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BASEBALL Prep linescores Thursday District 4-5A First game Carlsbad 15, Clovis 1 Carlsbad 300 66 —15 9 0 Clovis 100 00 — 1 3 5 Nolan Perry, Grant Harvill (5) and Ty Molina; Will Jordan, Jayden Jameson (4) and Josiahs Jimenez. W — Perry. L — Jordan. Top hitters — Carlsbad: Aden Quintilla 1-4, 3B, RBI, 2 runs; Perry 3-4, 2B, 3-run HR, 4 RBIs, 2 runs; Molina 1-2, 2-run 2B, 2 runs, BB; Lenny Marquez 2-3, RBI, 2 runs. Clovis: Joseph Albert 1-2; Jimenez 1-2, RBI; Quinn Culiver 1-2. Records — Carlsbad 1-3, 1-0), Clovis 5-10 (0-1). S...
PECOS — Texico’s baseball team returned to the .500 mark for the season on Thursday, rolling past Pecos 19-1 and 18-5 in a District 6-2A twin bill. Leading 4-1 after the first inning in the opener, the Wolverines (7-7, 2-1 district) batted around twice in a 15-run third. Both games ended in five innings on the 10-run rule. Sophomore Tristan Lucero went 3-for-3 in Game 1 with a single, a double, a triple and a walk, scoring twice and driving in one. Sophomore Daltyn Cain went 2-for-3 and junior Tristan Chavez finished 2-f...
CLOVIS - It was a long night for the Clovis High baseball team on Thursday. Carlsbad jumped on the Wildcats early in both games and never let up in posting 15-1 and 14-3 triumphs over Clovis in the District 4-5A openers for both teams. The Cavemen (16-3 overall) scored three in the first inning in Game 1, then added back-to-back six-run frames in the fourth and fifth. They then led 10-0 in the second inning of the nightcap. Both games were shortened to five innings on the 10-r...
PORTALES — Angelo State wasted no time making short work of Eastern New Mexico University on Thursday night. The Rams, ranked 12th in NCAA Division II, put seven runs on the board in the top of the first — all after two were out — and added three more frames of at least four runs in routing ENMU 25-4 in the opener of a four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series at Greyhound Field. Freshman catcher Tripp Clark’s three-run triple keyed the first-inning eruption for the Rams (29-10, 27-10 LSC). They made the night easy for j...
CLOVIS - Michael Riess was looking forward to his matchup in the boys 1,600 against Rio Rancho's Dawson Gunn in Thursday's Wildcat Relays at Leon Williams Stadium. He didn't beat Gunn, the top miler in the state this season, but he was well-pleased with his performance. Riess, who broke the PHS record in the event at 4 minutes, 35.36 seconds in Monday's Marilyn Sepulveda Meet of Champions in Albuquerque, was disappointed he didn't see Gunn in that meet. On Thursday, though,...
LOVINGTON — Junior Jolei Adkins shot 39-41 — 80 on Thursday, helping Clovis High’s girls to a second-place team finish in the Lovington Invitational golf tournament. Adkins tied for medalist honors with Lovington’s Aubrey Williams, but lost to her on the first hole of a playoff. “Everybody was watching,” Lady Cats coach Joe Dvozenja said of the playoff. “It was sad for Jolei (to lose), but it was good experience for her.” Only three full teams competed for the girls. Lovington was first at 343, while the Lady Wildcats finishe...
ARTESIA — Artesia pulled away over the final three innings for a 12-2 District 4-4A baseball victory over Portales on Thursday night. The Bulldogs (9-9, 1-0 district) scored the game’s first run in the bottom of the third, then went up 5-1 with a four-run fourth. Artesia ended the game on the 10-run rule with four runs in the bottom of the sixth. The teams were slated to face off again on Friday night in a district twin bill at Ram Field. Artesia chased Rams starter Miguel Gomez in the fifth inning. The Bulldogs pounded out...
Bosque School students came face to face with living history Monday — namely one of New Mexico’s last remaining Holocaust survivors — who came to teach them about the different sides of humanity. Around 40 juniors gathered in a visual and performing arts hall to listen to the story of Andy Holten, a docent for the New Mexico Holocaust Museum who between 1943 and 1944 lost the vast majority of his family to the genocide that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews. “I’m incredibly glad to have had this opportunity, since we...
The top priority for our state’s leaders, not just this year but for the next several years, must be to diversify our economy and break free from our complete dependence on oil and gas revenue. It was with that goal in mind that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called legislators back into a special session last year after the regular session had failed to produce legislation legalizing the sale and production of marijuana. The state’s nascent cannabis industry took its first steps April 1 as doors opened to customers for the fir...
This month, Texas gave us a glimpse of the future. It was not pretty. It seems that on April 7, a 26-year-old woman was arrested and charged with murder. Specifically, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Department in tiny Starr County on the Mexican border, Lizelle Herrera “intentionally and knowingly” caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” Thankfully, her ordeal was not long-lived. On April 11, the district attorney asked a judge to dismiss t...
A few years ago, someone started a campaign to make Elsa the first lesbian Disney princess. It didn’t get much traction at the time, just like the idea that Ernie and Bert were shacking up as domestic partners on “Sesame Street.” Fast forward to 2022. Now, we have Disney executives caught in flagrante, as they describe their master plan to force adult sexual obsessions on toddlers. Christopher Rufo, who almost single-handedly alerted the country to the dangers of Criti...
Russia has found just the man to lead its ongoing assault on Ukraine, Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov. The top-level general takes over a war that had no single overall commander and as the Russian military has suffered embarrassing setbacks, retreating from its planned siege of Kyiv. Dvornikov has led the Russian forces in the south and east of Ukraine, which Moscow will now make its main objective, and perfectly encapsulates the remorseless and long-running brutality of the Russian military. He became known as the Butcher of...
It’s something when your work rises to the level of a bumper sticker. In Rio Arriba County and the Española Valley, the “Shut Your Trapp” decals refer to the family that founded the scrappy Rio Grande SUN in 1956. Owners and publishers Robert E. and then Robert B. Trapp have not only stressed watchdog journalism, but successfully sued or settled open meetings or records lawsuits against just about every governmental agency in Rio Arriba County, making their SUN one of the most aggressive newspapers in the state. And it’s b...
From The Associated Press, by John Daniszewski: “While there can be no credible polling in a country now effectively under martial law, the number of Russians informed and courageous enough to protest against the war in Ukraine so far has numbered in the thousands, not the hundreds of thousands.” After reading this, the notion occurred to me that the number of Americans informed and courageous enough to protest the war in Ukraine so far has numbered not in the thousands, but...
On this date ... 1972: Officials were cleaning up after a fire on the third floor of Clovis Memorial Hospital. The fire broke out about 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, April 16, producing a large amount of smoke but no injuries and no structural damage, the Clovis News-Journal reported. “The fire was localized in a room in the southeast corner of the third floor and was confined mostly to the Naugahyde covering on three chairs, which were considered a total loss,” the newspaper reported. Fire Chief Joe Maddox said a burning cig...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Vicente Torres-Gurrola, 19, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, failure to pay fines, driving while license suspended or revoked, speeding, trafficking controlled substances, receiving stolen property, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, unlawful carrying of a handgun by a person under age 19, concealing identity, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, no drivers license, failure to give immediate notice of accidents, leaving...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s reelection campaign is refusing to divulge details of a $72,556 payment to an Albuquerque-based law firm believed to have represented the governor in a sexual harassment case. The Oct. 6 payment to Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward PA for unspecified “legal expenses” appeared in the governor’s most recent campaign finance report. “The campaign retained the firm to represent and advise it on legal issues,” campaign spokeswoman Kendall Witmer wrote in an email Wednesday after ignor...
PORTALES – Summer classes for Portales secondary students are scheduled for June, while elementary students will have summer school in July, according to Superintendent Johnnie Cain. Secondary students, grades 7 to 12, who need or desire summer classes will begin summer classes on June 6. Those classes will run four days a week through June 30, Cain said. Summer classes for elementary students will begin July 11 and run for four weeks. Summer classes are mostly for “catching up” for secondary and elementary students, Cain...
David Fredericks has accepted the position of principal at Clovis High School and Carrie Nigreville is to be Clovis Municipal Schools’ new deputy superintendent of academic services and leadership. According to a news release from CMS, before coming to Clovis Schools, Fredericks taught Math, Geometry, AP Statistics, Trigonometry, and Algebra at Goddard and Roswell High Schools. During his tenure with Roswell Schools, Fredericks also coached football, track and field, wrestling, taught Physical Education and served as the a...
Clovis and Portales school choirs won big Saturday at the New Mexico Athletic Association’s state choir contest in Rio Rancho. Portales High School’s choir earned top honor in winning the Class 4-A State Choir Championship. According to a Clovis Municipal Schools news release the Clovis High School chamber choir came in second in the 5-A competition earning a silver award in the “mixed choir” category, with a score of 94.3. This is the third time the chamber choir has placed in the top three and marks the highest finish...
Curry, Roosevelt and Quay county residents and companies gave $485,000 to the United Way of Eastern New Mexico and received thanks at the charity’s annual banquet Thursday. Over 160 people came to the Hawai’ian themed luau event at the Clovis civic center. The UWENM’s top ten workplace campaigns in Curry County were at Plains Regional Medical Center, Xcel Energy, Clovis Municipal Schools, The Citizen’s Bank of Clovis, Plateau, Cummins Natural Gas Engines, Albertson’s, The Bank of Clovis, BNSF Corporation and the City of C...
CLOVIS — An increase in bookings at the Curry County Adult Detention Center may have more to do with probation violations than drug busts. CCADC Administrator Mark Gallegos reported to Curry County commissioners Tuesday at their regular monthly session that bookings at the jail are up from the previous month. Gallegos reported 135 inmates for February and 177 for March. In an interview with The News, Gallegos was asked for his “gut instinct” as to why there was a jump in bookings from February to March. “For one thing Februar...
A Clovis man accused in a March 23 homicide is scheduled to go to trial in February. A Curry County grand jury this month indicted Adrian Chavez on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated burglary and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of Kelsey Cash, 28. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, court records show. Cash, a single mother, died in her apartment in downtown Clovis from multiple gunshot wounds, records show. Cash’s daughter was not in the apartment at the time of the incident. An i...
Even though no burn ban has been enacted for Curry County there are still consequences for those responsible for starting fires that get out of control – fines up to $300, plus possible civil financial responsibilities. So says David Kube, Curry County's fire and safety director. Kube appeared at Tuesday's Curry County Commission meeting requesting a burn ban be enacted in the county. His request was voted down, 3-2. Commissioner Robert Thornton, who voted "no," said, "I d...
A grass fire Wednesday afternoon north of Portales was put out in relatively short time due to a coordinated effort by area fire departments. Portales fire chief T. J. Cathey wrote in a news release the blaze began just after 4:00 p.m. near the intersection of Roosevelt Road 3 and State Rout 467. Personnel from the Portales Fire Department were joined by employees from the Roosevelt County Road Department along with personnel from the Floyd, Dora, Arch and County Line volunteer fire departments. Cathey reports the blaze was...
