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Alamogordo Daily Digest Thursday, October 01, 2026

Ty's Take

Volleyball goes five sets against mountain rivals, football gets run over by Artesia, and now the town's voting on who deserves the hardware for the week. That's small-town sports in a nutshell, where the scoreboard tells you who won Friday night but the real story is how these kids show up Monday morning at school and keep grinding through the season anyway. We've got enough distractions around here, enough big things happening at the base and out at White Sands, that high school athletics might seem like small potatoes. But it's not. It's where discipline gets tested, where you learn something about yourself when the other team's better, and where a community still knows your name after the final whistle. Go vote for your athlete. They earned it.

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Alamogordo needs five sets to beat Ruidoso

The Alamogordo Tigers volleyball team defeated the Ruidoso Warriors in a closely contested match that required five sets to decide. The competition remained tight throughout, with individual set scores of 27-25, 14-25, 25-15, and two additional sets determining the outcome.

Vote now for Alamogordo’s Athlete of the Week

Joe Chavez of Tularosa and Haydn Pengelly of Cloudcroft were named last week's Otero County Athletes of the Week, with Chavez praised for quickly learning the quarterback position in his team's victory over Laguna Acoma and Pengelly leading the Bears' volleyball team to one of the region's best...

Alamogordo football can’t keep up with Artesia in loss

The Artesia Bulldogs dominated Alamogordo at Tiger Stadium on Friday night, jumping to a 14-0 lead in the opening quarter before cruising to a 54-19 victory. The Tigers were unable to mount a comeback against the powerful Bulldog offense throughout the game.

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