Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Sorted by date Results 26 - 34 of 34
An Albuquerque truck driver died early Friday morning when his vehicle collided with a truck driven by a Melrose man on U.S. 60/84 east of Melrose. Pedro Renteria, 61, was driving a 2000 Freightliner tractor with trailer, traveling west at milepost 369, when the collision occurred. A news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller said Renteria died at the scene. A passenger in his vehicle, Juan Luis Renteria Reyes, 32, also of Albuquerque, was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital with critical injuries. The accident...
A Western Dairy Transport milk truck on Thursday collided with a train near the intersection of U.S. 70 and South Roosevelt Road 3. Several train cars were derailed, but officials said the truck driver was not seriously injured. The accident happened about 4:45 p.m. near the Ready Roast Peanut plant near Portales. New Mexico State Police Officer Robert Soule said the truck was crossing the tracks when it was hit by the train. The truck driver, who was not identified, was...
RICHARDSON, Texas — It’s a larger Lone Star Conference, but Eastern New Mexico’s volleyball team is still picked in 2019 to finish as it did in 2018 — just sneaking into the postseason tournament. The Greyhounds were slotted fifth in the LSC preseason poll, which drew 45 ballots from LSC head coaches, sports information directors and media representatives throughout Division II’s largest conference. There’s a familiar face at the top in Tarleton State, which took 39 of the 45 first-place votes after going 32-5 last year a...
PORTALES - When the Portales Rams hosted the Hope Christian Huskies in 2018, it was a clash of two title contenders in their respective classes - the Rams in 4A and the visiting Huskies in 3A. Months after the dust had settled on that 10-3 overtime win by Hope Christian, both teams were in fact right in the title hunt with the Huskies falling to Robertson in the 3A semifinals and Portales losing to eventual 4A champion Taos in the final four. The paths, however, were far different. That win by Hope was a catalyst to a...
RICHARDSON, Texas - After coming up just a win short of making the playoffs last year as a member of the Heartland Conference, Eastern New Mexico is expected to be right in the playoff fight as it rejoins the Lone Star Conference. The Greyhounds were picked fifth in the LSC men's soccer poll, released Tuesday morning by the league office. This is the first time since the 2012 season the LSC has fielded men's soccer as a sport. In July, the conference expanded to 19 schools,...
Though it seems like they just hung up the cleats last week, a new high school football season gets going again for several area teams this weekend. Among them, 2018 Six-man state finalist Elida hosts Lake Arthur in a historic Friday-night game — the Tigers’ first-ever under the lights. ’18 Eight-man state semifinalist Melrose travels to Menaul High School in Albuquerque to play Dulce on a neutral field. And Texico begins the Bob Gilbreath era with a road game at Jal. Exciting weekend. Here’s the lowdown. Lake Arthur at Elid...
CLOVIS - Clovis' girls soccer team came oh so close to extending its 2018 season. And when the Lady Wildcats lost to Eldorado, a 1-0 heartbreaker in the 99th minute of overtime play in the state 5A tournament's first round, the Clovis players who knew they would return were left wanting more. They may get it this year with one of their main goalies back, plus two of their most electric scoring threats also returning. So as Traci Sievers begins her ninth season coaching Clovis...
I spent the last couple of weeks visiting my parents. I’ve been lucky in the parent department. It’s fashionable to recall some pivotal incident that occurred when we were 8 and extrapolate how every difficulty experienced in our life since is a result. But I’ve never seen any truth to this in my own life. I was really happy when I was 8 — and I give my parents full credit. My life is different from my parents’ life. Still, they have always been supportive and have always at least pretended to be interested in whatever...
Clovis has a proud history of professional baseball teams, beginning in the 1920s, through 1957. At least nine Clovis Pioneers had a cup of coffee or more in the Major Leagues, including n Harry Bright (309 games over eight big-league seasons, 1958 to 1965) n Russ Christopher (an all-star with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1945) n Jesse Gonder (played for Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel with the New York Yankees and New York Mets) n and brothers Dizzy and Paul Dean, who...
