NMMI Sports Press The Colt baseball team topped the Eunice Cardinals in a non-district matchup at home on Tuesday evening. Both teams were hot at the plate as they combined for 26 runs in the game, with NMMI earning 18 of those on 12 hits. The Cards started off the scoring with a pair of…
NMMI Sports Press For more than 30 years, NMMI has had an Olympic athlete on staff. Cross country, swimming and track coach Jan Olesinski (1980, Moscow; 1984, Los Angeles, modern pentathlon) has been helping Institute athletes hone their skills for more than three decades. Now coach ‘O’ will get some assistance from another Olympian, Nathan…
NMMI Sports Press The Colt baseball team took on the Texico Wolverines in the 24th Annual Colt-Sertoma Classic Championship game and lost 4-1. Texico has won the Colt-Sertoma Classic for the third consecutive year and returned all but one starter from last year’s state championship team. ”We faced a very good team, the defending state…
NMMI Sports Press The Colt baseball team picked up their second win of the week against Santa Rosa in the semifinal round of the Colt-Sertoma Classic 10-1 on Friday night. Rivera led the Colts to victory on the pitcher’s mound. Despite having the bases loaded with Lions in the first and second inning, he only allowed two…
NMMI Sports Press The Colt baseball team got back on the winning track with a one-sided 12-0 victory over the Tularosa Wildcats in the first round of the 24th Annual Colt-Sertoma Classic. NMMI bounced back after a 6-5 road-loss to Dexter on Tuesday, where they committed eight fielding errors. “We had lots of positives tonight,…
NMMI Sports Press In Saturday’s title game of the 20th Annual Hal Bogle Classic, NMMI downed the tournament host Demons, 14-0, with hot bats and overpowering pitching. The Colts jumped out in front with a six-run tally in the top of the first, sparked by a lead-off triple by senior shortstop Francisco Rivera, and a few…
NMMI Sports Press The New Mexico Military Institute Colt tennis team continued their winning ways by downing visiting Piedra Vista High School, 8-1. The Lady Colts lost 6-3 to the Panthers. It was the 10th dual-match win of the season for the undefeated Colts, which includes matches against several larger 5A and 6A opponents. “Our…
NMMI Sports Press The NMMI Colt Baseball team (3-0) defeated Roswell High JV in their first home game of the season 10-4 at the NMMI Ballpark Tuesday evening. The Colts secured the victory thanks to seven runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Four NMMI players contributed with an RBI in the inning to…
NMMI Sports Press Tuesday evening the NMMI Colt basketball team took on the Portales Rams their regular season finale and lost 57-32. Despite the 25 point loss, NMMI had the Rams exactly where they wanted them in the first half. The Colts only allowed two three-pointers at halftime and shooting the three ball was clearly…
NMMI Sports Press The Colt varsity basketball team (4-15) picked up their fourth win if the season on Monday evening by defeating Mescalero Apache (13-11) 53-49. With 45 seconds remaining in the game, NMMI had the lead 48-46 and headed to the free throw line to shoot a one and one. The ball went off…
