Peter Stein/News-Sun After a good year, a normal year, for New Mexico Junior College, it was time to celebrate. NMJC held its awards banquet last Sunday at the Lea County Events Center, honoring their athletes from the 2021-22 season, but also celebrating the first Thunderbirds’ athletic school year not ruined by COVID in three years. There were no 2020 spring …

When it was Londyn calling this past season, the answer was most often the same. Swish! Seminole High sophomore Londyn Shain was usually deadly from the field. She spent the late autumn and winter hitting jump shots and set shots, driving for layups and scoops. Enough jump shots, set shots, layups and scoops to rack up 804 points in 37 …

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 …