All Articles

By Don Eskins The Carlsbad Cavegirl golf team, behind Haddi May’s 86, placed third at the Artesia Bulldog Classic on Monday, April 6. Eight teams teed up for the event. May’s effort landed her among the tourney’s top 10 placers. Overall, she finished ninth. Six strokes back of May, with a 92, was Averee Padilla, who placed 12th to finish in the top 20. Also placing in the top 20 were Hailey Carter, 14th, with a 93, and Cecilia Mascarenas, 19th, with a 99. “Haddi really had a

By Don Eskins For the young Cavegirl softball team, 2026 has been a very different kind of year. As District 4/5A play gets set to kick off, Carlsbad sits at a very uncharacteristic 5-9. But, in a rebuilding year with a very young pitching staff, the Cavegirls have shown signs of growth. However, the question is, have they grown enough to repeat as District 4/5A champions? Taking a look at what they’ll be facing against their conference rivals, the answer to that question is

By Don Eskins The Carlsbad Cavemen will head into District 4/5A play against the Clovis Wildcats in the Cavern City on Tuesday, April 14. The first pitch is set to go out at 5 p.m. at the Tom Forni Cavemen Corral. Carlsbad, which had an unusually rough start to the season at 2-4, has won eight of its last 12 outings and currently owns an overall record of 10-8. The CHS hardballers’ most recent wins came via a 4-2, 4-2 sweep over the Goddard Rockets, in Roswell on Saturday, Ap

by Don Eskins               The Carlsbad Cavemen baseball team will test the Goddard Rockets, on Saturday, April 4, in Roswell. A twinbill, games are set for 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.               Carlsbad, after going 1-2 at the Rio Rancho Invitational, March 26-28, will enter the double header with an overall record of 8-8.               In Rio Rancho Carlsbad downed St. Pius 20-5 before dropping games to La Cueva 10-4 and Rio Rancho 6-2.               The Goddard Rockets c

By Don Eskins On Saturday, March 28, the Cavemen and Cavegirl Track and Field teams competed in the Artesia Invitational. But, on this Saturday, the first official day of spring break, Carlsbad's squads looked both abbreviated and quite different. Even at that, the Cavemen did manage to medal in four events and the Cavegirls in three. Collecting CHS's only gold medal was defending high jump state champion Jonah Moyers. Moyers turned in the meet's top jump of 6'2" to capture g

By Don Eskins Both the Cavemen and Cavegirl golf teams, teeing up at the Lovington Wildcat Invitational on March 24 in their 2026 inaugural meet, got off to good starts. The Cavegirls, behind Cecilia Mascarenas' 88, placed third. The Cavemen, paced by Chevy Thompson's 75, placed fourth. Eleven teams, in both boys' and girls' play, competed at the invitational. "Cecilia played really well for our first meet of the year. An 88 earned her a Top 10 finish. Overall, she placed eig

By Don Eskins Good news just keeps flowing via the CHS tennis program. On Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, at the Amarillo Relays, the Cavemen grabbed two first-place finishes, and the Cavegirls one, in singles play. Claiming singles titles for the Cavemen were Lucas Bluth, who went 4-0 in gold bracket competition, and Sean Erosido, who went 4-0 in silver bracket play. Cavegirl Myka Char also went 4-0 on her way to claiming her singles title. As if that weren't enough, both

By Don Eskins Carlsbad’s Colton McKibben and Cassie Bielstein turned in exceptional performances at the Rolla Buck White Sands Track and Field Invitational held in Alamogordo on Friday, March 20. On the day, McKibben, with a toss of 51’5,” qualified for state in the shot put, and Bielstein, with a time of 16.64, qualified in the 100 hurdles. Both of their efforts were good enough to earn gold medals for first-place finishes. Bielstein, with a leap of 33’6,” also placed first

By Don Eskins Carlsbad High’s Lucas Bluth logged an overall record of 3-1 in singles play to lead the Cavemen to a 2-2 overall record at the Rural New Mexico Tennis Invitational. The meet took place in Las Cruces on Friday and Saturday, March 20-21. Also picking up wins in singles play for the Carlsbad boys were Sean Erosido, 2-2, Steven Pham, 2-2, Alex Burns, 2-2, and Grayson Reed, 1-3. The Cavemen competed with only five players at the Invitational. In girls’ divisional pla

By Don Eskins Both the Cavemen Baseball and Cavegirl Softball teams are currently competing in tournaments at Rio Rancho. The tourneys got underway on Thursday, March 26, and will run through Saturday, March 28. According to MaxPreps, the Cavegirls, competing in the Kristen Griego Memorial Tournament, opened play on Thursday against the Aztec Tigers and are scheduled to take on the Bloomfield Bobcats at 10 a.m. on Friday. At noon on Friday, they’ll battle an opponent yet to b