Lady Warriors cap regular season with win
Since the Socorro High School girls basketball team has had its share of tough losses this season, its fans seemed pleased to see the Lady Warriors close the regular season with a resounding victory.
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Beware of Bears
Magdalena High School's girls basketball team took care of business Monday night in the first round of the District 3-2A tournament and will host Estancia in a semifinal game tonight (Wednesday, Feb. 22) with tipoff scheduled for 6 p.m.
Power of positive thinking helps Socorro swimmers make finals
“Ya gotta believe!”
It’s a catchphrase first made famous by former Major League Baseball pitcher Tug McGraw, who used it as a rallying cry during the New York Mets improbable run to win the National League pennant in 1973. And one adopted by Socorro High School swim coach Deidra Vinson 38 years later to motivate her swimmers as they made their run for the state finals.
Silver shines vs. Warriors
The Socorro Warriors boys basketball team started the week just one game out of a tie for first place in the district standings. Hence, they welcomed the opportunity to even things up with the first-place team when they hosted the Silver Fighting Colts on Tuesday night.
Lady Steers play for district title
The Magdalena High School girls basketball team knocked off Bosque School, 50-21, on Thursday to tie Laguna-Acoma for first place in the District 3-2A standings.
Five SHS swimmers make it to state meet
A year’s worth of hard work – sweat, chlorine, tears, and the occasional dinner meal traveling the wrong way through the esophagus – culminated in a trip to the state championships for five Socorro High School swimmers.
Magdalena girls suffer setback vs. Laguna
Magdalena High School’s girls basketball team blew its chance to clinch the District 3-2A championship on Saturday, losing to the Laguna Acoma Hawks at Laguna, 48-35.
Steers' rally falls short
A furious fourth-quarter comeback fell a little short, and the Magdalena High School boys basketball team missed an opportunity to hand the top-ranked Laguna Acoma Hawks their first loss of the season.
Warrior boys win nail biter
A seesaw battle took place at the Socorro Warrior gymnasium Tuesday night that resulted in a nail biting, narrow victory for the Warriors over the visiting Hot Springs Tigers, 46-44.
Showdown in Cow Town
The Laguna Acoma Hawks boys basketball team will try to finish off an undefeated regular season when they visit Magdalena today.
Abeyta leads Cougars over Mountainair
Dustine Abeyta is No. 1.
Alamo Navajo’s 5-foot-8 senior post put on what was very nearly a one-girl show as she scored 26 of her game-high 35 points in the second half to lift the Cougars to a 59-46 District 2-1A high school basketball victory at Mountainair on Thursday (2/9) night.
Steers scoring drought doesn’t prevent blowout
Magdalena High School’s girls basketball team was held scoreless for almost 12 minutes in the second half of Thursday night’s home game against Carrizozo. But that didn’t keep it from blowing out the Grizzlies. In fact, the 19 points it scored in the final 4 minutes, 9 seconds would have been enough to win the game.
Swimming – a sport for life
When we think of important sporting events that we've experienced, what comes to mind?
Warrior swimmers gear up for district meet
The Socorro High School swimming teams — both the boys and girls squads — came in third place this past weekend in Santa Fe, with individual times steadily decreasing over the last two months as they prepare for this weekend's district meet.
Magdalena Steers thrash milquetoast Timberwolves
It was an inside job.
East Mountain proved Rio Chadde and Miles Parscal’s slumpbuster, as the posts combined for 32 points to shepherd the Magdalena boys basketball team to a 69-31 thrashing over the visiting Timberwolves.
Lady Steers polish off East Mountain T’Wolves
Against another team, it might have mattered.
Against East Mountain, it was just a meaningless statistic. The Magdalena girls basketball team missed seven layups in the second quarter — not counting putbacks — but that was after it established a comfortable cushion.
Blitzkrieg
Hell or high water might have been more conquerable.
It didn’t take the Socorro High boys basketball team more than four and a half minutes to seize control of Tuesday’s District 3-3A pillow fight on the way to a 64-17 win over visiting Cobre.
Estancia no match for matchstrike Steers
Two shots.
One half.
Essentially, that’s all it took for the Magdalena boys basketball team (15-6, 3-0) to put away Estancia (5-12, 1-4) in Thursday night’s District 3-2A encounter.
Goodbye, farewell, to you my friends
This is it.
That was the name of Michael Jackson’s farewell tour that, as it turns out, quite literally foreshadowed the King of Pop’s unceremonious demise. He died from cardiac arrest three weeks before he was slated to take the stage in a series of career-closing concerts.
IB boards Greyhound to Eastern
The quintessential Warrior.
Ask those who know Ibrahim Maiga best, and that’s the response you’ll get.