Craig Fritz

Sports

A collection of sports images from 1994 to 2007

Nate Post, catcher for the Santa Fe American All-Stars, realizes that his team will be out of the regional little league tournament when the game ends.
   
A diver launches off the springboard during practice at Valley High School's pool in preparation for the All City meet in Albuquerque.
   
The "C" shift crew of Phoenix Fire Department's Engine 210 does physical training at the Encantado Park Sports Complex. Paramedic Ray Davis, center, trades shots during a game of racquetball with firefighter Ray Merritt, right. The engine crew is on call 24 hours a day.
     
  
Chris Chrisman plunges head first into a small stream during his final trip around the course of the Mudfest mountain bike race in Carrollton, Ky. Chrisman was uninjured but remarked, still dazed from the fall, "The water's cold."
   
Sprint car driver Jared Scutt hopes to move up in the ranks and eventually race professionally in California. For now however, the New Mexico native will settle for doing laps at the small time Hollywood Hills Speedway on the San Felipe Pueblo outside of Albuquerque.
   
For some golfers the large water hazard makes hole 9, at the Santa Ana Golf Course in Bernalillo, N.M., a difficult shot.
     
  
Jillian Sweeny goalie for Gallup's U-11 Red Lightning team, blocks a shot on goal during the 2006 New Mexico Cup.
   
New Mexico's Robert Turner, left, consoles Erik Cook in the closing seconds of the Lobo's 21-27 loss to TCU at University Stadium on Nov. 11, 2006.
   
Underneath pictures of former Rio Grande High School state champion wrestlers, 2007 teammates, left to right, Charles Gallegos, Justin Vigil, David Romero and Fabion Griego, work to perfect their escape moves.
     
  
Boston College's Brittanny Johnson, center, has a shot blocked by Utah's Jessica Perry. Kim Smith of Utah, foreground, was turned upside down during the play. Utah won the third round 2006 NCAA tournament game at The Pit 57-54.
   
After narrowly completing a series of drills, members of Eldorado High School's football team collapse onto pads along the sideline. During the second day of practice and the first day of school classes. Charlie Dotson, Eldorado's new coach, quickly returned them to the practice field following a brief water break.
   
La Cueva High School's Adrian Aranda gets a kiss from teammate Bryan Pullen after hitting a two run double that secured the state championship semi-final game. The game, against Las Cruces, ended 4-2 in the 8th inning.
     
  
Eldorado catcher Brett Haggerty retrieves the baseball before tagging out Cibola's Andrew Arellanes who was attempting to score in the fourth inning. Eldorado won the game 6-4 too advance in the 2007 state tournament.
   
Maryland's Charmaine Carr keeps a souvenir piece of the net in a hat she received following her team's victory over Utah in the 2006 NCAA regional final in Albuquerque at the Pit.
   
The most remote field at the Bernalillo Soccer Complex is the only one of 23 that went unused during the 2006 New Mexico Cup soccer tournament.