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Scouting to baseball is like vitamins to the body. It’s essential for growth and progression, for survival really. So that makes Logan White kind of like a guy who owns a multi-vitamin store. The 1980 Portales High graduate has spent most of his adult life tasked with scouting for the Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and most recently, the San Diego Padres. He’s made a career of beating the bushes, peering under the rocks, visiting the small, tucked-away towns, the ham...
CLOVIS — Clovis girls basketball coach Jeff Reed has worn some sullen expressions this winter. A ‘can’t-anyone-hit-a-field-goal’ scowl here, a ‘can’t-anyone-sink-free-throws’ frown there. Tuesday night, though, it was smiles aplenty for Reed after he watched his team play dominant basketball wire-to-wire and clobber Roswell 57-24 in the opening round of District 4-5A tournament play. By scoring the game’s first 12 points, the Lady Wildcats took control early. And they’d never let it go, rolling over a Roswell team they...
CLOVIS — The Clovis boys basketball team likes playing at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. The Wildcats like having their crowd behind them, like feeding off the energy. They certainly like not having to ride hours through desert or plains to play games. With Friday’s 49-44 victory over Roswell in the regular-season finale for both teams, Clovis bought itself some more time at the Rock. The Wildcats assured themselves of the District 4-5A tournament’s No. 2 seed, meaning they’ll play a district semifinal at home on Thursday. And, th...
PORTALES - However the rest of the basketball season plays out, this week was a benchmark for the Portales girls team. Playing at the Ram Athletic Center for the first time in two weeks, Portales' girls escaped with a 58-55 victory over Artesia that gave them sole possession of first place in District 4-4A. They kept first place for good Friday, topping Lovington 45-40 to take the top seed in this week's District 4-4A tournament. You gotta have heart In a tense game with...
CLOVIS — The Clovis baseball team that will take the Bell Park field against Lubbock-Coronado Tuesday night won’t much resemble the one that walked off the University of New Mexico’s Santa Ana Star Field more than nine months ago. The 2018 Wildcat team that tied a school record with 23 wins and reached the state 6A quarterfinals was chock full of seniors. The 2019 version, not so much. Senior middle infielder Anthony Gonzales is the lone returnee from the team that fell to Carlsbad in the 6A quarters last May 10. But attritio...
PORTALES — However the rest of Portales’ basketball season plays out, Tuesday night was a benchmark for both the boys and girls teams. With both squads playing at the Ram Athletic Center for the first time in two weeks, Portales’ girls escaped with a 58-55 victory over Artesia that gave them sole possession of first place in District 4-4A. The Portales boys rolled past Artesia 68-48, leading by double digits for almost all the second half and posting a crucial district win. The two may have set the tone for the upcom...
This is it, the meet high school swim teams aspire to all season. Beginning Friday and continuing Saturday, New Mexico swimmers will be descending upon Albuquerque Academy High School, all hoping for a medal or a trophy. The Clovis girls, a newly-minted District 3-4 champion, will compete along with Carlsbad, Cleveland, Eldorado, Albuquerque, St. Pius X, Belen, Taos, Los Alamos, Las Cruces, Sandia, Rio Rancho, Farmington, Cibola, Hope Christian, Albuquerque Academy, La Cueva, Santa Fe Prep and Cottonwood Classical Prep....
CLOVIS - Think you've seen the last of Clovis' girls basketball team at Rock Staubus Gymnasium? Think the Lady Wildcats will fall short of a state tournament appearance? Think again. At least according to Clovis head coach Jeff Reed. Friday night at the Rock, there was a ceremony honoring seniors Tajvionna Johnson, Antanishwa Molett and Kaydee Weaver on the occasion of their last home game. The Lady 'Cats went on to lose that game to Hobbs - MaxPreps' second-ranked 5A team in...
For however much longer Eastern New Mexico's basketball season lasts - and both the men's and women's teams would like it to last throughout March - the Greyhounds will have to be road warriors. This past Saturday marked each team's final appearance at Greyhound Arena. They're on the road for every remaining regular-season game, then it's on to Frisco, Texas for the Lone Star Conference tournament. And then, who knows? This week begins a four-game road swing to close out the r...
TEXICO — It was another tough Saturday for the Texico boys basketball team, but this time a much better showing for the Wolverines. Down by 13 and missing a member of their rotation for most of the second half, the Wolves fought back to make it a game against Santa Rosa in Saturday’s regular-season home finale at Texico Sports Arena. Though the Wolverines ultimately lost 60-53, they had shown fight a week after losing to Pecos at home by 32. Santa Rosa head coach Frank Ortiz was impressed. “I think we played a really good...
CLOVIS - Clovis Christian's gymnasium is decorated with championship banners from the not-so-distant past. The earliest only go back to Bush 43's second term, the most recent to a 2010 Six-man state football championship. The years since have been a little lean for the Eagles, but Thursday night, Clovis Christian's girls basketball team - six players' strong that it was - earned some glory by posting its first District 6-1A victory of the season, 42-40 over Grady. The best...
CLOVIS - The Clovis girls basketball team's season has been kind of like 'It's a Wonderful Life' in reverse. Minus the angel trying to earn his wings, the Lady Wildcats have seen snippets of how good things could be. Though they're 8-17 overall, 1-4 in District 4-5A, the Lady 'Cats have displayed promise here and there, had chances if only they could get a stop or make a little run, cash in on more free-throw opportunities. If only. Friday night's regular-season home finale ag...
CLOVIS – The Carlsbad girls basketball team’s 55-34 road win over Clovis Tuesday night was not exactly breaking news. With the Cavegirls’ record and reputation, a victory over young Clovis was expected; a loss would’ve been one for the breaking news file. So Tuesday’s outcome was more of the same for Carlsbad, who improved to 21-3 overall, 3-1 in District 4-5A. As expected as the victory may have been, it was also welcomed by Cavegirls head coach John Zumbrun. “We’re 21-3. If you told me before the season we’d be 21-3,...
TEXICO — This wasn’t how it was supposed to go, was it? Saturday’s rematch of last year’s state 3A boys basketball championship game between now-2A stalwarts Pecos and Texico seemed to have barn-burner written all over it. But there were no metaphoric barns burnt in Saturday’s game, though Texico head coach Ty Thatcher may have wanted to toss his scorebook into an actual blaze after the Wolverines lost 79-47 at Texico High School. A contest that started reaching out-of-hand status in the second quarter officially arrived ther...
EDINBURG, Texas - Nichele Hyman wasn't cursed, though it may have seemed like it for a while last season. The 2015 Clovis High graduate and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley junior guard was already battling through a concussion, and then late in the season she started to feel intense pain in her lower half. "I noticed my legs were hurting," Hyman said, "and nobody knew what was going on. Some people thought it was shin splints. I had different diagnoses and they just...
TEXICO — For Texico’s girls basketball team, winning a state championship will mean climbing over really good 2A schools. Pecos is one such really good 2A school. So, Texico’s 55-53 home victory over the Lady Panthers on Saturday may bode well for the Lady Wolverines in states, and in the District 7-2A championships, too. By edging district foe Pecos on Jasmine Davalos’ late-game turnaround mid-range jumper, the Lady Wolves proved themselves capable of beating both a district and state powerhouse with just one victory...
When the Eastern New Mexico basketball teams stride out onto the Greyhound Arena floor, there's something special, something different about it. They're home. They've got that crowd behind them, the energy. So it won't be too hard for Eastern men's coach Tres Segler and women's coach Josh Prock to motivate their players for the two games this week because they will be the last two played in that friendly, electric environment this season. For some players, they're the last...
PORTALES — Both Portales basketball teams were in catch-’em-while-you-can mode Tuesday night. The boys team hadn’t played at all since Jan. 25, the girls since Jan. 29. “It’s been a long time coming,” Portales girls coach Wade Fraze said, “and we were ready to get a game under our belts.” And Tuesday’s return to action against Goddard marked both teams’ last home games until Feb. 19. The Portales fans who did ‘catch ’em’ in their District 4-4A openers Tuesday received mixed results — a dominant performance and 72-43 win f...
CLOVIS - This hasn't been the easiest season for Clovis' young girls basketball team. So when the Lady Wildcats earned their first District 4-5A victory Friday night, it was a big deal. There wasn't a ton of scoring at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, but more by the Lady 'Cats than their opponents from Roswell. That was thanks in part to good Clovis defense and some timely shooting, including a buzzer-beating three from junior guard Aydan Everett at the end of the first quarter. All i...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's women's basketball team is driving toward the season's finish line at a point where there's little room for detours. Thursday at Greyhound Stadium, Eastern cruised to its 10th Lone Star Conference win of the season, accelerating in the second quarter after a sluggish start to leave UT Permian Basin far back in the rear-view mirror - 76-57 by game's end. As of Thursday, there were exactly four weeks before the Greyhounds would be...
SANTA ROSA — For Texico’s boys basketball team, it’s a week book-ended by rematches. Last Saturday the Wolverines visited Santa Rosa, the team they beat to win last year’s District 5-3A championship. This Saturday beginning at 5 p.m., the Wolves are hosting Pecos — the team that beat them in last year’s state 3A championship game, denying them a 30-0 season. Texico (19-3 overall, 2-0 district) would like the second rematch to go like the first, which they won 55-49 in overtime. “Definitely Santa Rosa was prepared for...
CLOVIS — Clovis-Hobbs is kind of a legendary hyphenated term around here. The rivalry between schools goes back a way to packed bleachers and gyms of decades past. When ‘Hawbs’ came to town, people flocked to Leon Williams Stadium or to the Rock or even Bell Park. When Clovis made the desert trek to the land of oil derricks and casino winnings, it was a big deal, too. In the days of Jimmy Carter, seeing a Clovis-Hobbs basketball game was like getting tickets for ‘Hamilton’ in New York City during more recent times. Good seat...
The college basketball season has marched into February, meaning the remaining games are getting scarcer - and more important. This week, both Eastern New Mexico basketball teams have crucial Lone Star Conference games at Greyhound Arena, with each hosting UT Permian Basin on Thursday and Western New Mexico on Saturday. The women face UTPB at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and take on WNMU at 2 p.m. Saturday. The men follow each game, with a 7:30 p.m. tipoff against Permian Basin...
CLOVIS — Better pace yourselves, Clovis boys basketball team. You expended lots of energy and emotion Friday night and there’s still plenty of season left. Then again, you were playing Hobbs, so never mind. There was indeed emotion and energy galore Friday night at a jam-packed Rock Staubus Gymnasium, but the Wildcats needed every bit of it to hold on and beat Hobbs 88-83. Like a mystery novel unfolding with surprising twists and turns, just when it appeared the game was goi...
TEXICO — A win over Clayton Friday night wasn’t going to define the Texico girls basketball team’s season. And a loss wouldn’t have been catastrophic. That stated, Friday night’s 61-44 home victory over Clayton was as big as it gets for the Lady Wolverines in a Feb. 1 game. They won their District 7-2A opener while also taking the rematch of last year’s District 5-3A title game, won by Clayton. And the Lady Wolves gained some more confidence as they forge into the regular seas...
