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Today's Sports

  • Swimming: Black, Bernstein...

    Los Alamos High School announced just before noon today the hiring of a pair of interim coaches to lead the Hilltopper boys and girls swim teams for the upcoming 2008-09 season.

    Cindy Black and Rusty Bernstein will take over the head coaching duties vacated by Bev Leasure earlier this year.

    Black and Bernstein didn’t actually apply for the position as a unit, but after meeting with the interview panels and with the two applicants themselves, school officials decided the co-head coaching job would be the best situation.

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  • Sports schedule

    Today

    Football: Los Alamos at Albuquerque Academy, C-team, 4 p.m.

    Boys soccer: Peñasco at Los Alamos, JV, 4 p.m.

    Volleyball: Santa Fe Indian School at LAMS, seventh and eighth grade, 4 p.m.

    Thursday

    Volleyball: Los Alamos at Albuquerque Academy, C-team, 4 p.m.; JV 5 p.m.; varsity 6:30 p.m.

    Football: Taos at LAMS, 4 p.m.

    Friday

    Volleyball: Los Alamos at Moriarty Invite, varsity, TBA; Los Alamos at Capital Invite, JV, TBA.

    Saturday

    Cross country: Los Alamos at UNM Invite, boys and girls varsity/JV/C-team, 8 a.m.

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  • Sports update

    Fencing classes start today at YMCA

    Intermediate and advanced fencing classes will resume for the fall season today at the YMCA.

    Classes will start at 7 p.m.

    Previous fencing experience is required to participate in these classes.

    Registrations are being accepted at the YMCA’s front desk.

    Beginning fencing will start Oct. 7. Students for those classes must be 10 years of age or older or have permission from the instructor.

    All equipment is provided.

    For more information, call Tom Hill at 672-1058 or North E. Carey at 672-3938.

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  • Cross country: Former Topper...

    DECORAH, Ia. – Jessica Mietz, a 2008 graduate of Los Alamos High School, has made the cross country team Luther College.

    Mietz, a true freshman, is the daughter of Don and Lisa Mietz of Los Alamos.

    At Luther College, Yarrow Pasche will begin her fourth season as associate head coach.

    Pasche has been named Iowa Conference Coach of the Year twice after leading the Norse to back-to-back league titles in 2006 and 2007.

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  • Volleyball: Toppers fall at...

    Despite a clean sweep at the hands of the Pojoaque Elks Saturday, the Los Alamos Hilltopper volleyball team saw some good things at Jacona Gymnasium.

    Los Alamos fell to Pojoaque, a former District 2AAA foe and a possible contender for the AAA title this season, 25-18, 25-23, 25-20. However, the Hilltoppers had as good a defensive showing as they did against St. Pius X Wednesday, maybe better.

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  • Boys soccer: LA takes 2nd at...

    Getting there was two-thirds of the fun.

    Unlike the hosts of most tournaments, the Los Alamos Hilltopper boys soccer team feels fortunate when it makes it to the finale of its home tournament.

    After a year absence, Los Alamos did just that in this weekend’s Louie Cernicek Memorial Tournament, squeezing by Goddard and Farmington before running into Class AAAAA contender Rio Rancho in Saturday’s final at Sullivan Field.

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  • Senior Olympics: Local athletes...

    Athletes from Los Alamos earned 14 slots to the National Senior Games earlier this month.

    Local residents were among the leaders in numerous categories at the state Senior Olympics Games. Those placing in the top three in their age group in events earned a trip to the National Senior Games, which will be held August 2009 at Stanford University in northern California.

    In all, 20 Los Alamos seniors competed in the New Mexico Senior Olympic Games July 30-Aug. 3, which were held at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

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  • Volleyball: LA, St. Pius go to...

    ALBUQUERQUE — It was within one point of being a comeback for the ages.

    It had all the earmarkings of being a very short night for the Los Alamos Hilltopper volleyball team in its opener Wednesday at St. Pius X. Los Alamos dropped the first two sets to St. Pius’ Sartans and was within four points of being swept by the bigger and more experienced squad.

    Instead, Los Alamos rallied in the third set to keep itself alive, rallied again late in the fourth set, fending off two match points and led 14-13 in the final set.

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  • Boys soccer: Cernicek Invite has...

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper boys varsity soccer team will open its season hosting the 12th annual Louie Cernicek Memorial Tournament.

    The eight-team tournament starts Friday and continues through Saturday. Games are scheduled for both Sullivan Field and Dara Jones Field in White Rock.

    After a scheduling conflict with a pair of teams dropped the tournament down to six squads in 2007, the 2008 tournament returns to an eight-team format.

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  • Boys soccer: Youthful Toppers...

    Virtually everyone around the Los Alamos Hilltopper boys soccer team is hoping 2008 is the start of something good.

    There is a gaggle of young talent around the squad and once the youngsters can get their feet wet, there are high hopes that the program can return to its glory days.

    But with youth comes inexperience, so for the early part of the 2008 season, the team may have to curb its enthusiasm.

    Los Alamos has four sophomores joining its squad this season, along with four juniors that weren’t on the senior-laden 2007 squad.

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