Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES - Less than a month ago, Portales girls basketball needed a strong second half to pull away from Ruidoso. On Friday night, the Rams put away the Warriors right from the get-go, 69-22. With the win, Portales wins the 4A-District 4 regular season title, and will get to host the district tournament championship game. "I think our overall play and ball movement was better tonight (compared to our last game against Ruidoso)," Rams coach Wade Fraze said. "(But) it was not...
Boys Ruidoso (13-9, 2-3) at Portales (12-10, 2-3), 7 p.m. On the air: KSEL 105.9 FM Last time out: The Warriors beat NMMI last Friday, 67-47. The Rams lost at Moriarty, 51-50, on Tuesday night. Last meeting: Portales beat Ruidoso 56-53 Jan. 23. Notes: The Rams are hoping that January's win over the Warriors brings them good vibes this time around, as Portales is currently in the midst of stretch in which it has lost five of its last eight ballgames. However, Portales has only...
FLOYD — The Grady girls basketball team came into Thursday night's game against Floyd a little under-manned and needing a win to keep pace with other top-ranked teams in 1A girls basketball. The Bronchos did just that with a strong second half showing to notch a 49-36 District 4-1A victory over the Broncos. "Tonight's a little different for us, because I'm playing without one of my starters. So, we had to make some adjustments there," Grady head coach Tammy Northcutt e...
PORTALES — Coming off of a season in which they cracked the Top 25 for the first time since 2003 and finished 8-2, the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds football team were looking to carry that momentum into Wednesday's national signing day. According to head coach Kelley Lee, who will have to replace eight defensive starters and also rebuild his offensive line, it was mission accomplished. "Very good class," Lee said. "We did very well with regional and area football players i...
PORTALES — A roller coaster afternoon resulted in disappointment for Eastern New Mexico on Tuesday, in the Greyhounds' baseball home-opener. The Hounds committed costly mistakes in the late stages of the game, allowing for an 8-6 Oklahoma Panhandle State victory. "We made some costly errors. We only made two of them, but they were so huge and it brought four runs on the board for (the Aggies)," ENMU coach David Gomez said. "We, as a whole, weren't ready to go (and) we d...
PORTALES — Thirteen. That's a number that most consider to be unlucky, but for Eastern New Mexico's women's basketball team, that exact number proved to be the Greyhounds' friend in Saturday's 64-60 Lone Star Conference win over Texas A&M-Commerce. ENMU sank 13 of 17 free throws in the fourth quarter to extend their current hot streak to 10 wins in the last 13 games. In the process, Eastern (13-8, 9-5 LSC) took down the league-leading Lions (15-7, 11-3), in what is c...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico was expected to have a physical, "NFL-hitting" battle against Texas A&M-Commerce in Saturday's Lone Star Conference men's basketball showdown, according to Greyhounds coach Tres Segler. In the end, ENMU won the war, as clutch 3-point shooting proved to be the difference in an 85-81 overtime victory over the 22nd-ranked Lions. "Lamarquis Thompson had a tough defensive matchup, he guarded the (Willie) Rooks kid. Rooks hit a mean 3 in the corner a...
PORTALES — Rams girls basketball coach Wade Fraze had never beaten Hope Christian, and was uncertain as to if Portales High had ever beaten the Huskies, period. During Friday night's District 4-4A matchup at Rams Athletic Center, however, all of that past frustration was let out by Portales, who channeled that previous disappointment into a 57-31 runaway victory. Portales (20-2, 3-0) dominated from the opening tip, building a 23-point lead by halftime and never looking back i...
PORTALES — Alivia Lewis' clutch performance in the final minute of Thursday's Lone Star Conference women's basketball matchup against Tarleton State was enough to lift her Greyhounds to victory. And ENMU, as a result of Lewis' effort, has now won nine of its last 12 games. "Yeah, she stepped up and made big plays — I was really proud of her," Eastern head coach Josh Prock said of the 6-foot-2 freshman from Albuquerque. "She made big free throws, big rebounds. She's a good pla...
PORTALES — The Greyhound baseball team made history in 2017, pulling off the second greatest single-season turnaround in NCAA Division II play since 1998. After winning just 10 games in 2016, Eastern New Mexico responded last season with a 32-18 record — tied for the second most wins in school history. Along the way, ENMU had the best start in program history (14-1) and produced a pair of All-Americans in Alex DeLaCruz and Endy Villalona, both of whom happened to transfer tog...
DORA — Dora’s Slade Hamann plays the game of basketball with a simple approach — have fun. That ethos has helped him and his Coyotes get off to a 13-6 start for the 2017-18 campaign. “I feel like, when a lot of us are cracking up and having fun, we play better as a team,” Hamann said. “As opposed to being all the way focused. Playing looser helps us, compared to playing tight.” The senior is described as a combination of a shooting guard/small forward, and for Hamann, offense rues the day. Hamann is the type of player capabl...
PORTALES - Heading into Friday night's District 4-4A boys basketball contest against New Mexico Military Institute, Rams coach Rickie McBroom was hoping that his team could play a "compete, 32-minute game." And indeed, Portales did just that in a 59-36 win against an overmatched Colts squad. "I really thought our kids played hard for 32 minutes, I really did," McBroom said. "We got to play a lot of kids a lot of minutes - we got to do some things we normally don't do. On a...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico will open its 2018 indoor track and field season this afternoon, as the Greyhounds travel to Lubbock for the Texas Tech Red & Black Open. The event will be held at the Red Raiders’ new Sports Performance Center, with action beginning at 3 p.m. MST. “Texas Tech’s new facility is a really fast track, so it should be fun,” ENMU track and field coach Jeff Kavalunas said. “Our sprinters haven’t gone in awhile, but they’re coming off of a pretty good fall training session. Our sprinters and hurdlers ar...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University would not be denied for a second time in three days, as the Greyhounds managed to hold on to a second half lead in Saturday's 92-89 Lone Star Conference men's basketball game against Angelo State. ENMU, who had blown a second-half lead and lost in overtime to Texas A&M-Kingsville on Thursday, saw a 16-point lead nearly evaporate against ASU. In the end, however, Eastern (8-10, 3-6 LSC) simply refused to let another one get away. "I'm o...
PORTALES — Late-game fireworks — in more ways than one — weren't enough to save the Eastern New Mexico women against Angelo State in Saturday's Lone Star Conference basketball tussle at Greyhound Arena. Eastern nearly erased a 26-point deficit, but came up just shy in the end as a Kaylee Edgemon 3-pointer rimmed out at the buzzer to preserve a 62-59 Angelo State victory. "Our kids just continued to fight. They didn't stop fighting, and they continued to go, go, go," Greyh...
TEXICO — From "best kept secret" to no secret at all, Texico junior point guard Baylee Sours has certainly burst onto the scene this season. Sours, arguably the area's best small-school girls player, is averaging approximately 20 points per game, to go along with double-digits in rebounding and nearly six assists per game in 2017-18. "We rely on her pretty heavily," Texico girls basketball coach Richard Luscombe said. "We rely on her to do a lot of things in both our o...
PORTALES — The Rams washed away Moriarty's perfect record in a 47-30 girls basketball District 4-4A victory Friday night. Portales High dominated from start to finish, as the Pintos looked far from perfect. When asked if he would have been surprised if told before the game that his team would win by 17 points, Rams coach Wade Fraze laughed, and said, "I would have been thankful, and I am thankful. The kids came out strong and intense, and I think the lead early helped us ...
PORTALES — What started as a celebration of local elementary and middle school students at Greyhound Arena on Thursday morning ended in an even bigger celebration two hours later, as the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds notched a 67-61 overtime win over Texas A&M-Kingsville in a Lone Star Conference women's basketball matchup. "There wasn't honestly a lot of adjustments. We just told our girls that we had to get stops," Greyhounds coach Josh Prock said of the overtime session. "...
PORTALES — Six fouls, three points. That's all the Texas A&M-Kingsville men's basketball team could muster in the first eight-plus minutes in Thursday afternoon's Lone Star Conference basketball game at Eastern New Mexico University. And yet, the Javelinas somehow came out on top in overtime, 65-62, to snap a seven-game losing streak. "I just told my staff, 'We hadn't won in so long, I forgot what it felt like,' " Javelinas coach Johnny Estelle said with a laugh. "But it's g...
FLOYD — Neither illness nor a slow start could derail the Dora Coyotes in Tuesday night's 64-31 girls basketball win over Floyd. The Coyotes did not enter the contest with a full deck of cards, so to speak, as multiple players — as well as head coach Gabe Montoya — were out with the flu or other illnesses. "We had three with the flu and just some other sicknesses — coughing, but we overcame it," acting head coach Benny Tapia said. "Just probably missing some girls with si...
DORA — The Coyotes boys basketball program has made strides in John Wootton's first year at the helm, and it showed on Saturday afternoon, following a 69-34 victory over Evangel Christian. Dora went on a 15-0 run in the second quarter to seize control of a tight ballgame, to ultimately cruise on home from there. "Well, we changed defenses — I think that helped," Wootton said. "We put a little more pressure on them and I think we finally woke up. It's kind of a different day...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University running back Kamal Cass had a decorated career with the Greyhounds, breaking the school's all-time rushing record, while receiving numerous awards and accolades, dating back to his breakout sophomore year. The undersized speed back was recently named an NCAA Division II All-American once again, and will compete in Monday's Dream Bowl, a college football senior all-star game held in Salem, Virginia for NCAA FCS, D-II and D-III p...
GRADY — Once abandoned by her biological parents in her native China at 6 years old, Grady Bronchos girls basketball player Timia Northcutt is certainly feeling the love these days. The junior guard has shown a lot of progress — both on and off the court — since coming stateside at the age of 8. "(My husband Todd and I) adopted her from China in 2008," Bronchos coach and Timia's mother, Tammy, said. "She was abandoned in a market when she was 6, and so she lived in an orpha...
PORTALES — One week ago, the young Lovington Wildcats girls basketball team kept the Portales Rams on the ropes, trailing by just five points at half, before Portales ultimately pulled away. On Friday night, however, Portales would have no part of any kind of close game, forcing the issue from start to finish in a 62-19 rout. "That was what we wanted to do is get out to a good start, because last week we didn't," Rams coach Wade Fraze explained. "We just wanted to get off t...
Lovington (6-10) at Portales (15-2), 7 p.m. On the air: KSEL 105.9 FM Last time out: The Wildcats beat Santa Teresa back on Monday, 47-21. The Rams took down Roswell, 63-35, on Tuesday night. Last meeting: Portales pulled away at Lovington last Friday night, 49-28. Notes: Despite the final score from a week ago, Portales only led by five points at half. The Rams exploded in the second half, outscoring the Wildcats, 28-12. Taylee Rippee led the way with 20 points, while Lindsay Blakey had 11 and Zamorye Cox added nine. On the...
