New Mexico Highlands must have forgotten Tuesday’s game at The Pit was an exhibition matchup. The Cowboys then apparently remembered at halftime, came out flat, were run through the cleaners and arrived out the other side neatly pressed. No chance — the UNM men’s basketball team, led by point guard Dairese Gary, powered to victory in its first off-the-books game, 98-68.
The UNM cross country team reduced the BYU Cougars to mere house cats. The Lobos stomped all over the juggernaut No.
Section 26 will not be touched during The Pit’s new renovations — but that doesn’t guarantee all students will get tickets come game day. Due to The Pit’s $60 million renovation, 3,000 seats in the mezzanine will be off limits, lowering the capacity of The Pit from 18,018 to a little over 15,102 and reducing the amount of potential overflow seating for students. And if past attendance is any indication of this season’s attendance, those 3,000 seats will be missed, said Wesley Henderson, president of Howl Raisers.
In the gloomiest of days for the football team, Lobo fans might look to the bright sun rising on the UNM Rugby team. On Saturday, the Lobo ruggers beat No.
It wasn’t “Fright Night” for the UNM women’s soccer team when they played UNLV on Halloween. UNM, never scared, pulled a 2–0 win The Lobos were led by seniors Jess Quador, Veronika Strnadova, Megan Bodenheimer and Katie McKernan.
Don’t ask head baseball coach Ray Birmingham about his UNM baseball program. “It’s not my program,” he said.
The UNM football team put up 20 points against San Diego State, the second highest output for the Lobos this season. And to think, it was on former head coach Rocky Long, now San Diego State defensive coordinator.
The Armond H. Seidler Natatorium might seem like just another building on UNM’s campus. But to the Lobo swimming and diving team, it’s a place to call home. After two years of practicing at West Mesa High School and other pools in Albuquerque while Seidler was renovated, the Lobos returned to their campus pool and blasted Northern Colorado out of the water 244-180 on Thursday. “You always feel more comfortable and confident at home,” said senior diver Sasha Evangulova.
Sophomore James Erkenbeck has taken eight years to make his interest in playing golf into more than just a fun hobby — now he’s looking to go professional.
No, it’s not the “Return of the Mack,” the hit 90s song by Mark Morrison — it’s just the return of UNM’s head football coach, Mike Locksley, to a 0-7 team. After a 10-day suspension for being involved in a physical altercation with assistant coach J.B.
All preliminary evidence points to one thing: Right now, the UNM football team is as malleable as soft-serve. It’s too bad the Lobos don’t play on Sunday, because they would go well with hot fudge.
Subtracting head coach Mike Locksley from the mix didn’t add up to a win for the UNM football team.
The Lobo Football team is supposed to be in the winning business. But judging by the first seven games, business ain’t a-boomin’. With the 34-17 loss to UNLV, the Lobos join the ranks of only four other teams who remain winless in Division I football this season. “Definitely, when you go 0-7, there is disappointment in the team,” linebacker Carmen Messina said.
The UNM volleyball team went toe-to-toe with No. 25 Colorado State on Saturday at Johnson Gym. Despite junior outside hitter Taylor Hadfield’s career-high 21 kills, the Lobos dropped a 3-2 — 25-18, 18-25, 25-20, 20-25, 15-11 — heartbreaker. The outcome brought tears of disappointment from several UNM players, but the hard-fought match drew a standing ovation from more than 2,000 fans in attendance. “We battled for it,” head coach Jeff Nelson said.
UNM interim head coach George Barlow said he is going to do everything in his power to help the UNM football team get the first win of the season against UNLV. And that could include gambling early. “I can’t say I won’t go for it on fourth down,” he said.
Rarely, if ever, does someone come to Albuquerque to get famous. Enter the curious case of Phillip McDonald, the UNM men’s basketball team’s second-year swingman.
The Lobo ship seems to be guiding itself with interim head football coach George Barlow at the helm. Take a little public relations skills and throw in a travel agent — the result is a 10-day temporary replacement coach. “Really what you are doing is seeing over — for lack of a better word — day-to-day operations of the program,” Barlow said.
Is it really October without a New York baseball franchise playing in the postseason? For the last five years, I’ve felt kind of naked without the Yankees playing in the World Series.
It took 89 minutes to tie the game — and nine more to win it. But the UNM men’s soccer team remains undefeated in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play, moving to 2-0 after a thrilling 2-1 overtime win Sunday over conference foe Cal State Bakersfield.
Not surprisingly, Steve Alford didn’t have any preseason premonitions when he was asked to estimate how many wins the UNM men’s basketball team needs to get into the NCAA Tournament this year.
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