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 …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun In Hobbs Eagle basketball history, Jalen Goar will go down as one of the greatest Eagles to ever wear the Black and Gold and call Tasker Arena home. When the season is done, Goar’s name will be all over the record books. For Goar, getting to play for the Eagles has meant everything. “It has meant the world …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun Jalen Goar made history and the Hobbs Eagles won their 20th game of the season Friday night as the Hobbs boys’ basketball team beat long-time rival Clovis 96-29 in Tasker Arena. “They have beat us in the past, and we have beat them,” Goar said. “This is a great Hobbs-Clovis rivalry. It just feels so great to get …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Nicole Rados didn’t know what to do with herself. A Hobbs cheerleader since freshman year, Rados saw the spring 2021 cheer team disbanding due to COVID. And she wanted an activity to carry her through the rest of the spring – perhaps beyond. There was the prospect of wrestling for Hobbs. So Rados, then a junior, found herself …