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University of New Mexico baseball coach Ray Birmingham is retiring after the 2021 season, UNM announced on Sunday. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Ray Birmingham has spent 43 years building baseball programs in New Mexico. He’s decided that’s long enough.
The University of New Mexico’s 14-year coach made it official Sunday that he’ll retire at the end of this season. UNM announced Birmingham’s decision both on social media and on its athletic website. A media conference is scheduled for Monday at Santa Ana Star Field.
Birmingham has posted a 406-320-4 record with the Lobos and led them to five NCAA Regionals appearances, four Mountain West regular-season championships and three conference tournament titles. Prior to Birmingham’s arrival, UNM’s lone NCAA appearance was in 1962.
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Sofia M. Lucero
There will be a press conference at Santa Ana Star Field on Monday, April 19 at noon. Fans are invited and encouraged to attend and can enter Santa Ana Star Field at the main gate located by the Pit West parking lot. Fans should enter the parking lot via University Blvd. due to the COVID vaccination clinic taking place at The Pit. Fans in attendance must wear masks and adhere to social distancing guidelines. The press conference will also be streamed at golobos.com/watch.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Ray Birmingham, the winningest baseball coach in the state of New Mexico, is retiring after 14 seasons and 406 wins with the Lobo baseball team at the conclusion of the Spring 2021 season, closing out a 43-year career.
After a season that’s seen the Toronto Raptors run into just about every on-and-off court issue imaginable, recent centre signing Khem Birch has quickly brought stability to a position that’s been in desperate need of it.
In his first start for the Raptors on Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs, the Montreal native put up 14 points, one assist, and six rebounds. It’s not a glamorous stat-line by any means, but the Raptors don’t necessarily need glorious right now as they grind through a stretch just hoping to clinch a play-in spot as one of the Eastern Conference’s top 10 seeds. They currently sit in 11th place with a 22-34 record.
LAS CRUCES - The capital outlay bill signed last week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham includes more than $28 million in funding for projects in Doña Ana County, as well as millions for other projects in southern New Mexico.
The bill funds more than $511 million in projects throughout the state, including roughly $64 million for water and wastewater improvements, $53 million for roads, $49 million for higher education, $48 million for public safety and $8 million for acequias, dams, and ditches. There is also $12.5 million to support Local Economic Development Act projects and $10 million for health facilities and prisons.
Lujan Grisham used her line-item veto authority to strike less than two percent of the projects included in the bill, explaining in a news release that the projects she vetoed lacked proper planning, had unused funds from previous years or were not large enough to qualify for capital appropriation.
LAS CRUCES - The capital outlay bill signed last week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham includes more than $28 million in funding for projects in Dona Ana County, as well as millions for other projects in southern New Mexico.
The bill funds more than $511 million in projects throughout the state, including roughly $64 million for water and wastewater improvements, $53 million for roads, $49 million for higher education, $48 million for public safety and $8 million for acequias, dams and ditches. There is also $12.5 million to support Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) projects and $10 million for health facilities and prisons.
Lujan Grisham used her line-item veto authority to strike less than two percent of the projects included in the bill, explaining in a news release that that the projects she vetoed lacked proper planning, had unused funds from previous years or were not large enough to qualify for capital appropriation.