{"id":298791,"date":"2017-03-01T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=298791"},"modified":"2017-03-01T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:39:35","slug":"senate-claims-fourth-consecutive-victory-in-charity-hoops-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/03\/senate-claims-fourth-consecutive-victory-in-charity-hoops-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate claims fourth consecutive victory in charity hoops game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10\" class=\"navis-slideshow\"><div id=\"298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10-slide1\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4206671_web_030117_legislative-basketball96234-cmyk.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"credit\">Clyde Mueller \/ The New Mexican<\/h6><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/03\/senate-claims-fourth-consecutive-victory-in-charity-hoops-game\/#298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10\/1\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Howie Morales, D-Silver City, right, shoots under defensive pressure from Rep. Bill McCamley, D-Las Cruces, during the New Mexico State legislators' 2017 Hoops 4 Hope basketball game Wednesday at Santa Fe High School's Tony Roybal Gymnasium.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10-slide2\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4206671_web_030117_legislative-basketball96294-cmyk.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"credit\">Clyde Mueller \/ The New Mexican<\/h6><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/03\/senate-claims-fourth-consecutive-victory-in-charity-hoops-game\/#298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10\/2\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Matthew McQueen, D-Santa Fe, right, and Sen. Bill Soules, D-Las Cruces, battle for a rebound during the New Mexico State legislators' 2017 Hoops 4 Hope basketball game Wednesday at Santa Fe High School's Tony Roybal Gymnasium.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10-slide3\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4206671_web_030117_legislative-basketball96486-cmyk.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"credit\">Clyde Mueller \/ The New Mexican<\/h6><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/03\/senate-claims-fourth-consecutive-victory-in-charity-hoops-game\/#298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10\/3\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Howie Morales, D-Silver City, left, and Sen. Benny Shendo Jr., D-Jemez Pueblo, defend against Rep. Gail Armstrong, R-Socorro, as she tries to control the ball Wednesday night during the New Mexico state legislators' 2017 Hoops 4 Hope basketball game.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10-slide4\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4206671_web_030117XGR_162_CMYK.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"credit\">Clyde Mueller \/ The New Mexican<\/h6><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/03\/senate-claims-fourth-consecutive-victory-in-charity-hoops-game\/#298791-8418ffd2ec74fb327c72fb9910df7e10\/4\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">State senators' basketball jerseys can be seen on the Senate floor the morning before the 2017 Annual Hoops 4 Hope basketball game on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The New Mexico Senate celebrated its fourth consecutive victory, 36-29, over the House of Representatives <span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1668309000\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span> in the legislators&#8217; annual Hoops 4 Hope basketball game.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The charity game, held at Santa Fe High School&#8217;s Toby Roybal Gymnasium, raised $30,486 in donations to support cancer research and care at The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. According to the center, the previous six games raised about $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>The House team, the Aggies, coached by New Mexico State University women&#8217;s volleyball coach Mike Jordan, lost two of its better players this year in Republicans Terry McMillan, who was defeated in his bid for re-election, and Conrad James, who didn&#8217;t run for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sens. Bill O&#8217;Neill, Bill Soules and Howie Morales were the mainstays for the Senate team, the Lobos, coached by UNM football coach Bob Davie.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>. NMPolitics.net is paying for the rights to publish articles about the 2017\u00a0legislative session from the newspaper. Help us cover the cost by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\">making a donation to NMPolitics.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charity game raised $30,486 in donations to support cancer research and care at The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3329,107,164],"class_list":["post-298791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2017-legislative-session","tag-roundhouse","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}