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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - Without question, Hobbs and Carlsbad have two of the stronger baseball programs in New Mexico, particularly in the southeast part of the state. Both squads have overwhelmed Clovis High for a number of years, and they did so again this season. After Hobbs' 16-1, 16-4 District 4-5A sweep of the Wildcats on Friday night at Bell Park, those squads have combined to outscore Clovis 82-13 in six matchups this season. "We're at a point where we have to just get out of our...
PORTALES — It’s been a nice spring for the Eastern New Mexico University football team. Heck, the Greyhounds are just happy to get spring workouts in after missing them each of the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ENMU will put the wraps on spring drills with a 6 p.m. intrasquad game on Friday at Greyhound Stadium. Coach Tye Hiatt said the scrimmage would probably start closer to 6:30 p.m., and should run for about 1 1/2 hours. “I would tell you that every expectation going into the fall is for us to play our b...
CLOVIS - Hobbs has one of the top high school golf programs in the area, but Clovis Christian's boys and Clovis High girls tested themselves against the Eagles and Lady Eagles in Wednesday's CCS Eagle Invite at Colonial Park Golf Course. Suffice it to say, both local teams made some progress. Hobbs turned back CCS, winning the boys team title at 318 to 325 for the defending Class 1-3A state champion Eagles. Meantime, the Lady Wildcats shaved a few shots off their score and...
PORTALES - Hagen Rains pretty much did it all on Thursday. The Portales High senior knocked in four runs with a home run and a single, and allowed three hits and only one earned run while pitching into the seventh as the Rams defeated Roswell Goddard 7-4 in District 4-4A baseball at Ram Field. Rains staked the Rams (9-12, 1-3 district) to a 2-1 lead with a two-run homer to left in the first, then put Portales in front for good with a two-run single through the right side in a...
MELROSE - Coming off three games in the previous four days, including a big win on Saturday, the Melrose baseball team just couldn't find it on Monday against District 3-1A rival Logan. Melrose sophomore Michael Cardonita issued eight walks, and the defending Class 1A champion Longhorns converted six of them into runs en route to an 11-1 victory over the Buffaloes, ending in five innings on the 10-run rule. "We had trouble with walks, and they made us pay," first-year Buffs...
PORTALES - For the first time in their four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series, Eastern New Mexico University made 12th-ranked Angelo State sweat at little bit on Saturday. It pretty much came down to which side did the little things better, and that was ASU, which scored four two-out runs in the ninth to secure an 11-6 victory and a series sweep at Greyhound Field. Third baseman Jordan Williams drew a bases-loaded walk from ENMU right-hander Tommy Perez, and...
PORTALES - It was a quick turnaround for Portales High's baseball team against District 4-4A rival Artesia on Friday, and the two games didn't go much better than Thursday's contest. The Bulldogs, who won the first game of the series at home 12-2, took two more wins from Portales on Friday at Ram Field - 21-4 in the opener and 6-1 in the nightcap. Artesia (11-9, 3-0 district) pounded out 30 hits in the twin bill, including 21 in the first-game rout which ended in five innings...
CLOVIS - Michael Riess was looking forward to his matchup in the boys 1,600 against Rio Rancho's Dawson Gunn in Thursday's Wildcat Relays at Leon Williams Stadium. He didn't beat Gunn, the top miler in the state this season, but he was well-pleased with his performance. Riess, who broke the PHS record in the event at 4 minutes, 35.36 seconds in Monday's Marilyn Sepulveda Meet of Champions in Albuquerque, was disappointed he didn't see Gunn in that meet. On Thursday, though,...
TEXICO - There weren't exactly any nailbiters, but Portales High's baseball team is hopeful that winning two out of three over the weekend in a three-team get-together will give the Rams some momentum heading into this week's start of District 4-4A play with three games against Artesia. Portales on Saturday turned the tables on Cobre, run-ruling the Indians 15-4 after losing to them 16-6 in five the day before. In their opener on Friday, PHS handed Texico a 13-3 setback in...
PORTALES - Clovis High senior R.J. Nora likes where he is as the track season moves towards Class 5A state competition in May. Nora claimed wins in triple jump, long jump and the 110 hurdles on Friday to help the Wildcats eke out a second-place finish in Portales High's George/Love Invitational at Greyhound Stadium. Hobbs swept both team titles, with the Cats coming in one-half point ahead of Roswell Goddard for second place (53-52 1/2). Led by junior Michael Riess, PHS was si...
CLOVIS — Jamison “Jamie” Bisch was hired by Eastern New Mexico University football coach Tye Hiatt in February to try and help solve the Greyhounds’ problems on defense. Included was a secondary which allowed nearly 250 passing yards per game and 27 touchdowns in 2021. The Greyhounds have added some pieces to that end, but they are hoping several of their returning players will be able to step up to the challenge. “I like our group of kids,” Bisch said on Saturday as the team conducted a practice session at Clovis High...
PORTALES - You could easily say Emma Long had a career night on Wednesday. The Portales High junior had never gone deep in her high school career, but she belted a three-run homer in each game and drove in a total of eight runs as the Lady Rams swept Ruidoso 12-8 and 17-6 at Wheeler Park. More than that, Long had a perfect day at the plate with a walk and three hits in the opener and a 4-for-4 outing with five RBIs in Game 2. Her first home run, to left-center field in the bot...
PORTALES - Noah De La Riva had a rough first inning on Friday night. Given a lift with his teammates putting some runs on the board, though, he was able to settle in the rest of the way. De La Riva, a freshman right-hander from El Paso, threw 31 pitches and allowed three first-inning tallies in Friday's Lone Star Conference series opener against St. Mary's at Greyhound Field. After that, he tossed 78 pitches over six shutout innings, leaving with an eight-run lead before the...
TEXICO — Paityn Nicholson won her two specialties in Saturday’s Wolverine Relays track meet. She has her sights set on bigger things in the near future. Nicholson was an easy winner in shot put (33 feet, 11 1/2 inches) and discus (93-10) on Saturday, helping Melrose claim the girls team title with 114 points to 86 for runnerup Logan. Host Texico was third with 67. Those teams finished in the same order on the boys’ side, with Melrose tallying 108 points to 89 for Logan and 77 1/2 for Texico. Nicholson is the defending Class...
PORTALES - Off to a 10-2 lead after three innings, the Portales High baseball team could almost taste its first win over Clovis High in years on Thursday night. In the end it nearly got away, but Rams senior Hagen Rains worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the seventh to preserve an 11-10 victory at Ram Field. Coming off doubleheaders the previous night, both teams' pitching depth was severely tested. In the end, Rains and CHS senior right-hander Jasiahs Jimenez were...
The Clovis Women's Volleyball League has been around for a while. The league began play 50 years ago, in January 1972, with a field of just four teams. Over the years, it has grown to where this winter there are 38 teams playing in five divisions, generally based on skill level. The league begins a two-week postseason tournament on Monday at Roy Walker Recreation Center. That will be followed by a season-ending banquet. Edith Ann Bradley and former Clovis resident John Betts...
PORTALES — It certainly wasn’t always pretty, but Portales High’s baseball team bounced back from a run-rule loss at Clovis on Tuesday and set itself up for a challenging week ahead. The Rams scored in every inning on Thursday and defeated Moriarty 16-7 at Ram Field, evening up their record for the season at 4-4 heading into a Friday night home twin bill against Eunice. This week, the Rams continue their stretch of home games with 5 p.m. tilts against Roswell High on Tuesday and Clovis on Thursday. Sophomores Kadyn Gutie...
MELROSE - Melrose seniors Logan DeVaney and Johanna Roybal had one final chance to play on their home court on Saturday, and as all-stars no less. DeVaney played for the Class 1-3A boys' Red squad and scored 16 points to help his team post a 109-90 victory over the Green team. Roybal, meantime, had two points as her Green contingent notched a 78-71 win over Red. The games were sponsored by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. Both players totally enjoyed the...
PORTALES - For a program trying to build, the start of the Lone Star Conference season has been a gauntlet for Eastern New Mexico University's softball team. With Friday's twin bill against Texas A&M-Kingsville, the Greyhounds had opened the league slate with consecutive doubleheaders against five teams ranked in NCAA Division II's top 25. That stretch ended on Sunday, when the Hounds (9-19, 2-10) split a pair against Texas A&M International at Greyhound Softball Field. They...
ELIDA — First, it looked like Elida was going to smoke Melrose in Wednesday’s Class 1A boys state quarterfinal game. Then it looked like the Buffaloes might take control. But in a game of runs, it came down to the final minutes, as may have been expected, and the Tigers closed on a 10-2 surge to oust the Buffs 71-67. The win earned second-seeded Elida (22-5) a semifinal date on Friday against No. 3 Mesilla Valley (22-1) at Bernalillo H.S. The championship game was slated for 6 p.m. on Saturday at The Pit in Albuquerque. Jun...
MELROSE - Step one was easy enough. Suffice it to say, though, it gets tougher from here for the Melrose Buffaloes. Seeded seventh in the Class 1A boys 16-team state tournament field, Melrose cruised to a 69-30 win over 10th-seeded Springer on Saturday afternoon. Next up is No. 2 Elida in a 6 p.m. quarterfinal matchup today at Elida. That winner moves into a 3:30 p.m. semifinal on Friday at Bernalillo H.S., seeking a berth in Saturday's 6 p.m. title clash at The Pit in...
PORTALES — Normally, Portales High’s girls are pretty solid on the defensive end. Friday night, they were absolutely stifling. After falling behind 2-0 more than three minutes in, Portales held Los Alamos to four points the rest of the half and went on to a 42-26 victory in a Class 4A round-of-16 state tournament game at the Ram Athletic Center. Seeded fourth, the Lady Rams (21-5) earned themselves another game at the RAC on Tuesday night, where they hosted fifth-seeded Highland (21-5), a 48-45 winner at home on Friday ove...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's women had already clinched a spot in this week's Lone Star Conference tournament prior to Saturday's matchup against rival Western New Mexico at Greyhound Arena. Still, the Greyhounds wanted to make sure they were the 11th seed, and didn't drop to 12th in the 12-team event. They did so with a blistering start en route to a 66-43 thumping of the Mustangs. Then the news, in theory, got better. Their first-round opponent was slated to...
CLOVIS - Clovis Christian knew it would be tough trying to beat District 6-1A rival Fort Sumner for a third time this season in Saturday's district tournament finals. The Foxes wasted little time taking charge, and made sure there wouldn't be any comeback. Sophomore Seth Saiz scored 28 points and junior Clay Norman added 18 on six of the team's nine 3-point baskets as Fort Sumner cruised to a 67-48 victory at the CCS gym. Because it won the regular-season title, CCS (19-8)...
PORTALES - Portales High's girls were looking at a top-four seed for the upcoming Class 4A state tournament. With a 58-45 win over Roswell Goddard in Friday's District 4-4A tournament championship game at the Ram Athletic Center, the Lady Rams sealed a No. 4 seed in the 16- team Class 4A state tournament, meaning they could have two home games before possibly traveling to The Pit in Albuquerque for the semifinals on March 10. Senior post Kylyie Paden and senior guard Taris...
