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STAFF WRITER [email protected] DORA — The Dora Coyotes softball team just learned the hard way that no lead is ever safe, as the Santa Rosa Lady Lions scored six in the final two innings for an 11-10 comeback win Friday. After a seven-run third inning, Dora (2-8) built a 9-5 lead that would stay the same until the sixth inning. Lions coach Sharla Trujillo substituted Kylee Harrison in for starting pitcher Christina Rodarte. Harrison led off the top of the inning with a double and started the rally. Santa Rosa (12-9) cut t...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] DORA — The Dora Coyotes softball team just learned the hard way that no lead is ever safe, as the Santa Rosa Lady Lions scored six in the final two innings for an 11-10 comeback win Friday. After a seven-run third inning, Dora (2-8) built a 9-5 lead that would stay the same until the sixth inning. Lions coach Sharla Trujillo substituted Kylee Harrison in for starting pitcher Christina Rodarte. Harrison led off the top of the inning with a d...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Dora junior Daelynn Lee slides safely into third base in the third inning against Santa Rosa Friday afternoon. Lee scored earlier in the inning during a seven-run inning but Santa Rosa won 11-10....
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Eastern New Mexico has received about 50 applications for its upcoming athletic director vacancy, and hopes to get one in place in Jeff Geiser’s final weeks before his July 1 retirement. Jeff Long, ENMU’s Vice President of Student Affairs, chairs of the athletic director search committee made up of ENMU athletic coaches, faculty, adminstrators and students, along with a Portales citizen. The committee, Long said, is on the verge of paring the field to five or six finailsts. “I’m in the pro...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Eastern New Mexico has received about 50 applications for its upcoming athletic director vacancy, and hopes to get one in place in Jeff Geiser’s final weeks before his July 1 retirement. Jeff Long, ENMU’s Vice President of Student Affairs, chairs of the athletic director search committee made up of ENMU athletic coaches, faculty, adminstrators and students, along with a Portales citizen. The committee, Long said, is on the verge of paring the field to five or six finailsts. “I’m in the pro...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] ROSWELL— Despite going quintuple-bogey on a hole during Monday’s portion of the Spring Classic at Roswell, Portales senior Bailey Rowley finished the two-day event in third place, and led Portales with a score of 159. Rowley finished the second day with a 78 with sophomore Janae Hale shooting an 89 for a two-day total of 179. Both scores were good enough to qualify as legs and as a team, the Lady Rams shot 392. “Bailey had a great two days,” girls coach Charity Gomez said. “She had one bad h...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] SANDIA PARK — The first half of District 4-4A play for the Rams couldn’t have gone much better as Portales won both games in their doubleheader against East Mountain on Monday, 9-1 and 6-2, in the nightcap to stay perfect in district play. Portales (11-6, 6-0) battled both the weather and the Timberwolves as the cold temperature forced Portales coach Dusty Nusser to pull starting pitcher senior Grant Wagner in the first game after just two innings of work. “(Grant) said his arm was a little s...
STAFF REPORT Tarleton State scored two runs after the first two hitters had been retired in the top of the 11th inning on Saturday, and the Texans held on for an 8-7 win over Eastern New Mexico University, sweeping Saturday’s twin bill and the three-game series at Greyhound Field. In the first game, Tarleton cruised to a 12-3 victory. ENMU (10-30, 3-22 LSC) tried to rally in the bottom of the 11th. Charles Sandberg Jr. hit a one-out double, took third on a wild pitch and s...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher ENMU right fielder Jacob Cluff slides into home following a push bunt attempt by Michael McNicholl in the second inning against Tarleton State on Saturday afternoon. Cluff was tagged out on the play....
Staff photo: Matthew Asher ENMU right fielder Jacob Cluff slides into home following a push bunt attempt by Michael McNicholl in the second inning against Tarleton State on Saturday afternoon. Cluff was tagged out on the play....
STAFF REPORT Tarleton State scored two runs after the first two hitters had been retired in the top of the 11th inning on Saturday, and the Texans held on for an 8-7 win over Eastern New Mexico University, sweeping Saturday’s twin bill and the three-game series at Greyhound Field. In the first game, Tarleton cruised to a 12-3 victory. ENMU (10-30, 3-22 LSC) tried to rally in the bottom of the 11th. Charles Sandberg Jr. hit a one-out double, took third on a wild pitch and s...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Despite Texas Woman’s University having the second-best record in the Lone Star Conference and ENMU at the bottom, the Hounds showed they can compete with anybody in the conference as they split a doubleheader with TWU Friday afternoon with a 5-4 comeback win in the first game and had a comeback fall short in the nightcap, a 9-8 loss. Trailing 4-2 in the bottom of the eighth, ENMU (13-37, 4-22 LSC) got their first to batters on base via w...
Wednesday night my Facebook page was flooded with my friends wondering if they should watch the Golden State Warriors try to win an NBA-record 73 regular season games, or see Kobe Bryant’s last game. I didn’t see a hard choice: Regardless of what Bryant has meant to the NBA and the Los Angles Lakers, he’s far from innocent in the Lakers’ three-year spiral from top-tier team to cellar dweller. For the record, I didn’t see Golden State get its 73rd win of the season following...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] A baseball game is rarely won in the first inning, but the Ruidoso Warriors found out the hard way that it’s possible to lose a game that early as the Portales Rams turned one Warrior error into seven runs en route to a 15-5 victory in the first game of their District 4-4A doubleheader on Tuesday and completed the sweep with a 9-3 nightcap win. After Jacob Salgado drew a leadoff walk in the first game, Joe Ortega hit the ball to the Ruidoso s...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Juan Espanosa rounds third base in the first inning following Jacob Salgado’s double. Espanosa would score on the play and Portales beat Ruidoso 15-5 in five innings....
Staff report PORTALES — Clovis High’s tennis teams dominated Portales for the second time this season on Monday, with the boys taking an 8-1 victory over the Rams and the girls notching a 9-0 sweep. link Staff photo: Matthew Asher Clovis junior Kylee Brooks, left, high-fives senior Samantha Lee after winning a point during their first set of doubles against Portales on Monday at PHS. Clovis swept Portales, winning the boys dual 8-1 and the girls matchup 9-0. Both teams not...
BoysClovis 8, Portales 1Singles No. 1 — Kayden Lamb (C) beat Zachary Laurenz 8-5; No. 2 — Rohan Angadi (C) beat Enrique Cabral 7-5, 6-7 (7-4), (10-8); No. 3 — Nick Donaldson (C) beat Javier Gutierrez 6-1, 6-1; No. 4 — Eduardo Hernandez (C) beat Geronamo Macias 6-4, 6-1; No. 5 — JJ Alvarado (C) beat Francisco Lopez 6-1, 6-0; No. 6 — Colby Coiner (C) beat Zeke Aquirre 6-3, 2-6, (10-3). Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales sophomore Enrique Cabral serves the ball during the...
STAFF REPORT It was a good day for Portales track and field as both the boys and girls took first place in Friday’s Jim Love Invite at PHS. The Portales boys team finished with 173 1/2 points, nearly 100 more than second-place Dexter (78 1/2). The Rams had 12 first-place finishes, including nine individual wins. Sophomore Julian Tellez and junior Trenton Small won multiple events, with Tellez winning the 110 and 300 hurdles races with times of 16.90 and 44.49 and Small s...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] PORTALES — 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 production. Whatever works. The Lady Rams...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] After putting up 32 runs against NMMI on Tuesday, the Portales Rams offense was limited against their rival Lovington on Thursday but did enough to come away with a 6-3 win. Senior Grant Wagner pitched his way through the first inning without any problem, but in the second inning, AJ Ochoa took a Wagner fastball to the outfield, scoring one run. The problem for Portales was that Wagner tried to throw out the runner advancing to third but...
Staff report [email protected] The start of the District 4-4A baseball schedule couldn’t have gone much better for Portales on Tuesday as the Rams put up 32 runs and run-ruled New Mexico Military in both games at Ram Field. Staff photo: Matthew Asher Senior Grant Wagner is congratulated by teammates after hitting a three-run homer during the fourth inning of the first game in Tuesday’s District 4-4A baseball doubleheader at Ram Field. Wagner went 2-for-3 with 4 RBIs in the...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales teammates surround home plate to celebrate senior Tori Cordova’s third-inning grand slam in Saturday’s game at Clovis. Cordova went 4-for-4 with five RBIs in the Lady Rams’ 20-8 victory....
Staff photo: Matthew Asher ENMU senior and Silver defensive back Charles Stevens intercepts a pass in the end zone intended for Green’s Aaron Johnson on the final play of the first half of Saturday’s Green & Silver game at Blackwater Draw....
Staff writer [email protected] FLOYD — The third time didn’t prove to be the charm for the Grady Bronchos. taff photo: Matthew Asher Dora sophomore Aaron Jasso slides in safely at home in the first inning of Friday’s game against Grady. Jasso was responsible for both of the Coyotes’ runs in the inning as he drove in Sam McConnell with an RBI double. Dora defeated the Bronchos 4-3. Already having lost twice to Dora, Grady was unable to best the Coyotes in their third m...
Staff writer [email protected] FLOYD — The third time didn’t prove to be the charm for the Grady Bronchos. link Staff photo: Matthew Asher Grady sophomore Chance Shaw hits an RBI double in the third inning of Friday’s game against Dora. Shaw had a pair of doubles in the game, but Dora won 4-3. Already having lost twice to Dora, Grady was unable to best the Coyotes in their third meeting of the season on Friday. Grady is still looking for its first win of the season after...
