Piling up 91 points, the Cleveland High School boys’ track & field team ran, jumped and threw their way to another state championship, their seventh in a row.
Preparation time for the all-important District 1-5A slates is running out, as the city’s varsity soccer teams open district action Sept. 21 at 6 p.m., with the Cleveland High boys at Rio Rancho High School, and the Rams girls at Lightning Bolt Stadium to meet the Storm.
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Natalia Chavez, center, is mobbed by her Volcano Vista teammates after hitting a shot from beyond 45 feet at the OT buzzer to beat Hobbs for the 5A girls basketball title. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
Saturday, April 10, as much as any day, defined the staggering weirdness of the spring 2021 prep sports semester in New Mexico.
On the same day, the state was staging fall sports in the form of state soccer finals, winter sports in the form of basketball, and the start of spring sports. That kind of confluence had never before occurred.
Or, maybe it was April 1 that underlined this point with more clarity, with prep football played inside University Stadium, part of a five-games-in-three days “bowl game” experiment by the New Mexico Activities Association in lieu of an actual football postseason.