New Mexico Senators Win!

Senate Wins! Senate Wins!
Upset for Senators
Link to six minute video (entire highlights could not run on Youtube. Too long.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0z0PKXqOtA



Santa Fe- It is a headline that has not been seen for the past nine years. “Senate Wins! Senate Wins!”

In this year’s annual New Mexico State Legislature basketball match up between the Senate and House, the State Senators won by one point.
43 to 42. With that win Friday night at the St. Michael’s High School gym, the Senate broke a 9-game losing streak that had begun in 2001.

State Senator Rod Adair, who has played in 14 straight Legislative Basketball games said, “We were always quite a bit older than the House, and the gap kept growing. Then we suddenly get 30-and 40-somethings like Senators Howie Morales, John Sapien, Tim Keller and John Ryan- who made about 14 straight free throws- and suddenly we’re competitive again.”

The Senators were coach by UNM Head Football Coach Mike Locksely. He, too was congratulated for the upset. Senator Adair noted that Senator Michael Sanchez deserved a lot of credit for the win. “He was making key decisions on what we were supposed to be doing on defense and offense- and sometimes we even were able to do it,” Senator Adair said.

The game called Hoops 4 Hope was a fund-raiser for the University of New Mexico Cancer Center. ###