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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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TEXICO - Are you ready for some basketball? Girls from around Eastern New Mexico are, and they descended on Texico High School Monday for the start of the Texico Girls Basketball League. It was the first of four straight Mondays where girls basketball players from eighth grade through varsity, from Quay to Roosevelt to DeBaca to Parmer to Curry County, will be playing wall-to-wall hoops to hone their skills and try to improve as they look ahead to next winter. "It's our...
CLOVIS - Ride 'em cowboy won't cut it. When it comes to the Pioneer Rodeo Days, it's ride 'em cowboy, cowgirl, even young-uns. This year's rodeo, the 49th installment, will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Curry County Event Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m. each day. And the goings on offer plenty of variety. There's bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, steer roping, barrel racing and wild cow milking....
CLOVIS - You could see it, couldn't you? Homer Simpson holding treats from Leslie's Candy in one of his yellow paws, saying "Mmmmmm, cinnamon suckers." Alas, Homer is a fictional character, a cartoon. But plenty of actual life-sized, flesh-and-bone people have enjoyed Leslie's Candy in Clovis and throughout the United States. Since Calvin Coolidge was president, those cinnamon suckers, peanut patties, peanut brittle and other goodies sold at the store previously known as Sayka...
Dusty Nusser came out of Portales High School, unlike a lot of graduates, knowing exactly the career path he wanted to follow. "I wanted to teach and coach football and baseball," Nusser said. He's done everything he set out to do when he was a high school graduate, has gone on to coach both sports at Portales High and teach Physical Education at Valencia Elementary. And Nusser will continue teaching and coaching football. But he has decided to step away from his job of head...
If there’s a heaven, John D. Holleyman is probably thundering across it, a rope twirling high above his head, a hardy steed below him. In life, Holleyman considered it heaven-on-earth to be roping and ranching, so it makes sense to think he’d spend the afterlife busy in those same pursuits. Holleyman passed away in 2013 at 93, just three years removed from his last time atop a horse. And though he may well live on in the great beyond, his daughter Karen Kibbe of Portales has been doing what she can to make sure Holleyman live...
Clovis’ track and field season is over. But the results of it will go on and on and on. The Wildcats’ track and field season officially ended May 18 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque when the Clovis boys finished second in the state 5A championship meet behind Cleveland, and the Lady Wildcats took fourth. But there were some marks this year, championship-winning or close, that elevated some current Wildcats into the school’s top 10 all-time. “I guess you never know how you do at a meet until you start looking...
It’s the time of year when high school coaches come and high school coaches go. And there have been plenty of comings and goings at Portales High this spring, which will make the Rams’ varsity coaching landscape look a bit different next season. Portales will head into the 2019-20 school year with new baseball and softball head coaches, a new boys soccer head coach, a new cross country head coach and a new golf head coach. Yet, some of the resignations were expected and the replacements seem natural fits. Nathan Dodge had...
ALBUQUERQUE — Objective-wise, Clovis High’s track and field teams fell short in this past weekend’s state 4A/5A championship meet at the University of New Mexico’s Softball and Track & Field Complex in Albuquerque. The Clovis boys, third-place finishers in 6A last year, were aiming for one spot and one only this year — the top spot on the podium, first-place, state champions. They finished second. The Lady Wildcats, 13th-place finishers in 2018, were a far deeper team this...
The end of an era? Or just the continuation of one? Saturday, Texico’s baseball team won its fourth consecutive state championship by defeating Estancia 13-3 at the University of New Mexico’s Santa Ana Star Field in Albuquerque. But, when first baseman Cole Rohrbach squeezed the last out into his glove, it signified the end of his high school baseball career, as well as those of Dalton Thatcher, Robin Winton, Isaac Ortiz and Bryce Douma. All the seniors will be missed, but especially Rohrbach, Thatcher and Winton, part of...
ALBUQUERQUE — It’s fair to say Dora’s baseball team held serve in this year’s state Class A tournament. The Coyotes were seeded second and wound up a state finalist. They lost Saturday afternoon’s state championship game to the No. 1 seed, Gateway Christian. So, the tournament played out the way it had been seeded. But, the Coyotes wanted more, expected more, from themselves than the 12-0, five-inning loss they endured Saturday at the University of New Mexico’s Santa Ana Star Field. They ran headlong into an undefeated...
ALBUQUERQUE - There's gold in these here hills. And every elite track and field athlete in New Mexico descends on Albuquerque amid the Sandia Mountains once a year to find it. Gold in this case is a somewhat metaphoric color, representing the glory sought by every sprinter, every distance runner, every hurdler and jumper, every field athlete that hurls a piece of metal of varying size into the air at the state track and field meet held each May at the University of New Mexico...
By Peter Stein STAFF WRITER [email protected] ALBUQUERQUE - 2A, 3A, whatever. Texico's baseball team will take it, as long as it has an 'A' in it and means the Wolverines get to be state champions. After winning three consecutive state 3A titles through last season, Texico won the 2A crown on Saturday morning, beating Estancia 13-3 in the full seven innings with a Grade 'A' performance at the University of New Mexico's Santa Ana Star Field. Four years. Four straight state...
CLOVIS — You could see it on their faces. Though the Clovis boys track and field athletes had won a green trophy last year, signifying third place in the state, they weren’t happy. They wanted more from their trip to Albuquerque. They wanted it all. Head coach Mark Sena tried to cheer them up, telling them there was no shame in a green, reminding them that most of the teams competing in the 2018 state 6A championship meet came away without hardware. Only three out of 15 earned trophies. A green was something to feel good abo...
CLOVIS — It’s a hectic week for Texico’s baseball team. Monday, there were elementary school players at the Wolverines’ practice, followed by a live intersquad game and then the team dinner at a local restaurant. Tuesday was awards night. Wednesday, the Wolverines head up to the Albuquerque area to prepare for the quarterfinal round of their state 2A baseball tournament. They’ll be working out at Rio Rancho on Wednesday, stretching and hitting at 9 a.m. Thursday. And then Thursday at noon, the top-seeded Wolverines (17-5) pl...
TEXICO - As Wednesday night's state 2A first-round playoff game was beginning, a dark angry cloud was moving toward the Texico baseball field. It was hardly a bad omen for the Wolverines. Though the cloud didn't deposit much more than a few drops on the players and fans, top-seeded Texico rained on big-hearted and 16th-seeded Navajo Pine, 26-0 in five innings. With that, the Wolverines - winners of three consecutive state 3A championships - advanced to the 2A quarterfinals,...
CLOVIS — The Clovis boys track and field team has been a district champion before and there’s no reason the Wildcats can’t be a district champion again. Winners of the District 2-6A title in each of the last two seasons, the ’Cats will be looking for a District 4-5A crown on Thursday when they visit the Wool Bowl in Roswell for the district championships. The meet was originally scheduled for Friday, but bad weather forecasts caused it to be pushed back a day. As of Tuesday afternoon, Friday’s Roswell forecast was rainy and...
PORTALES — Ivar Moinat shares a name with Ivar the Boneless, a character from the T.V. show ‘Vikings’. Moinat isn’t as mean as the T.V. guy, but can be ruthless when burning up the collegiate track scene, at least from a competitive standpoint. Moinat — a Netherlands native, Eastern New Mexico junior, and middle distance standout — was named an indoor track All-American in March and took third at last weekend’s Drake Relays, a prestigious outdoor event in Des Moines, Iowa. Friday night, with Eastern New Mexico hosting the L...
PORTALES - Basketball coaches working the concession stand? Football coaches waving flags for the pole vault? Football players lugging around hurdles? Basketball players handing out soft drinks to runners? Huh? Actually, all of the above made perfect sense if you attended the Lone Star Conference Track and Field Championships at Eastern New Mexico University's Greyhound Stadium this past weekend. Athletic staff and athletes volunteered to help make Eastern's first hosting of...
Harvey Park may be on top of the world, but his feet are planted firmly on it. Park, a 33-year-old Clovis resident, won the Legacy Fighting Alliance’s Lightweight Championship on Friday, earning a technical knockout of Demarques Jackson. Yet Park feels like the same man who stepped into the Sanford Pentagon cage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota before the mixed martial arts bout. “It doesn’t feel any different,” he said Monday. “The fight is over, nothing’s changed. I’m just li...
PORTALES — College track and field season flies faster than the sneakers carrying runners around the oval. As the season began in March, it seemed like the Lone Star Conference track and field championships at Eastern New Mexico University were far off in the distance. They’re now upon us, scheduled for Thursday through Saturday at Greyhound Stadium. It will be the first time ENMU hosts the LSC championships and the culmination of hard work for Eastern head coach Jeff Kav...
TEXICO — Sunny, warm and pleasant beats cold, windy and crummy any day. But, Texico’s baseball team gladly took the latter on Tuesday because in such unfriendly conditions, they swept Santa Rosa 12-2 and 10-0 at home in a battle of District 7-2A unbeatens. In absolutely miserable weather, the Wolverines had an absolutely memorable pair of games, overcoming a slow start to win the first in six innings, then taking the nightcap in five. Better yet was the pitching. After allowing three hits in the first inning of Game 1, the...
CLOVIS - Too many errors usually translate to disaster. And that was the case Thursday when Clovis hosted District 4-5A rival Hobbs for the start of a three-game series. The Wildcats committed a whopping five errors in the top of the first inning at Bell Park, opening the door wide for six Hobbs runs. That turned out to be the difference, as the Eagles hung on to win 6-4, that costly first inning looming oh so large for Clovis. "We talk about it as a team - we've got to get...
CLOVIS - Harvey Park won't lie. He's excited, nervous, almost ready to jump out of his skin as Friday's Mixed Martial Arts lightweight fight against Demarques Jackson approaches. When asked about it, Park actually chuckled. "How would you feel? Yeah, there's butterflies," said Park, a Clovis resident who grew up in Melrose, with a Navy stint in between. "It's worse than other sports because the stakes are higher, in my opinion. ... It's a whole different feeling when it's...
CARLSBAD - Tuesday's District 4-5A opener for Carlsbad and Clovis seemed like three baseball games rolled into one. Carlsbad won the seven-inning game 15-5 at Clovis' Bell Park, notching its first district win in the process. But, within that victory seemed to be a trio of mini-games playing out separately. The first stage saw Carlsbad go up 8-0, seemingly on its way to a lopsided win. Clovis won the second stage 5-0, marching steadily along the middle-inning comeback trail...
CLOVIS - There the trophies stood, just waiting to be won. They were the winners' spoils of Thursday's Wildcat Relays at Leon Williams Stadium and they were perched atop a table resting diagonally on the football field's 31-yard line. Pretty good field position if you're the Wildcat football team on a scoring drive. But well after 10 p.m. Thursday, with the once-ideal temperatures having fallen, it seemed like the trophies were there forever. If those trophies could talk,...
