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EUNICE — One would be hard pressed to find two New Mexico towns as diametrically opposed as this tiny hitching post in the extreme southeast corner of the state and the one the St. Michael’s Horsemen left behind Friday morning.

This place, less than 10 minutes from the Texas border, is flush with pumpjacks and pickups that serve as the backbone of New Mexico’s oil and gas industry. The other is the heartbeat of the state’s policymakers, its towering forested mountains not at all resembling the unforgiving flatland of the oil-rich Permian Basin.

Politically, economically, geographically and culturally — they’re at opposite ends of the spectrum. Yet Friday night, these towns discovered they do have at least one thing in common: High school football.



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