In the championship game of the Lobo Shootout, the UNM women's basketball team was down by 10 early on. But the Lobos clawed their way back to a 76-63 victory over the Towson Tigers on Saturday at The Pit.
Some called it an ugly victory. But when Lobo kicker John Sullivan's winning field goal sailed through the uprights to give UNM a 26-23 win over Colorado State on Saturday, head coach Rocky Long saw it as picture-perfect.
After he was hired in March, Steve Alford said he wanted to turn the UNM men's basketball team into a national force. And even though he has high goals for the Lobos, the process begins with baby steps, Alford said.
In a game with five lead changes, the UNM football team held the advantage when it mattered most Thursday at University Stadium. Rodney Ferguson ran for two touchdowns on 146 total yards, and John Sullivan kicked four field goals in the Lobos' 34-31 win against Air Force.
The Lobos were down by seven points in the final minutes of Saturday's game, facing fourth down and four yards. Head coach Rocky Long bet the Lobo defense could hold BYU to three plays and get the ball back for one more shot. He bet wrong.
What word would you use to describe a team that scores 30 points on 276 yards of total offense in the first half alone? Commanding? Dominant, perhaps? Lobo head coach Rocky Long says the more appropriate word would be lazy. That was his assessment after his team's 58-0 trouncing of Sacramento State on Saturday. Long said his team started out flat, but showed maturity in the latter part of the game.
Despite having some top runners on the sideline, the UNM cross country team posted strong results this weekend. First-year head coach Joe Franklin, who replaced retiring coaches Matt and Mark Henry in July, led his team to a pair of first-place finishes in his coaching debut at UNM.
Lobo quarterback Donovan Porterie said he had to block out all the noise around Saturday's game - and he wasn't talking about crowd noise.
After a week of two-a-day training sessions and a pair of exhibition games, the women's soccer team is dog tired - just don't call them underdogs.
A hit batter, two errors and a blooper in the second inning sealed Hawaii-Hilo's fate in a win for the UNM baseball team Sunday. The Lobos scored five runs off two hits in the second en route to a 12-2 victory.
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