New Mexico
New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame adds 8 – Rio Rancho Observer
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2023 inductees on Feb. 10. They are George Brooks, Amber Campbell, Charlie Criss, Larry Hays, Jim Marshall, Frank Maestas, Glover Quin and Klaus Weber.
These athletes and coaches have had significant careers, achieving high standards of athletic success and/or made contributions to sports, thereby bestowing fame and honor to the State of New Mexico.
George Brooks: His 2004 UNM men’s ski team is the only men’s NCAA Division 1 champions in New Mexico in any sport. In 1970, George approached UNM about making skiing an intercollegiate sport. As a result, he became the university’s head coach at the age of twenty. He would be the coach for the next 37 years.
Amber Campbell: Campbell was a three-time USA Olympian in the hammer throw. At Coastal Carolina University, Amber was a five-time NCAA All-American, and won 11 national track titles and was a two-time Pan American Games medalist.
Charlie Criss: One of the greatest New Mexico State Aggie basketball players. Criss was the first Aggie named an All-American. He was the third leading scorer and top in assists for the 1970 Final Four NMSU team. He entered the NBA in 1977 as the league’s shortest active player at 5-8. He played 418 games over eight seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, San Diego Clippers, and Milwaukee Bucks.
Larry Hays: The Dora, N.M., native, has two degrees from Eastern New Mexico University and became a legend in the college baseball and softball ranks. He spent 22 seasons with the Texas Tech Red Raiders as their head baseball coach, winning more than 800 games and having his number retired.
Jim Marshall: Marshall coached for 42 years, including 27 years at New Mexico Highlands University; his teams won 619 college baseball games. His 1967 Cowboys team, which included the late Phil Schroer of Rio Rancho, won the NAIA national baseball championship.
Frank Maestas: A pioneer for Hispanics in journalism in general and sports journalism, he was one of the first Latino sports writers in the nation back in the 1960’s. He was a sportswriter for the Albuquerque Journal for 28 years.
Glover Quin: Quin was the MVP of the 2008 UNM football team, and only the second defensive player named the team’s MVP, and a first-team All-Mountain West Conference player. He started 162 of 165 games over 10 seasons in the NFL for the Houston Texans & Detroit Lions.
Klaus Weber: Weber came to UNM in 1976 to be the cross-country ski coach. Klaus has coached soccer, tennis, and skiing in over 2,500 games among high school, club and college. He also played in about 1,000 soccer games. He competed in his last “over-40” soccer match at the age of 66.
The Class of 2023 will induct the Elite Eight at the Induction Banquet on June 23 during the Induction Celebration Weekend. The Induction Banquet will be at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
One of the primary goals is to make this year’s Induction banquet the largest ever. There have never been more than 1,000 attendees. The 1974 Induction Banquet was the largest, and it had just under 1,000 attendees.
Early bird tickets cost $50 per person and $500 per table of 10 until March 31. The tickets will go to $75 on April 1 and to $100 on May 15. (nmshof.org)
New Orleans Privateers (0-2) at New Mexico Lobos (2-1)
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Wednesday, 1 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: New Mexico takes on New Orleans after Destinee Hooks scored 20 points in New Mexico’s 71-64 victory over the North Carolina A&T Aggies.
New Mexico went 12-8 at home a season ago while going 18-14 overall. The Lobos averaged 70.4 points per game last season, 33.9 in the paint, 14.1 off of turnovers and 10.3 on fast breaks.
New Orleans went 5-24 overall with a 3-15 record on the road a season ago. The Privateers shot 35.1% from the field and 26.8% from 3-point range last season.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
A man is facing murder charges after allegedly admitting to deputies that he fatally shot two people inside a New Mexico home after receiving “an encrypted message in a cockroach” that he “needed to kill,” authorities say.
Alexis Hernandez, 25, was arrested and charged with two open counts of murder in connection with a Friday incident inside a southwest Albuquerque home, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.
Hernandez was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on Saturday morning, and it is not immediately clear if he has retained a lawyer.
Authorities have not identified the men killed in the incident or the two young children who were also found inside the house at the time.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit filed at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, deputies responded to reports of gunfire in southwest Albuquerque just before 10:30 p.m. When deputies arrived, they were met at the front door by Hernandez, who “had a firearm on his waistband and a Marine Corps Sabre on his hip,” the arrest warrant said.
Hernandez, who was immediately detained, told deputies he was in the Marines and “had to do what he had to do,” the warrant states. He then allegedly stated there were two dead bodies inside the residence.
Once inside the house, the warrant states, deputies found one dead man “with possible gunshot wounds” in the front of the house and a second man with apparent stab wounds in an attached apartment.
The two children who were found inside were safely removed from the residence, the arrest warrant states.
In an interview with deputies after he was taken into custody, Hernandez said that he knew the two slain men, one of whom was the owner of the property, according to the warrant. He then allegedly said he had believed the property owner was a friend who had been stalking him during the days leading up to the incident.
The warrant states Hernandez alleged the friend had placed cameras in the lights. Hernandez also told deputies that he was allegedly “hearing creepy voices coming from the vents” and “had been getting signs” that he had to end the property owner before he ended him.
Hernandez later allegedly told deputies that he also had received “an encrypted message in a cockroach” that he “needed to kill” the property owner, the warrant says. He added that the property owner allegedly did not like cockroaches.
The warrant states that Hernandez had previously purchased a Glock handgun, which he said he had for “protection.” Hernandez told deputies that on Friday the two men allegedly took him to the back room of the home and that he “was afraid for his life at this point.”
He said he shot the property owner in the head and the other in the kitchen, the warrant says. At one point, Hernandez allegedly told deputies, he had gone to his Honda Pilot to reload his gun before going back to each victim and shooting him again.
The sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the details of the second man’s cause of death.
The warrant states Hernandez admitted that he did not know what to do after the attack, so he “stayed on scene and walked around.” He allegedly added that he knew about the two children at the house and that they saw him shoot the two men.
He added that “he was not going to take the kids or do anything to them,” the warrant says.
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