Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS – Coming off a major road win over Onate the night before in Las Cruces, Clovis High girls coach Jeff Reed wasn't quite sure what to expect less than 24 hours later against Lovington. As it turned out, the Lady Wildcats put any anxiety to rest fairly quickly in Saturday's matchup at Rock Staubus Gym, stretching their winning streak to 10 with a 53-36 victory. True, the Lady Wildcats (14-3) have a stronger, more experienced team than Lovington, but Reed was concerned a...
CLOVIS – Other than a few too many mechanical errors, Clovis Christian boys coach Trent McKay allowed that his team did all right in Friday night's 88-56 triumph over Elida at the Eagles' new on-campus gym. Seniors Carter Teune (29) and Noah Gershon (25) combined for nearly two-thirds of the points as CCS (12-3) improved to 2-0 in its new digs. "The boys played well tonight – other than the turnovers," McKay said. "We did what we had to, but it was a little sloppy. We fin...
TEXICO – Top-seeded Fort Sumner used a strong first quarter, solid free throw shooting and a balanced attack to turn back Texico 61-47 in Friday’s boys championship semifinals of the EPAC basketball tournament. Senior Clay Norman knocked in five of the defending tourney champion Foxes’ nine 3-pointers and finished with 19 points for Fort Sumner (10-2), which advanced to Saturday’s final against third-seeded Logan. Six-foot-7 junior Cash Burney added 14 points. “I think our effort was solid,” said Foxes coach Brad Holland, wh...
TEXICO – Melrose's girls aren't used to having to struggle to score. Still, the Lady Buffs did just enough on Friday night to squeeze past Texico 32-30 in the championship semifinals of the EPAC basketball tournament. They faced defending champion and third-seeded Logan, a 46-40 winner over No. 2 Fort Sumner, in Saturday's title tilt. Senior Sorrell Allen hit what seemed to be two innocuous free throws with 16 seconds left to give the top-seeded Lady Buffs (11-1) a f...
PORTALES – Kelley Lee is back at the helm of Eastern New Mexico University football. ENMU athletic director Paul Weir introduced Lee during a get-together on Monday at Greyhound Arena. "Both Greyhound Athletics and coach Lee are (happy) for the timing to enable this to happen," Weir said. "His resume speaks for itself. He has tremendous passion to come back here, and we are incredibly grateful to have him. This is a great day for all of us." A native of Truth or Consequences a...
PORTALES – On paper, it looked like a lock. But as ESPN’s Chris Berman would say, that’s why they play the games. Portales High’s boys came off two solid wins in the Portales Shootout at the Ram Athletic Center and didn’t figure to have much trouble with an Andrews squad which has been struggling a bit this season. Of course, that wasn’t the case. The Rams won 55-48 on Saturday night only after erasing an eight-point deficit with a 16-0 run to start the final quarter. Senior guard Davian Lucero converted 11-of-14 free throws...
Many Western states have declared they will achieve all-renewable electrical goals in just two decades. Call me naïve, but haven’t energy experts predicted that wind, sun and other alternative energy sources aren’t up to the job? Alice Jackson, former CEO of Xcel Energy’s Colorado operation, was blunt at a renewable energy conference in February 2020: “We can reliably run our grid with up to 70% renewables. Add batteries to the mix and that number goes up to just 72%.” Grid experts now say that Jackson’s number is 80%, but...
PORTALES ¬– Guards Paxton Culpepper and Davian Lucero were noticeably quiet in the first half against Pojoaque on Thursday night, both going scoreless. That all changed quickly when play resumed. Culpepper, a sophomore, funneled in 11 of his 15 points in the third stanza while Lucero, a senior, added 12 in the half as the Rams ran away from the Elks 61-39 on the first night of the Portales Shootout. Leading just 29-24 midway through the third stanza, Portales went on a 23-2 blitz to double up the Elks (9-4) with five mi...
CLOVIS – No doubt, Clovis High’s second-year wrestling programs are a work in progress and will remain that way for some time. Still, the CHS boys picked up a bit of a signature win on Thursday, beating District 4-5A rival Carlsbad 42-36 in their first home match of the season at Rock Staubus Gym. Both teams were shorthanded during the holiday break, but Clovis took a bit more advantage of the situation with five forfeit wins to two for the Cavemen. In the girls dual, featuring only two actual matches, Carlsbad had a 4-3 mar...
PORTALES – Since coming back from a back injury early in the season, Eastern New Mexico University senior forward Edecia Beck had played well enough off the bench to be the team's second-leading scorer. Thrust into the starting lineup for the first time on Friday night, she posted a double-double with 14 points and 14 rebounds as the Greyhounds rallied in the final quarter for a hard-fought 65-60 Lone Star Conference win over Texas-Permian Basin at Greyhound Arena. ENMU (...
CLOVIS – In a year of ups and downs, 2022 comes to a close with Eastern New Mexico University looking for a football coach and area high school squads dreaming of potential state championships in the months to come. A brief recap of some of the events by month: January Portales High’s boys held off a late Clovis rally to subdue the Wildcats 60-56 at the RAC in Portales. At the end of the month, the CHS girls edged the Lady Rams 55-53 at The Rock on a buzzer-beating basket in overtime by senior guard Yvonne Fuerte. Fort Sum...
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University football coach Tye Hiatt said on Thursday that he has resigned his position at ENMU to accept a job as the offensive coordinator at Southern Utah, a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly NCAA Division I-AA) program located in Cedar City, Utah. Hiatt, the Greyhounds coach for the past two seasons, will be working under DeLane Fitzgerald. The two had coached together in previous stops at Division III Frostburg State (Md.) and S...
CLOVIS – No question, Clovis High’s boys are much-improved over what they’ve been in recent seasons. That said, the Wildcats were shown on Wednesday night just how far they still have to go to compete with the best in the state. Sandia, ranked third in Class 5A, exploded to a 23-3 advantage early in the second quarter and cruised to a 75-57 victory over the Wildcats in the championship semifinals of the K. Barnett & Sons holiday tournament at Rock Staubus Gym. First-year CHS coach Josh Mattox was quick to point out that...
CLOVIS – The level of competition wasn’t quite the same, but Clovis High’s boys left their K. Barnett & Sons holiday tournament on Thursday night with a little better feeling about themselves. Junior forward Marvin Cox led three players in double figures with 14 points and the Wildcats never trailed en route to a 66-52 win over District 4-5A rival Roswell High in the tourney’s third-place game. A night earlier, Clovis (6-4) fell behind 23-3 early in the second quarter before recovering a bit in a 75-57 championship semifin...
CLOVIS – Any offense that was lacking for Clovis High's girls on Thursday night was made up for by solid defense. Taking the lead for good midway through the third quarter, the Lady Wildcats held Centennial at bay down the stretch and claimed a 38-32 victory to defend their championship in the Plateau Holiday Classic at Rock Staubus Gym. Clovis beat another Las Cruces school, Organ Mountain, in the 2021 title tilt. Junior guard Zarai Lewis scored 11 of her 16 points in the s...
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University's women found themselves fighting from behind virtually all afternoon on Saturday. In the end, 23rd-ranked Texas Woman's was able to make a couple more plays than the Greyhounds. Six-foot-2 sophomore forward Ashley Ingram nailed two free throws with five seconds left and the Pioneers survived a last-second ENMU bid for a tying basket to escape with a 64-62 Lone Star Conference victory at Greyhound Arena. Senior guard Sadie Moyer had f...
PORTALES – After two road losses to open Lone Star Conference play, Eastern New Mexico University's men got themselves back in the thick of things at home over the weekend. First, ENMU pounded previously unbeaten and 19th-ranked Texas-Tyler 68-45 on Thursday night, then followed that up with another solid overall effort in a 73-63 win over Dallas Baptist on Saturday afternoon at Greyhound Arena. Junior guard Jahcoree Ealy (14 points, 12 rebounds) and sophomore forward Errol W...
Shad Mayfield didn't reach his ultimate goal, but the Clovis tie-down roper reestablished himself as one of the nation's elite cowboys at this month's National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nev. His bid for a second world championship in three years fell short. Still, he finished runner-up in the 10-day grind to four-time world champion Caleb Smidt, closing out the year with nearly $270,000 in earnings. "You're never going to be happy when you end up second, but (Smidt) had a...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's men played far from a perfect game on Thursday night, as evidenced by 24 turnovers and 18 missed free throws. Still, the Greyhounds were solid all night on the defensive end and used an 18-0 first-half run to take control in a 68-45 Lone Star Conference thumping of 19th-ranked and previously unbeaten Texas-Tyler at Greyhound Arena. It was the Hounds' first win in three all-time meetings with the Patriots - the first two were in Tyler...
TEXICO - It's been four years since Texico's girls have reached the finals of their Citizens Bank tournament. They took care of that on Friday night, rallying past Tularosa 52-47 in a semifinal matchup. Their reward? A rematch with border rival Farwell in Saturday's finals. The Lady Blue (11-3), who handed Texico a 73-9 loss in last week's Farwell Invitational, turned back Tohatchi 55-39 in Friday's early semifinal tilt. Senior Maya Holman had a career night for the Lady...
FARWELL — For sure, Adrian Nunez should have been able to get some quality shut-eye on Saturday night. The Farwell senior , along with the majority of his teammates, struggled mightily to find the basket most of the night, but Nunez got one to go when it counted — a putback shot that just beat the final buzzer — as the Steers edged Littlefield 48-47 for the championship of the Farwell Invitational. Farwell’s girls also took home a tourney title with a 73-39 rout of Littlefield. With the Steers down a point, Nunez had three c...
ELIDA - The Elida girls basketball team got off the schneid relatively early this season. The Lady Tigers gave new coach Taylor Kountz her first victory on Thursday, a 43-28 decision over Carrizozo in a battle of young, struggling teams in the quarterfinals of the Tiger Invitational. It wasn't long ago that Elida won eight consecutive small-school state championships. The going's been tough since then, but with a roster that includes five freshmen and three eighth-graders,...
FARWELL - When it came to Farwell's boys semifinal match against Sundown on Friday in the Farwell Invitational, it was clear the bigger, stronger, more athletic team won out. Junior Corey Stancell scored 22 points - all but two in the first half - and the host Steers coasted to a 54-45 victory over the Roughnecks. Farwell (5-2) faced Littlefield (5-5), a 61-52 winner on Friday over Portales, in Saturday night's title clash. The girls final also matched the same teams after...
FARWELL — Portales High’s boys had no trouble shaking off a season-opening loss in Thursday’s quarterfinals of the Farwell Invitational. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a smaller, overmatched foe. Senior guards Xodus Gomez and Davian Lucero and senior forward Markus Aranda combined for 44 points and the Rams cruised past Class 1A Silverton 66-35. In Friday’s semifinals, though, Portales (2-2) dropped a 61-52 decision to Littlefield and was slated to face Sundown in Saturday’s third-place tilt. Gomez and Aranda finished wi...
PORTALES - The big lineup, with 6-foot-7 seniors Jadyn Fletcher and Dayton DeLozier, wasn't working as well as Hereford boys coach Marquez Loftis had hoped on Saturday, so he went to a smaller unit and applied aggressive defensive pressure. That move seemed to work as the Whitefaces pulled away down the stretch to beat Portales High 53-42 in the Rams' season opener at the RAC. The teams took turns exchanging runs into the fourth quarter, but Hereford (4-2) stretched a...
