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CLOVIS — If you were a Clovis volleyball fan, you may have been disappointed with Tuesday’s District 4-5A quarterfinal match only if you had plans for the evening and were hoping to get out of Clovis High School’s Rock Staubus Gymnasium early. If you were a Carlsbad volleyball fan, you were just plain disappointed. The Lady Wildcats treated their home crowd to a stirring comeback victory after falling behind two sets to none, winning 26-28, 22-25, 25-6, 25-16, 15-8. Clovis wen...
TEXICO — The Texico football team came charging in and now goes charging on. The Wolverines entered state 2A tournament play on a four-game winning streak, with a District 7-2A championship to their names, plus the No. 3 seed in 2A. On the strength of all of the above, Texico went rolling into the state tournament Friday and rolled over 11th-seeded Capitan, 41-0, at Texico High School. The Wolverines, who bagged their fifth straight victory and improved to 7-4, now move on to...
PORTALES — It wasn’t exactly splitting the atom. Yet Thursday’s breakthrough might have been even bigger for the Portales volleyball team. After coming close and coming up short twice this season, the Lady Rams finally solved a fifth-set challenge against Artesia, and at the perfect time too. Thursday, hosting the Lady Bulldogs in the District 4-4A semifinal, Portales edged Artesia 3-2, with scores of 25-21, 24-26, 19-25, 25-19, 15-13. Eureka. After a pair of 3-2 regul...
By Dave Wagner SPORTS WRITER [email protected] FARWELL — Farwell figured it would have to contain Sudan’s powerful ground game in Friday’s battle for the Class 2A Division II District 2 title. What the Steers weren’t counting on was a potent passing attack from quarterback Christian Montes and the speedy Hornets. Montes threw for 267 yards and five touchdowns and Sudan took control early en route to a 55-12 victory. The Hornets will play on Friday at Stanton, probabl...
Multiple vehicles were involved in a Chaves County crash Saturday morning, but the Chaves County News Network reported none of the injuries were life-threatening. One vehicle involved carried Roswell-area residents from the Absolutely You provider agency. They were on their way to Veterans Day activities in Hobbs. Absolutely You Executive Director Konnie Kanmore said Clovis-area residents also attended the Hobbs events, but they were not involved in the accident. Kanmore said anyone needing information can message Absolutely... Full story
DURANGO, Colo. — The Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball team is off to a solid start. Sophomore post Alivia Lewis scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds on Saturday as the Greyhounds beat host Fort Lewis 69-62 in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge. Senior post Natalie DeLonge added 14 points and seven points and freshman guard Zamorye Cox chipped in 12 points as the Hounds (2-0) led wire-to-wire for the second consecutive day. The Hounds went 6-of-12 from 3-point range, with Cox and junior guard Anasha Hur...
PORTALES — Top o’ the mornin’ to Treyanna Clay. The 2018 D2CCA South Central second-team honoree and former Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball player has taken her talents to the professional level after signing a contract with Singleton Supervalu Brunell out of Cork City, Ireland. Clay dropped 13 points on 5-for-7 shooting in her pro debut and has since cracked Singleton’s starting lineup, which competes in the Super League, Ireland's most competitive division. “We as a program are extremely excited for this opportunity...
ELIDA — Certainly not the result Elida’s football team hoped for, but a successful season nonetheless. Elida came into Saturday’s state 6-man championship game as the No. 1 seed against No. 2 Springer-Maxwell, but out of it with red runners-up trophy after falling just shy 29-26 at Elida High School. Despite having hammered the Red Devils during the regular season, Elida played behind in most of Saturday’s game and was denied a state title. “People saw the scores all seaso...
PORTALES — It was another tough weekend for the Eastern New Mexico University volleyball team. The Greyhounds dropped a pair of Lone Star Conference matches, including a 25-21, 25-16, 23-25, 25-13 decision on Saturday to Texas A&M-Commerce. On Friday night, ENMU let a two-game lead slip away in a 13-25, 22-25, 25-19, 25-17, 17-15 loss to Texas-Tyler. Shelley Chapron collected 17 kills for the Lions (22-5, 11-1 LSC) in Saturday’s match, while Natalie Sarbeck posted a double-double with 19 assists and 12 digs. For ENMU (4-...
RIO RANCHO — Clovis High’s boys didn’t attain their goal of a team trophy, but the Wildcats did claim an individual champion in Saturday’s Class 5A state cross country competition. Junior Jerrick Maldonado outlasted the field in a four-way battle at Rio Rancho High School to claim the program’s first individual state championship on Saturday, finishing with a time of 16 minutes, 7.65 seconds. Meantime, senior T.J. Gregg finished fourth for the Cats in 16:19.45. Team scores wer...
CLOVIS — A Clovis woman with multiple DWI convictions will be held in jail until trial for an upcoming DWI case, according to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb. Jeana Markham, 54, appeared before Judge Matt Chandler last week on the state’s motion for pre-trial detention. Chandler granted the state’s motion for detention based on Markham’s lengthy criminal history, multiple failures to appear for court, numerous probation violations and her three pending criminal cases in different states. “The Court sta...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University regents needed just seven minutes of discussion before accepting a “just in case” donation on a proposed new presidential residence. The board, by a 5-0 vote in a Friday morning special meeting, accepted a $250,000 donation from the ENMU Foundation Board of Directors. That, along with $650,000 in capital outlay already marked for the home, gives the university a budget of up to $900,000 for construction of the residence. The regents approved the donation, with two caveats: n The $250,0...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University was approved for a governmental liquor license during Tuesday’s Portales City Council meeting. Wade Jackson, a lawyer representing ENMU, and ENMU President Jeff Elwell spoke on behalf of the university during the meeting’s public hearing. No one present spoke against allowing the license. With this change, ENMU will cease being a completely dry campus and this will be its first license to serve alcohol. The only location the license is expected to be used is in the Campus Union Build...
CLOVIS — Harking back to the days of the wild west, the Sons of the Pioneers will ride through Clovis once again Thursday as part of Clovis Community College’s Cultural Art Series. “We’re no strangers to the area. The Pioneers have played in Clovis a few times over the years,” said Sons of the Pioneers member John Fullerton. “We’re excited and it seems like folks love us every time we come to town.” The six-man group offers a tight three-part vocal performance of classic western music including their own hits like “Cool Wate...
CLOVIS — Jose Olivas didn’t always make the right choices growing up, but he made sure the people he loved did. And whatever was going on in his day, friends and family said, he’d find a way to bring cheer to yours. Olivas, who was born in Hereford but spent about the last quarter-century in Clovis, died Oct. 21 at age 36 due to smoke inhalation from a house fire nearly two weeks prior. A lover of cars and good-natured pranks, Olivas was best known to the customers at the A-Key Car Wash on Prince Street, where Wedne...
CLOVIS — For some of Clovis’ citizens, the thought of a third potential brewery on Main Street was too much to accept. To the Clovis City Commission, three feet didn’t seem like much of a reason to deny. Via a 7-1 vote, the commission approved an application for a brewer’s license for Roosevelt Brewing at the former Sutton’s Bakery building and a variance for minimum distance from a church. The vote means the commission has approved operations for four potential breweries on the 400 and 500 blocks of North Main so far in 20...
PORTALES — Due to busy court schedules, and a witness list that’s likely to tax that schedule, a trial for a Roosevelt County rancher accused of embezzlement isn’t set to begin until July. A pre-trial hearing was held Thursday morning at the Roosevelt County Courthouse in the case of Greg Smith, who faces a charge of racketeering and multiple counts of fraud, embezzlement, issuing a worthless check and attempt to evade tax in connection with his time leading the Miss New Mexico Scholarship Organization from 2015 to 2018. An i...
Today • ENMU Department of Theater and Digital Film-Making presents “Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood” — 2 p.m., University Theater Center, Portales. Directed by Patrick McCreary. General admission, $10; senior (65+), military, and veterans, $7; free admission for ENMU students with ID. Information: 575-562-2711 Monday • Veterans Day • Veterans Day Breakfast — 7-11 a.m., American Legion Post 25, 2400 W. Seventh St., Clovis. Free and open to the public. • Veterans Day Memorial Service — 10:30 a.m., Memorial Building...
The following books are available for checkout: Portales Public Library “Rebel” by Marie Lu. In this continuation of Marie Lu's bestselling Legend series, Eden Wing is tired of living in his older brother's shadow. Ten years earlier, Eden's brother Daniel was known as Day, the most wanted fugitive in the Republic of America who succeeded in starting the revolution that ended up saving the country from its corrupt leaders. Even though Eden has grown up to become a brilliant inventor and is one of the best students at his acade...
