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The Hilltopper boys and girls teams will host their regular season track and field finale Friday at Sullivan Field. Teams from Taos, St. Michael’s Santa Fe and Capital are scheduled to attend.
Field events start at 3 p.m.
Heading into this final meet before the 2-4A championships next weekend — where the Hilltopper teams have dominated since the creation of the district in 2000 — Los Alamos is still hoping to plug some holes in its state qualification roster.
Los Alamos’ boys have quite a few more slots to fill, including all the sprint events, both hurdles distances and the 400 meter relay. Los Alamos’ girls are missing just two running events from their repertoire, the 800 and the 1600 relay.
Friday, Los Alamos will get a first-hand look at Santa Fe, the only team that might give the Hilltoppers some sort of a fight next week on either the boys or the girls side.
The quad will be Los Alamos’ second home meet of the season. The Hilltopper girls finished second behind Cleveland at the April 10 Los Alamos Invitational, while the Hilltopper boys were third at that meet behind Cleveland and Albuquerque Academy.

This weekend, the Los Alamos Hilltopper girls tennis team will be looking to add to its impressive winning streak at the District 2-4A tournament, while the boys will look to start a new streak.
Los Alamos will take part in the 2-4A championship, which starts Friday and continues through Saturday in Santa Fe.
The district tournament is the one and only chance singles, doubles and teams have to advance to the state 4A tournament, which is scheduled to start Wednesday.
At district, Los Alamos will enter Forrest White, George Margevicius and Chase Rochester in the singles competition and the teams of Nikita Belooussov/Dalton Smith and Steven McCrory/Daniel Dahl in the doubles draw. Belooussov, who finished third at the 2-4A tournament in the singles competition last season, is the only member of either of Los Alamos doubles teams that isn’t a senior.
The top three individuals and doubles teams from each district will advance to state.
Los Alamos will be looking to get back to championship form this season. In 2012, Los Alamos had its 12-year 2-4A title streak snapped, falling in the final round to Santa Fe.

The Los Alamos Hilltopper lacrosse team has its final regular season home game scheduled for Friday against Bosque School.
That game is set for 4:30 p.m. at Dara Jones Field in White Rock.
Lacrosse is a relatively new prep sport to New Mexico and schools competing in the sport are doing so independent of the New Mexico Activities Association, which governs most interscholastic prep sports in the state.
Los Alamos, which is playing its second year of lacrosse, has had a solid 2013 season, posting a 6-3 record to date. Los Alamos is currently tied with Bosque’s Bobcats for second place in state standings, meaning Friday’s game will be key for both teams’ seedings in the upcoming playoffs.
Quarterfinal round games of the playoffs are scheduled for next week. The finals are scheduled for May 11 in Albuquerque.
Los Alamos head coach Waytt Dumas said the Hilltoppers have played well together throughout the season.
“They’re putting the team ahead of themselves and showing a lot of maturity,” Dumas said. “We have a lot of fierce competitors on our team. They’re all pushing each other to play better and holding each other accountable.”

The 2010-11 sports year was among the most successful in Los Alamos High School’s recent history.
And Dominic Lucido played a big part in it.

Lucido, a 2011 graduate of LAHS, died April 24 in Albuquerque. A memorial service was held Monday for Lucido at Trinity On The Hill Episcopal Church. He was 20 years old.

Those who knew Lucido, a student at the University of New Mexico, all expressed shock at Lucido’s death.

“One thing that stood out about Dom was that he really cared,” Lucido’s old coach and current LAHS tennis coach Lloyd Wilton said. “He cared about everyone in his family. He has three sisters and he was the only boy. He was good to all of them. He was just a kind guy.”

Wilton, half of a standout doubles tennis team along with twin brother Billy during the early 2000s, worked with Lucido and doubles partner Chase Havemann during the 2011 season, which ended up being a big one for the duo.
Lucido/Havemann earned the No. 1 seed heading into the 2011 state Class 4A championship tournament and waltzed through its first two matches, giving up just seven games in four sets to advance to the finale.