Peter Stein/News-Sun There are mileposts throughout the baseball season, games that can be highlighted on a calendar as extra important. The first game of district play certainly qualifies. And Thursday was that neon-marker day for the Hobbs baseball team, as the Eagles hosted Roswell for a doubleheader. Game 1 was the official start of District 4-5A play for both teams, …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Friday’s Gene Wells Relays at Hobbs High School were long – about seven hours – and it seemed like there was a year’s worth of weather in that span. The track & field meet began in hot and sunny conditions, ended when it was cold and dark. There was wind throughout, wreaking havoc with the throwing events, especially …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Local divers on the CORE Tsunami team have to take advantage of getting competition when and where they can. The older divers who participated on the Hobbs varsity team didn’t get much chance to compete against other teams this past winter. And the divers who are not in at least eighth grade are too young to compete at …

PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN LUBBOCK – For the New Mexico Junior College women’s basketball team and its fans, this is the perfect week to begin the National Junior College Athletic Association’s national tournament, what with March Madness going on. But, just like in the NCAA tournament, the big dance, the NJCAA has its share of March Sadness. And that’s what the 10th-seeded …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun It’s not exactly how Hobbs basketball coach Shelby Reeves wants to see his team start out basketball games, but so far it has been working, and Saturday night was no different as the Eagles overcame a slow start to rout the visiting Farmington Scorpions 80-66 in the first round of the NMAA Class 5A state tournament. “That always …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun When the Hobbs boys’ basketball team won the district tournament championship Saturday night, head coach Shelby Reeves didn’t know what number his team would get in the state seedings, but he did know what side of the bracket he would be on. Sunday, when the seedings were announced, Reeves’ prediction was spot on. “We kind of knew that. …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun When the Hobbs boys’ basketball team won the district tournament championship Saturday night, head coach Shelby Reeves didn’t know what number his team would get in the state seedings, but he did know what side of the bracket he would be on. Sunday, when the seedings were announced, Reeves’ prediction was spot on. “We kind of knew that. …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun The Hobbs wrestling team sent 11 grapplers to the state tournament in Rio Rancho. When it was all said and done, just three Hobbs wrestlers brought home any hardware. Hobbs’ top wrestler on the day was Ja’Nyaw Banks, the only Hobbs grappler to win an individual championship. Banks won the girls 152-weight class championship when she pinned Volcano …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun For the second time in five years, Hobbs golf coach Victor Rotunno is being honored by the National High School Athletics Coaches Association (NHSACA). In 2018 Rotunno was honored as the Region 8 Coach of the Year and now the Eagles’ golf coach is being honored again. Region 8 of the NHSACA covers California, Hawai’i, Nevada, New Mexico, and …

The Hobbs girls’ basketball team picked up another dominating district win Friday night as the Lady Eagles crushed visiting Clovis 59-28 in Tasker Arena. As in some of their more recent games, the Lady Eagles jumped out to a big lead early in the game and never looked back. Hobbs scored first, taking a 2-0 lead, but two minutes later …