Sports

Dulce coach Lewis Martinez doesn’t really have an explanation for the growth of his program’s size, but he’s certainly not complaining.

It’s a year removed from the gold anniversary, but to celebrate the rich basketball tradition of Española Valley High School over its 51-year history, some 30 former players will take on the current varsity Sundevils in a pair of alumni games Thursday at the school.

More than six years is a long time to wait to deal with an itch that just wouldn’t quite go away.

In looking at the Escalante power lifting results from this past weekend, projecting forward might be the best strategy as a couple of Lobo freshmen dipped their feet into the state meet morass and came away with strong results.

RIO RANCHO — A state record and a near-miss marked the efforts of the Española Valley athletes competing in the high school state power lifting championships at the Rio Rancho Event Center this past weekend.

Mesa Vista’s Andres Valdez turned in a special effort at the Rio Rancho Invitational, a track and field meet that included competitors from the largest classifications in the state, as he and the other athletes gear up for their final pushes to state meet qualification.

One of Pojoaque Pueblo’s buffaloes is being dangled as a prize for Saturday’s Buffalo Thunder Archery Challenge.

It was not exactly a stellar performance for the Española Valley track and field squad a year ago as the boys and girls teams came away with exactly one point at the Class 4A state meet.

Gone are the state championship power lifters from the Escalante roster.

It’s taken more than four months, but the Española Valley High School football team finally has a new head coach.

It seems like the spring sports schedule just got started but the sports are already heading into district play.

As a team, power lifters are suffering from a numbers drain.