Topper baseball falls 18-3 to Albuquerque Academy at Bomber Field

Los Alamos hit a hard stop at Bomber Field, where Albuquerque Academy rolled to an 18-3 win and ended the nonconference game by mercy rule in the fifth inning. The result snapped a three-game winning streak for the Hilltoppers and showed how quickly the spring can turn when a top Class 4A opponent finds its rhythm.

The matchup was part of a 3 p.m. Tuesday home date on the Hilltoppers’ spring schedule. Los Alamos had beaten Española Valley 9-4 three days earlier, but Academy brought a different level of pressure and left little doubt about the gap on this afternoon in Los Alamos.

Boaz Martinez started on the mound for Los Alamos, and Omar Bojorquez made the first out of the game, small but important local details that tied the loss to the players wearing the blue and white at a familiar county venue. Those names also appeared on the Los Alamos varsity roster for the 2025-26 season, underscoring that the core of the team is already in view as the season moves deeper into April.

The defeat also came against a program that has been one of the steadier forces in the region. Albuquerque Academy entered the game after a 10-2 loss to Belen on April 11, then rebounded to improve to 14-6 and climb to second in the New Mexico Class 4A standings after beating Los Alamos. That matters for the Hilltoppers, because it places the game in context: this was not a random blowout, but a meeting with one of the stronger teams in the classification.

New Mexico high school baseball is divided into five classes under the New Mexico Activities Association, and practice began Feb. 2, putting this game squarely in the middle of the season’s grind. For Los Alamos, that means each result now carries more weight, especially with the schedule moving through a crowded spring that also keeps track and field, tennis and softball in motion around the county.

The scoreboard at Bomber Field was lopsided, but the larger lesson is clearer. Los Alamos has shown it can win, as it did against Española Valley, yet the Hilltoppers still have work to do before they can match the better regional teams for seven innings. The next stretch will tell whether the recent winning run was a brief burst or the beginning of something more durable.