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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — When thinking of cricket, most Americans likely think of a jolly good game played across the pond, maybe after a spot of tea and some crumpets. It is indeed a sport often associated with the British, but there are teams playing it all over the world, including right here in Clovis at Bob Spencer Park. There’s Clovis Cricket Club, a team that has won the New Mexico Cricket League championship two of the past three seasons (including this year), and the Clovis Spa... Full story
CLOVIS - The Clovis baseball team had a memorable season. 23 victories to tie a school record. Hosting a home series in the first round of state tournament play. A trip to Albuquerque for the state 6A quarterfinals. And with accomplishments usually come rewards. Clovis' arrived this week with two first-team, two-second team and one honorable mention to the 6A all-state baseball team. The Wildcat selections add up to five; only La Cueva (7) and Centennial (6) had more in 6A....
You know the names. If not, you will. Football names. Track and field names. Soccer, basketball. Among the eight area teams that ventured down to Roswell over the Memorial Day weekend for the 21st annual Hike It & Spike It Charity Flag Football Tournament, there were plenty of athletes who have already starred for Clovis, Clovis Christian and Melrose High Schools. Montez Wright, Tristan Sena, Sydni Hill, Kassidy Furrow, Mikyla Harkley and Sofi Garbarino were just some of the p... Full story
CLOVIS — The title of a novel by Thomas Wolfe says, "You can't go home again." That may be generally true. But Thursday night, a group of former Clovis High girls basketball players did indeed return home — specifically, to their basketball home of Rock Staubus Gymnasium - to play on an alumni basketball team that was squaring off against the projected 2018-19 Clovis girls varsity team. There were no stakes, really. The game was for charity, although for the record, the fin...
It's not over yet. High school varsity baseball season ended in Albuquerque a week and a half ago, but all-star games are still to be played at the Bob Ogas North/South All-Star Baseball Classic next month. And for nine area seniors — three from Clovis, two from Portales, two from Texico and one each from Dora and Floyd — high school baseball will last one more weekend. They're part of an All-Star weekend series that will include a 1A-4A All-Star game series being played at...
CLOVIS — High school reunions aren't quite as big an event as they used to be, what with Facebook and all the other social media that allows people to reconnect by pressing a button on their phones. Alumni basketball games are a little different. They can be organized through social media, but they have to be played the old-fashioned way — face-to-face on the hardwood. Clovis girls basketball will play such a game on Thursday at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, tipping off at 7 p.m...
CLOVIS — Some are hard to replace, but nobody’s irreplaceable. Jaden Isler guided the Elida girls basketball team to four consecutive state championships, compiled a 93-18 record during that span, and was named the USA Today’s New Mexico Girls Basketball Coach of the Year. Last week he left that program to coach boys basketball at his alma mater, Clovis. Replacing all those accomplishments at Elida would take someone else with a stout basketball reputation. Enter Keith Durham. Striding into Isler’s long shadow comes a coach...
ALBUQUERQUE — Mother's Day weekend marked the end of the spring season, the end of the 2017-18 high school season. Local baseball, softball, and track and field teams descended on Albuquerque for state championships. It always seemed like there was a local team competing somewhere just off Avenida Cesar Chavez. At the University of New Mexico's Santa Ana Star Field on Thursday, the Clovis baseball team's history-tying season came to an end. Portales' season was brought to a c...
ALBUQUERQUE — The math isn't difficult. Fifteen teams competed in this weekend's Class 6A state track and field meet at the University of New Mexico. Only three were coming away from the UNM Track-Soccer Complex with trophies. Clovis boys coach Mark Sena told his team just that after Saturday's conclusion of the two-day state meet. Sena was trying to buck up his Wildcats, who looked sullen after their third-place finish. They had hoped to finish higher, maybe win the whole d...
ALBUQUERQUE — Winning championships never gets hum-drum, never gets blasé. So although the Texico baseball team's 5-0 victory over Estancia in Friday's Class 3A championship game at Isotopes Park earned the Wolverines their third state title in a row, they appreciated it every bit as much as the previous two. "I think they're all special," Texico coach Ty Thatcher said. "It's a different group of kids every year, plus or minus a few kids. Everybody contributes, and in this pa... Full story
ALBUQUERQUE – The Portales baseball team jumped out to a great start against Hope Christian in Friday's Class 4A semifinal. And then ... oh boy. At the University of New Mexico's Santa Ana Star Field, the Rams had lively bats in the top of the first inning, collecting three hits in their first four opportunities against Huskies starting pitcher Nikko Ruiz to take a two-run advantage. By the end of the first inning, though, Hope Christian had the lead, and would never r...
ALBUQUERQUE - The University of New Mexico's Santa Ana Star Field is an impressive baseball facility, with shiny artificial turf, even major-league-style organ music playing between pitches. But that's where the pleasant baseball experience ended for fourth-seeded Clovis in Thursday's Class 6A quarterfinal, as the Wildcats ran head-long into a Carlsbad buzzsaw that wailed on the ball from beginning to end and run-ruled the Wildcats 15-1 in five innings. It was simply a dominan...
CLOVIS — If anyone knows the importance of depth at a state meet, it's Clovis boys track and field coach Mark Sena. As a Fort Sumner High School athlete, Sena competed in the shot put and took fifth at state. His throw added two points onto the Fort Sumner total and the Foxes ultimately won a state championship by just a point. So, it's crucial that Sena's Clovis boys team heads into this weekend's state 6A meet in Albuquerque having qualified in every event. Each Wildcat a...
CLOVIS — The sweltering temperatures for Tuesday's full practice at Bell Park were of the you-ain't-seen-nothing-yet variety for the Clovis High baseball team. It was in the 90s Tuesday, but about 220 miles to the west it's expected to push 100 by Thursday at 4 p.m. That's when the fourth-seeded Wildcats play a Class 6A quarterfinal against fifth-seeded Carlsbad, beginning what they hope is a three-game climb toward a state championship on Saturday. More challenging yet, t... Full story
CLOVIS — Small ball proved a recipe for success Saturday as the Clovis Wildcats advanced in the Class 6A baseball playoffs, tying a school record for wins in the process. Slowly, but surely, the 'Cats rallied from a two-run deficit, beating Manzano, 10-3, and earning a spot in Albuquerque for Thursday's quarterfinal round. Fourth-seeded Clovis will next play fifth-seeded Carlsbad at the University of New Mexico (4 p.m.). The Wildcats are 23-5, matching their win total from 2... Full story
CLOVIS — On Friday night, Clovis took the first step along the way to a Class 6A championship, and that step couldn't have gone better for the Wildcats. The 'Cats run-ruled Manzano 10-0 in five innings, giving them more time to rest up for the quick turnaround before Saturday's 11 a.m. Game 2 start of the best-of-three, first-round series. Clovis improved to 22-5, while Manzano slipped to 12-13. Senior Sebastian Nunez pitched a crackling two-hitter, those lonely two coming o... Full story
ALBUQUERQUE — Today’s District 2-6A track and field meet in Albuquerque offers more than just a chance for the Clovis boys team to repeat as district champions. For both the Clovis boys and girls, the meet is kind of like the best of both worlds. It’s one of the two prestigious end-of-season meets, and doing well would mean a lot to both programs, especially the boys looking for that repeat. But, it’s also not the season’s very last meet, so there remain opportunities to notch state-qualifying times, or improve on the old o...
CLOVIS — Things so far have gone mostly well for the Clovis baseball team. But now, there’s jewelry on the line. Class 6A championship rings are the reward if fourth-seeded Clovis is successful in its state title quest, which begins tonight at Bell Park with a first-round matchup against 13th-seeded Manzano. Clear skies, 70-degree temperatures and minimal wind are in the forecast for the 7 p.m. start of today's game. What then transpires on the field is in the Wildcats’ control. “This is what we’ve strived to participa... Full story
CLOVIS — Off Louisiana Boulevard and Interstate 40 in Albuquerque is the Jerry Cline Tennis Center, a shining 18-court facility. It will be the Clovis boys tennis team's destination on Friday for an 8 a.m. state-tournament match against Cleveland. But just a few days ago, the Wildcats weren't sure if they'd have any more tennis destinations this spring. On Sunday, the 'Cats anxiously awaited the state tournament seedings, awaited to see if they'd even be part of them. F... Full story
CLOVIS - The bottom of the sixth inning in Game 2 of Monday's Clovis softball season finale seems a microcosm of the Lady Wildcats' season overall. The fight was there, even if the results weren't. Clovis lost the first game of Monday's home doubleheader to Sandia 18-1 and was losing the second game 11-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning. Worse yet, there were soon two outs and nobody on, moving the Lady 'Cats an out away from being run-ruled consecutively in their l...
TEXICO — Call it a football score, call it lopsided, call it a rout. Just make sure you call it a dominant team playing good baseball as the regular season winds down. Texico took care of District 5-3A rival Clayton, 22-3, at Texico Field on Friday. And the Wolverines did so with stout pitching, timely hitting, heads-up base-running, extended rallies and capitalizing on errors. In other words, the usual stuff teams need to do regularly if wins are to be the result, the stuff teams want to be doing regularly at this time of y...
CLOVIS - The numbers say it all - eight and zero. As in 8-0, the District 2-6A records of both the Clovis and La Cueva baseball teams. They'll each head into today's regular-season-ending doubleheader at La Cueva (1 p.m.) with those unblemished district marks. They'll head out of it knowing which of them is the regular-season district champion. No pressure or anything. Actually, both teams are eager to get out there and decide it today. "Any time you get a chance to play and...
CLOVIS - Today's Ross Black Relays in Lovington are about opportunity. They will be the Clovis track and field team's last opportunity to attack a regular-season meet, the Wildcats' last opportunity to work things out before districts. The Relays also offer yet another opportunity to post state-qualifying numbers or improve on prior ones. And they offer one of a few more dwindling opportunities for the team to compete together, as the season winds down. All in all, a big day...
CLOVIS — A scoreless-inning streak ended, but a chance at a district title and No. 1 state tournament seed did not. Clovis’ baseball team rallied in the sixth inning for a 2-1 victory over Sandia in the opener of a doubleheader Tuesday at Bell Park. The Wildcats then completed a twin bill sweep by zipping the Matadors 9-0 in the nightcap. As a result, Clovis improved to 8-0 in District 2-6A play (21-3 overall) to keep pace with LaCueva, four days before the two will play in... Full story
TEXICO - After inclement weather interrupted the first game of Friday's Estancia-Texico baseball doubleheader, the skies lightened, the sun came out and the wind died down considerably for the nightcap. Fitting, because things brightened for the Wolverines, too. Though they lost the opener 4-1, they run-ruled the Bears 10-0 in the second game, salvaging a split in a matchup of the state's first- and second-ranked 3A teams. Both teams were certainly hoping for a sweep. But for...
