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Edie May Phillips was the best predictor at Tuesday night’s pace race.

The pace race, hosted by the Atomic City Roadrunners, was held at held in Upper Bayo Canyon on North Mesa. In all, 50 runners and walkers took part, the largest number participating in a pace race this season.

Phillips finished with just a 2-second prediction error in Tuesday’s race. Phillips edged out Christine Doyle, who finished with a 5-second error.

Other top predictors were Alexander Romero (15 seconds),

The White Rock Little League 9-10 All-Stars will have to wait an extra day to start state tournament play.

Not that White Rock management is complaining too much.

White Rock, which won the District 1 tournament earlier this week, will get going Sunday with state tournament play. It received one of four byes in the 12-team tournament, which gets going Saturday at Bayard, near Silver City on the western edge of the state.

The state Juniors All-Star Little League tournament is adopting at least one aspect of Major League Baseball’s All-Star fiesta this year.

To kick off the state tournament, which will be played at Bomber Field and Senior Field on North Mesa starting Friday, two players from each of the nine squads will be selected to take part in a home run derby.

That derby will precede the first two games of the tournament, one of which will pit the Los Alamos Junior All-Stars against Raton.

This weekend, softball will be foremost on the mind of Rogelio “Roger” Anaya.

It will certainly be so for the rest of the year, as well.

Anaya, who is currently managing the White Rock Little League 9-10 All-Stars, was named the new head of the Los Alamos High School softball program June 20. He was picked out of a pool of four candidates for the job.