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Alamogordo, NM – Alamo Sports proudly names Jaden Ruiz of the Tiger Baseball team as the Tiger Athlete of the Week for the week ending April 24, 2026.
The Tiger Athlete of the Week is sponsored by Tularosa Basin Telephone Company / Tularosa Communications, Inc. and The Winners’ Circle.
Local Baseball & Softball Results – April 23-24, 2026
Softball
• Tularosa Lady Cats swept Hot Springs: 22-4 and 22-0.
Tularosa improves to 16-7 overall, 9-0 in district. Next game: at Cobre on April 30th.
• Mesilla Valley Christian swept Mescalero Apache: 17-1 and 24-2.
Mescalero falls to 1-15 overall, 0-6 in district. Next: doubleheader at Lordsburg on Saturday.
• Alamogordo Lady Tigers swept Las Cruces: 9-4 and 3-2.
Lady Tigers improve to 18-5 overall, 7-5 in district. Next: host Gadsden on Tuesday.
Baseball
• Tularosa Wildcats defeated Texico 3-1.
Wildcats improve to 14-5. Next: at Cobre on Tuesday.
• Las Cruces swept Alamogordo: 11-0 and 5-2.
Tigers fall to 6-17 overall, 0-12 in district. Next: at Gadsden on Tuesday.
Congratulations to Jaden Ruiz on this well-deserved honor!
Stay tuned to 2nd Life Media and Alamo Sports for more local high school sports coverage.
Jeeses Chryst Edwards . . . take a MIDOL will ya?
in this day and time it might be useful to be reminded that muckraking was once an honorable function of the press...to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. a couple of references:
Chris, thank you for yet another example of great local investigative journalism!
I'll ask around to see if other folks can add more information and evidence to help answer the questions you have raised.
Thanks again!
Sunny, with a high of 92 and low of 68 degrees. Sunny during the morning, clear during the afternoon and evening,
regarding the dispute involving employees at the public owned golf course: authoritarians/conservatives hate unions passionately - they are altogether too independent to fit in with their plans for more complete control. besides, authoritarians need to control patronage to extend their grip.
Absolutely true! If it wasn't for unions, a large portion of democrat politicians would lose a source of income . Thank you for bringing that up!
since you are concerned about unions financial support for democrat politicians - might i direct your attention to the amount of $$$ that oil and gas companies supply to republican politicians? sauce for the goose, sauce for gander?
Thank You Alamogordo Police Department. Lock Him Up And Throw Away the Key!!! Let's Kick His Family Out Of Here Too!!
Well, if we stay in the theme of mudslinging, it’s a horrible thing that this is happening in Otero county. Perhaps its time fir a regime change in the sheriffs office.
another fringe candidate with considerable experience and background, who fails to grasp the underlying problems for manufacturing in our country. for decades, investors have been shuttering mills/mines/production/assembly lines, and moving off-shore to take advantage of cheaper labor
True. When 300 dollar shoes cost a dollar to make in China…
Sheriff Yazza for the win.
viewed from a wider scale - this is just another case of hard-ball politics within the republican establishment, the same conditions exist all the way up to the white house.
democracy is so 20th century...get with the program, authoritarianism is the new gold standard of the party.
True. What happened at the Otero County Democrat Party again?
Great History lesson on a one-of-a-kind facility and its importance to the nation's security, and fuels our local economy.
As a student aide working there in 1978, I was in awe of the work, the people and the technology at the time. I was so lucky to be able to work with not only the surveyors, one of which was **** Golly, and also work with the dam setters which included Mr. Coyazo, Mr. Baca, Mr.