Artesia baseball team wins world championship in Las Cruces

El Rito Media Kayson Gomez, Jed Bilberry, and Elijah Sanchez have something most eightyear-olds would never dream of: a World Series championship. The three boys helped the Artesia Freedom 8-under baseball team claim the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) 8-and-under AAA World Series title.

Work Needed on County Bonds

El Rito Media More work needed to be done before Eddy County issued millions of dollars in bonds to a Colorado company for a large renewable energy battery facility north of Carlsbad, said the James “Bo” Bowen chairperson of the Eddy County Board of County Commissioners.

79th Annual Eddy County Fair Schedule

Saturday, July 20 9:00am - 11:00am: Open Class entries will be accepted 9:00am - 11:00am: 4-H Indoor Entries will be accepted 9:00am - 11:00am: Lead Class entries will be accepted 1:00pm - 4:00pm: 4-H exhibits will be judged (Judging is closed to the public.)

Activity Schedule

Sports • Artesia SeaDogs Summer Swim Team Location: Artesia Aquatic Center Tryouts: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 30; 10 a.m.

XFINITY RECAP

• Saturday’s EXPLORE POCONO MOUNTAINS 225, Pocono Raceway Reigning Xfinity champion Cole Custer claimed his first win of the season Saturday, beating his closest championship challenger Justin Allgaier to the Explore The Pocono Mountains 225 checkered flag and giving Ford its first series win of 2024. Custer’s No.

Xfinity burnout alert!

Cole Custer celebrates after winning the Explore The Pocono Mountains 225 at Pocono Raceway Saturday. J.

2024 TRUCK SERIES STANDINGS

Rank/Driver Points Rank/Driver Points 1 Christian Eckes #19 618 2 Corey Heim #11 586 3 Nicholas Sanchez #2 505 4 Ty Majeski #98 490 5 Rajah Caruth #71 430 6 Tyler Ankrum #18 414 7 Grant Enfinger #9 411 8 Taylor Gray #17 404 9 Ben Rhodes #99 383 10 Daniel Dye #43 366 11 Tanner Gray #15 365 12 Stewart Friesen #52 362 13 Matt Crafton #88 319 14 Chase Purdy #77 314 15 Jake Garcia #13 293 16 Dean Thompson #5 277 17 Layne Riggs #38 271 18 Bayley Currey #41 250 19 Ty Dillon #25 249 20 Bret Holmes #32 247 NEXT RACE: TSPORT 200, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, 8:30 p.m. ET Friday, FS1 .

2024 XFINITY SERIES STANDINGS

Rank/Driver Points 1 Cole Custer #00 716 2 Justin Allgaier #7 665 3 Chandler Smith #81 657 4 Austin Hill #21 640 5 AJ Allmendinger #16 564 6 Jesse Love #2 563 7 Riley Herbst #98 560 8 Sheldon Creed #18 543 9 Parker Kligerman #48 524 10 Sam Mayer #1 501 Rank/Driver Points 11 Sammy Smith #8 488 12 Ryan Sieg #39 466 13 Shane v. Gisbergen #97 463 14 Brandon Jones #9 412 15 Anthony Alfredo #5 393 16 Brennan Poole #44 337 17 Parker Retzlaff #31 315 18 Josh Williams #11 308 19 Jeb Burton #22 268 20 Jeremy Clements #51 267 NEXT RACE: PENZOIL 250, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 3:30 p.m.