Peter Stein/News-Sun Holly May is in one of the biggest months of her life. By August’s end she will be competing in the 2022 Professional Disc Golf Association World Championships in Emporia, Kansas. She is spending this month preparing, training to compete in that event, which will – as the tournament’s title indicates – bring together most of the world’s …

Peter Stein/News-Sun LOVINGTON – Bradi Good lived up to her last name at Saturday night’s ladies breakaway round in the Lea County Rodeo at Lovington’s Jake McClure Arena. Good’s 3.2 score was the fastest performance time in Saturday’s round, earning her television and newspaper interviews for her troubles. Good was fairly certain that her score would not be good enough …

Peter Stein/News-Sun For a week and a half in early July, Madison Ganaway could have temporarily gone by the name Madison DiRoma. She was, after all, seeing the sights of Rome. Ganaway, a 2019 Hobbs High School graduate and current shortstop for University of the Southwest, participated with a team called Beyond Sports, and through Beyond Sports Tours she and …

Peter Stein/NewsSun The ride to Las Vegas, Nevada from Hobbs and back again is long, circuitous, tedious. But, for the Zias Elite fifth- and sixth-grade girls basketball teams, totally worth it. The fifth-graders played for Zias Elite 2029, the sixth-graders for Zias Elite 2028, based on the years each class is due to graduate from high school. Both teams headed …

Peter Stein/NewsSun The ride to Las Vegas, Nevada from Hobbs and back again is long, circuitous, tedious. But, for the Zias Elite fifth- and sixth-grade girls basketball teams, totally worth it. The fifth-graders played for Zias Elite 2029, the sixth-graders for Zias Elite 2028, based on the years each class is due to graduate from high school. Both teams headed …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun There is a new quarterback in Hobbs, and his name is Omar Argott. Hobbs head football coach Ken Stevens named Argott the Eagles’ next quarterback following the work he put in not only during the summer, but also during his previous two years with the Eagles as a member of the junior varsity team. Heading into the 2022-23 …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun When Ryan Murphy graduated from Lovington High School in 1992, he did not know what his future held. He knew he was going to college and had a field of study picked out, but things change and Murphy’s future, it was going to change as well. Near the end of his college career, Murphy realized that his chosen …

There is a Seinfeld episode where George is deciding between running an errand for Jerry or accepting an invitation to play disc golf in Central Park. Above George’s head, a thought balloon pops up with a frisbee in it; then another thought balloon pops up next to that, and Jerry is in it asking with his comedy-routine voice, ‘What’s the …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun The Hobbs football team is heading into its fourth season under Ken Stevens’ tutelage and for the first time during his tenure, the Eagles finally got to have what Stevens would consider a normal offseason program. “This is our first complete offseason,” the Eagles’ coach said. “We are going on our fourth football season, but it is our …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Richard Erhard had an unhappy task on Wednesday. Erhard, executive director of the New Mexico Horsemen’s Association, was cleaning office equipment out of Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino, something he did not imagine he would be doing just a week earlier. The NHMA was instructed by the New Mexico Racing Commission to clear the premises of Ruidoso …