Observer releases its “Top Sports Stories for 2019”
Check out photos and stories from the Observer’s “Top Sports Stories in Rio Rancho in...
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Annual APS Metro Championships tip off Tuesday in Duke City gyms
All four of the city’s varsity basketball teams are in action in Albuquerque on Tuesday as the first round of the 12th annual APS Metro Championships gets underway. Action resumes Wednesday and, after a day off on...
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Lobos’ new football coach has Rio Rancho connections
Yeah, the Howes family in Rio Rancho will probably get free tickets to next season’s...
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Hail, the warrior: Rams QB Isaiah Chavez named Gatorade Football Player of the Year in NM
In its 35th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company...
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Rams boys come up short vs. No. 3 Santa Fe
Rio Rancho High School boys basketball coach Wally Salata isn’t one to point fingers at...
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Rio Rancho man recalls his boyhood dream coming true: He meets ‘The Mick’… twice
It’s been been almost 60 years and a lot has happened in Joe Brown’s life — namely a...
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Hail the Storm, 6A’s champs after 48-40 win at Rio Rancho
November began with a Storm victory on the first at Rio Rancho Stadium, and ended with a Storm...
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City’s teams headed to “the ‘ship” after Storm KO No. 2 Clovis and Rams hammer No. 1 Hawks
Isaiah Chavez and Zach Vigil scored three touchdowns apiece and No. 4 Rio Rancho never trailed...
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No. 3 Storm beat No. 2 Clovis, move into 6A championship game … again
CLOVIS — There are 100-meter sprinters who operate with less urgency than the Cleveland High...
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Congratulations to the All-District student-athletes this fall
FOOTBALL Cleveland High/first team: Dorian Lewis, Colten Madison, Tres Villalpando, Trey Ortega,...
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Cleveland High has individual champ, team champ at state cross country meet
Truthfully, there wasn’t much room for improvement for Cleveland High distance runner Leah...
Read MoreCleveland holds off Centennial, 21-16 … and moves into semis
(The Storm will play Clovis Friday evening at 7 at Leon Williams Stadium in Clovis in a semifinal contest.) Two fourth-down plays best illustrate Cleveland High’s 21-16 victory over visiting Centennial in a Class 6A...
Read MoreRio Rancho whitewashes Las Cruces, 35-0
(In the semifinals, the Rams will play No. 1 Volcano Vista Saturday, Nov. 23, at 1 p.m. at Nusenda Community Stadium.) In theory, this should have been the most competitive of all the Class 6A football quarterfinal...
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Storm win again at Rio Rancho Stadium; haven’t lost there since 2009
No. 3 Cleveland (8-2, 4-1 in District 1-6A), which beat No. 2 Rio Rancho (6-4, 3-2), 35-20, Friday...
Read MoreOBSERVER SPORTS DIGEST for Nov. 3, 2019
State cross country meet is Saturday Rio Rancho High School again is the site for the state cross country meet, which begins Saturday, Nov. 9, at 9:15 a.m. with the opening ceremony. The hometown Cleveland and Rio Rancho high...
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Recap: No. 1 Volcano Vista beats No. 2 Rio Rancho
ALBUQUERQUE — For the first time since 2007, the district’s football crown was won by a team...
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Both Storm soccer teams make Fuddruckers state soccer brackets; Rams boys in also
Defending Class 5A boys champion Cleveland High got the 4 seed Sunday and with it a first-round...
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Cleveland Storm maul Mustangs, 50-0
Dorian Lewis and Isaiah Salazar each scored two rushing touchdowns, quarterback Trey Ortega threw...
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No. 1 Volcano Vista clobbers No. 2 Cleveland
By JAMES YODICE Albuquerque Journal sports write Two great quarters of offense, four...
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Rams claim sixth win in a row, 44-9 over AHA Jaguars
Scoring on four of their first five possessions Friday night, the third-ranked Rio Rancho Rams...
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City’s soccer teams reach midpoint of District 1-5A season
The Class 5A defending champion Cleveland Storm boys soccer team snapped out of its doldrums...
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Trey Ortega leads Cleveland past Cibola, 41-7
Stepping in again for injured starting quarterback Jeff Davison, junior Trey Ortega ran for 194...
Read MoreOBSERVER SPORTS DIGEST for October 13
Former Ram Baker is MWC Player of Week University of New Mexico junior forward Leilani Baker was named the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week as it was announced by the league office on Oct. 7. Baker, a native of Rio...
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Zach Vigil has four TDs, Isaiah Chavez 2 in Rams’ romp over West Mesa
Zach Vigil; scored four first-half touchdowns Thursday evening at Nusenda Community Stadium, where...
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Can Cleveland Storm defend 2018 title? Here’s a chat with coach Shaun Gill
It’s not easy to repeat as a state champion in practically every sport — and in boy’...
Read MoreSPORTS DIGEST: From the Rio Rancho Observer
Pendley vies to be Olympian Three Oklahoma softball alumni will participate in the USA Softball Women’s Olympic Team Selection Trials held Oct. 2-6 at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City. Among them is...
Read MoreRams crush Cougars, 48-13, for happy homecoming
No, that wasn’t a Homecoming bonfire you saw Friday night, although the fourth-ranked Rio Rancho High School football team was also en fuego, taking advantage of three Cougars turnovers in the first half en route to a...
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Observer asks: What’s it like being the wife of a football coach?
Everybody has heard the old saying, “Behind every successful man, there is a woman.”...
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Cleveland volleyball squad pulls off 5-set upset of Volcano Vista
The District 1-5A volleyball standings got a little murkier last week, when the seventh-ranked...
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Rio Rancho High School’s Sports Hall of Fame adds six members on Friday
(* Tickets to the Oct. 4 RRHS Sports Hall of Fame induction cost $5 in advance, $8 at the door of...
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