The 2026 NMAA State Soccer Championship tournament is in full swing with the first round in the books.Upsets, as is typical for the first round, were hard to come by but there were a few big ones, led by Rowell's first-round exit as a 2-seed.
The boys' quarterfinal starts Friday and the girls' on Saturday, at the school with the higher seed. Semifinals and finals take place Nov. 2-6.
BOYS
The first-round boys games took place Wednesday, with the quarterfinals kicking off Friday.
CLASS 5A: Top-seeded La Cueva had no trouble handling No. 16 Santa Fe, taking down the Demons 6-0. Bears' scoring leader, sophomore Brice Clark will try to take La Cueva to the next round when the squad faces No. 9 Sandia.

#Friday #nmaa

RB Leipzig suffered a 4-1 defeat away to Como 1907 in their opening Champions League game on 10th September 2026.
Como begin on the front foot, pressing high and putting our boys under pressure from the outset. The first chances fell to Cesc Fàbregas' side.
Maarten Vandevoordt produced a fine save to deny Anastasios Douvikas in the 13th minute, but the goalkeeper was beaten two minutes later. Martin Baturina was able to get a shot away from close range inside the penalty area and found the back of the net to put Como 1-0 ahead (15').
RBL almost responded immediately. Straight from the restart, Antonio Nusa found himself one-on-one with Como goalkeeper Jean Butez after getting on the end of a long ball, but his finish was too central and Butez made the save (16').
Leipzig then began to create more opportunities. Andrija Maksimović and Marc Guiu, who were both making their first starts for the club, went close in quick succession. Butez first made an excellent save to keep out Maksimović's curling effort, before Guiu sent a promising header wide just seconds later (36').

#butez #first #guiu #away

The New Mexico Activities ***** ociation has leveled a first strike against the Mayfield High School football team following an ugly on-field incident last week.
During a second-quarter skirmish that initially involved a couple of players from both the Trojans and Organ Mountain on Friday night at the Field of Dreams, approximately two dozen Mayfield players rushed off the sideline and onto the field to join the fray.
Following a multi-day investigation, the NMAA on Wednesday announced that Mayfield, under the organization's still relatively new "2 Strikes" sportsmanship initiative, would be issued a first strike.
If Mayfield's football team is involved in any other serious on-field issue the rest of the season and the NMAA deems it "strike" worthy, a second strike would mean the Trojans would have whatever remains of their season cancelled.
Organ Mountain did not receive a strike.

#mayfield #organ #Football

One might think that being traded internationally twice in a four-month span is particularly taxing on an NHL player — but former Utah Mammoth defenseman Olli Määttä said it wasn't that bad.
"This move is the easiest one yet," Määttä said on a Finnish-language podcast (interpreted by Google Translate). "Our gear is already in storage, so we just have to tell the company not to unload it in Calgary but to bring it back across the border."
Määttä, 31, was traded from the Calgary Flames to the Minnesota Wild on July 2. He'd only been in Calgary since March, when the Mammoth traded him there as part of the MacKenzie Weegar deal.
Any day with an NHL logo on your chest is a good day, right?
"It's more exciting than anything," Määttä said in his introductory press conference with the Wild reporters. "I'm happy to be part of a team like that that's pushing to win. It's a really good feeling that they want me."

#part #good #utah #finnish

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