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, …

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 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 …

JASON FARMER/NEWS-SUN The Hobbs boys’ basketball team thrilled a packed Tasker Arena Wednesday night as the Eagles laid claim to the 62nd Annual Hobbs Holiday Tournament championship. Hobbs, which had lost in the previous two HHT championship games to Cleveland, cruised to a victory over the Storm, beating them 77-53. “This win means a lot,” Hobbs senior Aaron Mora said. …

What a difference a week, or two, can make. After scoring just 36 points in its previous home game, a loss to Odessa Permian, the Hobbs boys’ basketball team put up more than twice that as the Eagles beat the visiting Gadsden Panthers 77-55. “We didn’t want to repeat 36 points from last time,” Hobbs coach Shelby Reeves said. “I …