Las Cruces played host to Carlsbad in first round action in the 5A state tournament. The Lady ‘Dawgs had little trouble with the youthful Cavegirls, defeating them 49-23, but Carlsbad fought hard. It was a fitting win for the senior-heavy Bulldawgs, who last year fell to Cibola in a first round home game. This year, [...]
To no one’s surprise, the Las Cruces and Mayfield girl’s squad met again to battle it out for the Distirct 3-5A Tournament Championship on February 27, 2010. The surprise, however, was the outcome; Las Cruces, the heavily favored team, ranked #2 in the 5A state polls, was dropped by the unranked Mayfield Trojans. These two teams [...]
This is my fourth fifth attempt at updating the blog since the last entry. I’ve been pretty busy with NMSU soccer and volleyball, some MVCS football and of course, a ton of prep volleyball. I’ve photographed two volleyball tournaments; the Margaret Hussmann Tournament of Champions and the Sweet Sixteen, and a few matches in between. [...]
I’ve managed to curb my whining about the lack of prep sports activities during summer through the magic of team camps. This time, it was the Mike Jordan team camp held at the Activity Center on the NMSU campus. I get to kill two birds with one stone in that I get some much needed [...]
Another great opportunity to catch new talent and meet new people presented itself at the Darin Spence Basketball Team Camp. There were several venues across Las Cruces for the camp to accommodate the 32 teams, so I chose the Pan Am Center since the Pan Am Auxiliary gym is close by and offered some good [...]
Las Cruces High girls basketball coach Matt Abney put on his Lady Bulldawg Team Camp last week, and overall I think it was very successful. I’m quickly learning that it’s impossible to be everywhere at once and schedules don’t always work out perfectly, so I inevitably miss some choice games. Since I don’t get to [...]
Just when I thought things would die down, a whole bunch of new opportunities presented themselves. Last weekend I shot the Mesilla Valley Christian Schools’ Social. 2009 MVCS Social gallery Sound of Music On Thursday, I attended the opening night of The Mesilla Valley Christian Schools’ drama club performance of ”The Sound of Music”. With [...]
I crammed as much as my schedule would allow over the last week as things generally slow down for the summer. The Sundancer shoot was refreshing and helped get some of the cobwebs out as far as the portraiture goes. Hopefully there be some opportunities this summer to practice! NMSU Sundancers I went to this [...]
Since I’ve been focusing on the Big Time Hoops site and the girl’s side of basketball, I haven’t had a chance to catch a lot of the MVCS boys games. The move of the (somewhat) traditional MVCS Saturday games has thrown me for a loop as well, so I was disappointed when I missed their [...]
Like most newspapers do at this time of year, the Las Cruces Sun-News is covering significant sporting events over the past year. I realize that, in addition to these stories they’ve got a lot of others things to cover, but perhaps some more thought could have been into this when compiling significant events. Here is [...]
The Cruces ‘Dawgs traveled to El Paso to play the Franklin Cougars for their first game of the season on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the Cougars won in three straight matches–the ‘Dawgs did hang on tight in all the games, but just couldn’t finish it up. The ‘Dawgs and Cougar’s were “Playing for the Cure”, hence the [...]
Last week, the MVCS JV & Varsity boys both played good games against the tough Tularosa teams. Anyone that caught the JV game was lucky enough to see an amazing play from Kevin Riley. With the game tied at 56 and less than three seconds left to play, he was able to prevent overtime by [...]
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