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 …

Peter Stein/News-Sun The only commute an undefeated No. 1 football seed should have for a state championship game is from its home locker room out to its home field. But, it was all good for Jal’s football team anyway on Friday night, good and cold, but all good. The top-seeded Panthers, who had to go on the road due to the …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Basketball has been like a metaphoric airplane for Ronald Ross. It has taken him on adventures around the world. Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Cyprus, Israel. All places that Ross has called his basketball home at one time or another. Basketball has also led Ross to pockets of the United States he might not otherwise have visited, …

Peter Stein/News-Sun Basketball has been like a metaphoric airplane for Ronald Ross. It has taken him on adventures around the world. Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Cyprus, Israel. All places that Ross has called his basketball home at one time or another. Basketball has also led Ross to pockets of the United States he might not otherwise have visited, …

Peter Stein/News-Sun It wasn’t as easy for the Hobbs boys soccer team as it appeared it was going to be. But the Eagles earned the end result they wanted, and that’s what mattered most. Bottom line, Hobbs remained undefeated in district on Saturday by defeating Clovis 4-2 at Watson Memorial Stadium. The Eagles, though, had held a 3-0 lead in …

Jason Farmer/News-Sun There was some movement in the Class 6A football poll, but for the most part, the Top 3 has remained the same. Coming off its bye week, Cleveland still sits at No. 1. The Storm (5-2) have 163 points with 10 first-place votes. Moving back up to the No. 2 spot, after a week at No. 3, is …