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It is one thing for an athlete in an individual sport to talk about internal competition. It is another thing entirely to witness it. Lobo Freshman Kyle Walker stood about 35 feet from the pole-vaulting bar that was raised to 16 feet 9 inches — searching, waiting for something. All his competition had fallen. He already won the title during Saturday’s Don Kirby Memorial Invite, after clearing 16 feet 7 inches. Everything now was just gravy on the potatoes.
The UNM women’s softball team fell 9-5 behind a five-run inning from Colorado State Sunday at the UNM Softball Complex, completing a two-game sweep by the Rams. Head coach Ty Singleton, echoing John Madden’s obvious and direct style of quote, summed up the weekend in which the Lobos dropped two games and fell to 10-29 overall.
It is silly to make comparisons — Jodi Ewart is the measurement of success. “You have people that are mathematical geniuses,” said UNM women’s golf head coach Jill Trujillo. “You know, you have people that are business geniuses. She is a golf genius. She’s got it through her veins. That is just what she is.” Ewart won her record-breaking fifth individual title in Seaside, Calif., on Saturday, helping to seal the Mountain West Conference Championships. But her list of accomplishments doesn’t end there.
As if it sensed the weather turning, the UNM tennis team finished TCU quickly 6-1, almost exclusively in straight sets.
The other five matches had ended.
A knee shaking, toe tapping Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas sat visibly nervous in the ASUNM senate hall waiting for 8 p.m., when the ASUNM election results would be tallied — not knowing he would be elected the next ASUNM president by more than 400 votes.
The UNM baseball team’s bats got started early and didn’t stop until the ninth inning, but neither did BYU’s. There was one major difference, though. UNM brought its runners home. The Lobos won the first of a three-game series 11-5 on Thursday at Isotopes Park — a little redemption from their 5-1 loss to the Cougars in the Mountain West Conference Tournament last year.
There is a specter haunting student government elections — the specter of low voter turnout. A president, vice president and 10 senators will be voted into the ASUNM government on April 14. And if history is any indication, voters will represent about 7 percent of the undergraduate population.
Already the highest-paid employee at UNM, Lobo head basketball coach Steve Alford is slated to rake in nearly $100,000 in bonuses after the Lobos’ record-breaking season.
The fangs of inexperience sunk deep into the UNM men’s tennis team, as the Lobos dropped their match 5-2 to No. 32 BYU Saturday at the Linda Estes Tennis Center.
David Conway is running for ASUNM president on the Wolfpack slate. The Daily Lobo sat down with him to talk about free tickets for athletic events, security and the difference between his opponent and himself.
Student fees look, once again, like they’re going to increase by $10.10 to a total of $456.91 next year in order to fund three organizations and a Queer Resource Center.
*April Fools’ disclaimer April Fools’ comes once a year, fools. Today’s paper is full of satire, nonsense and non sequiturs. Read up, drink up, shut up, play hard. For entertainment purposes only.*
Strip away a court, a ball and an arbitrary scoring system.
LAS VEGAS — The San Diego State women’s basketball team had been here before.
LAS VEGAS — Take one: UNM point guard Dairese Gary takes the ball, drives the length of the court, nearly loses the ball inside the paint, regains control and misses a layup, banking it too hard off the glass.
LAS VEGAS — Feb. 20 was supposed to serve as a memory — a day the UNM men’s basketball team could look back on late in the postseason to summon energy.
Las Vegas, Nev. — Something oddly familiar lurked in the Thomas & Mack Center on Wednesday.
While the top three Mountain West Conference women’s basketball teams — No. 1 TCU, No. 2 BYU and No. 3 San Diego State — sat comfortably in their Las Vegas hotel rooms, the bottom six teams fought each other for a chance at another game.