Record!

From the report in The Albuquerque Journal:

La Cueva’s baseball team pitched, fielded and generally bashed its way into the national record books Saturday, winning consecutive game numbers 69 and 70.

By sweeping visiting Highland 15-1 and 11-0 in a doubleheader, the Bears went where no prep baseball team had gone before. They extended a winning streak that dates to 2002 and eclipsed a record that dated to 1966, when Archbishop Molloy High of Briarwood, N.Y., completed a 68-game run.

The setting could hardly have been more perfect.

Roughly 1,000 fans encircled La Cueva’s baseball diamond on a crystal-clear morning. Fans in lawn chairs lined the track outside the right-field fence, and a group of firefighters watched from atop a fire truck parked in left field.

Remarkably, two players have started every game of the four year streak.

This is NewMexiKen’s local high school (as if that matters).