El Rito Media Kayson Gomez, Jed Bilberry, and Elijah Sanchez have something most eightyear-olds would never dream of: a World Series championship. The three boys helped the Artesia Freedom 8-under baseball team claim the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) 8-and-under AAA World Series title.

old daughter Monique was released from the Eddy County Detention Center June 3 as the case continues, despite a motion from the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office that he be incarcerated ahead of trial.

El Rito Media More work needed to be done before Eddy County issued millions of dollars in bonds to a Colorado company for a large renewable energy battery facility north of Carlsbad, said the James “Bo” Bowen chairperson of the Eddy County Board of County Commissioners.

Saturday, July 20 9:00am - 11:00am: Open Class entries will be accepted 9:00am - 11:00am: 4-H Indoor Entries will be accepted 9:00am - 11:00am: Lead Class entries will be accepted 1:00pm - 4:00pm: 4-H exhibits will be judged (Judging is closed to the public.)

Sports • Artesia SeaDogs Summer Swim Team Location: Artesia Aquatic Center Tryouts: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 30; 10 a.m.

• Saturday’s EXPLORE POCONO MOUNTAINS 225, Pocono Raceway Reigning Xfinity champion Cole Custer claimed his first win of the season Saturday, beating his closest championship challenger Justin Allgaier to the Explore The Pocono Mountains 225 checkered flag and giving Ford its first series win of 2024. Custer’s No.

Cole Custer celebrates after winning the Explore The Pocono Mountains 225 at Pocono Raceway Saturday. J.

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Rank/Driver Points Rank/Driver Points 1 Christian Eckes #19 618 2 Corey Heim #11 586 3 Nicholas Sanchez #2 505 4 Ty Majeski #98 490 5 Rajah Caruth #71 430 6 Tyler Ankrum #18 414 7 Grant Enfinger #9 411 8 Taylor Gray #17 404 9 Ben Rhodes #99 383 10 Daniel Dye #43 366 11 Tanner Gray #15 365 12 Stewart Friesen #52 362 13 Matt Crafton #88 319 14 Chase Purdy #77 314 15 Jake Garcia #13 293 16 Dean Thompson #5 277 17 Layne Riggs #38 271 18 Bayley Currey #41 250 19 Ty Dillon #25 249 20 Bret Holmes #32 247 NEXT RACE: TSPORT 200, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, 8:30 p.m. ET Friday, FS1 .

Rank/Driver Points 1 Cole Custer #00 716 2 Justin Allgaier #7 665 3 Chandler Smith #81 657 4 Austin Hill #21 640 5 AJ Allmendinger #16 564 6 Jesse Love #2 563 7 Riley Herbst #98 560 8 Sheldon Creed #18 543 9 Parker Kligerman #48 524 10 Sam Mayer #1 501 Rank/Driver Points 11 Sammy Smith #8 488 12 Ryan Sieg #39 466 13 Shane v. Gisbergen #97 463 14 Brandon Jones #9 412 15 Anthony Alfredo #5 393 16 Brennan Poole #44 337 17 Parker Retzlaff #31 315 18 Josh Williams #11 308 19 Jeb Burton #22 268 20 Jeremy Clements #51 267 NEXT RACE: PENZOIL 250, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 3:30 p.m.

Rank/Driver Points 1 C. Elliott Chevrolet 703 2 K.

A¦er three years competing on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, the Cup Series returns to the iconic 2.5mile oval on Sunday. There are not many people as excited as Denny Hamlin for the “back to the future” Brickyard 400 presented by PPG.