Isotopes attendance exceeded expectations
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Albuquerque Isotopes say their first season was off the Geiger counter with ticket sales tallying about 100,000 above predictions and merchandising that led all other minor league teams.
Including two postseason home games, the Isotopes sold 594,143 tickets in 2003 for games in Isotopes Park, averaging 8,139 tickets per game.
Total ticket sales and per-game figures broke city baseball attendance records set by the Albuquerque Dukes in 1993 before the Dukes changed names and moved to Portland, Ore. Previously, total attendance peaked at 390,652.
This year's almost 600,000 tickets exceeded team projections of 475,000 to 500,000 people, Isotopes president Ken Young said.
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West Nile Virus continues to infect New Mexicans
SANTA FE (AP) - Four new cases of West Nile virus - three from Rio Arriba County and one from Curry County - were reported in New Mexico on Monday.
The state had 83 human cases of the mosquito-borne virus as of Monday. Four of those, all in people age 76 or older and all involving the severe forms of the virus, were fatal.
None of the latest confirmed cases involved a fatality. The Health Department said, however, that a 30-year-old Rio Arriba County woman and a 24-year-old man from Curry County have meningitis, one of two serious forms.
The department said the other two cases - a 33-year-old woman and a 47-year-old woman from Rio Arriba County - have mild cases of the virus.
To date, 41 of New Mexico's West Nile cases have involved either meningitis or the other serious form, encephalitis.
The state's first human case was reported in July.
