By Frank Smith
The San Manuel Lady Miners varsity softball team captured the Division IV State Softball Championship by defeating the North West Christian Crusaders 5 – 4 on May 11 at the Rose Mofford Softball Complex in Phoenix.
The Lady Miners entered the semi-finals as the #2 seed and first faced off against the #14 seed the Miami Lady Vandals on May 10 in the Semi-Finals and won 3 – 2 in a very close match-up to advance to the finals.
San Manuel had played Miami twice before during the regular season beating the Lady Vandals 5 – 3 and 11 – 5. But this time around the difference was a single run.
The Lady
By John Hernandez
On Wednesday May 8, Mountain Vista School held their annual Athletic Banquet. The banquet honored the school’s athletes and coaches. Families of the athletes attended the dinner and watched the presentation of awards.
This year’s Athletes of the Year were Leticia Garcia and John Mechado. Millie Mercer was also honored for her outstanding performance at the CJHL Championship Track Meet where she won four medals.
By Frank Smith
The San Manuel Miners varsity baseball team fell 8 – 6 to the Phoenix Christian Cougars, in the Division IV State Semi-Finals on May 10 at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
The Miners had a another surprise run into the state playoffs as they entered the tournament as the no. 18 seed and worked their way into the top four teams of Division IV.
The Cougars came into the
By John Hernandez
Casey Egan was at the Divisional Track meet in San Manuel earlier this month to congratulate San Manuel High School track star Wayne Newman. Newman is undefeated in the high hurdles this year. He has won every race he has competed in including the Willie Williams Track meet in Tucson.
At the Willie Williams meet, he competed against athletes from many of the larger schools in Tucson. Wayne broke Casey Egan’s school record in the
By Frank Smith
The Miner Track team sent six athletes to the state track and field championships to compete on May 10 and 11 at Mesa Community College in Mesa.
In the 110m Hurdle finals, Wayne Newman blew away the competition with a time of 14.52 defending his 2012 title.
He again took the 300m Hurdle title with a time of 38.41, he also placed fifth in the high jump
By Andrew Luberda
Several members from the ‘Cats track and field teams competed at the state championship meet after qualifying at the recent Div. IV Sec. II South Invitational Meet. The Bearcats finished third out of ten teams at the Invitational meet.
Individual state qualifiers from the men’s team included Austin Everett (100m, 200m, and Long Jump), Matt Graham (110m high hurdles, 300m Intermediate Hurdles), Demetri Breeden (High Jump), and Ryan Bickley
Former Kearny resident Michael Bejar was named the NWCA New Mexico assistant wrestling coach of the year last month in a vote decided by head coaches from across the state of New Mexico.
“It’s very surprising to me. I had no idea about it. It is sweet and nice at the same time,” Bejar said in an interview with the Farmington Daily News. Bejar is the assistant coach at Piedra Vista High School in Farmington, New Mexico. He also is the head coach of the
By Frank Smith
The San Manuel Lady Miners softball team finished the regular season with three wins.
The Lady Miners hosted Miami on Apr. 19 and picked up the win 11 – 5.
In the circle was Lyana Waddell with Mariah McBride catching. Waddell faced 36 batters allowing five runs on nine hits, collected six strikeouts, three hit by pitch, one walk and the ladies
By Andrew Luberda
The Superior Panthers’ softball team played in arguably the most exciting game of the playoffs against Yuma Catholic. After coming from behind to tie the game in the seventh inning, 10 – 10, the Panthers saw Yuma Catholic score one run in the bottom of the eighth inning to earn the victory, 11 – 10. The first-round loss ended the season for the Panthers’ but did nothing to cloud their optimism for next year.
“This
By Frank Smith
The Miners Track team wrapped up their regular season hosting the Division IV Section II Sectional Meet on May first. The boys and girls squad were runner-up champions.
For the Girls Results: In the 4x800m Relay, the team of Sabrina Duarte, Selena Duarte, Aubri Estrada, and Diana Medina finished
By Andrew Luberda
The Jr. Panthers
By Andrew Luberda
Softball – After an 11 –
By Frank Smith
The San Manuel Miners varsity baseball team took
By Frank Smith
The San Manuel Lady Miners varsity softball team
By Frank Smith
The Miner track team traveled to Ray on
