Love in the air for sports Basketball teams in last month of regular season, baseball, softball seasons heating up

Love is in the air as Valentines Day is just around the corner and what that means is that the love of Cougar sports is heating up with four teams in their active season.

The basketball teams have five more home games left in the season with up to three road games.

While the basketball teams are wrapping up their regular seasons to prepare for the regional tournaments that begin in March, the baseball and softball teams are also heating up.

The basketball team’s five home games remaining starts this weekend when the Cougars host Otero College on Friday and Trinidad State College on Saturday (February 10 and 11) inn key South Sub-Region contests.

After that, the next home games will be Thursday, February 16 when Lamar Community College comest calling and then Saturday, February 18 when McCook comes for an after contest.

The last regular season home game is different from the original schedule as a conflict with some other teams caused the Cougars to move the Northeastern Junior College game from February 21 to Saturday, February 25. Those Saturday contests will begin at 5 p.m. for the women and 7 p.m. for the men.

Just how important are these

Remaining WNCC Basketball Home Games

Friday, Feb. 10 -- Otero College

Women 5:30 p.m., Men 7:30 p.m. ALUMNI NIGHT

Saturday, Feb. 11 -- Trinidad Women 2 p.m., Men 4 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 16 -- Lamar Women 5:30 p.m., Men 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 18 -- McCook Women 2 p.m., Men 4 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 25 -- NJC Women 5 p.m., Men 7 p.m. Sophomore Recognition Night sub-region contests? Well, these home games will determine the tournament seeds and for the Cougar women, if they win the South Sub-region, they will host the Region IX tournament March 9-11.

Right now they are tied with Otero in losses. Otero is 5-1 as of February 8 while the Cougars are 3-1. Right behind these two teams are McCook and Trinidad at 3-2. Trinidad State handed the Cougars their only defeat while WNCC defeated Otero.

As for the men’s standings, the Cougar men are fighting to host a first-round playoff game on March 4 and right now they are in line to do just that.

Trinidad is in control of the South Sub-region men’s standings with a 6-0 record. After that, it is log jammed as