Los Alamos baseball season ends with playoff losses, district title

Los Alamos High School baseball closed out its season in Albuquerque with back-to-back losses to the Albuquerque Academy Chargers, but the final line on the record book still showed a district championship. The Chargers won 9-1 on Friday, May 8, 2026, then finished the series with a 13-6 victory on Saturday, May 9, ending the Hilltoppers’ playoff run.

That postseason exit capped a season that produced real results in District 2-4A. Los Alamos went 10-2 in district play and secured the championship title on May 2 in Moriarty after splitting a doubleheader. The Hilltoppers beat Moriarty 12-7 before dropping the nightcap 15-4, a result that still gave them the district crown and a postseason berth. Earlier that week, Los Alamos had already shown it could finish strong, beating Pojoaque 11-7 and 6-1 in a doubleheader on April 25.

The Academy matchup defined a rough stretch for the Hilltoppers, but it also revealed how strongly the Chargers matched up with them this spring. Los Alamos lost to Albuquerque Academy 18-3 on April 16 in a nonconference game at Bomber Field, and that game was called by mercy rule in the fifth inning. The teams then met three more times, once in the regular season and twice in the playoffs, with Academy winning each time.

Even so, the season was more than the two playoff losses. MaxPreps had Los Alamos at 13-13 entering the postseason stretch, and the season wrap-up listed the Hilltoppers at 13-14 overall. However the final accounting is read, the broader picture is clear: Los Alamos finished first in its district, won meaningful late-season games, and kept itself in the middle of local spring sports conversation all the way to the end. For a program that has long been one of Los Alamos County’s most visible athletic touchstones, the district title matters as much as the early playoff exit.