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The optics take some getting used to, and it looks just plain weird on the page. The Artesia Bulldogs are 0-3.

The reality is, nobody wearing Artesia orange is particularly sweating this slow start.

鈥淲e鈥檙e in good shape,鈥� Bulldogs coach Jeremy Maupin said. 鈥淥ur guys are excited to start the second season in district.鈥�

Artesia has opened with a 20-13 loss to Carlsbad, a 28-27 loss to Hobbs, and a 37-14 loss this past Thursday to Centennial.

The Bulldogs have opened against these same three teams for the past three years. They鈥檙e all Class 6A playoff teams.

鈥淲e talked about iron sharpens iron,鈥� Maupin said. 鈥�6A teams want to play us, and we want to play 6A teams.鈥�

That also includes Las Cruces High in the preseason scrimmage. Artesia steps back into 5A territory this coming week against Deming in a district opener.

The Bulldogs opened the season with 21 new starters, so there was likely going to be a fair chance that Artesia would have a bumpier transition than usual. But they鈥檙e not far from being 2-1.

鈥淲e鈥檙e a better team because of (our schedule),鈥� Maupin said. 鈥淓ven with the losses.鈥�

It鈥檚 been 43 years since Artesia started 0-3, and the Bulldogs won a state title that year.

One of the teams Artesia didn鈥檛 play this year is Lovington, which Maupin said asked the Bulldogs to schedule them, but Artesia didn鈥檛 want to drop any of the three 6A opponents in its nondistrict slate.

鈥淲e鈥檙e gonna get better playing Centennial than we would playing Lovington,鈥� Maupin said.

And, even as we slide past Labor Day, Artesia is still finding itself.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a different group, and we have to find out who this group is,鈥� said Maupin.

UNORTHODOX: Week 4 includes a Thursday matchup between Portales and Santa Teresa, both members of District 2-4A.

Except, this is not going to be a district game.

It rarely happens, but it has happened for the Rams and Desert Warriors this year 鈥� and next.

The two are going to play each other twice this season, once as a nondistrict game, and the other as a district contest.

This week鈥檚 game will be played in Ruidoso, as will the nondistrict matchup in 2027.

When they play again next month on Oct. 23, it will be a Portales home game.

Portales and Santa Teresa 鈥� plus St. Pius, Albuquerque Academy, Belen, Valencia and Lovington 鈥� all were faced with a similar dilemma when Rio Grande switched from District 2-4A to 1-4A.

Now, 1-4A has nine members, 2-4A has seven. The 1-4A teams were thus forced to begin district play in Week 3, with Bloomfield, Espanola Valley, Manzano and Valley winning league openers.

The seven in 2-4A were left with nine games once Rio Grande鈥檚 switch was approved.

With practically no other reasonable option, Portales and Santa Teresa agreed to play twice this year and twice next season.

鈥淚 think it was just a glitch,鈥� Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said. 鈥淎fter (this) two-year cycle, we鈥檒l figure it out.鈥�

Ramirez said this was not the first time something like this has come up in his career. When he was an assistant coach at Loving, he said, the Falcons one season played district rivals Hagerman, Jal and Texico twice apiece.

The Rio Grande situation impacted plenty of other schools, as the other members of District 1-4A all had to cancel one of their three scheduled nondistrict games since they picked up an additional league contest.

Consider Bloomfield, which was to face Piedra Vista, but was forced to drop the Panthers. With everyone else locked in, Piedra Vista eventually made a match with Olympus High out of Salt Lake City on Friday night.

Even Cleveland is not immune to the complications of scheduling. The Storm鈥檚 road game this week at Amarillo was not really a desirable option. It鈥檚 no particular secret that not everybody in New Mexico鈥檚 6A division are keen on lining up against the Storm.

鈥淲e were having a hard time finding something,鈥� Cleveland coach Robert Garza said. The trip, however, proved competitively beneficial as Amarillo took the Storm to the wire before Cleveland scored in the final minute for a 35-28 victory.

WHAT A TRIP: Speaking of Piedra Vista, head coach Jared Howell deserves kudos for his complicated travel plans this weekend.

He flew out of Salt Lake City to Albuquerque on Saturday morning. When he landed, he immediately jumped in a car bound for Portales, where his son Logan, a redshirt junior defensive back, was playing for Eastern New Mexico in a 2 p.m. kickoff against Colorado Mesa.

The plan was to drive back from Portales to Farmington on Sunday morning.

SETBACK: Centennial鈥檚 convincing win over Artesia on Thursday night did not come without a price.

Senior tailback Dailen Ramirez, one of the best at his position in Class 6A football, suffered a second-half knee injury at the Field of Dreams and left the game.

Hawks coach Aaron Ocampo said the team was still trying to determine the seriousness of the injury, and there was no game plan for Ramirez鈥檚 immediate return. It鈥檚 going to be a somewhat lengthy absence, and a crucial blow to Centennial, considering the overall strength of its district.

The Hawks open 2-6A action at home next week against Carlsbad.

James Yodice covers prep sports for the Journal. You can reach him at jyodice@abqjournal.com or via X at .