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  • Sartans pull off major upset in 4A baseball final

    The St. Pius X Sartans stunned the Piedra Vista Panthers in the championship game of the 2013 Class 4A baseball playoffs.

    The Sartans nipped the Panthers, the three-time defending champions and top-seeded squad this season in the title game Saturday at Lobo Field in Albuquerque, 7-6.
    To get to the championship round, St. Pius, the No. 7 seed in the tournament, had to knock off No. 2 Goddard in the quarterfinals — which the Sartans did by a score of 8-7 — then top sixth-seeded Albuquerque Academy, St. Pius’ bitter rival. St. Pius pummeled Academy’s Chargers 21-3 to make the championship game.
    Piedra Vista, of course, topped Los Alamos 17-2 in the quarterfinals Thursday, knocking the Hilltoppers out of the tournament, then came back to thump Santa Teresa 14-1 before being upset in pursuit of its fourth straight title.
    For the Sartans (20-9), it was their first 4A championship since 2003 and only the fourth time since 2001 that a team from Farmington won the title.
     

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  • Panthers make state history with eighth straight state softball title

    The Piedra Vista Panther softball team went through the Class 4A state tournament unscathed to win its record-setting eighth state title in a row.
    Piedra Vista (26-5) finished off its impressive run in 2013 with a 5-2 victory over another District 1 team, Aztec, to earn the title.
    Three of the final four teams standing in the 4A playoffs this season were from District 1, including Farmington, which lost to Aztec in an elimination round contest Friday.
    The Panthers, who were the No. 1 seed in the postseason, allowed just eight runs in five games to take the title.
    Los Alamos was the No. 12 seed for the state tournament this season but lost a heartbreaking 8-7 game to Los Lunas in the opening round, which was a direct-elimination round. All teams that advanced past the first round moved onto double-elimination play.
    Piedra Vista actually defeated Aztec’s Tigers twice in the tournament. Aztec, the No. 4 seed, fell to the Panthers in the third round 10-3 before coming back through the loser’s bracket to get to the championship round.
    The Panthers lost just one game this season to a team from New Mexico, that coming against Las Cruces, a 1-0 decision, in mid-March.

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  • LULAC: Officials' orders violate constitution

    ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Two cases of Spanish being banned at New Mexico high school games were examples of a disturbing pattern that needs to be monitored and addressed, perhaps with lawsuits, a civil rights group said Monday.
    The League of United Latin American Citizens has heard of a least five cases of high school players being ordered this school year not to speak Spanish during games and matches, according to Ralph Arellanes, the state director of LULAC.
    “The New Mexico state constitution clearly protects Spanish and Native (American) languages so outlawing (them) in any way, we believe, is against the law and we’re not going to stand for it,” Arellanes said.
    New Mexico Military Institute’s Jose Gonzales was penalized a point for speaking Spanish earlier this month after an on-court official warned him twice to speak only English during a state championship singles match.
    Sally Marquez, executive director of the New Mexico Activities Association, the governing board for high school sports in the state, said the official was warned not to repeat that action, even though the official was within his right since the association was following the United States Tennis Association rule book during the finals.

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  • Ainsworth hired as LA's new boys golf coach

    The Los Alamos High School athletic office announced last week the hiring of a new boys golf coach.
    Anders “Andy” Ainsworth will take over the boys golf program from Ann Stewart, who was officially hired earlier this month as the head girls basketball coach.
    Ainsworth, who was a volunteer for the Los Alamos Hilltopper golf program during the 2012-13 season, is a math teacher at Los Alamos Middle School. He also has experience at the collegiate level, as he was an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s program at Western New Mexico University in Silver City between 2008-2010.
    Along with his golf experience, he has coached boys and girls basketball at Coronado High School in Gallina and was also an assistant volleyball coach there.
    Last season, Los Alamos’ boys didn’t qualify for the state tournament. The team sent one representative, senior Raul Roybal, to state as an individual, where he placed 37th overall with a two-day score of 185.
    Ainsworth will be the third head coach for the boys team in three seasons.
    Prior to last season, girls coach Mike Lippiatt ran both programs. 

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  • Kratzer is top predictor on 3-mile course

    David Kratzer had the best prediction in last week’s Pace Race.
    The Pace Race, hosted by the Atomic City Roadrunners, was May 14. The race started at Piñon Park in White Rock and featured a staggered start.
    Kratzer, running on the 3-mile course, finished with a prediction error of just 3 seconds. He needed an excellent prediction to hold off Bill Rice, who was off by just 7 seconds on the long course.
    The best prediction on the 1-mile course was Emilee Jones, who missed by 16 seconds.
    Other top predictions at the Pace Race included Makaeka Jones (17 seconds), Morgan Jones (18 seconds) and Georgia Pedicini (27 seconds).
    The next Pace Race will be Tuesday starting on West Jemez Road about three-quarters of a mile from the Back Gate. Two different courses will be available for runners and walkers.
    More information on the Pace Race and the Atomic City Roadrunners is available by calling 672-9243 or 672-1639. 

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  • Raw: Rescue Workers Search Oklahoma School

    Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb. Rescue workers lifted children from the rubble before they were taken to a triage center set up at Plaza Towers Elementary School. As. many as two dozen children are feared dead.

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  • Raw: Witness Describes Scene After Okla. Tornado

    A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods in Moore, Okla., setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

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  • Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up.

    But before all of the youngsters could get there, the tornado alarm sounded.

    The plan changed quickly.

    "All the teachers started screaming into the room and saying, 'Get into the hallway! We don't want you to die!' and stuff like that," said sixth-grader Phaedra Dunn. "We just took off running."

    In the moments that followed, some of the children at Plaza Towers Elementary would, in fact, die. At least seven were killed by the twister Monday afternoon. Others would crawl out of the rubble, bloodied and bruised, utterly terrified.

    The tornado that devastated this Oklahoma City suburb of 56,000 people destroyed Plaza Towers and also slammed Briarwood Elementary, where all the children appear to have survived. Students and parents recounted stories Tuesday of brave teachers who sheltered their pupils, in some cases by herding them into a closet and a restroom amid the fear and panic.

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