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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - We'll never know how Clovis High's football team might have fared if last Friday's road game against Lubbock Coronado hadn't been called due to inclement weather. With plenty of time still remaining, Clovis was down 27-16 with the ball. There was still a chance to rally. But because the 11-point deficit became final when the game was still incomplete, the Wildcats were denied a comeback chance and perhaps their first 4-1 start since 2008. "I was a little disappointed...
Another weekend, another slate of area football games. There was joy and heartbreak in Farwell - depending upon whose side you were on. Elida kept rolling and kept Floyd still searching for its first victory. On the subject of first victories, Dora's Coyotes got theirs. And oh by the way, Melrose improved to 4-0. Farwell 29, Texico 28 Friday's local game of the night, drama-wise, was this one between the neighbors from across the tracks. In the first half it was looking like...
PORTALES - Enduring a blowout loss last week wasn't easy for Portales' football team. Especially since it was the Rams' first setback of the season. So Priority One for this week was bouncing right back, taking care of St. Pius X. Mission accomplished. With an offense that was able to control the ball and the clock, and a defense able to prevent St. Pius X from doing either, Portales walloped the Sartans 40-7 Friday night at Greyhound Stadium. And in doing so, the Rams (4-1)...
It’s Week 5 for much of the local high school football teams, Week 4 for Farwell and Melrose, just Week 2 for Dora. Whatever weekend it is for whatever team, it’s a full slate. Here’s a look: Melrose (3-0) at Mountainair (2-1), 6 p.m. Friday The Buffaloes are a long way from their goal of winning a fifth state title in six years. But Friday could be another step up ... well, the ‘Mountain.’ The undefeated Buffs visit a team that’s only once-beaten. Mountainair’s lone loss, though, was a big one — 44-12 at home against a...
PORTALES — After beating Missouri S&T 35-28 in the final five minutes and Colorado Mesa 44-37 in overtime, Eastern New Mexico’s football team would probably like a little less drama when visiting Texas A&M Commerce in Week 3. That, however, would likely be wishful thinking when the Greyhounds play their Lone Star Conference opener Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Commerce, Texas (6 p.m. Central Daylight Time, 5 p.m. MDT). A&M-Commerce has won the NCAA Division II championship as recently as 2017. The Lions made it to last year...
CLOVIS - As Monday's football practice was wrapping up at Clovis High School, the dust from last Friday's 60-27 win over Lubbock Monterey was still settling. Wildcats junior quarterback Chance Harris was coming off a weekend in which he threw more touchdown passes than Tua. Clovis' defense was coming off a weekend in which it contained a loaded and lethal Monterey attack. And yet, the Wildcats were no longer basking in the glow of trouncing a Lubbock team, one that had beaten...
CLOVIS — When the Clovis and Monterey football teams met last year in Lubbock, Monterey’s offense was able to move the ball up and down the field with ease against the Wildcats. Friday at Leon Williams Stadium, it was the other way around. And then some. Clovis’ offensive unit moved the ball at will against the Plainsmen, fueled by great blocking and a big night from junior quarterback Chance Harris, to win 60-27. In the offensive deluge, Harris passed for school recor...
CLOVIS — Sofia Rico became the new all-time goal scorer for Clovis’ girls soccer program Thursday when she netted three against Lovington, giving her 59, two better than the previous mark. It was even sweeter that she did so at Leon Williams Stadium, a venue that may have given Rico and her teammates culture shock. When the Lady Wildcats hosted Lovington there, it was their first game on that field this season. It was also the first time the Lady ’Cats hosted a game anywh...
There were some big wins and tough losses for the local teams this past weekend. Elida (4-0) and Melrose (3-0) stayed undefeated, while Texico moved back to .500 (2-2) with a home shutout of Capitan. Thursday Melrose 64, Magdalena 12 The Buffaloes’ quest for another state championship run completed phase three when they defeated Magdalena by 52 in Thursday night’s home opener. Thus far, Melrose has defeated its three opponents — Dulce, Tatum and Magdalena — 160-18 this season....
PORTALES — The Portales volleyball team might just be on to something. The Lady Rams have won five of six to start the season, the fifth of those victories coming via sweep — 25-18, 25-23, 25-10 — against Hobbs Tuesday night at the Ram Athletic Center. It’s early, only September. But things are clicking for the Rams. “The girls, they just have something that I can’t coach,” Portales head coach Charity Gomez said after Tuesday’s sweep. “I coach the skills, but this group of girls has determination, has heart. They just lock in...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico’s football team survived its first challenge by outlasting Missouri S&T 35-28 in last Saturday’s season opener. Now the next challenge — beat Colorado Mesa in Week 2 after a 10 1/2-hour road trip to Grand Junction. While pulling out the Missouri S&T game in the fourth quarter was impressive, stirring even, that was in the cozy confines of Greyhound Stadium. Now it’s time for the Hounds’ first trek of 2019. “It’s maybe our longest one this year,...
PORTALES — Saturday night brought one of those football games, the kind where teams are like boxers matching punch for punch. The kind you just know will come down to the last few punches of the final round. So it was for Missouri S&T and Eastern New Mexico in the season opener for both teams at Greyhound Stadium — blow for blow, punch for punch, strike for strike. Ultimately, Eastern landed the knockout punches, a 1-2 combo of Johnny Smith’s six-yard touchdown run with 4:51...
In this high school football week, the main slate of games will be held on Friday the 13th. The local teams, though, are hoping it will be a lucky weekend. Elida and Melrose enter play undefeated; the Tigers at 3-0, the Buffaloes at 2-0. Though, officially Melrose plays on Thursday — Friday the 13th Eve. Here’s a look at the weekend’s local games: Melrose (2-0) vs. Magdalena (2-1), 6 p.m. Thursday @ Mountainair Junior High Melrose will do the honors of kicking off the local football weekend when visiting neutral Mount...
CLOVIS — The bad thing about football is that the games are spread a week apart. Losses can tend to get stuck in the craw for awhile. The good thing about football is that teams have that week to work the bugs out, learn from those losses, try to avoid the mistakes going forward. And of course, time to heal the bruises always helps. Clovis began its practice week Monday with both the good and bad factors in play. The Wildcats were still smarting from their first loss of the season — a 48-28 road setback at Rio Rancho las...
CLOVIS — A Portales/Clovis rivalry clash is always fun, something to look forward to for players, coaches and fans. It’s even more fun still for the team that wins those clashes. And in the case of Tuesday night’s volleyball match at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, Portales was the team having the most fun. Though each set was hotly contested early, the Rams were able to take control in each of them and rolled to a 3-0 sweep of Clovis — 25-13, 25-18, 25-10 — for their first victory of...
PORTALES — Both the Clovis and Portales girls soccer teams had their challenges when they played Thursday at Portales High School. Clovis’ may not have seemed so glaring, because a 5-1 record coming in can salve a lot of shortcomings. Portales’ 0-3 made its struggles that much more noticeable. The Lady Wildcats were missing their top three scorers from last season — strikers Madison Lynch and Neveah Coronado with their 14 goals combined, and midfielder Danielle Griego. Yet the ’Cats were still able to piece together...
PORTALES — If you blinked, sneezed or visited the rest room at Greyhound Stadium Friday night, you may have missed something big happen during one of the Portales football team’s scoring drives. When the Rams had the ball against West Las Vegas, they usually found the end zone quickly, and they certainly found it often. The result was a 46-7 rout for the Rams in their home opener, on the strength of 33 first-half points, 20 in the first quarter alone. Portales’ first two s...
CLOVIS — OK, so the Clovis High football team is 2-0. Great for the Wildcats. Beats 1-1 or 0-2. But, the previous four Wildcat teams were able to accomplish the same 2-0 start. 3-0, now that’s been a little trickier. Not since 2015 has Clovis reeled off three straight wins to start the season. That year the ’Cats beat Goddard, Cibola and Atrisco Heritage Academy by a combined score of 112-26. Since then, Rio Rancho has been a brick wall between the Wildcats and 3-0. In Week...
PORTALES — It’s good for a football team to have time to work things out, wrap their minds around schemes and playbooks, Xs and Os. Pound the sleds, run the sprints. Eastern New Mexico has had that time. But the Greyhounds are ready to start their season. And they will, with a scheduled 6 p.m. kickoff Saturday (KSEL 105.9 FM) at Greyhound Stadium against Missouri Science & Technology. The Hounds’ feelings about finally facing Week 1 can be summed up in two words. Hoo. Ray. “We’ve been practicing all spring, all summer,...
Elida is coming off one of its biggest wins ever. Texico is coming off a loss, but a close one against a reigning state champion. Melrose is coming off a bye week, Farwell off a lopsided loss. Floyd just wants to finally play some darn football. Last Saturday, Elida routed defending state six-man champion Animas, 62-12. Texico was leading defending 2A champ Dexter late in the fourth quarter before the Demons rallied near the end. Melrose hasn’t played since opening with a 54-point win of Dulce nearly two weeks ago. And F...
CLOVIS — Considering the temperature, every runner in Friday’s Clovis Invitational — be it varsity, junior varsity or middle school — should’ve received a medal just for showing up and braving the heat. It was cooking at Ned Houk Park, even for the cross country meet’s spectators and volunteers, much worse still for the runners. Some satisfaction did come out of the race, especially for Hobbs, whose teams won both the boys and girls varsity competitions. Especially...
PORTALES — If Labor Day weekend doesn’t make you think about college football, it’s probably a good bet you’re not a football fan. Even one of the NCAA’s several hundred college football teams, Eastern New Mexico, was thinking about watching some other college football games after Saturday morning’s practice at Greyhound Stadium. For the Greyhounds themselves, the fun hasn’t quite started. But Saturday they were just a week away from stepping out onto that same turf field for...
CLOVIS — Clovis head volleyball coach Ruth Chavez did promise that her team would be scrappy this year. And the Lady Wildcats did indeed exhibit said scrappiness in Thursday’s season opener against Artesia at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. But all scrappiness aside, there was the little matter of the final score — 3-1 in Artesia’s favor, with set results for Clovis of 9-25, 8-25, 25-23 and 10-25. There was a stirring third-set comeback, just when it seemed the Lady Wildcats would e...
CLOVIS — After a Week 1 game was shortened by a nasty storm, it was Clovis High’s football team bringing the thunder and lightning in Friday’s Week 2 matchup against Los Lunas at Leon Williams Stadium. Clovis’ defense first had to stave off some storm clouds, while the Wildcats’ offense was off to a slow start. Then a late-second-quarter offensive surge carried over into the second half, and the defense remained stout, leading the ’Cats to a 30-15 victory that allowed them to...
It was an inspiring if not victorious Week 2 for Texico. For Farwell, it was a Week 1 the Steers will probably want to forget. The Wolverines played their home opener against an elite Dexter program Friday night and were dealt a heartbreaking 21-15 loss after leading well into the fourth quarter. Over the state line in Friona, the Steers were suffering a 61-6 season-opening defeat. Dexter 21, Texico 15 Texico’s first-year head coach Bob Gilbreath knew what his Wolverines were facing when looking ahead to Dexter’s visit — a...
