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A Clovis resident died Monday afternoon in a crash at the intersection of Curry Road 3 and Curry Road G. According to a news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller: • An investigation determined that Neyra Quinones-Cenciceros, 43, of Clovis, was traveling south on Curry Road G in a 2002 Toyota sedan. • The vehicle failed to yield at the posted intersection of Curry Road 3 and collided with a westbound 2019 Mack semi tractor-trailer, driven by Jeremy Chastain, 43, of Amarillo. • Quinones-Cinciceros died at the scene...
PORTALES - Carol Morgan is still hoping her missing son will come home. But she fears it was his remains found last week inside the trunk of a burned vehicle in Roosevelt County. "I wish he would walk through the door," she told The News on Monday of her son Kristopher Morgan, 43, who has been missing since Sept. 27. "But I know my son wouldn't just go missing." Morgan said she went to her son's house on Wednesday evening and was approached by law enforcement officers. The 9th...
WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Tyler Vargas kicked a 23-yard field goal with 3:21 to go, and the Eastern New Mexico defense got a three-and-out to help secure a Lone Star Conference road upset, 27-24 over Midwestern State Saturday night. The visiting Greyhounds (4-1, 2-1 LSC) led for much of Saturday's contest following Justin Manyweather's 70-yard punt return midway though the first quarter, but needed some heroics on defense to claim what could be considered a mild upset in conference play. The Mustangs, knocked out of the...
MELROSE — Thanks to Thursday’s torrential downpours, it was not a fit night out for man nor beast. But since the Melrose volleyball players are neither, it was an OK night. Especially after the Lady Buffaloes rallied from an early deficit to sweep Texico, 26-24, 25-20, 25-15. Trailing by five in the first set, Melrose battled back. The Lady Buffs prevailed in a close second set, then won more comfortably in the third. They improved to 11-0 by getting steadily better throughout the match. “Yeah we started slow, had to come...
HOBBS — Bob Jackson Invtiational host Hobbs didn’t get nearly the rain Clovis and Portales did over the week, but it certainly got enough to impact the course for the Thursday 5K races. The host Eagles held off a banged-up Clovis boys team for first place, 37-52, but the Wildcats did get a 1-3 finish between Jerrick Maldonado and T.J. Gregg. “We’re getting closer,” Clovis coach Mark Bussen said. “We were missing our 3 (Colton Wolf, stress fracture) and our 5 (Alejandro Chavarria, ankle). We stayed within 15 points of t...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team was recognized last week for some off-field accomplishments, as the team was the second-best academic team in Division II in the 2018-19 school year. The Greyhounds finished with a team grade point average of 3.717, second only to University of Bridgeport (3.776) in the Easton/National Fastpitch Coaches Association rankings. “Our ENMU softball program has made great strides over the past year; both academically and athletically,” Greyhound coach Kira Zeiter...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University volleyball team got a pair of firsts when it outlasted Midwestern State in a five-set thriller at Greyhound Arena Saturday afternoon. The Greyhounds, unsuccessful in their first six tries, netted their first Lone Star Conference match win, a 25-19, 25-20, 15-25, 15-25, 19-17 win over the Mustangs. The Saturday victory equaled a weekend split for the Greyhounds, combined with their Friday night 25-23, 25-17, 25-20 loss to Texas Woman’s. No further information was available from the...
PORTALES — A former Greyhound is getting set to begin his professional basketball career, as Chukuka Emili has inked a deal with RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf in Germany. Emilii, a native of New City, New York, spent just one season with the Greyhounds after transferring from Division I Houston Baptist. But the 6-foot-8, 220-pound Emili reached third on the school’s career list of blocked shots after posting a single-season record with 60. Emili made the Lone Star Conference’s all-defensive team and was a third-team all-c...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS PORTALES — Live by the late goal, die by the late goal. That just about sums up the weekend slate for the Eastern New Mexico women’s soccer team, which split a pair of Lone Star Conference contests at home. The ENMU women scored two goals in the final eight minutes of regulation Thursday to top UT Tyler 2-1, but came up on the other end of a 1-0 overtime loss to Texas A&M-Commerce Saturday. The week put the Greyhounds at 4-2-1, with a 1-2 mark in Lone Star Conference play. The Greyhounds will have som...
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...
While Lonnie Baca has served Clovis Municipal Schools for over 20 years, he only recently stepped into the position of athletic director at Clovis High, a position where he has already made an impression. Baca received the Rookie Athletic Director of the Year Award from the New Mexico Athletic Director’s Association (NMADA) on Monday. The announcement came during the New Mexico Activities Association’s fall conference. Rookie of the Year candidates must be nominated by the...
Eighth-grade Chaps now 10-3 The Yucca Middle School eighth-grade volleyball team pushed its winning streak to four matches after topping Berrendo and Sierra the previous weekend. The Chaps needed three sets for each match. Final scores against Berrendo were 25-21, 24-26, 16-14. The scores against Sierra were 25-21, 21-25, 15-12. The wins push the Chap record to 10-3. The Eastern New Mexico News accepts submissions from coaches for any junior varsity or middle school sports performance. Submit information to...
SANTA FE — Go big or go home. The Portales Rams chose the former Friday night. Big plays were abundant for visiting Portales in its nondistrict football game against Capital, scoring all five of its touchdowns on plays of 29 yards or more in fashioning a 35-26 win at Jaguar Field. In all, the Rams (5-1) had six plays of 30 yards or more, and four of them led to touchdowns. Perhaps no play had more of a lingering impact than Kellan Hightower’s 91-yard kickoff return in whi...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday - Thursday: Clovis • Matthew Villalobos, 31, possession of a controlled substance, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, possession of drug paraphernalia • Saulo Medina, 38, probation violation, battery against a household member • Bryon Daughtry, 48, possession of a controlled substance • Natanael Solis, 23, receiving or transferring a stolen motor vehicle, injuring or tampering with a motor vehicle • Gilbert Mares, 21, larceny, robbery, false imprisonm...
The following marriage licenses were recently filed at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • James Brian Herrington, 49, of Lubbock, and Nichole C. Pitcock, 42, of Clovis • Rene Vladimir Chavarria, 22, and Gabriela Rodriguez-Montano, 21, both of ackovis • Joe Zuniga Bustamante Jr. III, 40, and Carina Chavarria, 40, both of Portales • Blake Alan Bass, 23, and Valeria Spencer, 23, both of Clovis • Jonathan Rodriguez Feliciano, 34, and Yamilette Mendoza Ruiz, 26, both of Clovis • Austin J. Evinger, 26, and Caitlyn Michelle McKi...
CLOVIS - Charles Nwankwo thinks the most important part of being a community college is to be a part of the community. Nwankwo said there's much to learn about Clovis and New Mexico, but he hopes to become a part of those communities after spending time interviewing on the Clovis campus. Nwankwo is currently vice president of technology and business partnership at Chandler Gilbert Community College in Arizona. He said he has over 24 years of experience across three community...
CLOVIS - Richard Sax spoke to accessibility of higher education, development of curriculum bolstering a workforce for local economic development, bridging the "opportunity gap" and playing to the strengths specific to a community. Sax participated in a public interview Tuesday night as one of five finalist candidates to be the next president of Clovis Community College. Sax is the provost and vice-president of academic affairs the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande...
CLOVIS — As Greg South talked to Clovis citizens about his desire to be Clovis Community College's next president, the fives kept coming up. First, there were the five elements he believed any community college needed to possess - credit transferability, basic skills training, technology, lifelong learning and continuing education. "If you can't do those things," said South, interim vice president of academic affairs at Portersville College in California, "you're just a j...
CLOVIS - Robert Riza said a community college has to tell its story, and a community college president has to be known throughout the community and the state. That's because in both cases, nobody else is going to do it for them. Riza hopes he'll soon be telling the story of Clovis Community College, as he took part in a day full of interviews at the Clovis campus. Riza, currently the president at Clarendon College in Texas, has had 21 years experience in higher education admin...
CLOVIS - Although he'd prefer to do it at Clovis Community College, Michael Fitzpatrick said his basic mission in life doesn't change based on his job or location. "It's about what I leave behind," Fitzpatrick told a group of residents during his Friday forum at CCC. "I serve a God more important than me. If I can't show God in his glory, I don't need another breath in me." Fitzpatrick, the final finalist candidate interviewed for the CCC president's position, addressed 16...
At least we now know that an off-duty police officer can’t walk into someone else’s apartment, shoot him dead and then successfully claim self-defense because she mistakenly thought she was killing an intruder in her own home. Instead, a Dallas jury on Tuesday convicted Amber R. Guyger of murder. The white officer killed her 26-year-old African American neighbor, Botham Shem Jean, last year. The verdict is in some sense a relief, because had it gone the other way it would be hard to say just how poor an officer’s judgment has...
Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate. Democrats have had an impeachment itch that they’ve been desperate to scratch ever since Donald Trump took office. For them, Ukraine is equal parts a genuine outrage and an excuse, the release valve for nearly three years of fear and loathing. Rather than conducting himself a...
