The Texico Lady Wolverines defeated the Navajo Pine Lady Warriors last night to win the New Mexico 2AA girls state basketball championship. I was curious about Texico High School, knowing the town to be a tiny place on the Texas-New Mexico state line (population 1,065 in 2000 and I doubt it’s grown much). Anyway, here’s an announcement left over from yesterday on the high school web site:
Lady Wolverines are victorious over Penasco in the State Basketball Tournament. They will be playing at the Pit in Albuquerque at 4:00 pm on Friday 3/12/10 against Navajo Pine. Texico Schools will dismiss at 11:50 am with the buses running at 12:00 pm.
I wonder how many made the 464-mile round trip.
This was also on the website and struck me as a part of America that most of us left long ago.
Please keep Lucero family and the Anderson family in your prayers for the recent loss of their grandmothers.
The word Texico is a portmanteau. That’s a blending of two words.
[Navajo Pine High School is on the Arizona border. The two schools are more than 400 miles apart.]
Entirely unrelated, but one of my coworkers runs a funny site called The Daily Portmanteau.