Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Sorted by date Results 51 - 75 of 1609
After flipping their tassels from right to left, the Eastern New Mexico University class of 2013 tossed their caps into the air Saturday and Greyhound Arena exploded with cheers from students, family and friends. CMI staff photo: Kevin Baird Joseph Bone graduated Saturday with a bachelor's degree in aviation science. He is hoping to intern with Southwest Airlines as an airplane technician. Joseph Bone was beaming after receiving his bachelor's in aviation science. "I feel...
Potts-Grimsrud Craig and Jerri Grimsrud of Wolf Point, Mont., announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Whitney Lyn Grimsrud of Wolf Point, to Logan Brent Potts of Clovis, son of Clint and Zandy Bunch of Clovis and Billy Joe Potts of Dimmitt, Texas. The couple will exchange vows 5 p.m. June 14, 2013, at Fort Peck, Mont. A reception will follow at the Ferguson Ranch in Fort Peck. A local reception will be held in March 2014. The bride-elect is a 2011 graduate of Montana State University currently atte...
Portales High's baseball and softball teams will start out Class 3A state tournament bids at home this weekend. The defending 3A champion Rams, who dropped a pair of District 4-3A doubleheaders last week, still earned a No. 8 seed with a 15-9 over all record in the 16-team state bracket on Sunday and will host ninth-seeded Bloomfield (17-11) in a first-round, best-of-3 series beginning with a 6 p.m. game on Friday at Ram Field. The second game is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday with the third, if necessary, to follow. The...
ROSWELL — The Portales High girls golf team is hoping for a strong performance in next week's Class 1A-3A golf tournament at Socorro. Lady Rams standout Paige Hartman didn't have her usual stellar outing in Monday's District 3 tournament at the New Mexico Military Golf Course, although she finished second individually. She struggled at times, and Portales finished third in a field of three full teams at 357, trailing Lovington (336) and Texico (354). Hartman will be among the top golfers in next week's event at the New M...
Gov. Susana Martinez got a slice of local economics Friday during a brief visit to the Southwest Cheese plant in southern Curry County. The first-term governor did not arrive in time for a tour of the plant, but said she hoped to have the time to make the tour on her next visit. She was given a front-row seat in the crowd of business leaders and elected officials, and offered a small bowl of cheese curds created at the facility while SWC Director of Operations George Chappell...
ROSWELL — Clovis High's golfers came up short of the third leg needed to qualify for Class 5A state golf. Meantime, the Portales Rams are still without a leg in Class 3A. Both teams will have to win their respective district tournaments on Monday to send their teams to state, although the Wildcats have now qualified three individuals. Clovis finished fifth in the eight-team Last Chance Open at the New Mexico Military Institute golf course on Friday, shooting a four-man score of 325, while Portales was eighth at 346. R...
District 4-2A Texico 19, Tucumcari 5 Tucumcari 000 05 — 5 3 6 Texico 662 5x —19 17 1 Javier Villanueva, Saul MKoriel (3), Michael Olivas (4) and Jordan Walker; Jaron Hill, Mason Grau (5) and Jonah Walls. W — Hill. L — Villanueva. Top hitters — Texico: Hill 2-4, run; Gentry Doolittle 2-4, 3 runs; D.J. Griego 2-4, 2B, RBI, 2 runs; Walls 3-4, 2 2Bs, 4 RBIs, 2 runs; Carlos Silva 2-4, 2 runs; Rafael Maldonado 2-3, 3 RBIs, 2 runs. Records — Tucumcari 11-11 (5-3), Texico 10-12 (4-4). Junior varsity — Texico 15, Tucumcari 7. District...
LOVINGTON — Two errors helped Lovington take control with five runs in the second inning and Wildcats beat Portales 9-4 in the first game of a District 4-3A baseball doubleheader on Tuesday night. The Wildcats took the second game 5-4, improving to 19-6 (7-1 district) and clinching the district title. The Rams (15-7, 2-4) close the regular season on Friday with a 4:30 p.m. home district doubleheader against Ruidoso. Stephen Boss earned the first-game win for the Wildcats, allowing four hits and two earned runs with two walks...
The New Mexico Environment Department issued an alert to New Mexicans on Tuesday about the health risks associated with dust storms. The alert was issued in time for a dust storms forecasted across the state today. The weather service forecast predicts wind gusts up to 50 mph today. A cold front is expected to arrive in the afternoon or evening. "Inhaling dust can cause a number of serious health problems and can make some health problems worse," the alert states. "The best precaution to take during a dust storm is to simply...
HOBBS — Except for senior Paige Hartman, everybody else on the Portales High girls golf team had a pretty average day in Tuesday's Hobbs Invite. Hartman, though, ran away with individual honors, shooting 40-36 — 76 to finish seven shots ahead of runnerup Salam Ortiz of Hobbs and lift the Lady Rams to a fourth-place finish in an eight-team field. The PHS boys, meantime, shot 329 and were sixth out of seven squads. Hobbs beat Clovis 307-313 for boys team honors while CHS returned the favor on the girls side, the Lady Wil...
RUIDOSO — Portales High's tennis squads got in a good final tuneup on Monday for this weekend's District 4-3 tournament, which they will host at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Center and the Eastern New Mexico University courts. The PHS boys posted three 6-0, 6-0 wins and another by 6-0, 6-1 in routing district rival Ruidoso 9-0, while the girls posted four 6-0, 6-0 shutouts en route to an 8-1 victory over the Lady Warriors. "We played pretty well," PHS girls coach Ann-Marie Bucksath said. "Now we're just gong to keep working for (...
Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team made a strong bid on Sunday for a season-ending Lone Star Conference series win over rival West Texas A&M at Greyhound Field. After sweeping a doubleheader from the Buffaloes on Saturday, the Greyhounds pulled to 5-4 when junior third baseman Andres Enriquez blasted his first homer of the season, a leadoff shot in the bottom of the eighth inning. Singles by Colton Sims and Brett Ackerman and a wild pitch by WT's Scott Cone put the go-ahead runs in scoring position with no one...
Thursday at Melrose Boys Team standings: 1. Texico 146; 2. Fort Sumner 73; 3. Eunice 69 3/5; 4. Logan 61; 5. Tatum 41 1/5; 6. Melrose 16; 7. Dora 15; 8. Floyd 11; 9. San Jon 10; 10. Clovis Christian 6; 11. Grady 2. High point individual: Michael Giannini, Fort Sumner 20. Field events Long jump: 1. Jacob Benally, San Jon 20-11; 2. Greg Mitchell, Eunice 19-11 1/2; 3. Shay Harrison, Texico 18-11 1/2; 4. Timmy Pearce, Tatum 18-5; 5. Mike Estrada, Logan 17-4 1/2; 6. Cristian Hinojosa, Tatum 17-4. Triple jump: 1. Adrian Gomez,...
APITAN — The Portales Rams jumped all over Capitan in the first inning on Saturday, then had to hang on late for the win. They had no such problems in the second game, following up their 12-9 squeaker with an 11-1 blowout of the Class 1A Tigers in the nightcap. Capitan (11-4) pulled to 10-9 in the fourth inning of the opener, but freshman Grant Wagner pitched 3 1/3 innings of one-hit shutout ball to preserve the win. He struck out five and walked none. "Grant's been doing that all year," PHS coach Art Ontiveros said. "He p...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team combined solid pitching with just enough offense on Saturday to end its 10-game losing streak in a big way. CMI correspondent: Joshua Lucero ENMU shortstop Brett Ackerman can't quite come up with a smash into the hole by West Texas A&M's Tyler McKnight on a second-inning single in the opener of Saturday's Lone Star Conference baseball doubleheader against West Texas A&M at Greyhound Field. Sophomore Ryan Boydstun and s...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the voluntary claims process for Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who claim discrimination by the USDA in past decades. Those who file a claim by May 1 will be considered for a cash payment or for loan forgiveness. According to John Padalino, the USDA rural utilities acting administrator, in order to receive a claims package, each Hispanic or female farmer and rancher needs to prove that the USDA denied his or her application for loan or loan servicing assistance for...
The New Mexico Department of Transportation and Constructor, Inc. will be starting the next phase of construction starting Monday. The construction will move from east of Avenue C on Second Street to Avenue A and the south, outside lane will be closed. Construction will begin on westbound First Street from Boston Avenue to Avenue A and the south inside lane will be closed to traffic. Also, expect some temporary closures in the side streets. Work will be finishing up in the first phase of the project near west Avenue C and...
LOVINGTON — Senior Summer Martinez cracked a pair of two-run homers in the opener and pitched a three-hit complete game in the nightcap on Friday as the Portales Lady Rams wrapped up the District 4-3A softball title with a 15-1, 10-3 sweep of rival Lovington. Portales (18-5, 6-0 district) led just 2-1 in the third inning of the opener, but scored five in that inning and four in each of the next two to win on the 10-run rule after five. Freshman Kiersten Ramirez pitched a five-hitter with no walks and four strikeouts. M...
CARLSBAD — Junior left-hander Caleb Prentiss got plenty of support from his teammates Friday night. He didn't need much. Prentiss tossed a six-inning perfect game as Carlsbad beat Clovis High 10-0 in the first game of a District 4-5A baseball doubleheader. The Cavemen also won the nightcap 14-1, clinching the district title. Clovis (8-16, 1-5 district) managed seven hits in Game 2, but didn't score until Jordan Holguin's single plated Brody Edwards in the top of the fifth. That game was called after 4 1/2 innings because o...
HOBBS — The Hobbs Lady Eagles went to the long ball on Friday night. Scoring all but one of their runs on homers, the Lady Eagles pulled away in the fifth inning for a 6-1 win over Clovis High and a sweep of their District 4-5A softball doubleheader. Hobbs eked out a 3-2 win in the opener. Cierra Heckard hit a pair of solo homers for Hobbs (11-13, 3-3) in the nightcap. She broke a scoreless tie with a leadoff home run in the third inning, then opened the bottom of the fifth with another solo shot to make it 3-1. Senior M...
West Texas A&M wasted little time jumping on Eastern New Mexico University in the opener of the team's four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series on Friday night at Greyhound Field. Tyler McKnight led off the game with a double and promtly scored on a since by Patrick Ramirez as the Buffaloes cruised to a 10-0 victory over the struggling Greyhounds. James Dylan (4-2) threw 126 pitches in the seven-inning, run-rule-shortened game, but finished with a five-hitter. He walked...
The Portales Lady Rams had their way with Roswell Goddard on Thursday in dual tennis competition at the Eastern New Mexico University tennis courts. The same couldn't be said for the Rams, who lost to the Rockets 8-1 at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Center. CMI correspondent: Joshua LuceroPHS junior Bailey Garcia-Thompson rushes to return a shot during his doubles match with teammate Anthony Necker against Roswell Goddard's Casey Conlee and Hector Rodriguez on Thursday afternoon at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Complex. Goddard's only...
District 4-2A Texico 17, Clayton 0 Clayton 000 00 — 0 2 4 Texico 752 3x —17 11 0 Dakota Montoya, Alan Haas (2) and Seth Martinez; Jaron Hill and Jonah Walls. W — Hill. L — Montoya. Top hitters — Clayton: Montoya 1-2; Martinez 1-2. Texico: Walls 2-4, 2 RBIs, 3 runs; Mason Grau 2-4, 2 RBIs, 2 runs; Justin Lopez 3-4, 2 RBIs, 3 runs. Records — Clayton 2-5 (0-4), Texico 6-12 (1-4). District 3-1A Floyd 10, Melrose 3 Melrose 001 002 0 — 3 8 3 Floyd 320 005 x —10 11 3 Wyatt Williams, Brian Hemminger (3), Rowdy Allen (6), Gage Dietz...
CANYON, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico University softball team set a new record for walks issued Wednesday night, and took all of one game to match it. Host West Texas A&M, ranked fifth in NCAA Division II, took complete advantage of 26 total walks in the Lone Star Conference doubleheader, with 15 of those baserunners scoring in 14-0 and 19-3 wins. The Lady Buffs (36-7, 15-5 LSC) did all of their opening-game damage in the first inning, sending 20 batters to the plate. They chased both starter Alberta Medina and reliever Kat...
Eastern New Mexico University has a deadline of May 1 to file a report with the NCAA over academic irregularities in its athletic department for the 2012-13 school year. Another report, going back to the 2008-09 school year, is due by Aug. 1, ENMU athletic director Jeff Geiser said. Irregularities uncovered by the school early in the fall have affected the eligibility of athletes in every sport at the school to varying degrees except for rodeo, which does not come under the NCAA umbrella. "The most important thing is we have...
