Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — We need more businesses in town. We need more jobs, with higher pay, and more reasons to spend our entertainment dollars at home instead of traveling to Lubbock or Amarillo. But a few folks don’t want just any new businesses — they only want family-friendly businesses. And, of course, they want to decide what family-friendly means for all of us. As best we can tell, they have decided family-friendly businesses sell guns, alcohol, cigarettes, and scratch-off lottery tickets. At least we have plenty of busin...
PORTALES - Lightning struck in the third quarter of Friday's Capital-Portales football game. But, the Rams had actually been striking all night. Returning from their bye week with a crackle, the Rams barreled over Capital 47-0 at Greyhound Stadium, and with that victory, climbed back to .500 by improving to 3-3. Just about everything clicked for Portales. The offense proved nearly impossible for Capital to stop. Defensively, four interceptions and a fumble recovery thwarted an...
HOBBS — The more than two hour journey to Hobbs past flatland and sagebrush was well worth making for the Clovis girls soccer team on Saturday, as it resulted in the Lady Wildcats' first district win of the season. Thanks to freshman striker Nevaeh Coronado's goal, the Lady 'Cats prevailed 1-0, improving to 1-0-1 in District 4-5A play. Clovis had opened its district slate on Tuesday, with a scoreless tie at Carlsbad. Saturday, Danielle Griego and Madison Lynch assisted on Coronado's goal. The Lady Wildcats (11-2-1 overall) w...
ALBUQUERQUE — For the last three weeks, the Clovis Wildcat football team had to feel like they were running a race while wearing weighted vests. And then Friday, the vests came off and it was sprinting time. The Clovis Wildcats followed up a brutal 0-3 run through Lubbock teams with a dominating performance that showed why they scheduled Monterey, Coronado and Cooper in the first place — winning 39-0 over Sandia in their District 2/5-6A opener Friday at F.M. Wilson Stadium. The Wildcats (3-4, 1-0) go right back to Wilson on...
Gattis 7th wins pair of games After a sluggish start, Gattis’ seventh-grade football team topped Portales 21-2. Scoring for the Cubs were Jett Stone on a 35-yard touchdown run. Kash Roberts had touchdowns runs of 25 and 45 yards and kicked all three extra points. The previous week, the Cubs topped Yucca 36-14. Roberts had three touchdowns and kicked four points-after. Stone scored two TDs and William Jordan recorded a safety with a sack in the end zone. Gattis is 4-1-1 heading into its playoff game against Marshall. K...
Eastern New Mexico University Softball coach Kira Zeiter will conduct an individual camp on Oct. 20. Individual camp fees are $40 per player. Anybody attending the camp can pay the day of, but are asked to RSVP to [email protected]. A waiver form for the camp is required and available on the softball news section at ENMU Athletics’ website, goeasternathletics.com. Clovis Community College will hold its seventh annual CCC Tennis Open doubles tennis tournament Oct. 19-20. There will be tournaments in men’s, women’s and m...
TEXICO — It’s not much of a head-scratcher figuring out what the ultimate goal of a defending state volleyball champion is. Win another state championship, of course. If you did scratch your head, you probably need to switch shampoos. Almost as obvious seems the answer to how best to prepare for another championship run — play other quality teams, other state champions if possible. So when Texico hosted Melrose Thursday night, the reigning Class A champion Lady Buffaloes and 2017 3A champion Lady Wolverines (now 2A) were...
COMMERCE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico resumes its volleyball season at home with a Friday-Saturday back-to-back. It can’t come soon enough for the Greyhounds, following a pair of losses over the weekend on the road — 3-0 Friday at Texas Woman’s and 3-2 Saturday against Texas A&M-Commerce. The losses were the third- and fourth-straight for Eastern New Mexico (7-12, 5-6). Friday (Texas Woman’s 25-15, 25-18, 25-18) — The Pioneers had a balanced effort on offense, with Maggie Pyles, Elizabeth Ugbaja and Courtney Noel each totaling...
The area football season marched on this weekend, with every local team in action except idle Farwell. And as usual, the results were mixed: Tucumcari 39, Texico 22 TUCUMCARI — The Wolverines switched quarterbacks at halftime, but still weren’t able to rally against Tucumcari up at Rattler Field. Ben Loewen started for Texico in the first half and went 4-for-9 passing for 54 yards, including an interception late in the second quarter that led to a Tucumcari touchdown and a 19-0 Rattlers lead. Loewen was also sacked six tim...
PORTALES - Lovington pitched a second-half shutout, and found more than enough offense in the second half Thursday for a 3-1 victory over Portales in the District 4-4A opener for both teams. Anaee Reyes scored the equalizer less than six minutes into the second half for Lovington (4-9, 1-0). Sofia Corral followed with the go-ahead tally in the 49th minute and America Hernandez added the insurance in the 63rd minute. Rebekah Christensen had the lone tally in the sixth minute...
CANYON, Texas — It probably felt like a victory Saturday, even if it did go as just one point in the Heartland Conference standings. Gabriel Peres and Gregory Franusic each scored in the final 30 minutes of regulation to eliminate a 2-0 deficit, and neither team could get the winner in overtime Saturday as Eastern New Mexico left West Texas A&M with a 2-2 tie. Coupled with Thursday’s 5-2 win over Texas-Permian Basin, the Greyhounds (5-5-2, 3-3-2) grabbed four points in the standings to move to 11 overall — besting the nine...
CLOVIS - Saturday, Clovis' boys soccer team did something it hadn't done all season. The Wildcats lost. Hobbs coming into Leon Williams Stadium presented the 'Cats with an opportunity to bag their first District 4-5A victory while beating a longtime rival. Neither happened, as Clovis fell 3-0 and dropped to 13-1-1 overall, 0-1-1 in the all-important district play. "It hurts," Clovis head coach Greg Trujillo said, "but you've got to give credit to the Hobbs team. They played...
HOBBS - To say the Clovis High boys cross country team ran away with the Hobbs Invitational might be underselling it a little. Clovis was so good from top to bottom at Thursday's race that if its top two runners were disqualified, the Wildcats still would have beaten the host Eagles by nine points for first place at the seven-team meet. Hobbs claimed the individual winner with Patrick Colburn's 15:38, but the Wildcats took five of the next seven places to finish with 25 points in a dominant victory. The Eagles were second wit...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Trenadey Scott scored twice, and Angelo State further solidified its second-place ranking in the Lone Star Conference with a 4-0 win over Eastern New Mexico Friday night. Mackenzie Broderick scored a goal and assisted on Scott’s second as the host Rambelles (6-4-1, 4-1) moved up three points to 12 in the conference standings past Texas Woman’s (8) and behind West Texas A&M (15). Scott opened matters with a 27th-minute goal, which was quickly followed by Broderick’s tally. Avery McNeme scored five minutes...
RICHARDSON, Texas — For the third consecutive week, Mercy Rotich ran away with Lone Star Conference honors. The Eastern New Mexico University senior was again named LSC female runner of the week, according to a Thursday release from the league office. Rotich was the top Division II finisher at last week’s New Mexico Junior College Invite. She placed third overall at 18:25.77. It was the second time this season and fifth time in Rotich’s career that she has finished in the top three of a meet — including her second-...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University pays yearly homage to its legendary athletes, and this year’s batch was recently inducted into the school’s Hall of Honors. Selected for the class of 2018 were: Rex Anderson, Freddy Carmona, Bob Gilbreath, Ed Kabrick and Cale Sanders. Here’s a look at each Greyhound star: Rex Anderson: Once he was a Mountaineer — as in West Virginia Mountaineer. Anderson transferred from WVU to Eastern in time for the 1962 swim season and was among the first swimmers of ENMU’s then-fledgl...
The following marriage licenses were recently filed at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Reno Ewers, 20, to Brittany Nicole Sternberg, 23, both of Amarillo • Samuel Jon Fallis, 47, to Priscilla Sue Noll, 47, both of Clovis • Jerry Allen Clewis, 60, to Athenia Kay Kilburn, 62, both of Texico • Jacob Tyler Thurman, 31, to Bailey Elizabeth Windham, 30, both of Farwell • Daniel Alvidrez-Orozco, 23, to Adbeel Arely Cisneros Hernandez, 23, both of Clovis • Abel Anthony Contreras, 25, to Karen L. Solis-Muniz, 24, both of Clovi...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday-Thursday: Clovis • Arcenio Sanchez, 60, probation violation • Samantha Lucero, 22, aggravated driving while under the influence, open container, speeding, no proof of insurance, driver license not in possession • Samone Betancourt, 23, probation violation • Polly Cordova, 43, criminal trespass • Matthew Martinez-Lopez, 24, out of state fugitive • Savannah Owen, 32, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Fabian Fabela, 28, failure to pay fines • Chancellor Miller, 20...
Though many other memories from my adolescence have been buried in favor of annoying song lyrics and clips from sitcoms and Marvel movies, I’ll never really forget the time I took the long way to New Mexico. My parents were driving me down from Montana for my freshman year of college, and my dad put together a trip that allowed for a few fun stops on the way. One was Phoenix, where I went to the sports bar owned by former NBA star Dan Majerle (mar-lee) and got his autograph. He was the first NBA player I ever saw in p...
