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Regional football round-up

CLOVIS — Friday night football was a night the tide turned for some area football teams. For others, the waves came crashing down.

Muleshoe 33, Idalou 3

Muleshoe picked up its first win of the season, and won big at that.

Ryan Rodriguez got the Mules started with an 11-yard rushing touchdown and followed with a 27-yard run to put the Mules ahead to a quick 14-0 lead in the first. Michael Lozano added a 73 yard-run for a touchdown in the second quarter. Muleshoe had a total of 379 rushing yards and 86 passing yards.

“We kinda got a shot in the arm which gave us some spark coming into this game,” Muleshoe head coach David Wood said. “We did switch our quarterbacks, so our running back became the quarterback, and our second-string running back went to starting running back. We are going to stick with this chemistry and work on it through our off week, so until it doesn’t work anymore, we’ll stick with it.”

Muleshoe will return to action Oct. 13 as they face Slaton on the road.

Hale Center 29, Bovina 21

Bovina played outstanding as they fell just short to undefeated Hale Center (5-0). Hale Center started the game off with a rushing touchdown with 8 minutes to go in the first quarter, but Bovina clearly didn’t want to play catch-up as they scored with 3 minutes left in the first off of a touchdown pass to tie the first.

Bovina had no answer in the second quarter and half of the third, as Hale Center scored 3 unanswered touchdowns. Bovina came back to close the gap, but fell short as Hale Center took a 29-21 win. Bovina (3-2) stays home as it faces Smyer Oct. 13.

Melrose 56, Dora 6

With key players missing from the Coyotes it really was a struggle to make anything happen against the State Champions. Melrose controlled the game throughout, but Dora scored and prevented on what could have been a complete shut out. Melrose (5-0), which ended the game in the third quarter via the 50-point rule, goes on to play Mountainair next week.

Dora (3-2) stays home to take on Springer next week.

Capitan 59, Texico 12

After blowing out Loving last week, Texico (1-5) wasn’t able to carry that momentum against the classification’s No. 1 team in the state. Texico looks to gain some momentum they brought against loving to their next weeks matchup against Clayton in Clayton.