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By Don Eskins Carlsbad High School’s Cavemen and Cavegirl tennis teams will host the Claire Higgins Invitational on Friday and Saturday, March 13-14. Contestants will compete in Singles, Doubles, and Mixed Doubles at the tournament. Each team, boys and girls, will have two singles, two doubles, and two mixed doubles entries. In a draw, each is guaranteed four matches. Tournament play will take place at the Pecos River Courts and at Carlsbad High. Play will begin promptly at 9

By Don Eskins The Cavemen Baseball Round Robin Tournament will get underway at the Tom Forni Cavemen Corral on Thursday, March 19, and run through Saturday, March 21. Competing in this year’s event, along with the host, Carlsbad, will be Hobbs, Mayfield, Cathedral, Organ Mt., and R.O.S. (El Paso’s Rose of Sharon). The schedule for the three-day CHS baseball fest looks like this: May 19, Thursday: Game 1, R.O.S. vs. Hobbs at 11 a.m.; Game 2, R.O.S. vs. Mayfield at 2 p.m.; Game

By Don Eskins At the Ron Singleton Track and Field Invitational on Friday, March 6, in Carlsbad, it was a great day to be a Cavegirl or Caveman. At day’s end, Carlsbad’s girls placed second and the boys third. Overall, in girls’ competition, the top five placers were: 1. Clovis, 2. Carlsbad, 3. Alamogordo, 4. Roswell, and 5. Portales. In boys’ competition: 1. Alamogordo, 2. Clovis, 3. Carlsbad, 4. Lovington and 5. Roswell. “Our girls competed surprisingly well. Atria Wells, a

By Don Eskins The Cavemen baseball team got off to a rocky 1-2 start on the season, following play in their season-opener at the Cleveland Storm Invitational in Rio Rancho. Carlsbad opened the tourney up with a tough 3-2 loss to Piedra Vista on Thursday, February 26, but bounced back on Friday, February 27, to register their first win of 2026, a rousing 19-3 victory over Los Lunas. However, CHS’s victory lap was a short one. On Saturday, February 28, the tournament host, Clev

By Don Eskins Carlsbad High’s Lucas Bluth, on a mission at the Longhorn Tennis Invitational, made a lot of noise in Amarillo on Friday and Saturday, February 27-28. A senior, Bluth posted an unblemished 4-0 record at the Texas meet to capture this year’s tournament singles title. “Lucas played well and was very consistent on the court,” said CHS assistant coach Diamond Morrill. “He was able to put some pace on the ball, while staying consistent, which is key to playing at hig

By Don Eskins Carlsbad High’s Cavemen and Cavegirl thinclads opened up the 2026 track and field season on Friday, February 27, at the Early Bird Invitational in Roswell. CHS head track coach Charles Millar felt like his kids got off to a great start. “We couldn’t have asked for better weather for our opener. It was perfect, 85 and sunny all day,” said Millar. “Overall, I was very impressed with how our kids performed. The boys, with 44 points, tied Hobbs for fourth place. The

By Don Eskins Basketball state tournament play tips off this weekend, Friday and Saturday, March 6-7. For Cavern City cage fans, things couldn’t be better! The Carlsbad Cavemen, 18-9 on the year, have been seeded 10th for this year’s big dance and will take on the seventh-seeded Centennial Hawks in Las Cruces on Saturday afternoon. Tipoff for the clash has been set for 5 p.m. “I like the matchup. Centennial is going to be tough, but I feel like they’re a team we can compete w

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

By Don Eskins Carlsbad High will compete in the NMAA State Swim Meet on Friday and Saturday, February 20-21. The meet will take place at Albuquerque Academy High School. Overall, 10 CHS swimmers—six Cavemen and four Cavegirls—qualified in 13 events for the meet. The following is a list of the events and swimmers competing in each. CHS 2025-26 Individual State Qualifiers: Olivia Jang: 200 IM, 100 Fly, 100 Breast, 100 Free. Benjamin Jang: 100 breast, 200 IM, 100 Free. Samuel Ve