Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Friday had to be the coldest night of Clovis High’s football season yet. But the Wildcats seem to be heating up at just the right time. With a relentless offense and punishing defense, the ’Cats walloped District 2/5-6A foe Manzano 44-9 in their last regular-season game at Leon Williams Stadium. They 35-ed a district opponent just a week after 50-ing another one, Sandia. As a result, the Wildcats are 2-0 in the ever-crucial district standings. “Yeah, not bad, not bad...
CLOVIS — On a cold, windy Thursday night, it didn’t look good early on for the Clovis High girls soccer team. Down by two goals early on, though, the Lady Wildcats hung tough, finally pulling even late in the second half en route to a 2-2 Class 5A District 4 tie with Carlsbad in double overtime at Leon Williams Stadium. Junior forward-midfielder Danielle Griego got deep inside the 18-yard box to get the Lady Cats (9-4-3, 1-0-2 district) on the board late in the half. Then jun...
CANYON — As cross country meets go, Saturday’s West Texas Invite was mostly about quality and not quantity. The Clovis boys came away with the win, thanks to a 1-2 finish from Jerrick Maldonado and T.J. Gregg, while the girls finished third. Only four teams competed in each varsity race, with Randall, Palo Duro and Plainview also taking part. “The teams that were there were good and competitive and gave us a chance to race hard,” Clovis coach Mark Bussen said. “That’s what we needed.” Clovis scored 24 points in the boys comp...
DEXTER — Senior running back Wromiah Gbassagee ran for three touchdowns and backup quarterback Hagen Rains threw for three more on Friday night, helping Portales High romp to a 40-14 victory over defending Class 3A state champion Dexter. The Rams (6-1), Class 4A’s top-ranked team, built an early 20-0 lead and coasted past the Demons (5-2), whose only scores came on a fumble recovery late in the first half and on a drive against PHS reserves late in the game. “Things went really good considering we had our stating center, righ...
MELROSE — Melrose senior Tristan Sena sat out most of the first three quarters of Friday’s 8-man District 3 clash with Dora, but he certainly took over when called upon. Sena completed 8-of-8 passes for 161 yards — including seven in the final stanza when he stepped in for eighth-grader Michael Cardonita — to help the top-ranked Buffaloes pull away to a 54-32 win over the Coyotes. Until then, the Buffs (6-1, 2-1 district), coming off a 32-14 district loss at home to No. 2 Tatu...
It was a tough weekend for the Eastern New Mexico volleyball team, which dropped two matches in the Lone Star State, falling 3-1 at Lubbock Christian on Saturday afternoon after getting swept at Angelo State a day earlier. Good start Saturday LUBBOCK — The Greyhounds began well Saturday against Lubbock Christian, winning the first set 25-20 after having trailed 2-0 early and 11-10 later on. Eastern, though, responded to the latter deficit by reeling off five straight points — a set-tying kill by Julie Tucker, a tie-breaking e...
PORTALES — It was a great day for Johan Portales. It wasn’t nearly as great for the home team in Portales. After a promising start that saw them reach the top 10 in Division II polling, hard times have fallen on Eastern New Mexico’s men’s soccer team in early Lone Star Conference play. The team lost a pair of LSC home games this week, 3-2 Thursday against St. Mary’s and 1-0 Saturday against 16th-ranked Texas A&M-International on a goal by Portales. The Greyhounds host West Texas A&M 5 p.m. Thursday, with the match not count...
CLOVIS - Facing some adversity is one thing. But in Tuesday night's District 4-5A showdown with Roswell, the Clovis boys soccer team faced a lot of it. n The Wildcats were 0-2 in district play as they headed into Tuesday's game at Leon Williams Stadium. n They came in struggling offensively, having scored just one goal in their previous two district games combined. n They found themselves trailing Tuesday's contest by a goal at halftime. n A deluge with lightning forced an ext...
A visit to Texas ended up not too friendly for Eastern New Mexico, as the women’s soccer team suffered a pair of losses at Texas Woman’s and Dallas Baptist. The losses, 4-0 against Dallas Baptist Thursday and 3-1 at Texas Woman’s Saturday, knocked the Green and Silver to 4-3-1 with a 1-3 Lone Star Conference mark. The Greyhounds will return home for a pair of games this weekend, 7:30 p.m. Thursday against St. Edward’s and 1 p.m. Saturday against Angelo State. Against Dallas Baptist — Dallas Baptist, ranked No. 13 in Divisi...
FORT HAYS, Kans. — Thanks to a 10th-place finish from Evaline Cheptoo, and four Greyhounds finishing in the top 30, Eastern New Mexico’s women’s cross country team managed a fourth-place finish Saturday at the Fort Hays State Open. Cheptoo finished the race in 18:35.2, helping the Greyhounds score 110 team points to finish just behind the host Tigers (107). Southwest Baptist got a 1-2-3 finished headlined by sophomore Elysia Burgos’ 17:23.4, and edged Colorado School of Mines 40-43. Other Greyhound women’s runners on the da...
MELROSE — Top-ranked Melrose remained unbeaten on Thursday night, posting a 25-15, 25-12, 25-11 District 1-6A volleyball win over Fort Sumner. Senior Nataley Montragon led a balanced attack for the Lady Buffs (13-0, 4-0 district). It was the sixth consecutive sweep for Melrose, which has lost just three sets all season. Senior Deajha Downey added 10 kills, while senior Brette DeVaney chipped in nine kills and added 18 digs. Also, junior Hailey Martin collected seven kills and six blocks and nine digs, while sophomore J...
CLOVIS — Mac Rowley’s time on Earth might be measured in his thousands of photographs, or in the thousands of lives he touched — patients, students and a large, close-knit family of professionals. Dr. Milton Rowley specialized in plastic surgery, which he practiced over 40 years in Lubbock, the nearest place for his career to his hometown of Clovis. Much of the rest of the family stayed on the New Mexico side of the border, but they convened in Clovis often for holidays. Mac would usually be the one to take the group photo...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Whiskers in the Dark” by Rita Mae Brown: Mary Minor “Harry” Harristeen joins groundskeeping efforts at the National Beagle Club at Aldie as the date for its springtime Hounds for Heroes veterans' benefit approaches. Things take a sinister turn when a foreign services officer is found dead. Soon, another murder convinces Harry that the killer is familiar with the Club. The intrigue extends to the grounds of Harry's local church, where the identity of an eighteenth...
Today • Clovis Lions Club Gun & Knife Show — 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. $5 general admission; $4 active duty military and spouse; children under 12 free with an adult. Information: Joe Whitehurst 575-760-1379 • Spaghetti dinner fundraiser — 1 p.m., Living Word Church of God, 2101 E. 21st St., Clovis. $7 per plate. Fundraiser to send youth to International Youth Conference in 2020. Information: Pastor Dave at 575-693-1037 Monday • Indigenous Peoples’ Day • Celebrate Recovery Pumpkin Patch...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Sunday: 2 p.m. gospel singing Monday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8 ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 p.m. business meeting, 5:30 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. social games Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8 a.m. quilting, 11 a.m. line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 1 p.m. dollar store (Halloween crafts), 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m....
Clovis elementary Monday: No school Tuesday: No school Wednesday: Breakfast, orange muffin top, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, gravy, seasoned green beans, chilled fruit, veggie bar, milk Thursday: Breakfast, breakfast burrito, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, chili cheese fries, fresh broccoli, ranch dressing, fresh fruit, cookie, milk Friday: Breakfast, apple fruit pocket, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, pepperoni pizza, garden salad & ranch, chilled applesauce, fresh fruit, veggie bar, milk Clovis...
Information on cutaway applique, manifesting techniques and collaging walls will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Cutaway applique is a technique that makes it easier to stitch shapes that are narrow, are very small, have multiple points or would be hard to handle if cut out in the normal way. Designer, author and teacher, Becky Goldsmith will demonstrate how to do this technique. Her business is Piece O...
Some days I feel like I want to get off the artificial intelligence train at the next stop. Problem is the train’s AI components probably wouldn’t recognize what I was saying if I said “next stop.” A lot of folks have been hating on the self-checkout stands because they take jobs away from people. I don’t think that has happened. Now they have a guy standing at the entrance doing nothing but tagging return items. They have another guy at the exit waiting to check the items in...
