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Raton Lady Tigers Remain Undefeated in District Play

November 2, 2025

By Marty Mayfield
KRTN Multi-Media

It took the Lady Tigers (District 7-0) four games to do it Saturday afternoon November 1, 2025 as they bested the Lady Rattlers (District 4-3) from Tucumcari to stay atop the Class 2A District 6 ahead of the Santa Rosa Lady Lions who sit in second at 6-2.

The Lady Tigers C-Team took the floor first where Jaycee Jamison and team scored the first six points in game one of the match. Jamison had another long service streak in game three that helped the Lady Tigers wrap that one up. In game two Tucumcari’s Kyrie Marroquin and team served up five straight points for the win in that game.

The Tucumcari JV girls took their match in two games pulling out in front of Raton after tie scores at four and five then widening out the deficit by six before Raton battled back to within two 12-10.  Tucumcari went on to pull out the 25-18 win. In game two Tucumcari pulled out and quickly widened the score finishing it off with a 12 point win.

The Varsity Lady Tigers took game one after keeping it close with tie scores up to five. After that Raton pulled out in front widening the score later in the game and finished it off with a 25-18 win.

In game two the score was tied as late as eight points on the board before Raton again with strong play at the net and several long volleys to take an eight point win.

Something went wrong in game three as Raton allowed Tucumcari to take the lead and but never could quite break the three point lead barrier finishing out the game 25-22.

The Lady Tigers took the early lead and allowed ties at two, three and four then pulling out by two. The play continued with lots of great plays with saves on the floor and blocks at the net and slams that fell on open floor for the point. When it was finished Raton pulled out an wight point win to remain undefeated in district play.

Raton has two more matches left, one on November 6th in Santa Rosa and then Clayton in Tiger Gym on Saturday November 8, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. instead of 3:00 p.m. that was originally scheduled as Raton Tiger Football will host the Tularosa Wildcats for first round state tourney play on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

C-Team
Tucumcari  21  25  12
Raton         25  20  15

JV
Tucumcari  25  25
Raton          18  13

Varsity
Tucumcari  18  17   25  17
Raton          25  25   22  25

 

Raton’s Ava Inveld puts one over the net as Lady Rattler Jackie Verdugo goes for the block during the C-Team game in Tiger Gym Saturday afternoon.
Jaylynn Quintana makes the slam as Nahomi Rayos goes up for the block during the JV game in Tiger Gym Saturday afternoon.
Mezzi Fanelli makes the hit over the net as Ashlynn Benavidez goes up for the block at the net during the district match in Tiger Gym Saturday afternoon.
Lady Tigers Mezzo Fanelli and Ariana Perez go for the block after Cambree Benavidez slams one over the net as she did so well many times during the match Saturday afternoon in Tiger Gym.
Raton’s Ariana Perez goes up for the block as Ashlynn Benavidez makes the slam over the net Saturday afternoon during the district match in Tiger Gym.
Paige Lemons slams one into the net but it is just hard enough to make it over the net and falls to the floor as Lady Rattler Shantel Lopez works for the block Saturday afternoon during the district match in Tiger Gym.
Tucumcari’s Serenity Savala slams one over the net as Addison Median and Paige Lemons work for the block, the ball just gets by and falls to the Elizabeth Boone on the back line for the save during the district match in Tiger gym Saturday afternoon.

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