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  • Sports update 01-07-11

    Girls hoops game rescheduled for Feb. 19

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls basketball team has rescheduled its away game with Piedra Vista, Los Alamos High School’s athletic office announced Tuesday.
    The game, originally scheduled for Dec. 17, will be played Feb. 19. The game was postponed by a snowstorm.
    Game times are set for 11 a.m. for the C team, 12:30 p.m. for the junior varsity and 2 p.m. for the varsity.

    Jr. ’Toppers start again Saturday

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  • Hockey: LA starts tourney Saturday

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper hockey team has three games scheduled in the upcoming Taos Mid-Season Tournament.
    The tournament, which starts Friday in Taos, includes all 10 teams from the New Mexico Interscholastic Ice Hockey League.
    Los Alamos, which is currently second in league standings, has a pair of games scheduled Saturday and a third Sunday.
    It will take on Cibola bright and early Saturday — game time is set for 7:15 a.m. — then face Albuquerque’s Outkast at 1:45 p.m. Sunday’s game against La Cueva is set for 11:30 a.m.

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  • Wrestling: LA's efforts are paying off

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper wrestling team doesn’t always leave it on the mat. Currently, the team is hitting the pavement.
    Los Alamos’ wrestling team is pounding the streets with its fundraising efforts, which started during the fall to assist with equipment needs for the 2010-11 season.
    As teams look for new ideas to boost budgets, the high school and middle wrestling programs participated in a push-up-a thon.

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  • Basketball: Broncos, Sundevils still top 4A polls

    Here are this week’s Class AAAA boys and girls basketball coaches polls.
    The polls are conducted by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. First-place votes are in parentheses.

    Girls, Class 4A

        Team                Total pts.          Pvs.

    1. Kirtland Central (7)    113        1

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  • Boys basketball: Hawks knock off Hilltoppers at home Tuesday

    Facing his former program, Los Alamos boys basketball head coach Matt King had a pretty good idea what to expect.
    The Hilltoppers were looking for a physical, pressure defense and good free throw shooting from the Volcano Vista Hawks and that’s exactly what they saw Tuesday night in a46-38 loss.
    And while the Hilltoppers handled the pressure reasonably well Tuesday, the clutch foul shooting of Volcano Vista’s Mario Molina would ultimately decide the game.

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  • Girls basketball: LA falls to Hawks on the road

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls basketball team again struggled in its second outing against the Volcano Vista Hawks.
    Tuesday night, the Hilltoppers were held to a total of six points in the first and third quarters as the Class 5A Hawks took a 57-26 victory in Albuquerque.

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  • Schedule for Jan. 3-8

    Tuesday
    Boys basketball: Volcano Vista at Los Alamos, C team, 4 p.m.; JV, 5:30 p.m.; varsity, 7 p.m.

    Girls basketball: Los Alamos at Volcano Vista, C team, 4 p.m.; JV, 5:30 p.m.; varsity, 7 p.m.

    Friday

    Girls basketball: Los Alamos at St. Pius X, C team, 4 p.m.; JV, 5:30 p.m.; varsity, 7 p.m.

    Saturday
    Wrestling: Los Alamos at Moriarty Duals, 8 a.m.

    Swimming: Los Alamos Open, 11 a.m.

    Girls basketball: Sandia at Los Alamos, C team, 2 p.m.; JV, 3:30 p.m.; varsity, 5 p.m.

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  • Monitor picks top sporting events of the year

    In few sports were the Bernalillo Spartans considered much of a District 2AAAA title contender, but in 2010’s contests against the Los Alamos Hilltoppers, they may as well have been.
    The Spartans seemed to get up for every game this year against the Hilltoppers, giving them everything they could handle on plenty of occasions. Games involving the Hilltoppers and Spartans appear three times among the Los Alamos Monitor’s top 10 contests of 2010.

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  • Basketball: LA girls, boys pick up wins in Roswell

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls basketball team picked up a win in the final contest of its three-day stay at the Roswell-Goddard Classic.
    Following a pair of losses to open up the tournament, to Carlsbad and Goddard, Los Alamos bounced back to knock off the Gadsden Panthers 53-45 Wednesday.
    As it did in its tournament opener against Carlsbad, Los Alamos struggled through the early part of the game. After being outscored 12-3 in the first quarter, Los Alamos got on track and dropped in 23 points in the second quarter to grab the lead going into the break.

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  • Basketball: Lobos edge Red Raiders in Lubbock

    LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — New Mexico appeared to be unprepared for Texas Tech Wednesday night when the Lobos trailed by 15 points midway through the first half.
    When New Mexico made it to the locker room trailing by six, coach Steve Alford did not have much to say to his entire team, but chose to address his three senior leaders — A.J. Hardeman, Dairese Gary and Phillip McDonald.

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