LAS VEGAS, N.M. --- The New Mexico Highlands football team had a trio of players named to the All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference first or second team with Cowboy kicker
Israel Farfan being selected Special Teams Player of the Year when the conference released the teams Wednesday.
Farfan along with running back
Dione Alston were selected to the All-RMAC first team while defensive tackle
Tre Haynes was named the second team.
Farfan led the RMAC in field goal percentage at 85.7 percent (12-for-14) and he booted a RMAC-best 53-yard field goal. He was 38-for-39 in extra points (third in the conference, his lone miss was a block and his percentage of 97.4 is the second best in school history) and finished 11th in the RMAC in scoring and fifth among kickers with 74 points.
Alston rushed for 1,125 yards (fourth in the RMAC), seven touchdowns (13th), 5.7 yards per carry and 102.3 yards per game (fifth). He's the first Cowboy to rush for 1,000 yards since 2001 and it's the most yards rushing for an NMHU running back since Thad Variance rushed for 1,412 in 1998.
The 6-foot-4, 321-pound Haynes finished the season with 37 tackles (4.5 for a loss), a sack and a blocked kick while being a disruptive force in the middle of the Cowboy defense.
The Cowboys, who went 4-7 and collected the most wins in a season since 2012, also had four players named honorable mention in wide receiver
Zach Drew-Toles, tight end
Darrell McIntyre, offensive lineman
Tarini Tosi and safety
Malik Brown.
