By George Morse Sports and Outdoors
The trout fishing at Abiquiu Lake is picking up finally as the water cools down. One good thing about catching trout at Abiquiu is that most of them are either wild or were stocked as fingerlings and have grown to catchable size in a natural environment. This helps give their meat that nice orange color and makes their flesh firm...
The spotlight was on the Española Valley High School junior varsity boys basketball team last week. With the varsity Sundevils not seeing action until Dec. 7 at the Sandia Prep Tournament, the junior Sundevils made some noise by advancing to the championship game of the Santa Fe Indian School tournament as the only junior varsity team participating in the tournament. They lost to host Santa Fe Indian School 74-66 in the championship game Dec. 2 in Santa Fe.
The Española Valley High School girls basketball team keeps taking steps forward to prove themselves. The Lady Sundevils overcame a tough loss against defending Class 5A state champion Goddard High School in the opening round and won its next two games to take the consolation championship of the Al Armendariz Tournament Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at Capital High School in Santa Fe. Española defeated Pecos High School 57-31 Dec. 2 in the consolation championship...
The weather remained unseasonably warm and dry last week. There are reports of changes in the weather for this coming week. Temperatures may drop to what would be normal for this time of year...
The Española Valley High School girls basketball team picked up its first victory of the season and Johnny Abeyta picked up his first win as head coach of the Lady Sundevils with a 41-23 victory over Taos High School Nov. 28 at Española. Española improved to 1-1 on the season...
The Pojoaque Valley High School girls basketball team is off to its best start in three years after beating Los Alamos High School 60-27 Nov. 25 at Pojoaque to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Elkettes have yet to be seriously tested by their opponents so far this season. Pojoaque defeated Capital High School 52-30 Nov. 16 in their opening game and blew out Sandia Prep High School 80-36 Nov. 18 at Pojoaque before humiliating the previously undefeated Lady Hilltoppers...
After a brief period of cold weather with temperatures dropping down into the teens here in the Espanola Valley and in some mountain towns single digits, the weather has fallen back into a pattern of dry with above-average temperatures. This is not good news for the ski areas or for the winter snowpack. With Thanksgiving just two days away, some ski areas will open on a very limited basis with a base of man-made snow...
When the final cannon shot boomed, the Escalante High School Lobos had lost to the Fort Sumner High School football team 55-7 in the Class 2A state championship football game Nov. 11 at Fort Sumner. There were sad faces but no bowed heads. On this day, the best team won...
There have been a lot of birds of prey migrating down the Rio Grande recently. I’ve seen several large raptors like red-tailed hawks and northern harriers circling the bosque. A sharp-shinned hawk actually killed a bird in our back yard. Eagles should start to show up around Abiquiu Lake soon and thre are usually some that spend the winter along the Rio Grande. Keep an eye out for them...
Escalante Coach Dusty Giles had warned his team that the Class 2A state football playoffs semifinal game against Jal High School would be a battle. Despite Escalante’s 43-22 victory over the Panthers earlier in the season in Tierra Amarilla, Giles knew the atmosphere in the playoffs would be more intense than that of a regular season game...
