Jason Farmer/News-Sun When the NMHSCOA preseason polls came out, the Hobbs Eagles were sitting at No. 9 in the Class 6A poll with 50 points. Cleveland was No. 1 with 187 points while La Cueva was not far behind at No. 2 with 170. Rio Rancho (126), Centennial (123), and Volcano Vista (103) rounded out the top five. The top five …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Even at two years old, Parker Hooks was a man with a plan. When his parents, Derrick Hooks and Latoya Jackson-Hooks, took him to the Lea County Rodeo, the little man wanted to ride the bulls. “Of course he couldn’t ride a bull,” Jackson-Hooks said. “He was so mad, he wanted to leave the Lea County Rodeo.” But, …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun The Hobbs football team enters year four of the Ken Stevens era and for the first time, everything has gone according to plan. The Eagles held their summer program and workouts with no issues, something that has not been able to happen the previous three years. As the Eagles take the field this year, it will mark the …

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 …