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CLOVIS — It seemed fitting Friday night that high school basketball season is on its way. Because the 6A football semifinal game between third-seeded Cleveland and second-seeded Clovis at Leon Williams Stadium ended in a high school basketball score, 56-43 Cleveland. It was back-and-forth all night, like basketball teams pushing the tempo, scoring end to end. But ultimately, the Storm had one last offensive surge in the fourth quarter and were able to end Clovis High’s sea...
CLOVIS — There is no place Clovis High’s football team would rather be. It’s the third week of November, only four teams remain in the state 6A playoffs. Clovis is one of them, still something to practice for, still something to play for. And there is no place the second-seeded Wildcats would rather play this weekend’s 6A semifinal against third-seeded Cleveland than at Leon Williams Stadium, which the ’Cats will do this Friday, beginning at 7 p.m. Then throw in the early-wee...
TEXICO — Winning state championships takes a lot, so any team that brings one home brings confidence with it. Texico senior Ashley Hill, and juniors Rachel Phipps and Riley Rohrbach, were parts of the Lady Wolverines’ state 2A volleyball title, earned last Saturday night in Rio Rancho. Freshman Claire McDaniel was also part of that blue-trophy-winning team. Now, Texico girls basketball head coach Richard Luscombe would like those players to carry some of that championship swa...
The Eastern New Mexico football team’s season isn’t over after all. Saturday, the Greyhounds beat Western Oregon 35-27 on the road, ending their regular season with two consecutive wins and a 7-4 record. Tuesday it was announced that they have been invited to the Heritage Bowl in Corsicana, Texas, where they will play Southern Arkansas on Dec. 7, shown on Cox Sports Television. It will be the first bowl to include the Hounds since 2016, when they played Fort Hays State in the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl in Copperas Cov...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s football team is moving on, yet won’t have to move an inch. In their first home state tournament game since 2016, the Wildcats pulled away from defending 6A champion La Cueva Friday at Leon Williams Stadium and won 37-17, earning a berth in this coming weekend’s semifinal. And for that matchup, the second-seeded ’Cats will spend this Friday where they were this past Friday — Leon Williams Stadium — with Cleveland coming in for a 7 p.m. kickoff. They...
PORTALES — Portales’ football team knows that even with a first-round bye it takes three steps to win a state 4A championship. And the Rams took Step 1 on Saturday afternoon at Greyhound Stadium. With a punishing defense and a steady, persistent offense, the second-seeded Rams pulled away from Silver late and posted a 33-7 victory in Saturday’s quarterfinal. Silver’s nickname is the Fighting Colts, and fight they did. Well into the fourth quarter, they trailed only 20-7, h...
CLOVIS — Toward the finish line they ran, promising an exciting end to the season’s biggest cross country race. Clovis’ Jerrick Maldonado and Piedra Vista’s Triston Charles were neck-and-neck in last weekend’s 5A championships. They crossed at around the same time, but who won? Maldonado was depleted, falling down, nearly passing out from dehydration. Clovis head coach Mark Bussen helped tend to his runner, helped get him re-hydrated. He knew Maldonado had done well one way or the other, but helping him with hydration...
CLOVIS — Welcome home, state playoff football. After a three-year wait, postseason action is finally returning to Leon Williams Stadium as Clovis hosts defending 6A champion La Cueva on Friday, marking the Wildcats’ first state tournament home game since 2016. And the second-seeded Wildcats (7-3) couldn’t be more thrilled about beginning their state tournament quest at home, while also playing any game there for the first time since Oct. 11. “It’s going to be huge, especiall...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico’s football team saved its best for last. Last home game, that is. Next-to-last game overall. The Greyhounds, in their final appearance at Greyhound Stadium this season and their penultimate game of 2019 — rallied to beat No. 21 Angelo State 20-17 in overtime Saturday night on Al Whitehead Field. The Hounds’ victory knocked Angelo from the national Division II Top 25 rankings while evening out their own final Lone Star Conference record at 4-4 and...
PORTALES — Call it one for the road. It is, after all, the last one this year for Eastern New Mexico’s football team. And it is on the road — way out on it. ENMU (6-4) will conclude its 2019 slate on Saturday afternoon (1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time) in Monmouth, Oregon against Western Oregon University (7-3). The Greyhounds already secured a winning season by edging Angelo State 20-17 in overtime last weekend at Greyhound Stadium, but would of course like to depart the Beaver State this Saturday with another victory. 7-4 i...
CLOVIS — If you were a Clovis volleyball fan, you may have been disappointed with Tuesday’s District 4-5A quarterfinal match only if you had plans for the evening and were hoping to get out of Clovis High School’s Rock Staubus Gymnasium early. If you were a Carlsbad volleyball fan, you were just plain disappointed. The Lady Wildcats treated their home crowd to a stirring comeback victory after falling behind two sets to none, winning 26-28, 22-25, 25-6, 25-16, 15-8. Clovis wen...
TEXICO — The Texico football team came charging in and now goes charging on. The Wolverines entered state 2A tournament play on a four-game winning streak, with a District 7-2A championship to their names, plus the No. 3 seed in 2A. On the strength of all of the above, Texico went rolling into the state tournament Friday and rolled over 11th-seeded Capitan, 41-0, at Texico High School. The Wolverines, who bagged their fifth straight victory and improved to 7-4, now move on to...
PORTALES — It wasn’t exactly splitting the atom. Yet Thursday’s breakthrough might have been even bigger for the Portales volleyball team. After coming close and coming up short twice this season, the Lady Rams finally solved a fifth-set challenge against Artesia, and at the perfect time too. Thursday, hosting the Lady Bulldogs in the District 4-4A semifinal, Portales edged Artesia 3-2, with scores of 25-21, 24-26, 19-25, 25-19, 15-13. Eureka. After a pair of 3-2 regul...
ELIDA — Certainly not the result Elida’s football team hoped for, but a successful season nonetheless. Elida came into Saturday’s state 6-man championship game as the No. 1 seed against No. 2 Springer-Maxwell, but out of it with red runners-up trophy after falling just shy 29-26 at Elida High School. Despite having hammered the Red Devils during the regular season, Elida played behind in most of Saturday’s game and was denied a state title. “People saw the scores all seaso...
PORTALES — The elite Division I college basketball programs have been revving it up this week, including Kansas, Duke, Michigan State and Kentucky. The Division II ranks are no exception, including Eastern New Mexico. The Greyhound men, after an exhibition at the University of New Mexico today, will play their first regular-season game Saturday against New Mexico Highlands in Durango, Colorado, then play Fort Lewis College on Sunday, also in Durango. ENMU’s women travel to Durango as well, and also play New Mexico Highlands a...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ swim team has already seen competition this season, though the Wildcats officially get going this coming weekend. Last weekend the team competed in a club meet at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. “I’m thrilled with how they swam,” Clovis’ second-year head coach Gordy Westerberg said. He’s even more thrilled with the swim team’s season-opening meet at Lubbock this coming weekend, which is followed by one at Hobbs the following weekend and at Carlsbad the weekend after that. The Wildcats then t...
PORTALES — Five was a lucky number for the Portales football team Friday night. The Rams scored five touchdowns followed by five extra points, and made it five straight district titles by defeating Lovington 35-13 at Greyhound Stadium. Portales improved to 9-1 overall, 3-0 district, while crowning itself the District 3/4-4A champion. “Great team effort,” Rams head coach Jaime Ramirez said. “Our boys stepped up the way they have all year long.” “It’s really great,” Porta...
MELROSE — The Melrose volleyball team has completed Phase 1. And what a phase it was. Tuesday night at Melrose High School, the Lady Buffaloes rallied to beat Grady 3-1, bouncing back from losing the first set before not allowing the Lady Bronchos to reach 20 in any ensuing set to win 23-25, 25-12, 25-18, 25-14. With that victory, the Lady Buffs concluded their regular season at 18-0, and won the regular-season District 6-1A championship with an 8-0 record against that competition. “Yeah, we had a great regular sea...
PORTALES — On the bright side, Eastern New Mexico’s football team had three games left after Saturday’s disappointing 35-14 home loss in the Wagon Wheel game against West Texas A&M. Three chances to play sound football, three chances to put the WT defeat further and further into the past. It starts this Saturday, with a 5 p.m. road game in Odessa, Texas at UT Permian Basin. The Greyhounds carry a 5-3 overall record, 3-3 in the Lone Star Conference, into the game against the F...
PORTALES — Saturday, the wheels came off for the Eastern New Mexico University football team. Actually, it was the Wheel, as in Wagon Wheel. The rivalry trophy came off the slope behind the back end zone of Greyhound Stadium when the West Texas A&M football players ran up there and collected it after having just earned it with their 35-14 victory over Eastern. Saturday’s result boosted WT to 6-2 overall, 3-2 in the Lone Star Conference, while dropping ENMU to 5-3 overall, 3-3...
CLOVIS — On a chilly Monday afternoon, Clovis High’s football team was getting ready for its season to heat up again. The Wildcats were coming off a much-appreciated bye week and preparing to jump right back into the fray this weekend, with their biggest game of the season so far. They’re 6-3, but more importantly 3-0 in District 2/5-6A, and they’ll visit La Cueva in Albuquerque this Friday (7 p.m.), facing a Bears team that’s also 3-0 in district. And it’s the regular-sea...
TEXICO — Friday night’s Texico football victory was one for the this-is-why-you-play-the-game file. With an offense that moved the ball mostly at will, and a stubborn, stifling defense, the Wolverines flattened Santa Rosa 41-0 at Texico High School to win the District 6/7-2A championship, improving to 3-0 district, 6-4 overall. It was also Texico’s fourth straight victory to conclude the regular season. Winning championships, hoisting trophies. Yup, definitely good reaso...
CLOVIS — Clovis head volleyball coach Ruth Chavez had seen it, she’d seen the improvement and potential in her young team throughout the season. Tuesday night at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, Chavez saw that improvement and potential come to some fruition as the Lady Wildcats earned their first District 4-5A victory of the season, brooming away Carlsbad, 26-24, 25-14, 25-17, Clovis’ first sweep since blanking Valencia on Sept. 7 in the Moriarty Tournament and only its sixth overall win of 2019. “It felt good,” Clovis head coac...
WEST POINT, N.Y. - Cade Barnard has something in common with Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Dwight Eisenhower and Norman Schwarzkopf. Like those famous generals, Barnard chose to be a West Pointer, chose to begin his college days as a plebe. The former Melrose High football standout fielded several offers to play running back in college, including one from Navy, with a chance to play in the program that once starred Roger Staubach. Barnard had another offer from UMass,...
PORTALES — From the Chile Bowl to the Wagon Wheel game. Eastern New Mexico’s football team is pivoting off its 48-17 victory at Western New Mexico last weekend and into this Saturday’s Week 8 matchup against West Texas A&M with the rivarly game’s trophy, the Wagon Wheel, at stake. ENMU will take a 5-2 overall record, 3-2 in the Lone Star Conference, into that game against WT (5-2, 2-2), which is scheduled for a 6 p.m. start at Greyhound Stadium. An important late-Oc...
