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FARMINGTON – The 2023 Connie Mack World Series featured four first-round championship bracket games Monday at Ricketts Park. In the opening game of the Monday session, the Colton (CA) Nighthawks rolle...

FARMINGTON – The 505 Panthers, one of the top teams after a few games of the current Connie Mack city league season, will get a feel of perhaps tougher competition when they compete in regional tourna...

ALBUQUERQUE – The Rio Rancho High School baseball team survived a late Piedra Vista rally and advanced to the Class 5A championship game in the state baseball tournament after a 6-5 win Friday afterno...

Rio Rancho High School senior catcher Josh Boyer made sure no third game was needed to decide if visiting Hobbs or his Rams were advancing into the Class 5A state quarterfinals this week.

At Volcano Vista Tuesday, No. 1 Rio Rancho scored four runs in the first inning, with three Rams crossing the plate on two wild pitches from Hawks ace Regan Hall and never looked back, their 11-4 victory extending their winning streak to 15 games.

You can’t walk guys and make errors against a good team, or it can be your downfall. That’s what the Goddard Rockets (6-3) were left to ponder after their 12-4 loss to host Rio Rancho (11-1-2) on a cold windy Thursday night at the annual Sal Puentes Rio Rancho Baseball Tournament.

Rio Rancho senior Seth Lee struck out 10 batters, including seven in a row at one stretch, through five innings of work Tuesday and the Rams shut out visiting La Cueva, 7-0

It’s often been said that defense wins championships, and although this year’s Rio Rancho High School football team has seven more regular-season games to play before it can start thinking about the postseason, the Rams D took the team to its second win Friday night.

It was at the end of the last prep baseball season when Rio Rancho High baseball coach Ron Murphy sa ...