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The following Deming Headlight year in review looks back at highlights from June through December. July 5 Major Division Champs Deming Major Division (11-12) boys captured the District 7 Little League Baseball Championship with a 15-5 victory over the Silver City All Stars at E.J. Hooten Park in Deming. New city hall Construction is near completion at the new city of Deming business office located at 1205 E. Pine St., …

Rylan Larko is looking for two things when the Wildcat wrestlers travel to Franklin High School on Saturday for the Gage Memorial Tournament. “I want to see effort and attitudes,” said Larko, Deming’s first-year head coach. “These are two things they can control. As long as they work hard and put forth the effort, and bring positive attitudes.” Larko, 23, has stepped up from his assistant coaching position to fill …

The former Wildcat wrestler, now Roswell High's wrestling coach, will be inducted to the New Mexico Wrestling Hall of Fame.

School’s out, but Bernie Chavez will be attending Deming High School for the next few weeks. The athletic/activities director has an extraordinary number of coaching vacancies to fill, and it all has to begin with the fall sports scene. “That’s my top priority,” Chavez said in his office in the Hofacket building on the DHS campus. "I am focusing on a boys’ head varsity coach for soccer, two assistant coaching …

“To come this close with only seven male wrestlers and one female is outstanding,” said Deming wrestling coach Jesse Padron.

Riddled with injuries, the Deming High Wildcat wrestling team sucked it up and moved forward during a highly competitive District 3-4A Regional Tournament held last weekend at Socorro High School.

Deming High wrestlers came so close to capturing a District 3-4A wrestling championship on Thursday evening. Timothy Sanchez used a late takedown in the final period of his match against Socorro’s D. Gutierrez at 285 pounds to break a 30-all deadlock and put the ‘Cats in front 33-30  in a must-win situation. The dual came down to the final match at 107 pounds between Deming’s Xavier Baca and Socorro’s I. …

Deming High wrestlers had a rough go at the Flowing Wells Invitational.

Deming High wrestlers returned to the mats from the holidays in dual and tournament competition. The Wildcats placed four wrestlers at the Conflict at Cleveland High School over the past weekend and posted a 3-1 dual record during the Silver High round-robin tournament on Dec. 30, in Silver City. “The wrestlers came back to the wrestling room in good shape for two-a-days,Z’ said DHS Head Coach Jesse Padron. “They put …

Program head Rumaldo Bencomo has been rooted in Deming High School wrestling since his own days on the mats as a Wildcat.