La Cueva's boys claim Class 5A golf title one year after stinging loss
LAS CRUCES — Organ Mountain’s girls won in their hometown, if not their home course. And La Cueva’s boys wrote a happier ending for themselves. The Knights and Bears won Class 5A state golf championships on a scorching Tuesday afternoon at New Mexico State University Golf Course.
La Cueva, with diminutive but immensely talented freshman Nixon Knee continuing his late-season heater, won by 22 ...
LAS CRUCES — Organ Mountain’s girls won in their hometown, if not their home course. And La Cueva’s boys wrote a happier ending for themselves. The Knights and Bears won Class 5A state golf championships on a scorching Tuesday afternoon at New Mexico State University Golf Course.
La Cueva, with diminutive but immensely talented freshman Nixon Knee continuing his late-season heater, won by 22 shots over Alamogordo. The Bears shot 20-over par 596 over 36 holes, with the Tigers at 618. Organ Mountain, whose home course is nearby Red Hawk Golf Club — but who are nevertheless quite familiar with NMSU’s layout — won by 16 shots over La Cueva (655-671; the course played as a par-74 for the girls).
Bears junior Kendall Trujillo was the medalist, and hers was a three-shot triumph. La Cueva’s boys — and girls, for that matter — were all adorned in shirts that featured so many tiny splatches of color that they could have, if he were still alive, been designed by Jackson Pollock. The look was, well, singular.
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