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PORTALES — School officials in Portales on Monday notified parents of an “unsubstantiated threat to the high school through social media,” according to Superintendent Johnnie Cain. Classes were held as normal, but additional security was provided at the high school and junior high school, Cain said. Cain said classes were “going well” late Monday and there was “nothing to make us or police believe (the threat) is credible.” The exact nature of the threat was not released. According to the news release: • Portales police...
PORTALES — Five was a lucky number for the Portales football team Friday night. The Rams scored five touchdowns followed by five extra points, and made it five straight district titles by defeating Lovington 35-13 at Greyhound Stadium. Portales improved to 9-1 overall, 3-0 district, while crowning itself the District 3/4-4A champion. “Great team effort,” Rams head coach Jaime Ramirez said. “Our boys stepped up the way they have all year long.” “It’s really great,” Porta...
ALBUQUERQUE — A football team is trying to win its first district championship in four years. The team is at the 10-yard line and calls timeout with 14 seconds left, and takes a shot at the end zone rather than trying a field goal. The pass hangs in the air, seeming to some like it’s in slow-motion. A star receiver playing his last-ever regular-season high school game fakes his way open in the end zone and reels in the touchdown catch as he’s falling down, putting his team ahead with under 10 seconds to go. And, the player wh...
LAS CRUCES — Anyone who followed Clovis girls soccer this past season would likely have been disappointed but not surprised with Friday’s outcome of the Lady Wildcats’ first-round state 5A playoff game against Centennial. The Lady ’Cats suffered overtime tie after overtime tie, one-goal overtime loss after one-goal overtime loss, all fall. Friday, while seeded 11th in the state tournament, the ’Cats endured a 1-0 regulation loss to Centennial at Las Cruces’ Field of Dreams. A one-goal loss to end a season chock full of tig...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University and Oklahoma Christian played pretty much to form with a scoreless first half in Thursday’s Lone Star Conference women’s soccer match at Greyhound Stadium. What happened after the intermission could best be described as unexpected. The teams entered the fray with a combined 23 goals through 27 matches, but ENMU set a record for most goals in a half against an NCAA Division II opponent and tied the school mark for a match against a D-I...
PORTALES - A two-goal lead midway through the second half of a college soccer match should normally be pretty safe. It wasn't on Thursday night for Eastern New Mexico University's men. An own goal, followed by a penalty kick, set the stage for Oklahoma Christian to shock the Greyhounds late 3-2 in Lone Star Conference play at frigid Greyhound Stadium. OCU's Carlos Trapero got what proved to be the game-winner, blasting a shot to the right corner of the net from relatively...
RICHARDSON, Texas — It’s a good sign Eastern New Mexico University’s women’s basketball team picked up a first-place vote in the Lone Star Conference preseason poll. But it might be just as much a surprise, given the challenges that await the Greyhounds this season. The Green and Silver were slotted for sixth in the 18-team field, according to a poll of 54 coaches, sports information directors and media representatives released Wednesday by the LSC. Defending national champion Lubbock Christian took 33 of the first-p...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball team played the first of two preseason exhibition games against Division I foes on Wednesday night, dropping a 107-59 decision to Southeastern Conference member Tennessee. ENMU, which faces New Mexico in Albuquerque on Wednesday before opening the 2019-20 regular season three nights later against New Mexico Highlands in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge at Durango, Colo., led 11-10 at the first media timeout before the Volunteers, a Sweet 16 team last yea...
MELROSE — The Melrose volleyball team has completed Phase 1. And what a phase it was. Tuesday night at Melrose High School, the Lady Buffaloes rallied to beat Grady 3-1, bouncing back from losing the first set before not allowing the Lady Bronchos to reach 20 in any ensuing set to win 23-25, 25-12, 25-18, 25-14. With that victory, the Lady Buffs concluded their regular season at 18-0, and won the regular-season District 6-1A championship with an 8-0 record against that competition. “Yeah, we had a great regular sea...
MELROSE — Suffice it to say, the Melrose Buffaloes were ready for the start of the 8-man state playoffs. To say they made short work of the youthful, undermanned Magdalena Steers on Friday night would be an understatement. Melrose scored four first-quarter touchdowns, added two more in the first minute of the second stanza and cruised to a 60-8 quarterfinal victory that ended at halftime on the 50-point mercy rule. The game started at 6 p.m. and was over by 7:10 p.m. Senior Tr...
KINGSVILLE, Texas — Behind a strong Saturday from Jasmine Gannon, the Eastern New Mexico volleyball team stopped its slide at six. Gannon had 20 kills and 13 digs, and the visiting Greyhounds recovered from blowing a 2-0 lead to edge Texas A&M-Kingsville 25-23, 25-19, 24-26, 18-25, 15-13 Saturday afternoon. The win gave the Greyhounds (4-18, 2-12 LSC) a split for the weekend, following a 3-1 loss Friday at Texas A&M-International. Sarah Tuioti-Mariner had 16 kills and 12 digs Saturday, while sister setters Rae and Qitana Sapi...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS ELIDA — For years, Elida didn’t have enough boys to field sports teams. How times have changed. Next Saturday, the Tigers will be trying to claim what coach Jereme Woodruff said would be the school’s first boys state championship in any sport. Elida rolled to a 35-0 halftime lead on Friday and dispatched Hondo 61-14 in the 6-man state semifinals. The top-seeded Tigers (9-0) will host second-seeded Springer-Maxwell (8-1) in a 1 p.m. Saturday title game. The Red Devils defeated defending champion Anima...
The state cross country championships will feature plenty of local runners, and a few debuts for the Portales Rams. Both Clovis teams, and three Portales individuals made their way to the state cross country meet this weekend with qualifying finishes in their district races. Clovis finished second to Hobbs in both the boys and girls races Friday at the 4-5A district meet in Carlsbad. The Eagle boys topped the Wildcats 33-38, and won despite Clovis’ 1-2 finish with Jerrick Maldonado and T.J. Gregg. “I think we ran fairly well,...
PORTALES — Roosevelt General Hospital is moving forward with the construction of its new emergency department and has awarded the contract for the architectural and engineering portion of the project to FBT Architects. Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green announced the hospital would be working with FBT for the project during RGH’s monthly meeting Tuesday night. Green said representatives from FBT would be on site Friday to begin the design process. The hospital is expecting four proposals from construction management firms for...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission will consider a pair of ordinances on tracking various tall structures in the county and regulating the movement of manufactured homes. Public hearings for each ordinance will come during the 9 a.m. Tuesday meeting at the county’s administrative complex. Oridnance 2019-05 calls for the county to track any and all commercial wireless telecommunication faciilities, wind towers, wind generators, cell towers and other similar facilities built or constructed in the county. The ordinance wou...
PORTALES — There will be a public hearing and action Tuesday on whether or not Eastern New Mexico University will receive a governmental liquor license for its ENMU Campus Union Building during the Portales City Council Meeting. The hearing is the first item on the agenda for the 6:30 p.m. meeting at the Memorial Building. The ENMU application was granted preliminary approval by the state licensing department in September and if fully approved the ENMU would no longer be a dry campus. University officials have said that t...
The Roosevelt County Board of Commissioners will receive an update on the Sagamore Wind Project during its regularly scheduled meeting this Tuesday. Following the update, the board will consider a request for a transportation, road use and road maintenance agreement with Sagamore Wind Energy, LLC. Members of the Sagamore Wind Team will be in attendance. The $900 million Sagamore construction project will be ongoing over the next year and should finish by the end of 2020. When finished the 100,000 acre 240 turbine wind farm wi...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “The Birthday Girl” by Melissa De La Cruz: Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer-park teen about to turn sixteen. But a night of birthday celebration doesn't go exactly as planned and it descends into a night she'll never be able to forget. Now, on the cusp of her fortieth birthday, it appears Ellie has everything she ever wanted. Hiding those skeletons has a cost, and it all comes to a head the night of her fabulou...
