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A half dozen of us sat nervously in the advanced English classroom of  Mrs. Ruth Shafer, a veteran teacher who, many had heard, ran her students through the paces.

Mrs. Shafer, wherever she is would probably fault me for using such a cliché (“through the paces”), but even as I write this, I think back more than five decades to the favorable impressions she left on us.
Let me explain:

Arjay Ortiz’s 96-yard touchdown run put an exclamation point on Robertson’s 45-0 shutout of Cobre on a balmy Saturday afternoon at Cardinal Stadium.

It was another big day for Ortiz, who ran for two TDs, passed for two more and intercepted two Cobre passes. In all, Ortiz generated 352 total offensive yards (191 passing, 161 rushing).

It was also a good afternoon for Darian Duran and the Robertson defense, which consistently found its way into the Indians’ backfield for sacks and tackles for loss.

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Albuquerque’s baseball season came to a close Monday night with a 13-1 loss at Reno (80-62).

Rafael Ynoa paced the Isotopes with three of the team’s nine hits. The Aces scored 10 runs in the second.

The Isotopes finished the summer — their 15th as a franchise — 68-73, good for third place, four and a half games behind champion El Paso in the Pacific Coast League Pacific Southern.

Manager Glenallen Hill, who recently won his 200th game, is expected to return in 2018.

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