On Tuesday, October 13, the Cavegirl volleyball team will open District 4/5A play in Carlsbad against their old nemesis, the Hobbs Eagles. With no clear-cut favorite, the race for this year’s conference championship and the ticket to the state tournament that comes with it, appear to be up for grabs. The Cavegirls will enter their district inaugural with an overall record of 7-7; the Eagles are 5-10. In District 4/5A’s other conference opener, the 6-10 Roswell Coyotes will ho

By Don Eskins Nobody said earning a berth in this year’s state playoffs was going to be easy for the Carlsbad Cavemen. And guess what? How right they were! Once again, in their quest to punch their tickets to this year’s Big Dance, the 10th-ranked Cavemen will take the field as an underdog when they line up against the surprising eighth-ranked Eldorado Eagles on Friday night, October 9, in Albuquerque. But, according to Cavemen head coach Cale Sanders, regardless of Eldorado’

By Don Eskins For Cavegirl softball fans, who anxiously await spring for the start of a new season, the waiting just might be over. The Cavegirls, piloted by head coach Brian Santo, are now actively competing in the fall as well. While the reason for playing fall softball should be obvious—the more you play, the better you become—there’s yet another very important one. “Besides competing for a state championship each year, we do our best to help our kids get collegiate schola

The Carlsbad High School girls’ soccer team, 2-12-2 on the year, have fallen to 0-2-1 in District 4/5A. But, although unable to mount up a victory in district play, the Cavegirls have shown a marked degree of improvement. Following a conference inaugural 4-0 loss to Hobbs, the Cavegirls, on Saturday, October 3, tied the Clovis Wildcats 1-1, and on Tuesday, October 6, battled the Roswell Coyotes tough before dropping a 1-0 decision. Scoring for the Cavegirls in their 1-1 stale

By Don Eskins Cavegirls Host Clovis Wildcats Lady Luck continues to evade the injury-plagued Carlsbad Cavegirls. Hoping to grab a District 4/5A inaugural victory on Tuesday, September 29, in Hobbs, Carlsbad’s girls dropped a 4-0 decision to the 7-6-1, 11th-ranked Hobbs Eagles. With the loss, the Cavegirls fell to 2-11-1 on the year and 0-1 in conference play. In Class 5A soccer, they’re ranked 22nd. For the Eagles, the 4-0 win earned them a spot atop the District 4/5A standin