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  • Topes Notes 08-02-12
    Albuquerque drops third straight contest
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  • Top NMAA official leaving to take job in New York
    The New Mexico Activities Association announced Wednesday that longtime associate director Robert Zayas is leaving to take over the state athletic association in New York. Zayas, who started with the NMAA — the governing body of most interscholastic prep sports in the state — in 2002, will take over one of the largest athletic associations in the country. With the NMAA, Zayas oversaw several sports postseason events, including soccer, swimming and diving and track and field. He also helped coordinate alignment and classification of schools and was the NMAA’s main media contact for most of his career there.
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  • Fishing Report 07-28-12
    Northwest Abiquiu Lake: Fishing was good using top water lures, tube jigs, night crawlers, minnows, jerk baits and crank baits for smallmouth bass. Fishing was fair using crank baits, bottom bouncer minnow and bottom bouncer night crawler combos for walleye. The best reports came from anglers fishing up river at night. They also reported catching good size catfish. The catfish were taken on shrimp, minnows and chicken liver. We had no reports on other species. The surface water temp was in the low 70s. Animas River:  As of Monday morning flow near Cedar Hill was 341cfs. Trout fishing was fair using streamers wooly buggers, San Juan worms, night crawlers and salmon eggs.
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  • Topes Notes 07-27-12
    Express takes 3-2 win The Albuquerque Isotopes managed just two runs Thursday off Round Rock pitchers Zach Jackson and Yoshinori Tateyama, falling 3-2 on the road. Jackson (4-12) scattered six hits over 7-2/3 innings to pick up the victory for Round Rock. Albuquerque couldn’t provide much support for starting pitcher Will Savage (10-4), who pitched seven strong innings. Thursday’s loss, combined with an extra-innings win by Oklahoma City over Iowa, ties the two teams for the top spot in the PCL American Southern division.
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  • WAC head coaches vote Aggies fourth
    LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The New Mexico State University Aggie football team has been selected to finish fourth in the 2012 Western Athletic Conference football coaches poll and fifth in the media polls, released Thursday at the WAC Football Media Days. The Aggies received 22 points in the coaches' poll and 95 points in the media poll. In 2011, the Aggies were picked to finish eighth by the coaches and in the media poll, NMSU finished the 2011 campaign with a 4-9 overall record and 2-5 conference record. This is the highest preseason ranking in both polls for the Aggies since they joined the WAC in 2005.
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  • Lobo football picked to finish last
    LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Lobo coach Bob Davie addressed a portion of the Mountain West media Tuesday, saying "the past doesn't have to dictate the future." However, the past that saw the University of New Mexico win three games in three seasons surely was a consideration for the media at the Mountain West Football Media Day, which picked the Lobos to finish last in the 10-team MW race of 2012. "I think it's a factor that we haven't performed well in the past," said Lobo quarterback B.R. Holbrook.
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  • Topes Notes 07-26-12
    Isotopes win in extra innings, 6-5
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  • Topes Notes 07-24-12
    Isotopes win six of eight at home
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  • Fishing Report 07-20-12
    Northwest Abiquiu Lake: Fishing was good using top water lures, tube jigs and olive wooly buggers for smallmouth bass up to 15 inches. The wooly buggers were working best in the evening off main lake points. Fishing was fair using crank baits, bottom bouncer minnow and bottom bouncer night crawler combos for walleye Fishing was fair using liver, shrimp and night crawlers at the upper end of the lake for catfish. A few bluegill were taken by anglers using worms. We had no reports on other species. The surface water temp was in the low 70s. Animas River:  As of Monday morning flow near Cedar Hill was 361cfs. Trout fishing was fair using spinners, wooly buggers, hoppers, wooly worms, San Juan worms, night crawlers and salmon eggs.
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  • State Notes 07-19-12
    Estrada wins golf title LAS CRUCES — Alex Estrada of Belen held on to win this year’s New Mexico-West Texas Amateur championship at Red Hawk Golf Club. Estrada went to a sudden-death playoff with Devin Miertschin of El Paso, Texas. In the playoff, Miertschin missed a 5-footer to give Estrada the title. Estrada shot a three-day total of 217 to tie Miertschin after 54 holes and force the playoff. The top finisher from Northern New Mexico was Marty Sanchez of Santa Fe. Sanchez finished with a three-day total of 230, which placed him tied for 15th.
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