The No. 5 New Mexico men’s soccer team will open their conference season tonight with perhaps their biggest competition in Conference USA: the No. 21 Charlotte 49ers.
No, Bob Davie hasn’t forgotten about last year’s 69-28 beatdown at Fresno State.
Due to the ongoing construction on Avenida Cesar Chavez Avenue, UNM fans attending Friday night’s football game against Fresno State are advised to take different routes to University Stadium.UNM’s T Lot, located on University and Lomas Boulevards, will be used for shuttle transportation, according to a release from the Athletics Department.
In the final game of the SMU Invite, New Mexico head coach Jeff Nelson said immaturity played a factor in the team’s only loss of the tournament.
Confidence isn’t something Lamar Jordan lacks. The freshmen quarterback proved that by engineering the first game-winning drive of his career against in-state rival New Mexico State in Las Cruces.
New Mexico defeated in-state rival New Mexico State in a wild and unconventional game that featured four different passers. In the first half, UNM head coach Bob Davie added a little trickery to UNM’s normal run-heavy offense that included a 27-yard fake field goal run and an 18-yard halfback toss, both resulting in touchdowns.Two separate players threw touchdown passes. However, the first two quarterbacks of the game did not assist in the touchdowns. Davie said the assurance to run the offense successfully allowed him to put some tweaks in his team’s play call.
New Mexico sophomore midfielder Ruth Bruciaga led the Lobos to a 4-1 victory over in-state rivals New Mexico State on Friday night at the Lobo Soccer Complex.Bruciaga gave UNM a 1-0 edge in the 26th minute when she tapped the ball in after NMSU’s goalie saved an initial shot. UNM had 17 shots in the first half while NMSU had 9.Carrying the one-goal lead into the second half, the Lobos wasted no time as Bruciaga scored her second goal in the 48th minute off a well-played ball from junior midfielder Dylann O’Connor in the box.
The New Mexico men’s soccer team finished its last weekend before conference play with one win and one draw at home in the TLC Plumbing and Utility Invitational. On Friday, the Lobos’ match against the Drexel Dragons ended in a 1-1 draw.
Confidence is something that Lamar Jordan doesn’t lack. The freshmen quarterback proved that by engineering his first game-winning drive of his career against in-state rival New Mexico State in Las Cruces.
The New Mexico football team isn’t the only group involved in the Rio Grande Rivalry this weekend.The UNM women’s soccer team will host in-state rival NMSU tonight at the Lobo Soccer Complex.Senior midfielder Alexis Leyba said facing the Aggies is always a tough game.
After recovering from its first loss with two road wins, the New Mexico men’s soccer team enters their final weekend before conference play begins.
For the New Mexico volleyball team, winning against quality teams is a necessity to prevent missing the national tournament like the squad did a year ago.Last season, UNM finished second in the Mountain West with a 24-7 record (14-6 MW), but failed to make the postseason due to the weakness in competition.
In the New Mexico football team’s classroom on the second floor of Tow Diehm Facility, there are two scores painted on the west wall: 27-14 and 66-17, representing UNM’s two wins against New Mexico State the last two seasons under head coach Bob Davie.The Lobos will try to add another winning score on that wall this Saturday when the in-state rivals will meet for the 105th incarnation of the Rio Grande Rivalry at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces.
Cole Gautsche has had his fair share of injuries during his time at New Mexico.
Basketball camps around the country have been structured similarly for many years, but REAL Hoops hopes to change that and bring something different to the table.
Following a winless weekend in Hawaii, the New Mexico volleyball team righted the ship with a sweep in the MGM Elegante Lobo Invitational. The Lobos dominated the weekend, sweeping Montana State and Bethune Cookman before finishing the weekend with a 3-1 win against UC Irvine.
No. 6 Florida proved to be as tough as advertised when the defending national champions shut out New Mexico 4-0 on Sunday. The Gators scored early in the first half when junior midfielder Lauren Smith took a shot that found the left corner of the goal, beating the Lobo’s diving goalkeeper Cassie Ulrich.
The UNM men’s soccer team earned two wins in California over the weekend, the team announced. UNM beat San Deigo 2-0 on Sunday with Oniel Fisher scoring the first goal of the game off of a rebound in the 52nd minute, according to golobos.com.
Fabian Carbajal said he planned to spend his Saturday afternoon studying for an upcoming test, but a series of events changed his plans. In hopes to spread passion for soccer, the Albuquerque Sol, a Premier Development League soccer team, brought 37 international soccer legends to University Stadium for a friendly exhibition match called the International Legend’s Cup.
With the addition of sand volleyball to its athletics slate, UNM hopes to draw more attention to the sport. The school announced Tuesday the sport will be added for spring 2014, making sand volleyball the 22nd intercollegiate team at UNM. It is the first new sports program since women’s soccer was added in 1993.
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