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High School Volleyball
Alamo-The 14-4 Lady Cougars are now 6-0 in their district, having beat each team in their district once. The Alamo team traveled to Carrizozo on Thursday, Oct. 23, and beat Carrizozo for a second time this season. The Lady Cougars recovered from a slow start to win 3-1 over Carrizozo this time: L 25-9, W 25-23, W 25-15, W 25-12. The Alamo junior high team beat Carrizozo 2-0.
Alamo varsity beat Vaughn 3-0 for the second time this season on Oct. 28: 25-9, 25-6 and 25-12. Alamo won the first district contest against Vaughn 3-0 a few weeks ago. They will travel to Mountainair on Thursday, Oct. 30, with junior high starting at 4 p.m. and JV and varsity playing after. The originally scheduled game against Hondo for Tuesday, Nov. 4, is now off the schedule as Hondo forfeited that match.
Socorro-The Lady Warriors are now 3-16 overall and 0-3 in their district after losses to Hot Springs and Cobre last week. The varsity team lost 3-0 to Cobre, but the JV team played their match to a very close 2-1 loss (L 25-18, W 25-22, L 15-10) and the C team beat Cobre 2-0 (25-22 in each set).
The SHS varsity team lost 3-0 in Hatch on Tuesday, Oct. 28. They will travel to play the very strong Cobre team on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3 p.m. Then the teams travel again on Tuesday, Nov. 4, to face the Hot Springs Lady Tigers for round two of district play.
Cross Country
Both the Alamo and the Socorro varsity XC teams have district races coming up this week.
Alamo-The Cougars traveled to Cliff, NM, for the Gila Valley Invite on Friday, Oct. 24. Results were expected to be posted on Wednesday, Oct. 29.
The Alamo XC team will have their district meet in Mescalero, NM, on Saturday, Nov. 1. The meet will take place at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Golf Course. The girls race will begin at 10 a.m., and the boys will run after.
Socorro-The Socorro XC teams got last weekend off to rest up before the district meet in Cobre on Friday, Oct. 31. Only varsity runners will be competing for that big meet on Halloween, with races starting at 3 p.m.
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NMT Rugby
Both teams traveled to Colorado to face Denver University on Saturday, Oct. 25.
Men’s: The men’s team played first at 11 a.m. and won their match 31-25. They finished the season undefeated and they qualified for regionals. Regionals will be in Denver on Nov. 22-23.
Women’s: The women’s team played that afternoon at 3 p.m. They lost their game 31-20, but the NMT rugby program still came away feeling positive about it.
“The women did really well. They did end up losing, but we don’t take it as a loss but an opportunity for future games to come.” Ty Caldwell of the NMT men’s rugby team said.
