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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Though it took a little while for the Clovis girls basketball team to find its rhythm Thursday, once the Lady Wildcats did so, they were off and running. They coasted to a 60-10 victory over Rio Grande on the opening night of the Plateau Holiday Tournament at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. Clovis didn't score until 1:40 had gone by in the game, finally getting on the board with Kaydee Weaver's short turnaround hoop. But, the floodgates were officially open, and Clovis p...
CLOVIS — With the presents unwrapped, glazed ham or stuffed turkey reduced to leftovers, the NBA quintuple-header long since completed, there's one Christmas treat left. It's holiday basketball tournament time. Both the Clovis boys and girls teams tip off at home tonight — the boys in the Griego and Sons Holiday Classic, the girls in the Plateau Holiday Tournament. Getting ready for the back nine The Lady Wildcats begin the Plateau Tournament tonight, with a 6:15 p.m. gam...
CLOVIS — Staring out from his prison cell, Nikko Nathan could see more than just metal bars. He saw two Nikkos — the Nikko he currently was, the one wasting his life, another kid from a broken home, in and out of jail since age 11; and the Nikko he could be, if only he found his niche, some positive path for his life to take. He chose the latter Nikko, gave up the street life, found his way into mixed martial arts, made it his focus. Recently, the new Nikko took one of the...
PORTALES — It's interesting how anyone's game can quickly turn into a one-sided affair. That was how it went Monday night when the Texico and Portales girls basketball teams met in the last pre-Christmas action for each. As late as the third quarter, the teams were separated by just a point. It wasn't much later than that, however, when the Lady Rams went on a devastating 12-0 run that gave them a comfortable lead. It was never uncomfortable for the Rams again, as they r...
Clovis (3-5) at Portales (4-2) 7 p.m., Ram Athletic Center, Portales High School On the air: KCLV 1240 AM, 99.9 FM Last time out: The Wildcats were surging practically from the opening tip Friday night, outscoring Borger 24-13 in the first quarter and rolling on for a 76-38 victory at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. Dominick Urioste popped four treys, on his way to 15 points, which tied teammate Jakeem Wynn for the team high. The Rams headed east on Friday, visiting Muleshoe and coasting to a 79-43 win. Four Portales players struck...
CLOVIS — Portales’ girls basketball team was determined not to lose two in a row. Clovis’ girls basketball team was determined to bring down the team that had sent it to a 20-point loss two weeks earlier. Only one of the teams would get what it wanted on Saturday, and it was Portales, by way of a stunning third-quarter turnaround that helped propel the Lady Rams to a 54-48 victory at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. With it, they improved to 7-1 and quickly erased the sting of their...
CLOVIS - The other night after tying Larry Bird for sixth on the NBA's all-time triple-double list, LeBron James smiled and said his greatness was not about the individual, it was all about team, drawing somewhat of a "Yeah, right" reaction from many. For the Clovis boys basketball program, which doesn't happen to have LeBron on its roster, it is indeed all about team. And that was certainly on full display against Borger Friday night at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, as the...
CLOVIS - From the time Clovis forward Madison Tolbert won the opening tipoff, the Lady Wildcats were in control of Tuesday night's game against Lubbock at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. The Lady 'Cats led from Teya Morris' early trey until the game-ending buzzer sounded, earning a 42-27 win, their second in a row. And that gave Clovis a 5-3 record, pretty good for a team that went 10-18 last winter. "We're already at the halfway point of how many games we won last year," Lady...
Texico's boys basketball team is seven-for-seven this season. That is, seven wins in seven games. The Wolverines improved to 7-0 Saturday night by holding off Fort Sumner 53-47 in the Farwell Tournament championship game. They've won a lot of blowouts, but have had their moments when they've had to rally, had to come through in the clutch. No matter what storm has headed their way - big teams, outside-shooting teams - the Wolves had been able to weather it. "I think these...
TEXICO — If there was a word to describe Tuesday night's Texico High girls basketball game, it would be "energy." The Lady Wolverines roared out with it, used it to build a quick daunting lead, played with it for all four quarters, and rolled with it to a 55-13 victory over Gateway Christian at Texico High School. As a result, Texico is back on the fun side of .500, improving to 3-2. "We've been talking about that, about how important it is to start games and start halves w...
TEXICO — Good teams find ways to win. Texico High's boys basketball team did just that, adjusting on defense and rallying for a 65-52 home victory over Gateway Christian Tuesday night. The Wolves, as a result, improved to 4-0 on the season. Texico's Dalton Thatcher led all scorers with 27 points, including six treys and a 9-of-10 performance from the free-throw line. Joe Waide burned Texico for four threes and 14 points in the first half, but the Wolverines held him to just t...
CLOVIS — Throw out the numbers — and the accompanying letters — as in, 4A and 6A, when the Portales and Clovis girls basketball teams play. Not that size classifications are totally irrelevant, but in the case of this season — most specifically Saturday night’s Strength and Sass Shootout final at Rock Staubus Gymnasium — the most important size factor was the height advantage Portales had over Clovis. And the only numbers that mattered were 67-47, the score by which Portales beat its area rival. The Lady Rams led from start t...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ girls basketball team punched one into the left-side column Friday night, bagging its first win of the season, 53-38, over Texico in the Strength and Sass Shootout. In doing so, the Lady Wildcats also won their home opener at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, pulling away from the Lady Wolverines, who had forged a 10-all tie late in the first quarter and trailed only 12-10 at the start of the second. Madison Tolbert gave the Lady ’Cats a second-quarter boost, scoring ei...
TEXICO — 2016 wasn’t all that long ago. It was as not-too-distant in the past for most of the current Texico girls basketball players to remember what it felt like to win a state championship, whether they were on the court at the time or not. Denied last year when their state playoff run came to a crashing 69-44 halt against eventual state champ Tohatchi, the Lady Wolverines are ready to push all the way through this winter. “It was a little bit of a bitter taste in their mouths after that. They would really like to get b...
TEXICO — It was painful to watch. After suffering a 78-73 state semifinal loss to Santa Rosa last March, Texico's boys basketball players sat as spectators watching Santa Rosa battle Pecos for the title. One thing kept going through their minds. It should have been us out there. "Getting to watch two teams we played quite a bit, to see them playing and not us playing, that makes you work a little harder," Texico senior post player Nathan Phipps said. "That's motivating me t...
CLOVIS — Officially, the Clovis High girls basketball team is nicknamed 'the Lady Wildcats.' But they might as well call themselves 'the Lady Chameleons.' Indeed, the Lady 'Cats will need to be quite the chameleons this winter, adapting to the situations around them. According to head coach Jeff Reed, they won't have a specific style of play, no particular offense or defense they roll out each game like breaking out the good china when company comes over. The Lady Wildcats' s...
CLOVIS - Anyone planning to attend Clovis boys basketball games this winter might get a crick in their neck from swiveling it back and forth so much. The Wildcats don't plan to be a plodding, methodical, half-court team. They want to push the ball up the floor. Run, run and run some more. "Up-tempo," Clovis head coach Scott Robinson said. "We are built to be an up-tempo team, both offensively and defensively." Robinson says he has the players for that style, and it's a...
It was truly Black Friday for three local Texas football teams. All three headed into Friday afternoon still afloat in the Texas playoffs. When the day was over, though, each had been eliminated, two in heartbreaking fashion. Merkel came back to edge Muleshoe by a point. Clarendon rallied from two scores down to top Bovina by six. Farwell entered its game against Wellington with a roster that more resembled a M*A*S*H unit than a football team, and was shut out. Wellington 34, Farwell 0 PLAINVIEW, Texas — The Steers were b...
MELROSE — Melrose High's football team is an undefeated No. 1 state playoff seed. State rules, though, are state rules, and because the Buffaloes last played a postseason game against Mountainair at home, they will have to stampede their way up to Mountainair for Saturday's 1 p.m. eight-man state championship game. Fair? That, perhaps, is a matter of opinion. The Buffaloes' opinion is, they're playing for a fourth consecutive state title, exactly where they expect to be t...
CLOVIS — You probably remember the commercials from a few years back: “Hi, I’m Rob Lowe, and I have the product I want you to buy.” And then, “Hi, I’m For-Various-Reasons-Quite-Substandard Rob Lowe, and I have the product I want you to get rid of.” Clovis High’s football team was a lot like the two Rob Lowes when last meeting top-ranked Manzano on Oct. 13. In the first half the Wildcats were leading men, literally, taking a quick 7-0 lead with a crisp, fluid game-opening touchdown drive, then making two second-quarter...
CLOVIS — Fitting that Teya Morris is going from Wildcat to Falcon. A Wildcat is a formidable creature that can't be taken lightly. But a Falcon gets to leave the ground, soar high through the air. That's essentially what teenagers do when they leave home for college, what high school athletes do when they step up to college athletics. And it's what Morris will do next year when she moves on from Clovis High's girls basketball team — the Lady Wildcats — to play Division II wo...
PORTALES — There were two coronations as a result of Saturday's Midwestern State-Eastern New Mexico football game, but only one that the Greyhounds were hoping for. With a blistering passing attack, Midwestern State crowned itself Lone Star Conference champion, beating Eastern 56-43 at Greyhound Stadium to finish 8-0 in conference play, 9-0 overall in the regular season. Though in the Greyhounds' defeat, Clovis High graduate and current ENMU senior Kamal Cass — with the hel...
MELROSE - While the Melrose football team was going through pre-game warmups Friday night, its Buffalo mascot was bopping to some soft rock blaring on the loudspeakers at Melrose High School. Soon after, the top-seeded Buffaloes rocked to the tune of a 58-0 win over Cloudcroft in the eight-man quarterfinals. They will host Tatum in next Friday's semifinal round. Not surprisingly, everything clicked for the Buffs. Their offense moved the ball up and down the field almost at wil...
PORTALES — A share of the Lone Star Conference championship. A new rushing record. Carrying a win streak into the postseason. A chance for that postseason to be the NCAA Division II playoffs. All of the above is at stake tonight when the Eastern New Mexico University football team hosts Midwestern State in the regular-season finale for both teams. Throw in an audience live-streaming via ESPN and you’ve got yourself a nice helping of drama for tonight’s game at Greyhound Stadium. First of all, the Greyhounds will grab their sl...
CLOVIS — On Thursday, Clovis High's football team was in familiar territory, practicing in the comfy confines of Leon Williams Stadium, on the turf field where they began practices July 31. Tonight, the Wildcats will be far afield, beginning the state 6A playoffs on the road against Atrisco Heritage Academy of Albuquerque. Yet the 'Cats will hardly be out of their element. Hundreds of miles away, yes, but they'll be playing football, postseason football at that, which t...
