Matadors

After loading the bases and forcing a pitching change, the Matadors saw designated hitter Emanuel Dean step up to the plate.

And Zhytelna, after failing to crack the Matadors’ lineup last season as a redshirt freshman, is 12-4 in singles play and 12-5 in doubles, her turbulent relationship with tennis having taken a U-turn for the better.

By 9 p.m., there was only one team at the top, that being the Matadors (17-4, 4-1).

De’Sean Allen-Eikens has 22 points, Atin Wright has 18 and the Matadors hold on for a 69-66 victory that snaps their eight-game losing streak.

Farmington led 48-43 with under 2½ minutes to go, but the Matadors pulled even on two free throws by Benally and then, after a Farmington turnover, a corner 3-pointer by Wright.

Midfielder Jorge Solorzano, 7, gets a corner kick for the Matadors during the game against the Sacramento State Hornets on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Matador Soccer Field in Northridge, Calif.

Now, he's ready to become an important part of the Matadors Family and will be all over the LBK in 2023.

She didn’t get many touches, but made the most of them when she got the ball, and added some aggressiveness down low for the Matadors.

The Matadors fell in an eerily similar way to their male counterparts.

The Matadors lost 3-1 to the California Baptist University Lancers on the road Sunday despite leading the game with 17 shots on goal, as opposed to the Lancers’ 14.

The Matadors lost 4-0.

The Matadors will take on Long Beach State, the 11th-ranked team in the nation, in the first round of the tournament.

Back-to-back blocks by Hawaii forced the Matadors to take an early timeout in the fourth set trailing 6-3 and Hawaii never gave up the lead.

In their latest stretch of games, the Matadors split their two matches against fourth-ranked Stanford University, defeated UC Merced in four sets, and were shut out by the Master’s University.

Moving forward, the Matadors will look to close out the month of January with a matchup against UC Irvine on Jan.

Being down those two players, the Matadors were forced to default the No. 3 doubles and No. 6, which gave the Lobos an advantage.

Coming into this match with a 3-9 record, everyone knew this was a must-win match-up for the Matadors.

The last quarter of the girls’ bracket features No. 3 seed Sandia — the only team to have beaten Volcano Vista; that, in fact, was the Matadors’ last game, on Dec. 21 — against No. 14 Manzano, a district rival at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Manzano.

The Matadors were off during the final 4:53 of the game, only scoring three points within that time span.

This is the first win against the Ducks for the Matadors in four losing efforts.