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STAFF WRITER [email protected] The search for ENMU’s new athletic director has come to a close. On Wednesday, the university announced that Western State Colorado University Athletic Director Greg Waggoner will fulfill the same role for Greyhound athletics on June 1. Waggoner has served as the athletic director at Western State for 20 years. During his time as athletic director, Western State won 11 NCAA Division-II national championships, with 97 national “Top 10” team... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The search for ENMU’s new athletic director has come to a close. On Wednesday, the university announced that Western State Colorado University Athletic Director Greg Waggoner will fulfill the same role for Greyhound athletics on June 1. Waggoner has served as the athletic director at Western State for 20 years. During his time as athletic director, Western State won 11 NCAA Division-II national championships, with 97 national “Top 10” team...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] RIO RANCHO — Last year, the Bloomfield Bobcats run-ruled Portales 11-1 in the Class 4A state baseball quarterfinals. This time, Dusty Nusser and his team made sure history wouldn’t repeat itself as the Rams bested Bloomfield 4-2 in Thursday’s 4A quarterfinals at Rio Rancho H.S. The Rams (22-6), seeded second in the 16-team field, advanced to a noon semifinal game today against sixth-seeded Cobre, which upended No. 3 Hope Christian 4-2 in Th...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] RIO RANCHO — Five errors, including two in the top of the seventh inning, helped end Floyd’s hopes for a Class 1-2A state baseball title on Thursday. Second-seeded McCurdy capitalized on the mistakes, scoring four runs in the seventh, and advanced to today’s 9 a.m. championship game against top-seeded Melrose at Isotopes Park in Albuquerque championship game with a 9-5 victory over the Broncos. Floyd (19-4), seeded third, started well with three runs in the first two innings, but in the third...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] RIO RANCHO — All it took was one swing by Dominique McGilbert to end the Lady Rams’ 2016 softball season on Thursday. The Kirtland Central sophomore hit a solo home run, her second of the game, on a 2-0 count in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Lady Broncos a 6-5 victory over Portales in the consolation bracket of the Class 4A state playoffs on Thursday at the Cleveland H.S. softball complex. In what was the theme of Portales’ three games in Rio Rancho, the Lady Rams (23-7) had t...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Last season the Portales High baseball season ended in the quarterfinals against the Bloomfield Bobcats in an 11-1 run-rule loss. Now the Rams have a chance to get a modicum of revenge as they will once again face Bloomfield in the quarterfinals of the state tournament at 10 a.m. on Thursday at Rio Rancho HS. Since their 6-5 loss at Texico on March 31, the Portales Rams have won their last 18 straight games, giving them the No. 2 seed in the...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales senior Draven Saiz squares up for the bunt during the Ram baseball practice Tuesday afternoon. The Rams take on seventh-seeded Bloomfield in a 10 a.m. Thursday contest.... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] ROSWELL — It was a good day overall for Rams golf, but it was a great day for seniors Thomas Tulk and Bailey Rowley on an individual level as Tulk won the Class 1-4A state title and Rowley finished in third place at the Spring River Golf Course. Tulk shot a 73 on Tuesday for a two-day total of 148 and moved up from his second place standing on Monday. He is the first Ram to win a state title in golf since Kevin Welch in 2004. “Thomas did ext...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] With their 16-1 victory over Socorro Friday night, the Portales Lady Rams now prepare for the final stretch of the season as they ready for their noon game on Wednesday at the Rio Rancho Softball Complex to take on the St. Michael’s Lady Horsemen. Currently holders of an 11-game winning streak, No. 2 Portales (22-5) is looking to stretch that number to at least 13 which would put the Lady Rams in the state championship game in the d... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] ROSWELL — The Portales Rams golf teams are off to good starts after Day 1 of the Class 1-4A state tournament at Spring River Golf Course. The Portales boys shot 319 as a team. They are currently third, 18 shots behind first-place Socorro and four in back of New Mexico Military. “On Day 1, they all fought hard,” boys coach Matt Hunton said. “The wind picked up and gusted all day. When one of them would have a bad hole they wouldn’t let it get to them. They’d fight back and put a string of good...
The Eastern New Mexico University baseball season — its worst in the 25 seasons of the current program’s existence — almost got an unexpected bright ending Saturday, with the host Hounds rallying from a 13-0 deficit to claim a 19-15 lead over Cameron. But things went south a final time for the Greyhounds, as the visiting Aggies posted three runs in the sixth and seventh innings to notch a 21-19 victory and a three-game sweep on the final weekend of the Lone Star Confe...
Staff report PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University baseball season — its worst in the 25 seasons of the current program’s existence — almost got an unexpected bright ending Saturday, with the host Hounds rallying from a 13-0 deficit to claim a 19-15 lead over Cameron. link Staff photo: Matthew Asher Junior pitcher Chris Miranda-Carr gives the ball to coach David Gomez after being pulled during the first inning of Saturday’s second game of a season-ending Lone Star Conf...
Staff writer [email protected] Portales senior Grant Wagner wanted his final home game as a pitcher to be a memorable one. And while it wasn’t perfect, it was very close. Wagner pitched a two-hit complete game to give the Rams a 7-0 victory over the West Las Vegas Dons in the first of a best-of-three series on Friday. Portales (20-6) brings a 17-game winning streak into the noon Saturday Game 2. West Las Vegas (14-13) needs a win to stay alive and force a deciding third g... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The pool of finalist candidates to replace Jeff Geiser as Eastern New Mexico University’s athletic director has been set. Jeff Long, ENMU’s Vice President of Student Affairs, and the head of the athletic director search committee, said there are four finalists who are expected to make campus visits over the next two weeks. The candidates are: • Phillip Roybal, vice president for student success for New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs. • Kelley Kish, Nova Southeastern University’s associate...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The pool of finalist candidates to replace Jeff Geiser as Eastern New Mexico University’s athletic director has been set. Jeff Long, ENMU’s Vice President of Student Affairs, and the head of the athletic director search committee, said there are four finalists who are expected to make campus visits over the next two weeks. The candidates are: • Phillip Roybal, vice president for student success for New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs. • Kelley Kish, Nova Southeastern University’s associate...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The Portales Rams have a 16-game winning streak going into the Class 4A state baseball tournament. They’d like it to be 18 by Saturday. The second-seeded Rams, coming off a perfect run through District 4-4A, host the West Las Vegas Dons in a best-of-three first-round series that begins 5:30 p.m. Friday, and continues Saturday with the second game at noon and a 2 p.m. deciding game if necessary. Portales (19-6) has already beaten No. 15 West L...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales senior Grant Wagner fields a ball during Tuesday’s practice. Wagner will be the starting pitcher for the Rams in the first game of the state playoffs against West Las Vegas this Friday at 5:30 p.m....
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Current ENMU freshman and Clovis High graduate Shelby Jones will join the Greyhounds women’s basketball team for the 2016-17 season. The 6-foot-1 Jones will probably play either power forward or center for the Hounds. She is also a member of the ENMU track team. As a CHS student, Jones helped the Lady Wildcats win three district championships as well as the Class 5A state championship in 2013 when Clovis finished the season 30-2. During her c... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Current ENMU freshman and Clovis High graduate Shelby Jones will join the Greyhounds women’s basketball team for the 2016-17 season. The 6-foot-1 Jones will probably play either power forward or center for the Hounds. She is also a member of the ENMU track team. As a CHS student, Jones helped the Lady Wildcats win three district championships as well as the Class 5A state championship in 2013 when Clovis finished the season 30-2. link Staff p... Full story
Staff writer [email protected] DORA —The Eunice Lady Cardinals found the left side of the field to their liking on Monday as 10 of their 16 hits went to that side in a 16-0 victory over Dora in a game that ended after three innings on the 15-run rule. Staff photo: Matthew Asher Dora eighth-grader Kimberlee Rains slides safely into third base during the third inning of the Lady Coyotes’ softball matchup on Monday against Eunice at Dora. Eunice overmatched the first-year Lad...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The Portales Rams baseball team concluded its regular season on quite a roll as they swept district foe East Mountain 10-0 and 5-3 on Saturday afternoon to extended their winning streak to 16 games and stay perfect in District 4-4A play. It was senior day for the Rams and fittingly ,it came down to two rarely-used seniors to score the 10th and final run of the first game to run-rule the Timberwolves. With Portales (19-6, 12-0) leading 9-0,... Full story
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales senior Andrew Garcia safely steals second base in the bottom of the fifth inning against East Mountain on Saturday afternoon. Garcia would score the game-ending run when senior Drew Jackson drove him in on a sacrifice fly RBI to win the first game 10-0 in five innings.... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] It was a great weekend for the city of Portales and a rough one for the city of Las Vegas as the Rams and Lady Rams went a combined 5-0 against the West Las Vegas Dons and Robertson Cardinals. The Lady Rams (14-5) swept the Lady Dons (9-8) 13-4 and 8-3 on Friday and then beat the cross-town Robertson Lady Cardinals (16-3), who are currently the No. 6 team in the state of New Mexico, 4-2 and 3-0 on Saturday. Eighth-grader Wendy Baeza pitched all 28 innings for Portales in the four game... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Coach Robbie Crowley might make a habit out of yelling at Portales’ bats. Coming into the first game of a doubleheader against Hope Christian, the Portales Lady Rams had managed just one hit through the first five innings of a scoreless game. Crowley asked her team if she should tell the bats to wake up. When they said yes, Crowley, like Happy Gilmore when the golf ball wouldn’t go to its home, proceeded to badger the bats for their lack of... Full story
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales right fielder Sarah Lovato connects with a fly ball in the sixth inning for an RBI in the sixth inning of the Rams’ 4-0 victory over Hope Christian on Friday....
