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PORTALES - A 36-year-old Portales man on Monday was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the 2018 shooting death of Erika Zamorano. Gerardo Marquez was found guilty of second-degree murder on Sept. 27. According to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb: • On April 19, 2018, Erika Zamorano, age 32, was found dead inside her Portales residence from a single gunshot wound to the head. Family members had become concerned because she failed to pick her children up f... Full story
RIO RANCHO — The Texico Wolverines hadn’t lost a set at the Class 2A state tournament heading into Saturday’s championship against a Mescalero Apache team they’d already swept. The Melrose Buffaloes hadn’t lost a set in the Class 1A championship, and hadn’t lost a match all season. The funny thing about the state tournament is none of that matters when the title match starts. Texico had to twice fight back from one-game deficits before winning in five, while Melrose was upended by district rival Logan in a repeat of the 2018...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s football team is moving on, yet won’t have to move an inch. In their first home state tournament game since 2016, the Wildcats pulled away from defending 6A champion La Cueva Friday at Leon Williams Stadium and won 37-17, earning a berth in this coming weekend’s semifinal. And for that matchup, the second-seeded ’Cats will spend this Friday where they were this past Friday — Leon Williams Stadium — with Cleveland coming in for a 7 p.m. kickoff. They...
PORTALES — Portales’ football team knows that even with a first-round bye it takes three steps to win a state 4A championship. And the Rams took Step 1 on Saturday afternoon at Greyhound Stadium. With a punishing defense and a steady, persistent offense, the second-seeded Rams pulled away from Silver late and posted a 33-7 victory in Saturday’s quarterfinal. Silver’s nickname is the Fighting Colts, and fight they did. Well into the fourth quarter, they trailed only 20-7, h...
MELROSE — Suffice it to say, Tristan Sena had a full night in his final football game at Melrose High School. To say he was a stat-stuffer may be a bit of an understatement. Sena scored six touchdowns — in four different ways — and threw for another while intercepting two passes as Melrose captured its fifth 8-man state championship in six years with a 56-44 victory over Tatum on Friday night. The third-seeded Buffaloes (11-1), outplayed for much of the first half, turne...
RIO RANCHO — Championship Saturday saw a flurry of activity at the New Mexico State volleyball tournament, but plenty of familiar faces in the final matches. Texico and Melrose both made their way back into their respective state title games — Melrose in 1A and Texico in 2A — as a match-heavy format kept the Santa Ana Star Center busy throughout the weekend. Saturday evening title matches saw Texico facing off against Mescalero Apache and Melrose set to face Logan in a rematch of last year’s 1A championship. In prior years,...
ODESSA, Texas — Texas-Permian Basin took control late in the second set and went on to a 25-20, 25-16, 25-14 Lone Star Conference volleyball sweep over Eastern New Mexico University on Thursday. The Greyhounds (4-21, 2-15 LSC) was slated to finish out its season on Saturday night with a conference match against Western New Mexico at Silver City. ENMU led the Falcons 8-5 in the opening canto, but UTPB (19-7, 11-6) mounted an 11-1 run and were able to close it out. The Hounds opened a 15-12 lead in Game 2 before Permian Basin c...
CLOVIS — Toward the finish line they ran, promising an exciting end to the season’s biggest cross country race. Clovis’ Jerrick Maldonado and Piedra Vista’s Triston Charles were neck-and-neck in last weekend’s 5A championships. They crossed at around the same time, but who won? Maldonado was depleted, falling down, nearly passing out from dehydration. Clovis head coach Mark Bussen helped tend to his runner, helped get him re-hydrated. He knew Maldonado had done well one way or the other, but helping him with hydration...
LAMESA, Texas — The season came to an all-too-early end for the Farwell Steers on Friday night in the first round of the Texas Class 2A Division II playoffs. McCamey used an early safety and touchdown for a 10-point lead and the Badgers went on to a 30-15 victory in a bi-district round matchup. McCamey (4-7) will take on Stratford this weekend in an area round contest. “I thought we’d have a much better shot (to win),” first-year Steers coach Jhett Norman said Saturday. “We didn’t play very good on offense. Our defense kep...
PORTALES — Hope springs eternal in mid-autumn for every basketball team everywhere — pro, college or high school. For the Eastern New Mexico women’s team, there’s more than hope. The Greyhounds have legitimate reason for optimism. They were a winning team last season. They are already 3-0 this season, coming off Wednesday’s 73-62 road victory over Northern New Mexico. They have height, they have ball-handlers, they have game from the perimeter, they have experience. It could be a special team in the very early stages of a spe...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS PORTALES — Led by junior goalkeeper Ross Dalton, the Eastern New Mexico University men’s soccer team put five players on All-Lone Star Conference squads announced by the league on Thursday. ENMU finished the season 12-5-1, a school record for wins, and was 4-5-1 in conference matchups. Dalton, from Liverpool, England, was the lone first-team selection for ENMU. He also earned LSC goalkeeper of the year honors while posting a program-record 10 wins in the net, including an ENMU record-tying five shu...
PORTALES — The women’s soccer season has concluded, the volleyball season is nearly there and the baseball season still hasn’t started at Eastern New Mexico University. Still, it’s not too early to start thinking of next year, and 18 athletes have been signed to compete in the 2020-21 season for the Greyhound teams — two in baseball, six in volleyball and 10 in women’s soccer. The signings were announced by the college throughout the week. The baseball team signed pitcher Noah Rodriguez from Basha High School in Gilbert, Ar...
El PASO, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball team dropped its third and final exhibition game against Division I competition this season on Friday night, falling to Texas-El Paso 71-57. The Greyhounds, who lost in earlier exhibitions at Tennessee and New Mexico, had the lead early in this one against the Miners. But UTEP took advantage of ENMU foul trouble to wrest the lead before halftime. The Hounds cut a double-digit deficit to seven in the second half after an 11-1 run, but back-to-back 3-p...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday-Friday: Clovis • Isaiah Gabaldon, 21, possession of a controlled substance • Brandon Brophy, 35, driving while license suspended or revoked • Roy Kincaid, 28, criminal trespass • Kendra Ammons, 31, conspiracy to commit receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicles, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles • Francisco Lujan, 36, bringing contraband into jail • Jolana Griego, 54, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Larry Foerster, 64, failure t...
On this date ... 1969: Six alumni of Eastern New Mexico University had been honored at Homecoming. Those honored for bringing recognition to the university and for outstanding work in their profession were: • Norvil Howell, Clovis High band director. His bands won two national titles a year earlier and had performed at halftime of a Los Angeles Rams football game and at Disneyland. • Harry Miller, ENMU basketball coach. His team won the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship earlier in the year. • C...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8 ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 p.m. business meeting, 5:30 Thanksgiving dinner, games and silent auction 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, 6 p.m. trivia. Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 9 a.m. sew days, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 p.m. stamp viewing w/Jeff 1...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Beneath the Attic” by V.C. Andrews. Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named Corrine Dixon, is swept away by the charms of Garland Foxworth. Now the mistress of a labyrinthine estate, Corrine discovers that nothing is what is seems. Can Corrine survive this strange new life? Or is her fate already sealed? “Takes One To Know One” by Susan Isaacs. Just a few years ago, Corie Geller...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Sweet and sour chicken, steamed rice, garden salad, mini carrots and ranch, fresh fruit, veggie bar. Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Hamburger on a bun, baked french fries, veggie cup & ranch, sidekicks, veggie bar. Wednesday: Breakfast — Filled Cocoa Puff bar. Lunch — Pasta with three-cheese sauce steamed broccoli, fresh fruit, veggie bar. Thursday: Breakfast — Sausage croissant. Lunch — Pig in a serepe, garden salad and ranch, seasoned green...
