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By Don Eskins Grabbing this year’s District 4/5A regular season title was just eight minutes away for Carlsbad High in their winner-take-all collision with the Hobbs Eagles on Friday night, February 20. Leading 31-28 as the fourth and final quarter of play got underway in the Eagles’ iconic Ralph Tasker Arena, the Cavemen needed only to trade buckets with the Birds to claim this year’s conference crown. But, as all Cavemen fans now know, it wasn’t to be, as the Eagles rallied

By Don Eskins The Carlsbad High School swim teams recently returned home from the state tournament with good reviews. This year’s tournament took place in Albuquerque on Friday and Saturday, February 20-21. Olivia Jang, with a 10th-place finish in the 100 Butterfly, recorded the Cavegirls’ top performance. She covered the distance in a time of 1:03.02. Benjamin Jang, with 12th-place finishes in the 100 Free (50.86100) and 100 Breaststroke (105.56), along with Sam Vega, who pl

By Don Eskins The Cavemen and Cavegirl tennis teams competed at the Statewide Invitational in Albuquerque on Friday and Saturday, February 20-21. On Friday, CHS competed in flighted singles bracket competition, and on Saturday, flighted doubles bracket play. “The competition here was a bit more difficult than last weekend in El Paso,” said CHS assistant coach Diamond Morrill. “However, it was nice for us to get to see what some of the other teams in the state are looking like

By Don Eskins Carlsbad High’s Cavemen and Cavegirl wrestlers closed out the 2025-26 season with identical 10th-place finishes at the NMAA State Tournament on February 20-21 in Rio Rancho. “Although winning state has always been one of our goals, I knew doing it this year in either our boys’ or girls’ programs probably wasn’t going to happen,” said CHS head coach Mark Pratt. “Along with some youth and inexperience, we just had too many open weight classes. “But we did feel lik