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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Through Friday, Clovis’ boys basketball team was 2-for-2 last week. The Wildcats hosted a very solid Americas team from El Paso late Friday afternoon and broke open a close game to win 61-48. Three days after a lopsided victory over area rival Portales, the Wildcats had gone 2-0 for the week heading into Saturday night’s home game against Rio Rancho. Still a reasonable nine-point difference at halftime and just a seven-point margin early in the third quarter Frida...
CLOVIS — After playing four games at far-reaching locations last week the Clovis girls basketball team was glad to be home this past Thursday. And what a homecoming it was for the Lady Wildcats, who transformed a halftime deficit into a double-digit victory, 43-33, over Alamogordo in their first game at Rock Staubus Gymnasium since Dec. 7. Down 19-14 at the break, 21-14 early in the third quarter, the Lady ’Cats went on an 8-0 run and kept running to their fourth victory of...
PORTALES — The Clovis and Portales boys basketball teams won’t play each other in the state tournament, the Wildcats being 5A, the Rams 4A. But they always like the challenge of facing a competitive opponent in general. And they also like playing each other specifically because they’re local rivals, separated only by a 20-mile stretch of highway. Tuesday night at the Ram Athletic Center, the teams squared off in this year’s installment of the area rivalry, with the Wildcat...
PORTALES - The Eastern New Mexico women's basketball team will be home for the holidays. In this case, the pre-holidays, too. ENMU has just two games left before breaking for the holidays and will play both games at Greyhound Arena. Eastern (7-2, 1-2 Lone Star Conference) hosts a pair of LSC foes this week - University of Arkansas Fort Smith on Thursday (5:30 p.m.) and Oklahoma Christian on Saturday (2 p.m.). The Greyhounds will end their year - and their decade - with two...
PORTALES — There’s no way to sugar-coat a 1-7 record. 1-7 is unfortunately 1-7. But the Eastern men’s basketball team still has hopes for this season, still thinks it’s building toward something better. So these last two games of 2019, against University of Arkansas Fort Smith on Thursday (7:30 p.m.) and Oklahoma Christian (4 p.m.) on Saturday — both at Greyhound Stadium — can be looked upon as two ladder rungs, two chances for the Greyhounds to step up or down, the former they hope. These two games can potentially...
FARWELL — There are certain laws of physics, laws of human beings, that can’t be ignored. Consider the Littlefield boys basketball team, which has a 6-4 player — Tyler Jones — and three that are each 6-3 — Jonathan Davis, Jayden Longoria and Chris Brown. Farwell’s tallest player, Jose Rodriguez, is 6-2. When teams are facing those numbers they’re bound to be boxed out more often that not by their taller opponents. Such was the case in Saturday night’s Farwell Tournament championship game at Farwell High School, during...
FARWELL — It was another night, another stirring comeback for the Farwell girls basketball team. This time, though, the Lady Blue weren’t able to get a victory. Just a night after rallying to beat Claude in the Farwell Tournament semifinals at Farwell High School on Friday, the Lady Blue rallied from a halftime deficit against Littlefield in Saturday’s championship game, only to lose 52-49 to the Lady Wildcats. Still, Farwell showed a lot of grit as it prepared to head back into regular-season and Texico Tournament actio...
teams go. That’s how it is in basketball tournaments and how it was this past weekend in the Farwell Tournament. By the end of action Friday, the two host teams were headed to Saturday’s championship games, with both the Steers and Lady Blue scheduled to face Littlefield for the tournament crowns. Farwell’s boys earned their way into Saturday’s game with respective 47-28 and 50-30 victories over Claude on Thursday and Hale Center on Friday. The Lady Blue punched their champio...
FARWELL — How important is a regular-season basketball tournament? Most high school and college coaches would tell you, very important. The Farwell Tournament, a December staple around here, is one such tournament, an early-season test for teams that come from Texas and from across the train tracks in New Mexico. Getting a variety of different opponents, different offenses and defenses to contend with, playing on three consecutive nights, the surviving teams building to an e...
PORTALES — A team’s home opener is always a big deal because ... well ... it’s the home opener. And Portales’ girls basketball team turned in a performance that fit the occasion Tuesday night. The Lady Rams led most of the game and pulled away for a 71-53 victory over previously-undefeated West Las Vegas in front of a sparse but enthusiastic crowd at the Ram Athletic Center. “West is always scrappy, and I knew they’d be tough coming in,” Portales head coach Wade Fraze said. “They have a lot of fight in them, they’ve got som...
CLOVIS — If it were up to Mark Sena, the New Mexico Track & Cross Country Coaches Association 5A Coach of the Year award he’s being given next month would not just go to him, but also to every coach and mentor he’s had along the way, every assistant who has helped him coach at Yucca Middle School, Fort Sumner High School and Clovis High too. Not that Sena isn’t honored by his Coach of the Year selection. He says he had never won an award, not for coaching or teaching or anything else. So this one is pretty sweet, especially a...
CLOVIS — As the weekend’s Foxy’s Drive-In Shootout ended Saturday night at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, so did the Clovis girls basketball team’s chance of having a winning homestand last week. Saturday’s game against Amarillo’s Palo Duro capped off three straight at home for the Lady Wildcats, and after splitting the previous two, the Lady ’Cats were hoping to go 2-1 on their stay at the Rock with a tournament-ending victory. And though for a while Saturday night it seemed like Clovis might just do it, a late Palo Duro surge turn...
CLOVIS — There’s no way to sugar-coat an opening-night loss. Especially after Clovis High’s boys basketball team dropped its season opener in heartbreaking fashion, 60-59, to Cleveland Friday night at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. But, it’s a long, long season. And Clovis head coach Jaden Isler saw positives in Friday’s defeat, and much to build upon as the Wildcats marched forward. “I thought our kids played extremely hard,” Isler said, “and they played well defensively. To...
PORTALES — With as much respect as can be due to an 0-8 NAIA team, it’s probably a fair statement that most of Eastern New Mexico’s reserves could crack the starting lineup for the Northern New Mexico Eagles. So it might have been fitting that the Greyhounds’ second unit provided the early spark the team needed Thursday, with a slow start the lone hiccup in a dominating 93-48 victory. Junior guard Laura Rowe hit a trio of 3-pointers in just 90 seconds to spark an early 16-0 ru...
TEXICO — Opening night is always a special time for any sports team. Fresh start, 0-0 record, all that. For the Texico boys basketball team, with a new head coach and so many new players, it was filled with even more anticipation Tuesday night at Texico High School, and even more excitement after the Wolverines pulled away from Tucumcari for a 74-50 victory. “Opening night, it’s amazing,” Wolverines junior post David Davalos said. “It’s a thrill to play here for Texico, it...
TEXICO — As opening nights go, Tuesday’s could have gone better for the Texico girls basketball team. And yet, head coach Richard Luscombe wasn’t overly disappointed. Considering it was just one game in and his team had to replace some key starters from last season and wasn’t even at full strength Tuesday, Luscombe thought losing only 37-35 to Tucumcari at Texico High School, especially after trailing by seven at halftime, wasn’t too bad a start. “With the team that we hav...
CLOVIS - Call it a mixed bag for the Clovis girls basketball team after the Lady Wildcats' busy first week of home games. Tuesday's home opener at Rock Staubus Gymnasium ended with a 58-38 victory over Lubbock Estacado. Friday's game at the Rock ended with a tight but ultimately disappointing 44-40 loss to Amarillo's Randall, part of the Foxy's Drive-In Shootout. Those games, added to Clovis' 38-27 season-opening loss at Cleveland Nov. 26, had the Lady Wildcats at 1-2 three...
PORTALES — It may seem strange, the confines of Greyhound Arena, at least in a game situation. This week, for the first time this season, Eastern New Mexico’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will be doing something other than practicing in their home arena, they’ll be playing games in it. After long waits, the women’s team plays its home opener against Northern New Mexico on Thursday (11 a.m.), the men’s team against Wayland Baptist on Saturday (7 p.m.). “It’s nice,” ENMU women’s coach Josh Prock said. “I don’t have to get...
CLOVIS — As he sat in his office at Rock Staubus Gymnasium Monday afternoon, Clovis boys basketball coach Jaden Isler peered into the near future and saw a team with great potential. Understandable. Last winter Isler’s Wildcats posted a 20-win season that included a District 4-5A championship and a berth in the state tournament. And that team lost just four players to graduation. Now with eight seniors returning, plus two juniors who logged quality varsity playing time las...
PORTALES — As late afternoon became twilight and twilight became night at Greyhound Stadium on Monday, the Eastern New Mexico football team was still working. And that was just fine with every Greyhound player, every Greyhound coach. It was early December, and ENMU still had a game to prepare for, still had a reason to practice. The Hounds last month were invited to the Heritage Bowl in Corsicana, Texas, which will kick off this Saturday at noon Central Standard Time and p...
PORTALES — Paul Terry’s success is the Eastern New Mexico football team’s success. And vice versa. This Saturday, when the senior fullback and his teammates play the Heritage Bowl against Southern Arkansas in Corsicana, Texas, their main priority is to get a bowl victory, which would be Eastern’s first Division II postseason win ever. But, Terry is chasing 2,000 rushing yards, standing just 222 short of it. That’s a number certainly within his wheelhouse, because he tore off...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s football season began and ended with a storm. The Wildcats’ Aug. 23 season opener at Leon Williams Stadium was abbreviated by lightning, thunder and torrential rains, making their 42-16 lead over Hobbs an official victory with 9:05 remaining in the fourth quarter. And Clovis’ state 2A semifinal last Friday ended with a 56-43 loss to the Cleveland Storm, also at Leon Williams. The Wildcats did some storming of their own this season. They won the Distric...
TEXICO — Call it business as usual for the Texico boys basketball team. There’s a new head coach, new assistant coach, some new players. But the Wolverines are still expecting to compete in District 7-2A and the state tournament. Two of the last three Texico teams made the state semifinals, and the team in between played in a state championship game. The past four Wolverine teams claimed EPAC championships. Last year’s team ended 23-8 after falling to Pecos in the state semis...
PORTALES — Whether crouching, down on one knee, demonstrating a play, or calling his players into a circle, Eastern New Mexico men’s basketball head coach Tres Segler was animated during Thursday afternoon’s practice at Greyhound Arena. There was plenty of reason for Segler to be animated. It’s the early days of basketball season, time for anyone involved with any team to be excited. As of Thursday, Segler’s Greyhounds were less than a week removed from a highly-competitive ga...
CLOVIS — The Clovis girls basketball team was already facing the challenge of trying to rebound from a 10-win season. The offseason, though, may have made that challenge even tougher. Gone are the players who would have been the Lady Wildcats’ top two returning scorers — Mikyla Harkley to Italy and Madison Tolbert to Virginia. So, Clovis head coach Jeff Reed will have to fashion a competitive lineup the way any coach has to when players either graduate or move away. And Reed thinks he might have the pieces to do so. After...
