At 5-feet-4-inches tall, UNM utility player Jessica Garcia isn’t the most daunting player on the softball diamond. But when she steps into the batter’s box, pitchers shake in their cleats.
Six games, six wins. The UNM women’s soccer team shut out Denver and Arizona on Saturday at Robertson Field, capping off a perfect spring season. Head coach Kit Vela said the Lobos approached the exhibition games with more intensity.
Down doesn’t mean done for the UNM women’s golf team. After a grueling eight-month season, the Lobos are preparing for their 19th straight trip to the NCAA regionals May 5 in Auburn, Wash., after they received an at-large bid. “It’s a nice ending to a really tough year for us,” head coach Jill Trujillo said.
On Sunday night, the 6-foot-7 forward from Dallas, Texas, gave a verbal commitment to play with the UNM men’s basketball team next season. UNM beat out Georgetown, USC, Marquette and Oregon to sign the four-star prospect. Henry joins Dominique Dunning and Hugh Greenwood as the third member of UNM’s 2011 recruiting class. Henry averaged 14.8 points, 13.1 rebounds and 8.6 assists during his senior year at Kimball High School.
It’s a weight off of everyone’s shoulders. Yvonne Sanchez was named UNM women’s basketball coach Friday, taking over for Don Flanagan, who resigned April 4.
It truly was a good Friday for one member of the UNM coaching staff. UNM named Yvonne Sanchez its fifth women’s head basketball coach.
They might be unknown, but they’re also unrivaled in terms of success. The UNM women’s club rugby team will embark Friday on its chance to play for a national championship.
The search for the UNM head women’s basketball didn’t take too long. The candidate was in UNM’s backyard. Associate head coach Yvonne Sanchez was named the Lobo women’s basketball team’s head coach Friday at news conference.
A single match for a sole cause. The UNM men’s soccer team will welcome back past greats this weekend in a benefit match to help former player, Pat Grange, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Grange played for the Lobos for two years and scored two goals in the NCAA tournament as he led UNM to the Sweet 16 in 2004.
The New Mexico State softball team won the battle, but UNM won the war. In the series finale of the Rio Grande Rivalry, the Aggies took a 6-0 decision from the Lobos on Tuesday at Lobo Field. But it was UNM who came out victorious.
Mitchell Garver has seen the good times, and now he’s living through the bad times. As All-American candidate Rafael Neda’s backup, Garver played on one of the best teams in UNM baseball history in 2010, a squad that made the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1962.
Athletics Director Paul Krebs called it one of the “most desirable jobs in the country.” So it’s easy to understand why interim head coach Yvonne Sanchez is so attracted to the opening.
UNM head baseball coach Ray Birmingham’s Sunday was more stress than rest. Utah’s five-run second inning lifted the Utes to a 9-3 victory over the UNM baseball team at Isotopes Park.
Call it the quarterback cha-cha-cha. Because of injuries and ineffectiveness, the UNM football team’s quarterbacks played musical chairs last season, with the Lobos starting four guys at the position. And even though spring practices concluded Saturday at University Stadium, the music’s still going. By all accounts, head coach Mike Locksley said the Lobos have three capable starters: B.R.
The price of silver was high on Saturday. Led by junior linebacker Joe Stoner, Silver blew past Cherry 41-0 in the annual spring game at University Stadium — 31 points coming in the third quarter.
The Cherry-Silver game on Saturday will resemble a scene out of a Marvel comic book. That’s because the UNM football team has “Flash” and the Scarlett Speedster. Together with receptions leader Ty Kirk, transfers Lamaar “Flash” Thomas and Deon Long, and Michael Scarlett, the Lobos have one of the most exciting, if unproven, receiving corps in the Mountain West Conference.
Emmanuel Negedu’s UNM basketball career was grounded before it could take off. Negedu, who suffered sudden cardiac arrest on Sept.
Welcome to UNM, Hugh Greenwood. Head coach Steve Alford announced Wednesday that Greenwood signed a national letter of intent to play for the Lobos. The 6-foot-3-inch, 209-pound Australian becomes the Lobos’ second 2011-12 signee.
Can you smell what DeBroeck is cooking? Sophomore right-hand hurler Kaela DeBroeck was virtually unstoppable on the mound Sunday, allowing two hits and one run in seven innings of work.
Ten years from now, the outcome of Sunday’s match won’t matter to Ashley Bonner and Anya Villanueva; the memories will. The UNM women’s tennis team fell 6-1 to UNLV on Sunday during the two seniors’ final home match at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex. No matter Sunday’s outcome, head coach Roy Canada said Bonner and Villanueva have kept the team strong through ups and downs throughout their four-year careers. “They will be leaving a good legacy,” he said.
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