Scores from Thursday, players to watch and what games you should check out this weekend.
THURSDAY SCORES
Eunice 5, Tularosa 4
Texico 4, Portales 1
Clovis 9, Ruidoso 0
Cibola 7, St. Pius 4 - APS Metro
La Cueva 11, Volcano Vista 1 - APS Metro
Goddard JV 12 Loving 2 - Dexter Invite
NMMI 14 Mesilla Valley 1 - Dexter Invite
Pecos 11 McCurdy 0 - Dexter Invite
Dexter 18 Jal 0 - Dexter Invite
Goddard 11 Chaparral 0 - Goddard Invite
Artesia 5, Belen 0 - Artesia Invite
Deming 5, Lovington 2 - Artesia Invite
Santa Teresa 6, Los Alamos 1 - Artesia Invite
Valencia 6, Farmington 1 - PVHS Invite
Pueblo West 9, Fruita 8 - PVHS Invite
Piedra Vista 4, Durango, Colorado 2 - PVHS Invite
Piedra Vista 6, Albuquerque Academy1 - PVHS Invite
THURSDAY TOP PLAYERS
Logan Gaskins - Eunice - Walk off 3 run double in win vs Tularosa.
Ryan Dunn - Santa Teresa - The sophomore pitched a complete game in win for Santa Teresa vs Los Alamos.
Richard Ware & Ryan Johnson - La Cueva - Both hit homeruns in win vs Volcano Vista.
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
Clovis vs Alamogordo - Goddard Tournament
Ruidoso vs Bloomfield - Goddard Tournament
Farmington vs Fruita, Colorado - Piedra Vista Invite
Valencia vs Pueblo West - Piedra Vista Invite
Albuquerque Academy vs Durango, Colo - Piedra Vista Invite
Taos vs Cobre
Hope vs Mora
Capital vs Wingate
Santa Fe vs St. Mikes
Carlsbad vs Mayfield
Onate vs Gadsden
Hobbs vs Centennial
La Cueva vs Rio Rancho - APS Championship
Cleveland vs Volcano Vista - APS 4rd Place
Sandia vs Cibola - APS 5th Place
Albuquerque vs St. Pius X - 7th Place
Eldorado vs Rio Grande - 9th Place
Valley vs Atrisco - 11th Place
Manzano vs West Mesa - 13th Place
Highland vs Del Norte - 15th Place
Going Yard: Homerun Leaders
Orlando Aguirre - Manzano (Sr) - 4
Travis Rogers - Carlsbad (Sr) - 3
Izaiah Apodaca - Santa Fe (Jr) - 3
This and That
Tier of their own: Rio Rancho, Carlsbad and Cleveland. The three teams look impressive this season and Rio Rancho-Cleveland played in a tough game Thursday, with the Rams taking the win. Rio Rancho took the edge and knocked off our Week 4 number one ranked team.
Underrated: Piedra Vista. At 9-2 on the season we are starting to question our preseason ranking having them as far back as we did. They could (maybe should) be in the conversation with the top-4. They'll have their day as they play in the district with Rio Rancho and Cleveland and able to prove why we were wrong. The 6-1 win over Albuquerque Academy was impressive on Thursday night.
Even More Underrated?: La Cueva. The Bears were ranked 6th in our week four Rankings. To most that would be great to be ranked and 6th. However, we feel that we could be undervaluing the Bears and shouldn't have. We can't even answer the reason we dropped them after having them high in the preseason. The Bears now get to prove us even more wrong as they face Rio Rancho for the APS Metro Championship on Friday.
Goddard 'an den'?: We all watched the classic (not classic) movie Dude, Where's My Car?, right? Okay, maybe not but the Goddard Rockets seem to be sitting at the top and maybe that will never change. However, we are sort of walking around the streets looking for our contenders tier (Goddard is alone in the favorites tier). St. Pius X and Albuquerque Academy are our highest valued teams for the argument but we await the dominance factor to say they will upset Goddard.
