(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – On Wednesday morning, NM State Athletics announced its plan of action regarding refunds to men’s basketball season ticket holders for the cancelled portion of the 2022-23 season. Director of Athletics Mario Moccia announced fans may either receive a refund or use their refund amount as a credit
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EL PASO, Texas – The bi-district round of the high school basketball playoffs continued Tuesday. Several El Paso teams punched their ticket to the area round. The scores below are from Tuesday: CLASS 6A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Odessa Permian 66 Franklin 48 San Angelo Central 46 Eastwood 48 Coronado 53 Odessa 86 Americas 46 Frenship 71
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP senior Shamar Givance has been named to the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-District men’s basketball team, it was announced by the organization Tuesday. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve with at least a 3.50 GPA. Givance’s honor made UTEP one of four schools on
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DALLAS, Texas – Adhel Tac, Avery Crouse and Sabine Lipe of UTEP women’s basketball were all named to the Academic All-District Team presented by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve with at least a 3.50 GPA. The three Miners comprise 20 percent of the
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EL PASO, Texas – The boys high school basketball playoffs began Monday night with four El Paso teams punching their ticket to the next round. All four games that were played locally on Monday were in Class 5A. Chapin, Canutillo, Andress and Parkland all won bi-district titles, while in Class 3A the playoff run came
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball guard Soleil Montrose was named the Conference USA Freshman of the Week presented by Blenders Eyewear on Monday by the league office. This is the second time that Montrose has earned the recognition this season. As the lone first-year collegiate player on the roster for the Miners, Montrose picked
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Tigers came up big at state doubling their previous medal count of four all time to eight at the competition. The Boys won the 5A 200 and 400 Freestyle relay. Those gold medals were actually the first ever medals in relay events in school history. Marcos Otero
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EL PASO, Texas — Eight high school wrestlers and one team all secured the top prize at the 2023 UIL State Wrestling Championship. For the the second time since 2020, the Eastwood girls won a state title. Last time it was when they were in Class 5A. This time around as co-state champs with Allen
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Unlike the first two games of the series NM State were finding runs against Bellarmine but in extra innings it was the Knights who got the best of the Aggies, winning 10-9 in 11 innings. The Aggies totaled 9 runs on Sunday, triple the amount they picked up in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — In one season Jerry Kill has become a fan favorite, not only because he took the Aggies to a bowl game but also for the ponchos he wears, how he embraces the community and now the Aggie tattoo that will forever sit on his arm. Yes you read that
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP entered Saturday with one win and one loss in the Dr. Diana Natalicio Memorial Tournament but finished the day with a 1-3 record for the tournament so far. The Miners first fell to Santa Clara 3-12 and then immediately played Texas Tech and lost 8-6. On Friday the Red
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Hawks beat Las Cruces High 48-31 on Saturday afternoon at Organ Mountain High School to lockup District 3-5A. After falling 42-38 to Las Cruces on Thursday, the Hawks and Bulldawgs were forced to play a rematch to determine the district champion. The Hawks came to play. Aline Eres scored
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies struggles at the plate continued on Saturday as they scored just the one run which came in the final inning. NMSU managed 13 strikeouts and 6 hits on Saturday afternoon at Presley Askew Field in their 8-1 loss to Bellarmine. That loss sees them move to 0-2 to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies have already secured a spot in the WAC Tournament so now it becomes about finding form at the right time. New Mexico State (14-13, 8-7 WAC) was unable to make it two-straight wins, falling to California Baptist (15-11, 11-4) 73-65 on Saturday afternoon at the Pan American Center.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA), North Texas withstood a pair of UTEP attempts to tie or take the lead late to hold on for a 67-65 win on Saturday night in The Super Pit. Trailing by one with the ball and 14.4 seconds on the clock, the Miners (17-8, 10-6 C-USA) had Jazion Jackson take a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Tae Hardy (18 points, six rebounds), Shamar Givance (16 points, two steals), Ze’Rik Onyema (14 points, four boards) and Calvin Solomon (12 points, four assists, three rebounds) all had quality nights and UTEP nailed a season-high 78.3 percent (25-32) at the charity stripe, but second-place North Texas held off the
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EL PASO, Texas – The area round of the girls high school basketball playoffs continued on Friday. The Riverside Rangers won an area championship defeating Pampa. They’ll now advance to the regional quarterfinals. Unfortunately the season came to an end for Franklin, Pebble Hills, Chapin and Burges. The final scores from Friday are below: CLASS
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EL PASO, Texas – Since 1993, Shelley Prather has led the Hanks Knights to victory, a lot of victories. Tuesday, Prather celebrated her 500th win as head coach of the Hanks High School softball game. Prather has led the Knights to numerous district championships, and several playoff appearances. For her accomplishment, Prather is this week’s
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – UTEP led from start to finish to roll to an 88-61 win at UAB on Friday afternoon in Bartow Arena. The game – originally slated for Thursday night – was moved to Friday due to the potential for severe weather in the area. There was never much doubt when the two sides
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EL PASO, Texas – Ze’Rik Onyema poured in a career-high 16 points and UTEP forced 21 turnovers but visiting UAB did enough to knock off the Miners, 79-66, in the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. The Miners (12-14, 5-10 C-USA held a 34-14 advantage in points off turnovers, piled up 42 points in the paint
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Following the postponement of the UTEP women’s basketball game at UAB on Thursday, the Miners have announced two schedule changes. UTEP will now play UAB at 11 a.m. MT/noon CT on Friday, Feb. 17 in Bartow Arena. To accommodate the date and time changes for the game against the Blazers, the originally scheduled contest at
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s Daniela Chipchase was named the Conference USA Women’s Golfer of the Week presented by Blenders Eyewear on Wednesday by the league office. Participating in the 10th tournament of her collegiate career at the Tulane Classic presented by Chad Brownstein, Chipchase earned her first top-10 finish, tying for 10th in a field
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` UPDATE: Chancellor Arvizu says we are constrained in some of the answers they can provide due to investigation and privacy rights. Arvizu says they will be “rigorous” in protecting the privacy of students. Arvizu says we have over 400 student-athletes that are doing well, and fully support their achievements despite the challenges of the
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EL PASO, Texas – The bi-district round of the girls high school basketball playoffs continued on Tuesday. Several Borderland teams are moving on the area round. The scores below are from Tuesday: CLASS 6A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Midland Legacy 20 Eastwood 31 CLASS 5A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Andress 39 Hanks 34 CLASS 4A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Clint 55
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UPDATE (5:11 p.m.) ABC-7 just learned that NMSU men’s basketball head coach Greg Heiar has been fired, according to an NMSU spokesperson. A news conference with NMSU officials will be held Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. NMSU Chancellor Dan Arvizu issued a statement to the NMSU community, saying, “Earlier today, I made the decision to
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EL PASO, Texas – The bi-district round of the girls high school basketball playoffs began on Monday. A few El Paso teams punched their ticket to the area round. The scores from Monday are below: CLASS 6A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Odessa 44 Franklin 89 San Angelo Central 52 Pebble Hills 53 El Dorado 39 Frenship 64
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Beach Volleyball Head Coach Ben Wallis has announced the Miners’ tournament schedule for the upcoming inaugural season, featuring 21 road matches set to begin at the end of February. “I’m fired up to get rolling in a few weeks with our inaugural Beach season” Wallis said. “Our beach only players have been really
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — NMSU athletics starts the week off reeling from a weekend whirlwind after an abrupt suspension, followed by serious allegations of hazing involving the repeated sexual assault of one of the team’s players by three of his teammates. As the community continues to ask questions, ABC-7 is reaching out to authorities
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — ABC-7 is looking into how sexual assault impacts men following revelations contained in a New Mexico State University police report detailing allegations of hazing which included sexual assault. The NSMU police report revealed one NMSU men’s basketball player was ‘hazed’ in the men’s locker room at the Pan American
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