From The Albuquerque Tribune:
You win some, you lose some.
Until Monday, La Cueva’s Seth Johnson and Zach Arnett had defied that maxim.
Johnson and Arnett were around for all 70 games of La Cueva’s national record-setting win streak. They were freshmen when the streak began. They were sophomores and juniors when La Cueva won consecutive state baseball titles, going undefeated along the way.
And they are seniors this year, as La Cueva began 12-0 before falling 17-8 to Rio Grande on Monday.
But 70 wins tell only part of their story. Arnett and Johnson also played varsity football for the Bears, who have won 26 straight games and two consecutive state Class 5A titles.
Their win streak was really 96 games.
Before Monday, neither player had lost a high school football or baseball game since La Cueva fell 10-0 to Clovis in the quarterfinals of the 2002 state football playoffs.