayfield - Committed to New Mexico State

Kambrey Blakey - Portales - Committed to Lubbock Christian

Kavionna Brown - Cibola - committed to UNLV

Kayla Salazar - Los Alamos - committed to Adams State

Ni’Asia McIntosh - Gallup - Committed to NMJC

Mandie Perea - La Cueva - Trinidad State JC

Ashlynn Trujillo - Los Alamos - New Mexico Highlands

Kaitlyn Romero - Espanola - New Mexico Highlands

Jordyn Lewis - Ramah - Committed to Ft. Lewis

Tanisha Beetso - Farmington - Central Lakes College in Minnesota

Will Baylor do the right thing and fire him or put winning football ahead everything else?

OT: What Have Been The Best Moments In Your Life?