The highly competitive Class 5A playoffs get underway Friday night with No. 5 seed Los Lunas hosting District 2-5A champion Capital and No. 7 seed Miyamura facing Deming in Gallup. Saturday, defending 5A champion St. Pius X squares off with Lovington in Albuquerque while Aztec hosts Goddard. Here is our look at each game.
Capital (12) at Los Lunas (5): If you think about it, Los Lunas is this close to being a No. 1 or No. 2 seed for the Class 5A playoffs. The Tigers’ three losses to Roswell, Artesia and Belen, all of whom are seeded above them in the bracket, came by a combined eight points. Late TD drives by Roswell and Artesia beat the Tigers with little time left in the fourth quarter, while the difference in last weekend’s 35-34 rivalry loss to Belen was a missed extra point. If anything, those losses proved Los Lunas is capable of making a deep run through the playoffs, if not all the way to the championship game.
