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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Considering the temperature, every runner in Friday’s Clovis Invitational — be it varsity, junior varsity or middle school — should’ve received a medal just for showing up and braving the heat. It was cooking at Ned Houk Park, even for the cross country meet’s spectators and volunteers, much worse still for the runners. Some satisfaction did come out of the race, especially for Hobbs, whose teams won both the boys and girls varsity competitions. Especially...
PORTALES — If Labor Day weekend doesn’t make you think about college football, it’s probably a good bet you’re not a football fan. Even one of the NCAA’s several hundred college football teams, Eastern New Mexico, was thinking about watching some other college football games after Saturday morning’s practice at Greyhound Stadium. For the Greyhounds themselves, the fun hasn’t quite started. But Saturday they were just a week away from stepping out onto that same turf field for...
CLOVIS — Clovis head volleyball coach Ruth Chavez did promise that her team would be scrappy this year. And the Lady Wildcats did indeed exhibit said scrappiness in Thursday’s season opener against Artesia at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. But all scrappiness aside, there was the little matter of the final score — 3-1 in Artesia’s favor, with set results for Clovis of 9-25, 8-25, 25-23 and 10-25. There was a stirring third-set comeback, just when it seemed the Lady Wildcats would e...
CLOVIS — There’s no way to sugar-coat the weather at Clovis’ Monday-afternoon football practice. It was stinking hot, hovering near triple digits throughout. The Wildcats took precautions, though, with coaches parked under hats that should’ve had their own zip codes, and players getting regular water breaks. Ghastly as the heat was, the ’Cats were out there hoping to stay hot — figuratively, that is — as they try to follow up last Friday’s 42-16 season-opening victory over Ho...
It’s Week 2 already for some teams. Week 1 for Farwell. The teams in the former category — Texico and Elida — are trying to go 2-0, and each face tough teams standing in their way of doing so. Dexter (1-0) at Texico (1-0), Friday, 7 p.m. A win for the Wolverines would put them at 2-0 for the first time since 2012. That year, they started 8-0. But this year’s team will just worry about getting win No. 2 and go from there. Heading to town for the Texico home opener is Dexter, a defending state 2A championship team that opened...
CLOVIS — Without even having to put in a full night’s work, the Clovis High football team clearly showed its dominance Friday against Hobbs. In a contest shortened 9 minutes and 5 seconds by relentless lightning and torrential rain, the Wildcats poured it on the rival Eagles, breaking open what had become a dicey game to notch a 42-16 victory at Leon Williams Stadium. “It’s always good to win your first football game and get off to a good start in the win-loss record,...
CLOVIS - The Clovis boys soccer team was hoping Friday would be the start of big things, lighting the fuse for a season that ends with a second consecutive lengthy playoff run. Though the Wildcats may yet have that long postseason run, the season did not begin as they had hoped. They lost a defensive battle against Sandia Prep, dropping their opener 1-0 at Yucca Middle School. But, the 'Cats didn't have to wait long to bounce back. The schedule had them right back at Yucca...
It was a big Friday for regional football teams, as Melrose, Texico and Elida all notched lopsided victories. There were successful head-coaching debuts for Texico’s Bob Gilbreath and Elida’s Jereme Woodruff, plus a memorable first-ever home game under the lights for the Tigers. Melrose 54, Dulce 0 ALBUQUERQUE — A victory is always worth the trip — even when it’s a three-hour trip and the win takes a little more than a half to complete. The Buffaloes journeyed northwest to neutral-site Menaul High School in Albuquerq...
Curry County volleyball is in a good place right now, with a five-time defending champion in Texico, a 2017 state champion and ’18 state finalist in Melrose, and a Grady team that posted a winning record last year and returns a solid contingent. Texico This year’s Lady Wolverines will be vying for their sixth-consecutive state championship, their 12th in the last 14 seasons, but will be doing so with a different team than the one that captured a fifth-straight state title last November. Among the players returning, sen...
CLOVIS — The Clovis volleyball team is on a mission this season. A mission to win? Yes, of course, like any team. But the Lady Wildcats are also on somewhat of a philosophical mission, a mission not to be ordinary, a quest to stand out. “Our theme for the year is ‘built different,’” Clovis volleyball coach Ruth Chavez said, “because I told (the players), ‘if you want to do great things, you can’t do what everybody else is doing. ... We have to go and do extra. ... We don’t want to be average. We want people to know that Clov...
Though it seems like they just hung up the cleats last week, a new high school football season gets going again for several area teams this weekend. Among them, 2018 Six-man state finalist Elida hosts Lake Arthur in a historic Friday-night game — the Tigers’ first-ever under the lights. ’18 Eight-man state semifinalist Melrose travels to Menaul High School in Albuquerque to play Dulce on a neutral field. And Texico begins the Bob Gilbreath era with a road game at Jal. Exciting weekend. Here’s the lowdown. Lake Arthur at Elid...
CLOVIS - Clovis' girls soccer team came oh so close to extending its 2018 season. And when the Lady Wildcats lost to Eldorado, a 1-0 heartbreaker in the 99th minute of overtime play in the state 5A tournament's first round, the Clovis players who knew they would return were left wanting more. They may get it this year with one of their main goalies back, plus two of their most electric scoring threats also returning. So as Traci Sievers begins her ninth season coaching Clovis...
CLOVIS - You could hear the drumbeats, literally and otherwise. Drum practice underneath the home bleachers of Leon Williams Stadium late Monday afternoon signaled the approach of the Clovis High football team's season opener and first home game. It meant that Week 1 is almost upon the Wildcats and their fans. Hobbs will soon be on its way northward for the grudge match. It won't be long before those Eagles and the 'Cats storm through their respective balloon tunnels. Smoke,...
CLOVIS — The night of Nov. 2, 2018 might be one the Clovis High football team may want to remember as among its best of last season. It was a game the Wildcats lost 10-7. Huh? Yes, the ’Cats did lose their final regular-season game and missed out on handing La Cueva its first loss of the season. Instead, the Bears prevailed and went on to become undefeated state 6A champions while Clovis was one-and-done in the playoffs and wound up 4-7. The Wildcats, though, were not onl...
PORTALES — And then there were three. Eastern New Mexico University’s search for a new athletic director began with 38 candidates in early summer, and that has since been pared down by more than 90 percent. ENMU recently announced three finalists — Michael Scarano, John Lewis and Casey Lish — for the position, which came open in late June when then-athletic director Greg Waggoner submitted his resignation. All three finalists have been invited onto campus for in-person interviews, and are slated to be there this coming...
PORTALES — What happens in August doesn’t necessarily stay in August. At least not as far as preseason football practices go. What happens in August can actually have a long-lasting effect on football teams. What goes right, how fast the players catch on, usually goes a long way toward a successful season, sometimes right on through to late autumn. If things don’t work, if the players don’t absorb what the coaches are trying to teach them, problems can arise as early as the...
CLOVIS — It was certainly a memorable 2018 season for Clovis High’s boys soccer team, which posted an 18-3-1 record while reaching the state 5A semifinals. But with that season, the bar crept a bit higher. “Oh yeah, that’s what we’ve been wanting to do,” Clovis’ 12th-year head coach Greg Trujillo said. “We were one of the top 10 teams in the state for a while, but when we were in that Albuquerque district we got knocked around. And it made us really step up our game.” The Wildcats stepped it up big time last year, and th...
CLOVIS — Friday afternoon’s Clovis football practice began under expanding blue skies and departing dark menacing clouds. Fitting, because the Wildcats’ first scrimmage was then just five days away, their first regular-season game a mere two weeks off. And like any team, the season’s approach can signal the coming of metaphoric clear skies along with some ominous ones. And like any team, Clovis hopes for more of the former than the latter. It was in literally clearing and sli...
PORTALES — Now well into the second week of August, there is still no new athletic director at Eastern New Mexico University. But, that is to be expected. The search is proceeding just about how university president Jeff Elwell thought it would in late June when Greg Waggoner resigned from the position, setting in motion the quest to find his replacement. Saturday afternoon, Elwell said the application process was complete, and that Eastern’s nine-person search committee ended up with a final pool of 38 coast-to-coast can...
TEXICO - For a spectator, the best part about Tuesday morning's Texico football practice was being able to watch it from the shade. Even for the Texico players who were out in the blazing sun, it was all good. They were practicing to play the game they love, the game they've played most of their lives. Practices began Monday, meaning the regular season isn't too far behind - it's a little more than two weeks, actually, before the Wolverines visit Jal for the 2019 opener. New...
CLOVIS — Football was back at Leon Williams Stadium Monday. There were no pads, there was no contact. The Hobbs players didn’t come jogging through their balloon tunnel out onto the stadium turf. But, Day 1 of Clovis High football practice was still a big thing. Monday was just 18 days before Hobbs does indeed come out onto the field ready to battle Clovis in the regular-season opener. That’s18 days, as in less than three weeks. As in two weeks from this Friday. As in, footb...
PORTALES — If you can breathe, walk, ride and buck, the Roosevelt County rodeo wants you. It’s mainly a youth rodeo that’s taking place at the Roosevelt County Mounted Patrol Arena in Portales this Saturday, but adults are more than welcome. “As long as they can ride, up to 99 (years old),” rodeo organizer JoAnna Provencio said. “We have different age groups.” It’s happening at 506 East Spruce Street in Portales, where the arena that was once abandoned has been resuscitated by a six-week rodeo Buckle Series and a separate...
Whenever the final seconds tick away on a football team's season, the players have all winter, all summer, all spring, to wait before they get another crack at it. Sure, there are offseason workouts, slices of football, team bonding and all that. But when fall practices officially start, the countdown to actual football is on. In Clovis' case, it's the countdown to facing Hobbs. Monday, that countdown begins, as teams from throughout the area get out on the practice field,...
Harvey Park hopes 13 is a very lucky number. Park is 12-2 as a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter, and if he gets his 13th pro victory on Aug. 6, he will earn an invite to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It won’t be an engraved invitation, but it may as well be. For Park, reaching the UFC has been a goal since he began training 10 years ago after leaving the Navy. Park is fighting Venezuelan-born Omar Morales (7-0) in ‘Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series’ on Aug. 6 at Las Vegas’ UFC Apex, a bout televised by...
CLOVIS — If you one day see Javier Jimenez pitching in the majors, you might remember you read about him here when he was 10. Javier has a long, long way to go before he could even get a whiff of pro ball. But, he's on a good path, a path that future major-leaguers once dug their cleats into when they were just kids. Javier is part of USA Baseball, which the Clovis resident and his family hope will lead him to the national youth team that will compete next year against t...
