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Aalijah Alarcon pitched Cleveland to its first softball state championship during a dominant 2021 season. The right-hander has signed to play at UTEP beginning next spring. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
What a rival school in West Texas gains, Angel Castillo said, is the state of New Mexico’s loss.
“I feel like they stole one from UNM and New Mexico State,” Cleveland High’s softball coach said.
No one could begrudge Castillo for leaning into this point of view, having watched his senior pitcher, Aalijah Alarcon, shoulder a massive load for the Storm en route to winning the Class 5A state championship last month.
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J.R. Giddens dunks in the first half of Saturday’s TBT game for The Enchantment in Wichita, Kansas. (Cole Cooper/TBT)
UNM hoops has had its share of misery in that other basketball tournament that takes place each March.
Saturday night in The Basketball Tournament, though not directly affiliated with the NCAA or the University of New Mexico, a roster of past Lobo greats felt that familiar sting.
The Enchantment squandered a 23-point third-quarter lead, losing to the Stillwater Stars, 84-83, in the round of 64 of the $1 million, winner-take-all TBT regional in Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas.
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“We will be back next year,” said Enchantment general manager and assistant coach Brandon Mason, the former UNM assistant who was the driving force over the past year for creating this year’s first-ever Lobo alumni team for the event that has been growing in popular
Created: July 17, 2021 05:02 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A man was found dead in a University of New Mexico (UNM) police cruiser Saturday, July 17.
Surveillance video showed the man wandering over to UNM, in a hospital gown, before getting into the patrol car.
He was later found dead ten hours later.
The Office of Medical Investigator said the death was not suspicious and that he likely died from dehydration, heat, and/or lack of oxygen.
Police have not said if the cruiser was unlocked or if he got in another way.
The Albuquerque Police Department is currently investigating.
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Cleveland High graduate Luke Wysong was New Mexico’s Gatorade Male Athlete of the Year in football and in track and field in 2021. (Robert E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Testimonials about Luke Wysong tend to be sharply worded, which is a compliment of the highest order.
“He’s great all the time,” said Cleveland High’s longtime boys track and field coach, Kenny Henry, who doesn’t often speak so glowingly about a Storm athlete, and he’s coached more than his fair share.
“In my experience, with Luke and the years he ran track for us, he never had an off day. He’s a machine.”
Appellate court judge to fill New Mexico high court vacancy
July 16, 2021 GMT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) State Court of Appeals Judge Briana Zamora has been named to the New Mexico Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Barbara Vigil.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office announced the appointment Friday.. The governor selected Zamora, 47, from a list of candidates provided by a nominating commission.
Before joining the appellate court, Zamora served as a judge in New Mexico’s busiest judicial district in Albuquerque. She has presided over thousands of criminal cases and specialty courts during her time on the bench and also worked as assistant state attorney general and assistant district attorney.