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Artesia’s top Advanced team of Jace Miles (203-212), Ayden Dean (184-183), Brenden Depew (188-203), Ayden Gomez (246-235) and Payton DeMerritt (222-236) had posted team games of 1,043 and 1,069 for a 2,112 qualifying total.

Trout anglers in New Mexico can head north, south, east or west this week with favorable conditions reported in waters across the state.

The one thing that second-year Artesia girls basketball coach Candace Pollard wanted to see this season was for her team to play hard every game. Even after adversity hit when the team was forced to play without Jenna Whitmire and Kailee Padilla, they achieved that goal.

The Artesia Bulldog wrestling team is experiencing what most teams face when they lose star athletes who go on to wrestle at the next level. Fourth-year coach Andy Olive has taken a patient approach and wants to build the wrestling program the right way by creating a team culture of working hard and trusting that hard work will yield the right results.

A winter storm expected to bring a blast of arctic air and snowfall to Mexico this weekend has one ski operator feeling optimistic.

Artesia Bulldogs boys basketball coach Michael Mondragon will offer coach-speak about defense and playing the right way, but his team shows that it has swag, attitude and knows it’s bad to the bone.

The New Mexico High School Coaches Association has named Moises Corza a first-team All-State forward. Cutter Summers made the second team as a defender, and Anton Wodarz was also named to the second team as a midfielder.

A winter storm last week produced beneficial snowfall.

Trout-fishing conditions have not changed at the popular waters in and around Ruidoso this week.

Bulldogs coach Michael Mondragon said he wanted to see his No. 1-ranked 4A-4 team continually improve throughout the season.