The 2009 Softball season ended for the Artesia softball team at the hands of the Silver Colts in Las Cruces.
Artesia took a 3 - 0 lead early, but could not hold that lead. Artesia led 3-2 going into the Silver half of the 6th when the Colts erupted for 5 runs to take a 7-3 lead into the final inning. Artesia tried to rally coming up with 1 run, the the rally ended with the Silver victory.
Silver lost to Piedra Vista in the title game 4-3.
The Artesia Bulldgos baseball team advanced to the Semi-Final round of the State 4A Baseball tournament by beating Los Alamos 6 to 1 at Eldorado High School in Albuquerque.
The Bulldogs will face Piedra Vista in the semi-final round. The game will take place at UNM Lobo Field. Piedra Vista advanced by defeating Belen 10 to 0.
The other semi-final game will be between Farmington and Albuquerque Academy. In 4A, the top 4 seeds all made it to the Final 4.
In softball, Artesia swept past Belen and Roswell to advance in the 4A Tournament in Las Cruces. In game 1, J.D. Madrid and Briana Sarabia combined for the Lady Dogs pitching while the offence pounded out 21 hits as Artesia beat Belen 18 to 8.
In game 2, Rani Faulkenderry struck out 5 and allowed only 1 hit on the way to a 1 - 0 shutout over district 4-4A foe Roswell. Ali Giles drove in the winning win with a two-out single in the bottom of the 6th inning.
Artesia will face Del Norte at 2pm at The Field of Dreams. Del Norte advanced be beating Silvber 1 to 0. Also in the semi-final round of the Championship Bracket is Piedra Vista after beating Moriarty 12 - 0 and Volcano Vista shut out Los Alamos 4 to 0.
The Artesia Bulldogs showed why they are the number one seed in the state in 4A rolling past their regional round opponet Aztec in two, winning 13 to 2 on Friday night and 12 to 2 on Saturday.
Artesia will play next in Albuquerque at Eldorado High School at 11am Thursday, May 14th. Jim Wilburn will be in the Duke City for all of the action live on AM 990 KSVP and on the Internet at www.ksvpradio.com.
Roswell High and Goddard High were both swept by their regional opponets.
The #15 seeded Coyotes lost to #2 seeded Albuquerque Academy 16 to 1 and 6 to 5.
The #7 seeded Rockets lost to #10 seeded Deming 13 to 3 and 7 to 6.
The Artesia Bulldogs are the #1 seed in the state 4A Baseball playoffs and will host #16 Aztec in a best two-out-of-three playoff in Artesia.
The NMAA has suspended all activities, due to concerns over the spread of 'swine' flu. The suspension is until further notice, but officials hope it will be no more than one week.
Roswell High is also in as a #15 seed and will travel to Albuquerque Academy ... Goddard is a #7 seed, but would have to travel to Deming, a #10 seed, because Deming won its district.
Artesia will try to lock in the Number One seed in the state tournament at today's District 4-4A Round Robin.
Artesia is the #1 seed in District annd will face #3 seed Roswell high at 10am, then #2 seed Goddard High at 4pm.
Goddard and Roswell will face each other in the 1pm game.
Join Jim Wilburn and Gene Dow for all of the action on Saturday.
The Artesia Lady Bulldogs powered their way to a double-header sweep of the Hobbs Lady Eagles in a non-district match-up, winning 2 to 0 and 10 to 0.
The news wasn't as good for the Bulldogs as they lost game one of a District 4-4A double header at Goddard 8 to 6. The Bulldog bats hit the ball hard winning game two 14 to 4. the Bulldogs finish the 1st half of district play 3 and 1, Goddard is 2 and 2, Roswell is 1 and 3.
The second half of district play begins Thursday when Artesia hosts Roswell high. New game times are 5pm and 7pm. The LadyDogs travel to Goddard Tuesday, then host Roswell High Friday afternoon.
District play continues for the Artesia Bulldogs on Saturday. Artesia will travel to Roswell to take on Goddard High School starting at 10am. Artesia is 2 - 0 in district, Goddard is 1 - 1 after splitting with the Roswell Coyotes.
The LadyDog softball team is hosting Hobbs at Mack Chase starting at 1pm Saturday afternoon. We'll go to those games immediately following the baseball doubleheader.
The Artesia LadyDogs will start play in the Las Cruces Softball Tournament today. Artesia will play 4 games in two days.
Today's games are at 3pm and 7pm. At 3, Artesia will face Gadsden, then either Piedra Vista or Chaparral at 7pm.
Jim Wilburn is in Las Cruces and will provide LIVE coverage on AM 990 KSVP and on the Internet at www.ksvpradio.com.
The New Mexico 4A Boys Basketball title belongs to a team from District 4-4A ... just not our team.
The Roswell Coyotes are the State Champions after defeating Artesia 59 to 50 before a packed Pit in Albuquerque.
The game was close through three quarters, but the Coyotes zone defence could not be broken by the Bulldogs, with passes or three point shots, and the Coyotes built a 10 point lead halfway through the 4th quarter, forcing Artesia to begin fouling to conserve clock time.
It was the 4th time the two teams met this season, with Artesia losing three times to the Coyotes.
Let me apologize to our Internet listeners. In our attempt to bring the highest quality broadcast to the Internet and back home to Artesia, we failed to properly set up our equipment at the Pit and first half Internet listeners only heard crowd noise.
The AM 990 Audience heard the entire game, and we thank Jim, Mike J. and Mary Ann for their help getting the game on the air. We will reassess our procedure to insure this never happens again in the future.
Gene Dow
