Sports Briefs

Track and field
New Mexico athletes had a busy weekend with three indoor meets in two cities.

On Friday, UNM hosted the Don Kirby Elite Invitational at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

UNM turned out strong performances across multiple events. In the 800-meter run, Alex Herring finished in first place, Gabe Aragon in second and JP Cordova in fifth. Vincent Montoya took fourth place in the 3,000 meters, Ridge Jones took eighth in the 60 meters, Kendall Spencer took fourth in the long jump, Logan Pflibsen won first place in the pole vault and Floyd Ross finished fourth in the triple jump.

The Lobos also had 19 top-10 finishes at the Don Kirby Open held Saturday at the convention center.

In Seattle on Friday, several UNM runners competed at the Husky Classic. Josephine Moultrie and Luke Caldwell posted school-record times, clocking 4 minutes, 36.59 seconds in the mile and 13:40.39 in the 5,000 meters, respectively.

Skiing
After two weekends of competition, UNM scored 794 points to place fourth at its home skiing invitational in Red River, N.M.

Colorado won the event with 864 points, while Utah was second with 851 and Denver took third with 808. Montana State, Alaska Anchorage, Westminster, Wyoming and Colorado Mountain College rounded out the field.

One week after the Nordic competition, the alpine skiers were on the slopes.

Mateja Robnik and Joonas Rasanen had UNM’s best slalom times. On the women’s side, Robnik clocked 1:39.71 on Saturday and 1:35.59 on Sunday. For the men, Rasanen posted 1:35.03 on Saturday and 1:34.95 on Sunday.

Softball
UNM lost its first seven games after a tough season-opening stretch starting Thursday.

The Lobos dropped five games at the Kajikawa Classic hosted by Arizona State Thursday through Saturday with a 5-1 loss to Creighton, a 3-0 setback to Arizona State, a 3-2 decision to Cal Poly, a 9-0 margin to San Jose State and an 11-1 loss to Oklahoma.

On Sunday, UNM played two games at the Hotel Encanto Invitational in Las Cruces. The Lobos fell to Nebraska 11-0 before losing to host New Mexico State 3-0.