PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Tyler Schnaubert has made his way around the west – the southwest, the upper west. Now, Schnaubert is right back exactly where he wants to be, exactly where he feels he belongs. Schnaubert – who has wrestled for Hobbs, coached in North Dakota, and then done some assistant coaching for the Eagles – is the new Hobbs varsity …

Hobbs girls win Gene Wells relays PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Friday was early in the season, last day of March, but the Hobbs girls track and field team made a statement by winning the meet they were hosting, taking first place in the Gene Wells Relays at Watson Memorial Stadium. The Lady Eagles had six first-place finishers, seven second-place finishers and four …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Late on a windy Thursday morning last week, Robert Arreola was watching his Lovington baseball team get 10-runned by defending state 5A champion Carlsbad at the Artesia tournament. The Wildcats had trailed just 3-2 in the top of the fourth inning before the Cavemen rolled up nine runs across the bottom of the fourth and fifth innings to …

PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Bowling seems to be a no-lose proposition. You’re indoors, so you can’t get rained on. While you usually compete against others, you’re really competing against yourself, it’s all up to you. And, you get to hurl a heavy orb and knock stuff over; the more stuff you knock over, the better off you are. Plus, you get to …

PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Lifting weights is oftentimes something athletes do to prepare for other sports. But it is a sport, a competition, all its own. Weightlifting has been in the Olympics since the first modern games in 1896. Powerlifting specifically has not made it into the Olympics as of yet, but has been in the Paralympic and World Games for decades …

PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Lifting weights is oftentimes something athletes do to prepare for other sports. But it is a sport, a competition, all its own. Weightlifting has been in the Olympics since the first modern games in 1896. Powerlifting specifically has not made it into the Olympics as of yet, but has been in the Paralympic and World Games for decades …

PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN There was a lot to like for every local team competing in this weekend’s District 3/4 Championship swim meet at the CORE Center in Hobbs. The Hobbs boys swim team did the best, finishing in second place. And though the Hobbs girls placed fifth, they were a young group of girls that swam their hearts out. Ditto that …

PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Pickleball sounds like a sport that should be played with an oval green object, good enough for eating when the game is over. Actually, the sport doesn’t involve anything remotely resembling that kind of pickle. In Saturday’s Pickleball Tournament at the CORE Center in Hobbs, it appeared to the casual observer like a game that looked a lot …

Andy Brosig/News-Sun Shawn Williams says the time he spends officiating basketball uses some of the same skills he employs in his day job as fire investigator and Hobbs Fire Marshal. Ty Friend, who teaches at the Alternative High School in Hobbs, told the News-Sun much the same between games Wednesday, opening day of the annual Hobbs Holiday Tournament. Officiating “makes …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun Several members of the Hobbs football team collected one final honor last week when they were named All-State. Seniors Andre Alvarado, Brian Salais, Kenyon Singleton, Kaden Trevino, and junior Joshua Ray. “We did have the five second team guys,” Hobbs coach Ken Stevens said, “which does speak well for our program and those young men who did earn …