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MORA — James Porter’s layup with eight seconds left in regulation gave the host Mora Rangers the last laugh Tuesday night as they staged a minor upset of West Las Vegas 66-62 at Montoya Gym.

Mora improved to 2-1, its lone loss having come in another nailbiter at defending Class 3A champion Pojoaque. Tuesday’s game marked West Las Vegas’ debut under new head coach David “Morgan” Montaño.

The game ended much like it began — a furious offensive barrage by both sides.

West Las Vegas raced out to an 11-0 lead and never looked back as the Lady Dons opened the season with a 51-32 win over Taos at the Gillie Lopez Gym on Monday.

The Lady Tigers managed to pull within five midway through the first period, but the Lady Dons held on for a 12-7 first period lead.

“We let them get back in the game,” said head coach Jose Medina. “We started to relax and we were not following through on defense and we weren’t rotating well on our press. “

The Pecos Panthers won their first game of the season Saturday night 69-68 over the Escalante Lobos, a night after dropping a 75-70 decision to Tularosa.

Tim Baca scored 28 points and Joseph Gonzales added 18 in the winning game against Escalante. Head coach Clyde Sanchez said his team had left a lot of their legs on the hardwood the night before in Tularosa, but the Panthers managed to pull out the contest on a Ricardo Ortiz free throw with seconds remaining after Baca hit a pair of charity tosses to tie the game at 68. Ortiz added 13 points for Pecos in the winning effort.

We tend to think of winter as a time when nothing will grow, but from the plant’s perspective, there are really two winters, and we can take advantage of that fact to have spring veggies sooner than anyone else.

We can say there are two chronologically distinct winters from the plants’ perspective because there are two factors impacting plant growth in the winter months- limited sunlight and cold climate. The two overlap, but do not occur at exactly the same times.