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Here are this week’s Class 4A boys and girls basketball coaches’ polls. Weekly polls are conducted by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. First-place votes are in parentheses. Basketball, Class 4A Girls     Team             Total pts.    Previous 1. Grants (17)            170    1 2. Kirtland Central      139    2 3. Piedra Vista            122    6

Angel Fire 39-inch base of packed powder. 4 inches of new snow reported. 63 trails and 6 lifts open. Enchanted Forest 36-inch base of packed powder. 6 inches of new snow reported. 35 trails open. Pajarito 41-inch base. 3 inches of new snow reported. 33 trails and 3 lifts open. Red River No snow report. 54 trails and 6 lifts open. Sandia Peak 40-inch base of powder. 2 inches of new snow reported. 34 trails and 4 lifts open. Sipapu 36-inch base of packed powder. 3 inches of new snow reported. 37 trails and 5 lifts open. Ski Apache 35-inch base of machine-groomed snow. No new snow reported. 54 trails and 9 lifts open.

Northeast Charette Lakes: The lake has closed for the season and will reopen March 1. Clayton Lake: Closed until noon March 1. Conchas Lake: Fishing pressure has been light due to cold temperatures and wind. Costilla Creek: No report. Coyote Creek: Closed for the winter. Eagle Nest Lake: 17 inches of ice. Fishing is good for yellow perch and rainbows caught with power bait, meal worms and night crawlers. Fishing pressure is up due to nice weather and no wind.  Lake Alice and Lake Maloya: Ice is 10-14 inches thick at Lake Maloya. Power Bait, dough bait and salmon eggs have been catching 6- to 13-inch rainbow trout. Fishing is poor at Lake Alice due to thin ice and the lake has not been stocked.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — Still stinging from back-to-back losses to the Mountain West’s other heavyweights, the New Mexico Lobos are taking out their frustrations on everyone else. The Lobos got 13 points from both Drew Gordon and Kendall Williams Tuesday night when they handed Air Force an 81-42 drubbing, its most lopsided home loss ever. With their third straight double-digit win, the Lobos (18-4, 4-2) moved within a half-game of conference co-leaders No. 11 UNLV and No. 17 San Diego State, the two schools that handed them early losses in league play. “Those two letdowns obviously showed us what we need to work on,” Gordon said. And they’ve worked on those things very well, indeed.