Even in defeat, there is some reward. The UNM volleyball team, 4-5 overall, dropped a frustrating 3-2 decision to the University of California- Santa Barbara on Sunday. Despite the five-set loss in the finale of the Comcast Lobo Challenge at Johnson Center, the Lobos came away with the trophy.
Correction: In the week leading up to the UNM football team’s home-opener against Texas Tech, it was inaccurately reported that the Lobos’ mistakes were, in head coach Mike Locksley’s words, “correctable.” Proven by Saturday’s performance, the Lobos fixed few of the errors Locksley stressed in a week’s time.
Hope quickly disappeared into the Albuquerque night at University Stadium on Saturday. The UNM football team dropped its home opener to Texas Tech, 52-17, in large part due to a plethora of turnovers, dropped passes, penalties and quick scores by the opposition. The Red Raiders opened with a 21-point assault in the first quarter — each touchdown scored under one minute of overall possession.
Over heard in the student section at University Stadium at Saturday’s Texas Tech game. “So, when does basketball season start?” “Oh my god!
Guns up! But for a moment, forget the Red Raiders. While the UNM football team hosts Texas Tech Saturday at University Stadium in its 2010 home opener, the real question lingers: How will the Lobos respond to that 72-0 pounding in Oregon, in which the Ducks racked up 720 yards? Simply put, head coach Mike Locksley said the missing an ingredient is discipline.? “For us right now, it’s playing with the discipline that we need to play with as a team,” Locksley said.
This weekend is a boom or bust. The UNM men’s soccer team welcomed two more top-25 teams to the UNM Soccer Complex this weekend.
For the UNM men’s soccer team, it was a gaffe that cost the Lobos back-to-back wins over two top-ranked teams last week. Forward Devon Sandoval scored eight minutes into Saturday’s game against No.
It was a great way to start the rivalry for the UNM women’s soccer team. The Lobos continue to dominate the early part of their 2010 season with a 1-0 victory over in-state rival New Mexico State on Friday at the UNM Soccer Complex. Since the Aggies have only fielded a women’s soccer team for the last two years, UNM head coach Kit Vela said she was disappointed in the lack of Lobo offense. “It was frustrating not to score more,” she said.
It was supposed to be different. It was a fresh start, a new season and a second chance for a bewildered leader. But 29 minutes and 45 seconds into the 2010 UNM football season, the Lobos found themselves down 59-0 to No.
Hopefully the alarm clock was as loud as it could be immediately following the fifth-worst loss in UNM football history. The Lobos fell at the hands of the No.
The 2009 record says it all: 1-11. And how can you forget about the off-the-field incidents? Well fans, students and faculty haven’t forgotten, but for UNM head football coach Mike Locksley and the UNM football team, the past is the past. Except the present is even more daunting.
In one day, Duck nation will finally get what it has been asking for. The departure of former Heisman hopeful Jeremiah Masoli left the No.
Standing before them is a divided congregation: There are the believers and the athletic agnostics. Faith, though, is inextricably binding and blinding.
A record 3,831 fans jammed into Johnson Center to watch the UNM volleyball team take on Stanford on Sunday. But not even the loud cheers of the seventh largest crowd in program history could throw off the fourth-ranked Cardinal, who rolled over the Lobos in three sets 25-14, 25-18, 25-20. With the loss, UNM fell to 2-1 on the season and finished in second place at the MCM Elegante Lobo Classic.
It was nothing new for forwards Lawrence Robledo and Devon Sandoval, just another Robledo-to-Sandoval sequence, resulting in a game winner. Taking a pass from his former club teammate, Sandoval scored less than two minutes into overtime to lift the UNM men’s soccer team to a dramatic 2-1 victory over Fort Lewis in its last preseason match Friday at the UNM Soccer Complex. “On both goals Robledo did all the hard work.
It was a stroke of luck that brought junior outside hitter Kelly Williamson to UNM. Rewind two years, when the UNM volleyball team was scheduled to visit China on a 12-day trip to Beijing and Shanghai.
Just because Michael Green is a midfielder, doesn’t mean he’s not leading the front lines for the UNM men’s soccer team. Known mainly for his finesse and passing talents, Green will be called upon to score more this season, said UNM men’s head soccer coach Jeremy Fishbein. Fishbein said Green will dictate how successful the Lobos’ campaign is this year. “Green is a big piece of the puzzle to this team,” he said.
No one who followed the UNM football program was doubtful about the decision, but it has officially been announced: B.R.
The 2010-11 UNM men’s basketball schedule was released last week. The 31-game season includes notable contests against California, Texas Tech, Southern Illinois, NMSU and Dayton. “This is the year for us, and this will be the most difficult schedule we’ve had at New Mexico,” head coach Steve Alford said.
The UNM women’s soccer team started off the 2010 season in fine fashion. After demolishing Montana 7-0 on Friday, the Lobos continued with a convincing 3-0 win against Nebraska on Sunday at the UNM Soccer Complex. “These past two games — we have been very good at putting away our chances against some good teams,” head coach Kit Vela said. The Lobos followed up their Friday shutout victory Sunday against Nebraska with good composure in front of the goal. The first half against Nebraska was evenly matched, with both teams feeling each other out, until forward Stephanie Rowe chipped the keeper from 20 yards in the 39th minute. Midfielder Rachel Fields gave the Lobos some insurance in the 64th minute by scoring from inside the box, before Jennifer Williams scored the third goal of the game.
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