Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Daulton Hatley succeeds by taking advantage of his opportunities. He did so as a Clovis High quarterback, with his opportunities to run, his passing opportunities to find open receivers downfield. He took advantage of a partial scholarship to Southeastern Oklahoma State University - alma mater of Reba McEntire and Dennis Rodman - which provided him the opportunity to play Division II collegiate football while earning an Occupational Safety degree. In Southeastern Oklahoma...
CLOVIS — On an autumnal night at Leon Williams Stadium, the Clovis boys soccer team may have reached the winter of its season. With a state playoff berth far from guaranteed, the Wildcats need to pick up every win they can get to help bolster their playoff chances. Tuesday, though the ’Cats were hoping to get one against Carlsbad, they didn’t, as the Cavemen escaped with a 1-0 victory thanks to Jesus Zamora’s goal late in the first half. As a result, Clovis dropped to 1-3 in District 4-5A play, 11-5-2 overall, which Wildcat...
TEXICO - Texico's volleyball team is a defending state champion, and the Lady Wolverines would love to win another title. That may be difficult, considering how inexperienced this year's team has been. But, Texico at least took another step in its maturation, another step in evolving this past Thursday when hosting and beating Santa Rosa 3-1, with scores of 25-12, 25-17, 18-25, 25-19. That improved the Lady Wolverines to 11-6, 3-0 in District 7-2A, as they head into the...
FARWELL — The third week of October means that every high school football game has more meaning. Every game, every down even, is more crucial than the one before. So Friday night’s Springlake-Earth/Farwell game was as crucial as it gets to this point. Though the Steers came in with a better overall record, each team was 1-0 in Texas Region I District 2. And when Farwell pulled out a 25-12 home victory, it was perhaps the team’s biggest so far this season. “It’s good to be 2-0 in district,” said Steers first-year head coach...
By Peter Stein STAFF WRITER [email protected] PORTALES — It may seem on paper like a bit of culture shock, football-wise. After enduring a 49-10 defeat against Tarleton State, the fourth-ranked Division II team in the country, ENMU next faces a Western New Mexico team that has had its struggles this season. So far the Mustangs are 1-5, though they did get that one victory against a Lone Star Conference opponent, UT Permian Basin, by a convincing 47-28 score on Oct. 5. That,...
CLOVIS — The Clovis High football team will look to stay undefeated in District 2/5-6A this Friday when visiting Eldorado at Albuquerque’s Wilson Stadium. Clovis will take a 2-0 district record, 5-3 overall, into the 7 p.m. game against the Eagles (4-3, 0-1). The stakes are huge, as each team is vying for state playoff positioning. And the Wildcats will be trying to win that huge game somewhere they haven’t won yet this year — anywhere not named Leon Williams Stadium. Clovis i...
PORTALES — Legend has it that a full moon is prime time for werewolves. Greyhounds not so much, at least not Saturday when the nation’s fourth-ranked Division II college football team visited Eastern New Mexico University and took advantage of some Hounds’ mistakes while squelching their juggernaut rushing attack. Though ENMU was upset-minded, that No. 4 Tarleton State team was the same program entering Greyhound Stadium as exiting it — undefeated and one of the country’s elite — after getting off to a big lead early and r...
CLOVIS — Friday had to be the coldest night of Clovis High’s football season yet. But the Wildcats seem to be heating up at just the right time. With a relentless offense and punishing defense, the ’Cats walloped District 2/5-6A foe Manzano 44-9 in their last regular-season game at Leon Williams Stadium. They 35-ed a district opponent just a week after 50-ing another one, Sandia. As a result, the Wildcats are 2-0 in the ever-crucial district standings. “Yeah, not bad, not bad...
CLOVIS - Facing some adversity is one thing. But in Tuesday night's District 4-5A showdown with Roswell, the Clovis boys soccer team faced a lot of it. n The Wildcats were 0-2 in district play as they headed into Tuesday's game at Leon Williams Stadium. n They came in struggling offensively, having scored just one goal in their previous two district games combined. n They found themselves trailing Tuesday's contest by a goal at halftime. n A deluge with lightning forced an ext...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ football team likes the confines of Leon Williams Stadium. The Wildcats like the stands full of fans cheering them on, like the familiarity of their field, like having to run from the locker room door through a balloon tunnel to reach their Friday-night destination, as opposed to taking a long, long bus ride. So, here’s the thing. When the Wildcats host Manzano on Friday at 7 p.m. they will be playing their last regular-season home game. As in, last time...
PORTALES — The assembly line keeps moving for Eastern New Mexico’s football team. And it’s getting faster. Fresh off a comeback road victory against a formidable Midwestern State team, the Greyhounds return home to face Tarleton State, another Lone Star Conference foe. This one is 5-0 overall, 3-0 in the LSC, and is ranked fourth in the nation in the AFCA Division II poll. The Texans, ranked lower only than Valdosta State, Ferris State and Minnesota State, even received one first-place vote in this week’s poll. And that is...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ volleyball team brought ‘Season One’ to a successful end Thursday night. Season One is how the Lady Wildcats refer to their pre-district schedule, and Season Two is District 4/5A play. They ended the former by rallying from a first-set loss to beat Lovington 16-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-20, their first victory of the season at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. And they sent themselves into the latter with some momentum, having won four of their last five, and improvi...
Another high school weekend passes as the steady march toward state tournament play continues. Farwell and Floyd were missing from this past weekend’s fray — the Steers because of a bye, the Broncos due to forfeit. But everyone else was in action, and the weekend featured a huge win for championship-minded Elida, a must win for Texico, a first loss for Melrose and a second defeat for Dora. Texico 55, Tucumcari 0 TEXICO — It was one of those nights for Texico. When a team...
CLOVIS — Every football team has things to work on, needs a nip and tuck here or there. But, the Clovis High football coaches won’t be able to find much wrong with Friday night’s 50-0 Homecoming victory over Sandia at Leon Williams Stadium. Offensively, defensively, and on special teams, the Wildcats were dominant. They got 173 yards rushing from Jeston Webskowski (all in the first half), three interceptions from Brandon Mason, and a 66-yard punt return touchdown from Malik Ph...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ football team owns the tasks of trying to rebound from a decisive loss, trying to win on its Homecoming night, and trying to get district play off to a positive start, all in one game. When Sandia visits Leon Williams Stadium this Friday night (7 p.m.), the Matadors will indeed be the Wildcats’ Homecoming opponent and the first District 2/5-6A team on their schedule. And against Sandia, the ’Cats are hoping to respond well, hoping to shake off last week’s...
PORTALES - 564 total yards. 515 rushing yards. 100 penalty yards. 31 second-half points. And a little lightning thrown in for good measure. It was kind of a zany game for Eastern New Mexico's football team against Texas A&M-Kingsville Saturday night, as the Greyhounds churned it out on the ground, played a little sloppy in the infraction department, forced Kingsville into some sloppy play in the turnover department, and were delayed an hour due to lightning. Ultimately, though...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico's football team is in kind of a dizzying stretch. The Greyhounds won their season opener at home in dramatic fashion, played consecutive road games, then returned home last week to prevail against Texas A&M-Kingsville — and a prolonged lightning delay — 48-34. This week they turn right around and go back on the road, this time to Wichita Falls, Texas, to face Midwestern State. Game time is 7 p.m. Central Mountain Time. Each team is 3-1 overa...
The first weekend of October is usually a crucial milepost in high school football. But for Elida, Friday goes beyond crucial. The Tigers will host fellow six-man unbeaten Springer/Maxwell in one of the area’s district matchups. Here’s a look at that and the other local games: Springer/Maxwell (6-0, 1-0) at Elida (6-0, 2-0), 7 p.m. Friday Undefeated district rivals. That’s the crux of what you need to know about this one. “It’s the game we’ve been waiting on all year,” Tigers head coach Jereme Woodruff said. “Both coming in u...
CLOVIS - Tuesday's Portales/Clovis boys soccer tilt at Leon Williams Stadium was won by the Wildcats 3-1. Still, Rams first-year head coach Michael Aunan couldn't help seeing positives, and Clovis head coach Greg Trujillo couldn't help seeing ways in which his team needs to improve. Trujillo was troubled by the fact that his Wildcats let Portales stick around, make it a 2-1 game well into the second half. Aunan was encouraged that his Rams did that sticking around. "We keep...
CLOVIS - For most kids, the highlight of summer is frolicking in the pool, enjoying the rides and treats at the local fair, maybe a vacation or camping trip. For Cannon Oaks, this past summer's highlight was at least as much fun. And probably a little more unique. Though a member of Clovis Gymnastics Academy for less than a year, Cannon traveled with teammates to West Palm Beach during the summer and competed in the Stars and Stripes National competition. Worth the trip, safe...
MELROSE - It was the Melrose High School gym in September, not Rio Rancho's Santa Ana Star Center in November. Yet, Friday afternoon's Logan-Melrose volleyball match had a state-championship feel to it. For good reason. The Lady Buffaloes came into last year's Class A state title match looking to defend the crown they had won a year earlier, only to have a repeat snatched away by the Lady Longhorns. Melrose is vying for another state championship this year and had taken severa...
September football wrapped up this weekend. Here's a look at how the local slate played out: Farwell 32, Dimmitt 28 FARWELL - Another Friday, another comeback win for the Steers. A week after rallying from two scores down to beat Texico 29-28, Farwell came back from a two-score deficit at home against Dimmitt this past Friday, and as a result moved above .500 for the first time this season, improving to 3-2. The Steers have become a winning team by proving that deficits don't...
MELROSE - During the second quarter of Friday night's Logan-Melrose football game, the lights on the Buffaloes' side of the field went out. Before the end of the third quarter, Melrose had put Logan's lights out, ending the game on the mercy rule by building a 50-0 lead in the district opener for both teams, home opener for the Buffaloes. So, that score became the final and Melrose became 5-0, 1-0 district, as its quest to win a fifth state title in six years continued. Still...
It’s not just any weekend for the local football slate, it’s the last weekend of September. A milepost signaling that football season is heading into a critical stage, the games getting all the more crucial. Here’s a glance: Lake Arthur (2-3, 0-1) at Floyd (0-3, 0-1), 1 p.m. Friday The first game of the weekend is this Friday-afternoon tilt which has the Broncos still searching for their first victory. They play a Lake Arthur team that has had its own struggles, and they get that team at home, which never hurts. Though the B...
PORTALES - So Eastern New Mexico's football team wasn't able to beat the nation's 12th-ranked Division II team on Saturday, wasn't able to avoid its first loss of the season. Monday, the Greyhounds were back home practicing, working to quickly put that 45-27 loss at Texas A&M-Commerce behind them. "I think the attitude was good," ENMU head coach Kelley Lee said. "They realize there are definitely things we need to work on, and there was a concerted effort to address them."...
