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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - It's certainly early, but so far Clovis High's boys have looked like world-beaters. After two games, both at home, the Wildcats have outscored their opponents by a combined 136-59. This weekend, they figure to their first challenges of the campaign in the Joe Armijo Invitational at Albuquerque Academy. Junior guard Keilyn Parker nearly outscored the opposition by himself, finishing with 24 points in a 64-26 domination of Lovington on Monday night at Rock Staubus Gym....
MELROSE — The home teams certainly had their way in advancing to the finals of their own tournament on Friday night. Melrose’s boys harassed Tatum all over the court, forcing 31 turnovers while sinking nine 3-point baskets en route to a 79-41 victory in the semifinals of the American Bank tournament. Meantime, the Lady Buffs had even fewer problems, holding Hagerman to three field goals and notching a 74-11 triumph. The Buffaloes (2-0) were to face Clayton, a 65-48 winner over Grady, in Saturday night’s boys finale, while the...
PORTALES - Senior guard Eze Dike didn't mind that his Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball squad struggled at times against NAIA member University of the Southwest on Saturday. The good news for the Greyhounds is they finished strong and pulled away to a 72-64 win over the Hobbs-based Mustangs at Greyhound Arena. "These are the kind of games I like," said Dike, who is actually a graduate student after transferring from Ivy League member Yale this season. "It shows...
PORTALES — A relatively balanced attack for Eastern New Mexico University’s women got the better of Western Colorado’s mostly one-woman show on Saturday. While senior guard Emmery Wagstaff did her best to keep the Mountaineers in the contest with six 3-pointers and 22 points, she got precious little help from her teammates and the Greyhounds pulled away to a 51-37 victory at Greyhound Arena in their final tune-up before Lone Star Conference play begins this week. Only one other player, sophomore forward Rachel Cockman (8), ta...
PORTALES — There’s no Kylyie Paden in the middle this season as a scoring threat and rim-protector. The three-pronged guard combo of Taris Rippee, Riley Schillings and Teagan Faust has also graduated. Portales High’s girls aren’t exactly starting from scratch, but they do have some holes to fill. “It’ll be a rebuilding year,” 10th-year coach Wade Fraze said. “You can’t lose your top six players and it not be a rebuilding year.” Those four players accounted for approximately 85 percent of the team’s scoring in 2021-22, i...
PORTALES — Nicole Scales wasn’t much of a factor in the first half of Wednesday’s women’s basketball game between Eckerd College and Eastern New Mexico University at Greyhound Arena. That all changed quickly when play resumed. Averaging less than seven points through four games this season, the junior guard funneled in 20 after the break — including 14 of Eckerd’s 16 third-quarter tallies — and the fifth-ranked Tritons held off a late Greyhounds rally for a 72-64 victory in ENMU’s home opener. Scales, from Park Ridge, Ill. an...
PORTALES - With a 22-game Lone Star Conference schedule around the corner, the Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball team is trying to use its final pre-conference tilts to tune up. ENMU improved to 4-1 on Wednesday night with a 74-53 thumping of Northern New Mexico at Greyhound Arena as 6-foot-7 sophomore forward Errol White posted 18 points and 16 rebounds. A home matchup on Saturday against Hobbs-based University of the Southwest was to wrap up pre-conference play...
CLOVIS — Coming off a year in which the team struggled mightily and then went through a coaching change, the Clovis High boys basketball team is searching for its identity. The Wildcats (6-22, 2-4 District 4-5A last year) are hoping first-year coach Josh Mattox can lead them back to respectability. CHS opens its 2022-23 slate on Tuesday when it hosts Roswell Goddard at Rock Staubus Gym. After averaging just under 50 ppg last season, the Cats intend to play a more up-tempo style. “We’re a more athletic team,” said senior guard...
PORTALES — After nine seasons as an assistant to his father, Randy McBroom took over as Portales High’s boys basketball coach last season. Suffice it to say, it was a rugged year. The Rams finished 11-15, including 0-6 in District 4-4A. “Last year was tough,” McBroom said as the Rams look ahead to Saturday’s regular-season opener against Hereford at the Ram Athletic Center. “We were in a senior-loaded district. We just lacked a lot of experience.” That problem should be somewhat alleviated this year, although PHS still has...
FARWELL - For a team with seven football players having almost no practice time prior to Monday's season opener against Smyer, the Farwell Steers were able to put it on cruise control early. Scoring the first 13 points of the game, the gridders - whose season ended on Friday night with a playoff loss - were able to ease into the transition with a 65-29 thumping of outmanned Smyer. Meantime, Farwell's girls were probably looking for something of a test, but after falling...
CLOVIS - If nothing else, Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball coach Brent Owen wanted to see a better defensive effort from his squad in Saturday's rematch against Navajo Tech at Rock Staubus Gym. After struggling two nights earlier to put the Skyhawks away at Greyhound Arena, ENMU got off to a much better start the second time around, building a 10-0 lead through four minutes but still having to fend off Navajo Tech late for a 70-58 victory. "I was much more...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's men had to work a bit harder than they probably anticipated before nailing down a win in Thursday's matinee home opener at Greyhound Arena. Sophomore forward Errol White scored 22 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, but the Greyhounds didn't put first-year program Navajo Tech away until the final couple of minutes in an 80-70 victory on "Youth Day" before an announced crowd of 2,190, made up mostly of area youngsters. The teams were...
CLOVIS — Clovis High junior guard Zarai Lewis lost her main sidekick from last year’s team to graduation, but she feels confident the Lady Wildcats can duplicate or exceed what they were able to accomplish in 2021-22. Lewis led the Lady Cats (18-11, 2-4 District 4-5A) in scoring (12.3 ppg) and rebounding (6.1 rpg) last season, but now she won’t have guard Yvonne Fuerte (11.3 ppg) to play off of this time around. Clovis is slated open the campaign on Tuesday night at Rock Staubus Gym against Rio Rancho Cleveland. “I’m...
CLOVIS - Clovis High's Caley Adams wanted to keep playing soccer in college. She just hoped to stay close to home, if possible. On Wednesday night, she managed to accomplish that task, signing a national letter of intent with Eastern New Mexico University in a ceremony at Rock Staubus Gym. During the recently completed campaign, Adams helped lead the Lady Wildcats to a 16-5 overall record (5-1 District 4-5A) and a berth in the Class 5A state tournament, pacing the team with a...
TEXICO - Jal kept it simple in Friday's Class 2A state football championship game. It was Alexavier Carreon right, Carreon left and Carreon up the middle - to the tune of 48 carries for four touchdowns and 226 yards - as the top-ranked Panthers used a quick start and ball control to notch a 41-21 victory over third-seeded Texico, completing a 13-0 campaign. Carreon, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound senior quarterback/linebacker, simply wore down the game-but-young Wolverines with...
TEXICO — A couple of losses in midseason, including a 48-0 shellacking at the hands of border rival Farwell, didn’t do anything to get the Texico Wolverines discouraged. In fact, Texico finds itself hosting Friday’s 7 p.m. Class 2A state championship game against unbeaten and top-ranked District 4-2A rival Jal. Since that loss to Farwell on Sept. 16, only the Panthers (12-0) have beaten the Wolverines over their last seven games, and they had to work hard to nail down a 41-35 victory at Texico on Oct. 14. It was the fewes...
PORTALES - Western New Mexico lost starting quarterback Devin Larsen to concussion protocol two weeks ago against West Texas A&M. Last week, backup Grant Patterson started against Texas-Permian Basin, but went out with an injury. So third stringer Paul Armijo Jr. got the start in Saturday's Lone Star Conference and regular-season finale against Eastern New Mexico University in the "Chili Bowl" at Greyhound Stadium. Armijo helped guide the Mustangs to a 24-7 halftime lead,...
Nearly two years after the Jan. 6 attack, former Vice President Mike Pence said ex-President Donald Trump “endangered me and my family” as a mob of MAGA extremists invaded the Capitol. “(Trump’s) words were reckless and his actions were reckless,” Pence told David Muir of ABC News in a new interview. “The president’s words that day ... endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building. “It was clear he decided to be part of the problem,” Pence added. The interview marks a dramatic shift in tone for Pence, w...
LITTLEFIELD - The Farwell Steers played far from a perfect game on Thursday night. In the end, it didn't really matter. Farwell had issues with long-snapping and some regular snaps in shotgun formation, but the Steers forced seven turnovers and dominated for the most part en route to a 41-23 victory over Olton in the bi-district round of the Texas Class 2A Division I playoffs. Junior running back Corey Stancell was held in check on most plays by the Mustangs' blitzing...
LOVINGTON — It was hard to tell just how good Lovington was when the Wildcats started the season 0-6. They sure don’t look like the same team now. Sophomore running back Odalis Cardenas scored from 3 yards out with just under nine minutes left, and senior quarterback Ashton Aranda sealed it with a pass interception in the final minute as Lovington edged Portales High 29-23 in a Class 4A quarterfinal matchup on Friday night. Seeded fourth but now on a five-game winning streak, the Wildcats (5-6) moved into this wee...
MELROSE — Nobody quite foresaw what was coming. After all, unbeaten Melrose is the two-time defending Class 1A state volleyball champion and the top-ranked team in 1A, and the Lady Buffs have reached the state finals for eight consecutive years under coach Casey Jackson, winning four titles in that time. Still, their 25-16, 25-2, 25-11 District 6-1A dismantling of rival Logan on Saturday — in less than an hour, no less — was a surprise even to the Lady Buffs. “It was probably the cleanest (match) we’ve played all year,” Ja...
PORTALES — Second-year Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball coach Meghan De los Reyes, who led the Greyhounds to a 10-14 record (6-10 Lone Star Conference) in her initial campaign, decided to change gears with her team this season. She has nine new players, a new assistant coach (Martin Pazanin) and a new style — as in up-tempo. Picked 10th out of 16 teams in the LSC this season — although the conference is actually splitting into two eight-team divisions — De los Reyes says she doesn’t play much attention t...
PORTALES — Brent Owen begins his second season as the Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball coach trying to change the culture. Last season, the Greyhounds had a couple of good wins early and were 6-6 as Lone Star Conference play got rolling. They then suffered through an 11-game losing streak before capturing their finale over Western New Mexico, but the 7-17 record (3-11 LSC) didn’t sit well. Owen thinks with the players the Hounds have brought in, they can turn things around quickly. “We made a pretty signifi...
CLOVIS - To be honest, there wasn't much doubt about the outcome of Friday's Portales High-St. Pius Class 4A first-round playoff game. Still, if the Rams were looking ahead to a possible rematch at District 4-4A rival Lovington in this week's quarterfinals, it didn't show. Portales committed six turnovers on offense, but its defense picked off Sartans senior quarterback Alejandro Sapien five times en route to a 48-3 victory. The contest was moved to Clovis High's Leon...
PORTALES - The Greyhounds won't qualify for next week's Lone Star Conference's postseason tournament, but Eastern New Mexico University's volleyball team came into its final two matches looking for a solid end to the season. That would include a winning record, which the Hounds put themselves in position for by knocking off Lubbock Christian 26-24, 25-20, 24-26, 25-15 on Wednesday night at Greyhound Arena. They finished the process on Friday night, turning back Western New...
