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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball team handled its business early Thursday night. Against Lone Star Conference rival University of Texas-Permian Basin at Greyhound Arena, ENMU jumped off to an early lead, built on it during a strong late-first-quarter-to-early-second-quarter stretch, then stayed in control during the second half and won 66-43. It was the Greyhounds’ third straight victory and came in convincing fashion. “Yeah, from start to fini...
CLOVIS — This is it, the district schedule, where the games really count. And man, did the Clovis girls basketball team make it count in Tuesday night’s District 4-5A opener against Carlsbad. Though Tuesday’s game at Rock Staubus Gymnasium was tied at halftime, the Lady Wildcats went ahead early in the third quarter, then led the entire second half on their way to a 40-32 victory. The Lady ’Cats were still only 9-12 overall after Tuesday’s win, but were 1-0 in district...
TEXICO — Texico’s boys basketball team has at times this season pulled mid-game disappearing acts. Fortunately for the Wolverines on Saturday night, they reappeared in plenty of time to rout Logan, 67-46, at Texico High School. Ahead by 14 late in the first quarter and still up by 11 early in the second, Texico saw its lead shaved to three by midway through that second period. But then the Wolverines turned it on again, led by 11 late in the half, by nine at the break, and...
PORTALES — Of this Friday’s Eastern New Mexico baseball season opener one could say, “ENMU Greyhounds, come on down!” After all, the Hounds are going to find out this season if the Price is right. Riley Price was hired last summer to replace David Gomez, who had stepped down in May. Price, who grew up in Kansas, has played junior college and Division II college baseball, has coached in a collegiate summer baseball league and in the Lone Star Conference for Angelo State, and ha...
TEXICO — For Logan’s girls basketball team, Saturday night’s game at Texico High School represented another in a series of games, another step, that the Lady Longhorns hope leads them to a state championship. For a young Texico team trying to improve amidst an injury-riddled season, it was a chance to take down the recently-minted Eastern Plains Athletic Conference champions. And though the Lady Wolverines came close to doing just that, they fell short against Logan and lost...
Sunday morning, Kobe Bryant awoke to his last day on Earth. A few hours later, the Earth shook — reverberated actually — at the news that Bryant had died in a helicopter crash along with his daughter Gianna and seven others. Bryant, who played 20 seasons for the Los Angeles Lakers, was a legend of not just the National Basketball Association, but of the entire sports world, of the pop culture world. The entertainment world too after winning an Oscar for ‘Dear Basketball’, a short film based on a poem he wrote when retirin...
PORTALES — Portales’ boys basketball team is 4A, Carlsbad’s 5A. But they both see benefits in playing each other. Especially the Cavemen, who won Tuesday night’s game 52-40 at Portales High’s Ram Athletic Center and snapped a three-game losing skid. “It’s a quality win,” Carlsbad head coach Steve Garza said. “A smaller classification but Portales is always solid in basketball. We wish them luck the rest of the year, but I’m just proud of our boys for sticking it out and extending the lead.” “It’s great,” Portales head coa...
CLOVIS — Friday’s Portales-Clovis girls basketball game was like an episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Homeland’ — lots of action and excitement, unpredictability aplenty before Portales stole the scene in the game’s final act, winning 53-44. Friday’s episode was filmed on location at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, with the Lady Wildcats starring first and leading early in the second quarter, the Lady Rams grabbing top billing by appearing to run away with it by halftime, then a strong...
CLOVIS — If you’re a Grady/San Jon/House basketball fan, you probably had mixed emotions about Thursday night’s doubleheader at Clovis Christian. If you’re a Clovis Christian basketball fan, you probably had mixed emotions about Thursday night’s doubleheader at home. The Clovis Christian girls opened Thursday’s twin bill with a 53-47 victory over Grady/San Jon/House. And Grady/San Jon/House’s boys then won the nightcap 77-65. A mixed bag for both programs. Next woman up Clovis Christian’s girls basketball team, like a lo...
CLOVIS — A high school basketball season is a slog, a long march toward what each team hopes is a state-playoff destination. Clovis’ girls basketball team continued its march on Saturday night with a victory over Lovington at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. The Lady Wildcats were able to transform a tie game at halftime into a 47-39 victory, which was huge because the outcome left them still four games under .500 with the regular season more than half over. Every win is huge for them from now on. “It was ugly, but I’ll take an ugly...
CLOVIS — Volcano Vista is the kind of boys basketball team Clovis will have to beat in the state tournament if the Wildcats want to get far. So, Saturday night’s 58-48 victory over Volcano at Rock Staubus Gymnasium – a game Clovis led from start to finish – seemed like a pretty big one, seemed like it boded well for Clovis’ state-playoff aspirations. Maybe it did. But, in head coach Jaden Isler’s mind, every regular-season victory is important, every one bodes well for hi...
PORTALES — Once the Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball team let Lubbock Christian back into Thursday night’s game, the Lady Chaps weren’t going away. That tends to happen against the undefeated second-ranked Division II team in the country, a defending national champion. But ENMU didn’t flinch, didn’t fold, when Lubbock Christian quickly erased a big deficit and eventually took the lead in Thursday’s Lone Star Conference showdown at Greyhound Arena. Even in overt...
PORTALES - In the end, the final score is all that matters. And so, when the Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball team fell just shy, 62-60, against Lubbock Christian on Thursday night at Greyhound Arena, it was the Hounds' ninth loss in 14 tries this season, their fourth in nine Lone Star Conference games. No two ways about that. But, there were plenty of positives, the biggest probably that Eastern fought back from a 35-27 halftime deficit to build a 53-46...
Winning championships, even just having a chance to compete for them, is the ultimate reward for a team’s season and offseason of hard work. So are the all-star games that come during that offseason. Announced recently, local programs big and small were honored with numerous selections to the 2020 North-South All-Star Games, which will be held this June. The large- and small-school football games are scheduled for the weekend of June 5-6, with the large-school game slated for Friday June 5 at Las Cruces’ Field of Dreams, the...
PORTALES — Any night that ends with a big trophy, a plaque and medals is a pretty good night. Saturday night ended with all of the above hardware for the Melrose boys basketball team after a 66-37 rout of Tatum in the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament championship game at Greyhound Arena. The blowout and the awards resulting from it signified the Buffaloes’ first EPAC title since 1993. A close game for most of the first quarter but a double-digit affair from late f...
PORTALES — It was a matter of perspective. For the Logan girls basketball team, Saturday night’s Eastern Plains Athletic Conference championship game at Greyhound Arena was a stirring comeback, a double overtime victory, an achievement 44 years in the making. For Melrose it was a lost opportunity, a title that slipped away. Logan, down big for most of Saturday’s game, rallied to force overtime, then forced another one, and won its first EPAC championship since 1976 by defea...
CLOVIS — Were you ready for some … basketball? In a rare Monday-nighter at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, the Clovis boys basketball team hosted a Texas visitor, this time from Canyon. And after a tight first quarter and a mostly-close second, the Wildcats breezed away for a 73-54 victory. The Monday-night scheduling gave Clovis less time to wait before trying to bounce back from Saturday night’s loss to 2019 state finalist Santa Fe in the capitol. And, playing a Texas team is alway...
PORTALES — Seeding? What seeding? Melrose, despite winning Class 1A boys state championships the past two seasons, was slotted third in this past week’s Eastern Plains Athletic Conference basketball tournament. Didn’t matter. As of Friday night, the Buffaloes had earned their way into the EPAC final, with their 67-24 semifinal victory over second-seeded Elida at Greyhound Arena, a day after top-seeded four-time defending champ Texico fell to eighth-seeded Tatum in the secon...
PORTALES — Melrose’s girls basketball team, a Class A state runner-up the past two seasons, has designs on returning to the state title game and winning it this year. To that end, tournaments like the one offered by the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference supplies a good test for the Lady Buffaloes against quality small-school programs. So, the fact that Melrose was already EPAC’s top seed heading into Friday night’s semifinal against four-time defending champion Texico...
CLOVIS — If you had told Clovis boys basketball coach Jaden Isler before Tuesday night that his Wildcats would win their first home game of the new year 66-51 against a Lovington team with a plus-.500 record, he probably would’ve signed up for that. But, the way Tuesday night’s game played out left Isler very dissatisfied. Because the ’Cats, after building an 18-point lead in the second quarter, let Lovington sneak back into it, trail by just seven with possession and a chance to narrow the margin to four or five. So, whi...
The calendar turns over fast and January comes before you know it. Meaning the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference boys basketball tournament is upon us. EPAC, as its commonly known, is a tournament that provides an early-season challenge for the small schools that partake in it. “It proves who’s the best on this side of the state,” Elida boys head coach Jared Fraze said. “When I was a kid growing up over here it was just exciting to see all the local teams deciding who was the...
The crown jewel of Roosevelt County’s 2019 high school sports season had to be Portales’ football team winning the state 4A championship on Thanksgiving weekend. But that was near the end of the year. It was basketball season when 2019 began. Winter Portales’ girls basketball team had posted a come-from-behind victory to win the 2018 state championship, and was hoping for a title repeat in 2019. And that title defense did get off to a promising start, as the Lady Rams opened the ’19 state tournament with a 42-36 first-r...
CLOVIS — It was not the trophy they are hoping for most, but they’ll take it for now. Winning the champion’s trophy of this past weekend’s Griego and Sons Holiday Classic Tournament at Rock Staubus Gymnasium may have helped Clovis High’s boys basketball team along the path toward winning a blue trophy — the state-championship kind — in mid-March. By taking on the Thursday-Friday-Saturday, one-two-three punch capped by Saturday’s 76-53 victory over Albuquerque in their holida...
There was plenty of fun stuff for Curry County in 2019, with championships across the board. Every high school sports season ended with a Curry County championship — basketball in the winter, baseball in the spring, football and volleyball in the fall. So here goes, a look back at the last year of the decade and how local teams made Curry County proud. Winter The county’s winter highlight was Melrose’s boys basketball team winning a second consecutive state championship at Albuquerque’s Pit in March. In what seemed to be a...
CLOVIS — With the clock having almost run out on 2019, the Clovis boys basketball team was 10 games into its 2019-20 season heading into Saturday night’s holiday classic tournament championship game against Albuquerque High. 10 games in is a good time to look at the measuring stick, see how things are progressing, how a team is evolving as it makes its way toward its District 4-5A schedule and state playoffs. The Clovis boys were 7-3 after Friday night’s 78-30 rout of Miyamura...
