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STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University's women captured their second consecutive rodeo team title over the weekend, winning the Tarleton State rodeo with 375 points to 265 for runnerup Western Texas College. The Zias finished third for the year in Southwest Region competition, scoring 1,530 points to trail only Tarleton (2,730 5/6) and Texas Tech (1,761 2/3). Meantime, the ENMU men were fourth over the weekend, scoring 260 points to finish behind Tarleton State (585), Odessa College (400) and Western Texas C...
The struggles continued on Sunday for the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team. Second baseman Ben Villafuerte's tie-breaking, two-run homer kicked off a five-run fifth inning and Texas A&M-Kingsville went on to complete a four-game Lone Star Conference series sweep of the Greyhounds with an 11-5 victory at Greyhound Field. Kingsville (31-15, 14-10 LSC) remained in a three-way tie for second with Angelo State and Abilene Christian while the Hounds (19-25, 6-18) dropped their ninth in a row and 15th in the last 17 games...
Eastern New Mexico University's chances of reaching the Lone Star Conference baseball tournament took another major hit on Friday night. Leading 6-2 through six innings, the Greyhounds saw Texas A&M-Kingsville score four runs after the first two hitters were out in the seventh and four more in the eighth for a 10-6 victory in the opener of a four-game series at Greyhound Field. ENMU (19-22, 6-15), which lost its sixth in a row, fell into a tie for the LSC cellar with Cameron and now trail four teams — including Kingsville (...
The Hobbs Eagles capped off a District 4-5A doubleheader sweep of the Clovis Wildcats on Friday night with Joseph Campos tossing a six-inning, 10-0 shutout. Clovis (9-13, 0-4 district) lost 7-4 in the first game. "The kid was nasty," Clovis coach Shane Leatherwood said of Campos. "Not a lot of our kids have seen a curveball that hard." Campos had eight strikeouts. Peyton Lott pitched five innings for the Wildcats in the second game, striking out four. Centerfielder Michael Cordova led the Wildcats in the second game with two...
Had they pulled it off, it would have no doubt qualified as one of the all-time splits in softball history. Eastern New Mexico University was destroyed by Abilene Christian 25-0 in the opener of their Lone Star Conference twin bill on Friday at Zia Softball Field, then scored five times in the bottom of the seventh in the nightcap to pull to 10-8 and had the bases loaded with one out. ACU's Caitlyn Crain, who threw a five-inning, two-hit shutout in the opener, then took over and got a pair of strikeouts to let the Wildcats...
RUIDOSO — Senior Paige Hartman finished eighth individually with a two-day total of 179 as the Portales Lady Rams placed 13th in a quality 14-team field in the Leroy Gooch Invitational golf tournament. Hartman had been tied for fifth after Monday's pla before shooting a 95 on Tuesday at Cree Meadows Golf Course. The Lady Rams finished with a team score of 846, including 434 in Tuesday's round. The PHS boys, meantime, improved by five strokes over Monday's play at Inn of the Mountain Gods Golf Course, shooting a 365 on T...
PLAINVIEW, Texas — Colton Palmer's two-out RBI single to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning scored Chris Buitron with the winning run on Tuesday and Wayland Baptist edged Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team 8-7. The loss was the fifth in a row for ENMU (19-21), the last three in walkoff fashion. They lost the final two games of a Lone Star Conference series in extra innings over the weekend at Incarnate Word. Designated hitter Josh Chinni went 3-for-5 for Wayland Baptist (17-28) and drove in three runs w...
CANYON, Texas — Sophomore Alesha Jones and freshman Laura Grube each won events for Eastern New Mexico University's women in Saturday's West Texas A&M Multis track competition. Jones took first in the 800 with a time of 2:13.28, leading a 1-3-4 Zias finish and good enough to move her into 15th in NCAA Division II rankings. Grube won javelin competition at 134 feet, 5 inches, and also placed fourth in discus and eighth in hammer. Jones also led off the Zias' 1,600 relay, which finished second with a time of 4:03.41. The men p...
SAN ANTONIO — Three times on Sunday, Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team was within an out of victory. Twice, the count was 0-2. Incarnate Word rallied, though, scoring once in the ninth inning to tie it and then getting a two-out, two-run bloop single from Jordan Scelfo, who had been 0-for-5 to that point, in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Greyhounds 6-5 and complete a four-game Lone Star Conference series sweep. UIW (25-15, 11-9 LSC) outhit the Hounds 14-9, but ENMU received seven walks and five hit batsmen fr...
HOBBS — Portales senior Emily Walker and junior Jessie Privett reached the doubles finals before losing to a Hobbs tandem in Friday's Paul Baker Invitational tennis tournament. Nine schools participated, plus a junior varsity squad from Hobbs, with each having two singles and two doubles entries in boys and girls competition. Team scores were combined for boys and girls, with no final totals available, although New Mexico Military finished first and Hobbs second. Walker and Privett posted three wins, including a three-set vic...
LOVINGTON - Portales High's track teams finished third with 54 1/2 points in girls competition and fourth with 35 points on the boys side in Friday's Wildcat Relays, hosted by Lovington. Hobbs tallied 128 points to win a three-way battle with Clovis and Lovington, who tied for second at 125, for boys team honors. Clovis took the girls team title with 157 points to 144 1/2 for Hobbs. Hannah Cabledue had the top finish for the Lady Rams, tying for second in pole vault at 7 feet, 6 inches. Shereya Cox (long jump), McKenzie...
RUIDOSO — Senior left-hander Daniel Zapata threw a six-hitter and the PHS baseball team salvaged a district doubleheader split at Ruidoso on Saturday, beating the Warriors 14-4 after losing the first game 10-9. Todd Fuqua: Ruidoso Free Press Portales' River Fine follows his base hit during Saturday's District 4-3A doubleheader at Ruidoso. Zapata struck out seven and walked four in a 118-pitch effort. He also had a pair of hits and drove in four runs as the Rams (13-6, 2-2 district) broke a 4-4 tie with six runs in the top of...
SAN ANTONIO — After getting hammered in the first two games of their Lone Star Conference baseball series, Eastern New Mexico University got the pitching outing it needed in relief from senior Ryan Pruitt on Saturday. The Greyhounds just could never get their bats going, dropping a 3-2 decision to Incarnate Word in the second game of a doubleheader. ENMU (19-19, 6-13 LSC), which lost 13-1 on Friday night and 10-1 in Saturday's opener, will try to salvage the series finale in a noon (MDT) start. Pruitt (5-2) relieved s...
KINGSVILLE, Texas — Walking a bit of a tightrope again, Eastern New Mexico University's softball team got its second shutout of the weekend and improved its chances of making the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament. Carlsbad freshman Mary Jo Granger pitched into the seventh inning and sophomore Katie Ramsay belted a two-run homer on Saturday as the Zias (14-33, 6-12 LSC) beat Texas A&M-Kingsville 6-0 on Saturday, moving into a tie for the eighth and final spot in the conference meet with Cameron, which was swept by A...
KINGSVILLE, Texas — Sophomore right-hander Amy Smith, who made her first appearance in two months on Wednesday in relief after coming back from an arm injury, tossed five shutout innings on Friday night in her first start since Feb. 9 as Eastern New Mexico University blanked Texas A&M-Kingsville 2-0 in the first game of a Lone Star Conference softball doubleheader. The Javelinas, last in LSC, came back for a 7-4 win in the nightcap. The rubber game of the series is set for noon (MDT) today. Not that the shutout was easy. K...
SAN ANTONIO — Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team is getting down to the nitty-gritty if it hopes to make the Lone Star Conference's post-season tournament. Incarnate Word took advantage of eight walks and four hit batsmen to put the game out of reach early on Friday in a 13-1 rout, called after 6 1/2 innings by the Lone Star Conference's 10-run rule which goes into effect after seven in nine-inning games. ENMU (19-17, 6-11 LSC) now stands two games behind the Cardinals and West Texas A&M (both 22-15, 8-9), who a...
Clovis High's baseball team was so close and yet so far from beating Carlsbad on Friday night. Junior right-hander Peyton Lott threw six shutout innings, allowing just two hits, but a pop-fly double by Roman Gonsalez opened the gates to a seven-run seventh and the Cavemen went on to a 7-1 win and a sweep of the District 4-5A-opening doubleheader for both teams at Bell Park. Carlsbad, the defending Class 5A state champion, pounded out 17 hits in a 14-3 win in the opener. Lott,...
One Curry County commissioner is confident Cannon Air Force Base would be spared in a Department of Defense proposal that calls for another round of domestic base closures. "There's so much construction out there, and they just finished building C-130 hangars," Commissioner Frank Blackburn said. "It would be foolish to put Cannon on BRAC." The Pentagon has proposed $2.4 billion over five years to cover the initial costs of base closings, set the round for 2015 and indicated the closures would not be implemented until a year a...
Chicago's legendary sketch comedy theater, The Second City, is here to fill your evening with laughs. Courtesy photo: The Second City Members of the legendary comic group The Second City. The Thursday show at Marshall Auditorium will feature comical sketches, songs and improvisations that will involve the audience. The show, which is part of the Clovis Community College Cultural Arts Series, will feature comical sketches, songs, improvisations and scripted elements that...
Portales High's girls won two of three doubles matches on Tuesday and edged New Mexico Military 5-4 in a tennis dual at Bill Wahlman Tennis Center. NMMI's boys, meantime, earned an 8-1 victory over the Rams at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Center. CMI correspondent: Joshua LuceroPortales freshman Ryann Privett returns a volley during her doubles match against New Mexico Military's Summer O'Brien and Jiaming Ren on Tuesday afternoon at the ENMU tennis complex. Privett and partner Hannah Evans posted a 6-2, 6-1 win. Senior Emily...
ROSWELL — Portales senior Paige Hartman cruised to girls individual honors with a score of 38-38 — 76 on Tuesday in the Spring Classic golf tournament. The Lady Rams, though, finished last in the seven-team field at 397. Alamogordo shot 357 and edged Roswell Goddard by one stroke for team honors. Hartman earned her second of three needed legs toward state competition, while freshman Bailey Rowley got her first with a round of 43-46 — 89. On the boys side, the Rams finished seventh out of 10 full teams at 346. Hobbs shot...
Portales High's softball team was only too happy to see Loving junior Haylie Tiller removed from the circle during the second game of Monday's softball doubleheader at Wheeler Park. CMI correspondent: Joshua LuceroPortales sophomore Ashlie Villanueva scores during the Lady Rams' eight-run fourth in the second game of Monday's softball doublehader against Loving at Wheeler Park. PHS split with the Lady Falcons, losing 4-0 and winning 10-4. Tiller threw a five-hit shutout in the opener as the defending Class 1-2A state champion...
Daniel Zapata was working efficiently for Portales through five innings on Saturday — only 42 pitches. Good thing, too. The senior left-hander needed 45 tosses over the final two frames to finish off his first complete game of the season, an 8-6 victory over Clovis High to give the Rams a doubleheader split at Bell Park. CMI photo: Tony Bullocks Portales senior River Fine makes the throw from third to first for the out in the bottom of the third inning in the first game of S...
Senior Summer Martinez pitched a complete game and hit a three-run homer to help Portales High beat Las Vegas Robertson 9-2 on Saturday in the Lady Rams' weekend tournament at Wheeler Park. Portales (7-3) went 3-0 in the event, winning twice on Friday. Martinez gave up seven hits to the Lady Cardinals (9-7), but kept them scattered. She finished with three walks and three strikeouts. PHS banged out 13 hits and did all its scoring in two innings — four in the third to wipe out a 1-0 deficit, and five more in t he fourth. "...
The Portales Lady Rams got a quick start Tuesday night, then erupted for six runs in the bottom of the sixth to hand Clovis High a 12-2 softball loss at Wheeler Park. Freshman Kiersten Ramirez tossed a six-hitter for PHS (4-3) in a game called in the bottom of the sixth inning on the 10-run rule. The Lady Rams outhit Clovis 11-6 and took advantage of five errors by the Lady Wildcats (2-10). "We're getting better every day," said PHS coach Robbie Crowley, whose team has finished second behind Silver in each of the last two...
