Saturday, March 7th, 2020 at 9:00PM. He would tell me about teams, just being around him was wonderful. This is the NEW official Hobbs High School Boys Soccer Team Facebook page. As of March 2, 2023. The 2018-19 All-Southwest District girls high school basketball teams, as selected by a media panel from the district: DIVISION I FIRST TEAM: Destiny Bohanon, Huber Heights Wayne, 5-foot-9, senior, 15.1 points per game; Chance Gray, West Chester Lakota West, 5-9, fr., 14.8; Mya Jackson, Wilmington, 5-7, sr., 25.0; Gabbie Marshall, Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame, 5-9, [] At 5 p.m. Saturday at Carlsbad High School the No. [9] In the 1955-56 season, however, Tasker began instructing his players to apply full-court press defense for the entire game. Bailey Vigil, Dulce High School, junior: "Usually the best player on the floor in most of her games". Hobbs, a former defensive end for the Montana football team and former head coach of the Stevensville boys basketball team, has been hired as head coach of the Missoula Big Sky girls basketball team. From 2017-2020 Hobbs was the girls JV coach at Sentinel under one of the greatest high school coaches of all time, Karen Deden. District rival Carlsbad is 19-3 overall and ranked 8th. Led by legendary Coach Ralph Tasker, the Hobbs Eagles basketball program produced winning seasons year after year and became the team to beat in the Southwestern United States. Kelly Smith named volleyball coach at Asheboro. They are names of some players that various coaches spoke about heading into the postseason and a sample of their comments), Kamalani Anitielu, Farmington High School, senior: Only the 5th player at Farmington High School to ever score more than 1,000 career points, Kapiolani Anitielu (junior)/Kjani Anitielu (freshman): Younger sisters of Kamalani with good court vision and quickness, Huge 3-point threat, Sydney Benally, Sandia High School, sophomore: Sophomore captain averaging over 20 points a game A threat with the ball in her hands, Emma Christiano, Las Cruces High School, senior: veteran guard who reached the 1,000 point plateau this season, Kyndle Cunningham, Hobbs High School, sophomore: Solid post player whos had to step up, Good defender inside the paint, Taejhuan Hill, Volcano Vista High School, junior: Experienced post player who is tough to stop on the block, Comes up big in big games, Bella Hines, Eldorado High School, sophomore: One of the most dynamic girls basketball players in the state who reached the 1,000 point mark for her career earlier this season, Capable of taking over a game. The 2023 high school state basketball tournaments begin Friday, with the girls up first. It was a rare experience just to coach against Coach Tasker. Karl Hobbs was born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston. He had 36 seasons of 20 wins or more and 12 state championships. Hobbs, Lindsey voted Fans' Players of the Week. We played Mayfield in the quarterfinals and they were a running team as well. Douglass-Atlanta 78, Dougherty 73 . His accomplishments include the following: 6x California . Hed pass the ball maybe 10 times before someone took a shot. After retiring following the 1997-98 season, his final win-loss record stands at 1122-291 (.794). On 2/25, the Hobbs varsity basketball team lost their away tournament game against Carlsbad (NM) by a score of 59-44. Elkmont's Curtis Hobbs and West Morgan's Abby Lindsey were voted this week's Fans' Favorites. He also added former Michigan Head Coach Brian Ellerbe to his staff to replace Darrell Brooks,[11] who left to become the head coach at Bowie State University. The late Hobbs High boys basketball coach Ralph Tasker instructs his 1969-70 state championship team on how to average 114 points a game. I learned how to talk fast broadcasting his games. Hobbs played for the Rhode Island Gulls of the USBL in July 1985 before returning to Connecticut and finishing his Bachelor of Science degree in family studies in the summer of 1986. Twitter; . Volleyball. Taskers first Hobbs team went 13-7, them improved to 27-6 the following year. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports. We ran into all sorts of methods. We were averaging almost 120 points a game. I think one year we averaged 98 points per game, Ashcraft said. As head basketball coach at Hobbs High School, Ralph Tasker was largely responsible for creating one of the most successful high school basketball programs in the United States. Robinson averaged 27.3 points and 12.8 rebounds a game. Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, he coached for over 50 years, including 49 years at Hobbs High School in Hobbs, New Mexico. It remains the most prolific scoring team in state high school history. Hobbs High School basketball should experience a smooth transition when Shelby Reeves (right) takes over as head coach of the Eagles next season. One of them would pop out, catch and look for the other one inside. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. [17] However, Robert Hughes (basketball coach) and Morgan Wootten have since passed him on that list. Wilson, 61, was announced Tuesday at the head coach at Tulsa University. He attended their winter instructional league and spring training, but was released when the Cubs drastically reduced the size of their farm club. (Courtesy of Rick Shed), This is a team photo of the 1969-70 Hobbs squad that won the large school New Mexico boys basketball title. Click here for the online magazine >>>. And as a result, the Eagles loss margin that day was in the 50-point range. Team photo Eric Kolenich Bo Hobbs, a longtime girls. FROM TASKER TO REEVES, NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED FOR HOBBS BOYS BASKETBALL, https://www.nmact.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nmaa-logo-full.png, https://www.nmact.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/hobbs-boys-basketball.jpeg, LORDSBURGS QUINCY CONNOR CURRENTLY LEADS STATE IN SCORING, 2023 Nusenda Credit Union State Basketball Brackets & Highlights, Coaches Comment On State Basketball Tournament Talent, NUSENDA CREDIT UNION STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS & TICKETS, Monday Morning News presented by Final Forms. Coach Hadley attended LACES High School and Serra High School, graduating from LACES in 1992. Ralph Edwin Tasker (July 15, 1919 - July 19, 1999) was a high school boys' basketball coach. I have nine seniors on my team which makes a big difference, said 4th year head coach Shelby Reeves. Its been 50 years since that landmark year, and those Hobbs boys remain the benchmark for prolific scoring in state history. Senior guard Isaiah Burke led the Bears with a game-high 20 points. On 2/14, the Hobbs varsity basketball team won their home conference game against Roswell (NM) by a score of 79-75. They really werent happy about that.. Baseball. Note the score and time on the scoreboard. Thats our goal.. [1] As a teacher at Hobbs High School, he taught Social Studies and Government and was named Teacher of the Year three times. The only time Hobbs seemed to resemble a normal albeit very good high school basketball team was immediately after that season-opening win over Midland Lee. That defeat came six weeks after Taskers wife of 49 years died. District rival Carlsbad is 19-3 overall and ranked 8th. Coach Tasker allowed me to come into the gym at the age of 6, I had to come with my brothers, Reeves recalled. Goar is a shooting guard who is a three-point threat and Mora is a 66 post player. But he didnt; he kept on playing his brand of ball. 5:05 p.m., 10/17/2022 60 That is the average points per game the 1969-70 Hobbs Eagles scored. It marks the end of his coaching career at Hobbs High School _ an era in which boys yearned to play for the man with an unwavering passion for the game. The Hobbs Eagles have dominated the court pretty much since basketball came to New Mexico, and certainly for most of legendary coach Ralph Tasker's lengthy reign, but there was something awfully special about the '69-70 Hobbs team that went 26-1 and included standouts like Larry Williams and Larry Robinson. <Subject and Grade Level> <About Me> Contact Us Hobbs Freshman High School. Basketball. The Eagles will travel to Carlsbad on Friday evening. Uploaded by We all played by position on the press. He was also All Southwest Conference multiple times., The legendary Hobbs Eagle team was a racially diverse group, Clampitt remembered. When the ball went up, we started running. Daemon Ely, Taos High School, senior: 68 post player who is one of the top scorers in the north. . There was 6 foot 9 inch Larry Williams, who went on to play for Kansas State, was drafted by the Bucks and spent his career playing basketball in Europe. Athletic Coordinator / Boys Basketball Head Coach /PALS kyle_herrema@lovejoyisd.net469-742-8729 Brandon Jackson Business (CTE) / Coach brandon_jackson@lovejoyisd.net469-742-8560 Jason Johns Athletic Coordinator jason_johns@lovejoyisd.net Ian Keeble Digital Media (CTE) / Girls Soccer Head Coach At the high school level he played both varsity basketball and baseball. In 53 years of coaching boys basketball in New Mexico, Taskers career record stands at 1,119 wins and 290 losses. Last week, Goar set the school record for most three-pointers in a career (218), and he is close to breaking into the top ten all-time in the state. The Cavemen won a consolation game and eventually finished in third place at state in 1969-70. They won the Massachusetts State High School title and Hobbs was named Massachusetts Schoolboy Player of the Year for the 197980 season. The entire team, according to a record that Shed provided for this story, included James Ward, Duane Henry, James Dickerson, Dicky Speegle, Mike Clampitt and Tommy Tydings. ``His family, his church and that gym, theyve been his passions, said Stoltz, a high school teacher and golf coach in neighboring Lovington. Hobbs didnt lose again that season, winning its first state title with a record of 30-3. El Paso Times. Boys prep basketball: West Mesa takes half-game lead in A playoff game in District 2-5A boys basketball seems imminent, thanks to the West Mesa Mustangs. The 69-70 team was filled with superstars, all of whom received or could have received basketball scholarships. He is also the schools all-time leading scorer. High School Sports. The official was caught on. Abbott was a head coach at Gallup Cathedral High School in addition to Farmington, but he is likely best remembered in Hobbs for being one of Taskers trusted assistants. on the Internet. There, he helped veterans returning from Vietnam adjust to life back home. Hobbs News-Sun file photo HOBBS Press, Eagles, puh-ress! Thats when the opposition found a new way to combat Hobbs: Take the air out of the ball. H, PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN There was a lot to like for every local team competing in this weeken, PETER STEIN/NEWS-SUN Pickleball sounds like a sport that should be played with an oval gre. A high school girl's basketball game erupted into a violent brawl last weekend when an argument between one of the referees and a coach led to a heated blowout. He can take you off the dribble, he can pull up on you. More. And, as the Hobbs press became a finely tuned instrument of harassment in early 1970, nothing seemed to work in trying to break it. I blocked a few of these guys shots totally on adrenaline from all the hype and scored 18 points. They didnt want us to score a hundred points.. The 5th-seeded Eagles beat . The club sees most of the young boys and girls who later become superstars for the Eagles and Lady Eagles. Withering opponents with a trademark full-court press, the Eagles did it to everybody. (Hobbs High School archives), Coach Ralph Tasker poses with his Hobbs High School boys basketball team during practice in 1969-70. [12] The 1965-66 Eagles team proved to be one of Tasker's best, however, as they won the state championship and also posted a 26-0 record to give him his first undefeated season. The Eagles, packed with nine seniors, won the state title during the 1969-70 season, just like they did the year before, and the year before that. [7], After World War II, Tasker became the head basketball coach at Lovington High School in Lovington, New Mexico. HOBBS, N.M. (AP) _ This is the spring Ralph Tasker hoped would never arrive. He is known for his intensity, fast substitutions and frequent whistling and hollering. [17] As of June 16, 2021 . They dont play the third-place game anymore, Ashcraft said, but it used to be when you lost in the semifinals youd turn around and play the third-place game.. Nash replied, ``Then get us in shape.. In 1998, he became the Associate Head Boys' Basketball Coach at LACES, where he stayed for 8 years. Abbott, who passed away recently, attended Hobbs High, graduating in 1959. Nowhere in sports is consistency more valued than on the high school level, where a coach can lead fathers and then their sons at the same school. Karl Bernard Hobbs II (born August 7, 1961) is an American men's college basketball coach, currently the associate head coach at Rutgers University.He is the former head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. TOLEDO, Ohio Toledo City Councilman John M. Hobbs III is the subject of an Ohio Inspector General investigation into allegations that he misused a state vehicle to travel to locations not. But the young Eagles not only. Lets say this: It was like a hurricane hit me, said Albuquerque coaching legend Jim Hulsman, who was coaching in his first title contest. Clovis 51 Hobbs 61 Final Box Score Feb 24, 2023 @ 5:15am Stats Updated Hobbs' stats have been entered for the 49-32 loss @ Carlsbad on 2/17/2023 7:00 PM. Freshman Lasan Kromah was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team and Senior Damian Hollis was named an Atlantic 10 Honorable Mention. The next two weeks, the Eagles ran two miles every other day. Hobbs High had gone through five coaches in five seasons when Tasker was hired in the summer of 1949. ``We had lost our first three games that year by one or two points. The number is astounding, all things considered. But it was a requirement for the job when Abbott coached the Scorpions. Wed fall behind, then press late in the game and rally, Tasker said. Hobbs holds a 20-2 record and is ranked 5th in the state in the latest MaxPreps polls. The victory marked head coach Jason Slate's 500th win for the Cougars. Hobbs' stats have been entered for the 50-46 loss @ Los Lunas on 1/13/2023 7:00 PM. Division regular season champion On Friday, March 3, 2023, Hobbs said corrections officials do not plan to carry out an execution on April 6, 2023, even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state . Conference regular season champion McPhail was the head coach of the McMinn girls' basketball team from 2007 to 2021. Hobbs High had gone through five coaches in five seasons when Tasker was hired in the summer of 1949. Then, he joined Jim Calhoun as an assistant at UConn where he stayed from 19932001. Carlsbad gave up 135 and 132 points in its first two meetings. Walter Payton College Preparatory High School Walter Payton College Preparatory High School 1034 N. Wells Street Chicago, IL 60610 P: (773) 534-0034 F: (773) 534-0035 Consider that the winning team in the last seven New Mexico big-schools boys championship games has scored no more than 61 points. Two of Hobbs's players at George Washington played in the NBA and a third was drafted in the second round in 2006. 2022-2023 SCHEDULE. Since then, Hobbs is 0-7 in first-round games at the state tournament. The school board has had little comment, even after Tasker said publically he was not ready to retire and was shocked when the board asked. ``He is the role model that kids looked for then and should be looking for now, said Jeff Stoltz, a forward on the 1965-66 team that went 28-0. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps for most of the next five years, being stationed in Missouri, Texas, and Kirtland Field in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Eagles last two state titles came in 1987 and 1988. The Eaglettes advanced to the Class 4A Region II finals before falling to Dallas Lincoln. ``Its a terrible empty feeling, Tasker said in an interview at the gymnasium that bears his name. During his tenure, the Colonials won two Atlantic 10 Conference championships and made three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from 200507. Board President Patricia D. Jones said in December that Tasker appeared to be breaking a gentlemans agreement by discussing it. Led by future All-American and NBA All-Star Bill Bridges (basketball), Hobbs captured the 1956 and 1957 New Mexico State Championships. I was a sophomore at El Paso Irvin. (The 1995 Albuquerque High boys champions also will be recognized that day, and the New Mexico Activities Association will hold a lunch banquet for all of its reunion teams Friday.). Unit Two: Politcal Beliefs and Behavior, Public Opinion and Polling They figured if they kept the score low, they could beat us, Robinson remembered. (New Mexico Activities Association photo), This is a screen shot of a page from a Hobbs High School basketball program in 2010. "Let me tell you the final play," the Floydada boys basketball coach said. [15] In 1980 he was named National High School Coach of the Year by the National Sports News Service. ``They gave me a paper and I signed it. High school basketball's March Madness set to tip: Here's a breakdown of the brackets. 2 for the Class 5A boys basketball playoffs sail into the postseason Prep basketball roundup: Highland, Sandia Prep win district title Highland's boys, Sandia Prep's boys and Highland's boys, Sandia Prep's boys and Volcano Vista's girls all won district tournament championsh Prep notes: Eldorado basketball sophomore Hines' 51-point game nears Eldorado High School sophomore Bella Hines Eldorado High School sophomore Bella Hines has repeatedly raised the scoring bar for herself this se Prep basketball: Santa Fes mystery point causes 5-5A controversy. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. by Kyle Marksteiner | Nov 3, 2015 | Lea County | 1 comment. But Abbott had far more success in his career than games like that. FIRST TEAM Asia. It was the first time Albuquerque High had played in the state championship game since 1946, Hulsman said recently. [14] The 1969-70 Eagles team averaged 114.6 points per game and scored 100 points or more in 14 consecutive games, both national high school records.
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