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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Texico’s boys basketball team always has eyes on an EPAC championship. The Wolverines win it so regularly, it’s almost like a rite of January. The Melrose boys approach it a little differently. Sure, they’d like to win EPAC, who wouldn’t? But the Buffaloes are a young team looking for anything that can help them learn and evolve as they continue down the road toward trying to defend the program’s state championship. So, Friday night’s 56-41 semifinal win for Texic...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS PORTALES — It’s not much solace at the time, but it’s always good to know when something builds character. Take the Portales girls basketball team, and its early rough patch in the Portales Shootout. Entering Saturday’s game against Class 5A Carlsbad, the Rams had lost their first two Shootout games following a Tuesday win over Roswell. The most recent defeat came Friday, when Taylor Roybal hit a late jumper to give Pojoaque a 60-59 victory. The Ram...
PORTALES - When Portales coach Rickie McBroom was asked about a stretch where his Ram basketball team would play six games in nine nights, he naturally had concerns. Fatigue was never really one of them. "That's why we do what we do in the summer," McBroom said. "You play team camps with three, four games a day and you do it for two days. So three games in a row? We did that in the summer." So far, so good. The Rams took their second straight blowout Friday in the Portales...
Logan White was torn. The 1980 Portales High graduate was watching last October’s World Series like a father watching his children compete against each other in a Little League game. White is currently the San Diego Padres’ Senior Advisor and Director of Player Personnel who has scouted for the Baltimore Orioles and more recently, the Los Angeles Dodgers. White scouted and signed Nathan Eovaldi, Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig, and on a late-October Friday sat riveted to an extra-inning World Series Game 3 that wore on deep in...
PORTALES — Morgan Berumen had 20 points to lead three Eagles in double figures, as Vaughn escaped the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament with a 58-56 victory Friday at Greyhound Arena. Matthew Nelson added 14 and Lawrence Salazar 10 on the afternoon, and Vaughn outscored the Coyotes 18-13 in the final quarter. Kivan Cardenas had 15 to lead Tatum. Girls Floyd 50, Grady 42 — Anahi Chavez had 18 points and three 3-pointers, and kept the Bronchos at bay after a 12-6 first quarter. Cree Barber added 11 for the Bro...
MELROSE - Dora's boys basketball team was not without its chances to climb back into Thursday night's EPAC Tournament quarterfinal at Melrose High School. Those chances, though, lessened with each offensive rebound Fort Sumner grabbed, which happened repeatedly in Thursday's second half. The Coyotes gave defending 2A state champ Fort Sumner too many second-chance baskets, squelching their comeback attempts and leading to a 66-49 win for the Foxes. Fort Sumner's offensive rebou...
MELROSE - Hailey Martin had 21 points, including a pair of key layups in a 10-0 fourth-quarter run as fourth-seeded Melrose just held off former district rival Elida 44-42. Fifth-seeded Elida, down seven in the game's last 90 seconds, got a pair of turnovers and a Cambree Bargas 3-pointer to close to 43-42 with just 8.9 seconds remaining. Elida, however, didn't foul Nataley Mondragon immediately in hopes of getting a steal. A long 3-point attempt was off, sending the Tigers...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday-Thursday: Clovis • Sedric Lucero, 19, burglary of a vehicle, criminal damage to property, probation violation • Roberto Cumpian, 29, failure to pay fines, driving while license suspended or revoked • Stephanie Mathis, 45, failure to appear on a felony charge • Senovia Cortez, 23, failure to appear on a felony charge, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Johnny Aragon, 53, probation violation • Carlos Torres, 34, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, d...
The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Ronald Earl Banister, 64, and Erika Johnson, 49, both of Lubbock • Ryan Lee Walters, 19, and Hailey Renee Truitt, 19, both of Dumas, Texas • Raymond Johnny Garcia Jr., 44, and Jessica Yolanda Martinez, 44, both of Clovis • Danny Ray Arnold II, 21, and Sunshine Allyson Permenter, 19, both of Clovis • Mario Ivan Posada, 28, and Candice Teddie Draper, 24, both of Clovis • Robert Ruben Sanchez, 57, and Ramona Tso, 47, both of Clovi...
CLOVIS — Discussing past or current crimes on a jail telephone may seem like an obvious no-no, but that may not be the case for everyone. Police on Tuesday made a second arrest in as many weeks in connection with an investigation of car thefts early this month; this time, monitoring a phone call from one incarcerated car theft suspect led investigators to another. Last week Matt Whittington “was reviewing jail telephone calls from the account of Robert Archuleta,” who was arrested Jan. 3 after officers found a stolen 2007...
On this date ... 1979: Sales of athletic shoes had jumped from 18.2 million to 64 million in the past five years, "with many of these shoe wearers having no athletic background at all," the Clovis News-Journal reported via a wire service. "Reasons cited for this phenomenal growth range from being "stylish" to increased interest in sports such as tennis and jogging." In other news: • The surgeon general reported the overall death rate for cigarette smokers was 70 percent h...
