Dulce Player Chosen for National Honor
Dulce High School’s Hunter Vicenti was selected to play in the 7G Indigenous Bowl, a native american national all-star game in California in December.
Vicenti, a senior, was a running back and wide receiver on offense for the Hawks.
According to their website, the Indigenous Bowl aims “to further the goal of molding the next 7 generations of Native leaders through education, athletics, culture and real-world support. … The Bowl is open to High School Seniors of American Indian descent who have not yet enrolled full-time in college. The event is an opportunity for young, Native athletes to showcase their talent on the football field, work with coaches and mentors, and develop the skills necessary to move to the next level of competition.
Española Bowling Starts the Year Well
The Española Valley High School bowling team took home first place at their first tournament of the year on Oct. 11 in Rio Rancho.
The Sundevils had a total score of 3,070 across 10 series games and seven Baker games, besting Rio Rancho by 50 pins. Pojoaque was second among 4A teams at that tournament, with a score of 2,668.
Raymond Archuleta led Española, bowling a remarkable 282 in his second of two individual games (a perfect score in bowling is 300). The Sundevils also had their best Baker game, a 222, in their final game.
Luis Aguilar led Pojoaque with a 381 total in two games, and a best score of 222.
There will be a high school tournament in Española on Dec. 9 at Big Rock Bowling Center inside the Santa Claran Casino.
NMOT Sports Returns
Right at the height of fall sports, a social media hub for New Mexico high school sports disappeared, then reappeared.
The “NMOT Sports” Facebook page was apparently hacked, and had to be replaced and started almost from scratch.
West Las Vegas Athletic Director Richard Tripp faithfully operates the page and has done so for years with the help of an active moderating team. Administrators, coaches, parents, students and fans post scores of games, live updates, and pictures. The page is also the home for Coaches Polls for football, volleyball and boys and girls basketball.
A new page was created on Nov. 16 as a replacement with a new page logo, and is private to join.
By Monday, the newpage already had over 1,000 members. Many active contributors from the old page were already actively posting updates and pictures.