DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS
The District previews by Billy Dallas and Pancho Morris were very similar to the previews of the Lovington Invitational.
Hobbs News Sun - "Lovington's girls have a string of six consecutive district championships and have captured 7 out of the last 8. Like Watkins, this will be Lady 'Cat head boss Dana Anstey's farewell tour. Anstey, who has been the LHS coach for four seasons, announced that he was resigning earlier in the year.
'I expect the meet to be a lot closer than last week,' said Anstey who believes the team title will go to either his Lady Wildcats or the Tucumcari Rattlerettes. 'Tucumcari will make some changes and run a lot of people in open events without hurting their relays too much. Goddard will again have a say in it.'
And from the Lovington Leader - "The Lady Wildcats destroyed rival Tucumcari by more than 60 points in last Saturday's Lovington Invitational to avenge an earlier loss to the Rattlerettes. Despite the overwhelming turnaround, LHS head coach Dana Anstey isn't counting Tucumcari out just yet.
'We beat them pretty good last week, but I feel it'll be a close meet,' Anstey reports. 'Tucumcari was doing a lot of experimenting at our meet and they didn't run some of their top people in the individual events like they'll do this week. I look for Goddard to be a deciding factor. A lot depends on which team Goddard hurts the most'.
Both the boys and girls dominated the district meet and continued their dominance of District 4AAA. The boys won their 16th in a row while the girls won their 7th in a row and 8th of 9.
Just like the Lovington Invitational the final scores were not even close. Lovington 119, Tucumcari 79, Goddard 73, Portales 21 and Artesia 16. We were going to state with a lot of confidence and we believed that we had more than answered all the early season questions. I was quoted in the Hobbs News Sun after the meet, "After a rough start, for them to come through and win this one as big as they did shows character," Lady Wildcat head coach Dana Anstey said. "We had good performances from everyone all day long. The key was the good overall performances."
"We're pleased to be district champions again," commented Anstey, who has also resigned his coaching duties. "We had a lot of personal bests and we set three school records. Now we plan to concentrate on state and do our best. I feel we have as good a chance as anyone."
'Lovington, which is qualified in every event except the high jump and 300 low hurdles, is among the favorites. Tucumcari, Goddard, Aztec, and Las Vegas Robertson are all contenders.'
A personal highlight for me at this meet was seeing my son Jason place 5th in the meet but run a state qualifying time in the 110 high hurdles!
The last of the questions would be answered at the State Championship in Albuquerque.
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