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ELIDA - Grady scored three runs in the top of the eighth - the first extra inning - and held on for a 14-11 win over Elida on Monday. The second game of the scheduled twin bill was called due to darkness. Freshman Jax Piepkorn went the first seven innings for the Bronchos (2-0), allowing 14 hits but striking out 14, before sophomore Zane Rush earned a save by working the eighth. Meantime, Rush went 2-for-5 at the plate with two RBIs and two runs scored, while sophomore Xavier...
MELROSE - Melrose seniors Logan DeVaney and Johanna Roybal had one final chance to play on their home court on Saturday, and as all-stars no less. DeVaney played for the Class 1-3A boys' Red squad and scored 16 points to help his team post a 109-90 victory over the Green team. Roybal, meantime, had two points as her Green contingent notched a 78-71 win over Red. The games were sponsored by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. Both players totally enjoyed the...
On this date ... 1977: Farwell senior Kathy Booth had been named to the Class A all-state basketball team. That was the latest in a long line of high school athletic honors she had received. Booth had previously been named to the Amarillo Globe-News Panhandle Plains Super Team and to the all-district team. She also played golf and ran track for the “Steerettes,” whose nickname has since been changed to Lady Blue. Kathy Booth went on to play college basketball for the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens in Plainview. Pages Past is...
BERNALILLO - It's the same old, same old for the Melrose girls basketball team. On Friday night, the Lady Buffs reached their eighth consecutive state championship game, turning back No. 8 To'Hajiilee 50-35 at Bernalillo H.S. In Saturday morning's title clash at The Pit in Albuquerque, they were slated to face a familiar foe in District 6-1A rival Fort Sumner (20-4), which defeated another 6-1A member in Logan 37-30 in Friday's early semifinal tilt. Melrose was seeking its...
ALBUQUERQUE — Since last they met, Kirtland Central’s girls regained the services of a key player while their Portales High counterparts lost one of theirs. PHS won the first matchup 51-35 on Jan. 6 at the Ram Athletic Center as part of the Portales Shootout. This time, the top-seeded Lady Broncos pulled away with the help of a quick start in the second half, posting a 48-43 win on Thursday afternoon in a Class 4A girls state semifinal matchup at The Pit. In Friday night’s title clash, Kirtland Central (27-5) wrapped up th...
Robert Duran disarmed trouble with a grin — and the ability to use words as a shield. "He had the gift of gab," said Kyle Elliot, Duran's longtime law enforcement partner and onetime police academy classmate. "The verbal judo, being able to talk people down who were agitated or angry or violent. He always used his brain first. We would always say, 'Your biggest weapon is your brain.' " Duran's intellect, humor and heart made him a natural for public service, friends of the late Santa Fe police officer said Thursday, little m...
LAWTON, Okla. — Eastern New Mexico University’s women got off to a fast start and kept it up for much of the game, but Cameron was able to pull out a down-to-the-wire 88-85 win over the Greyhounds on Tuesday night in the opening round of the Lone Star Conference women’s basketball tournament. The victory advanced the sixth-seeded Aggies (17-10) to a quarterfinal match on Friday against third-seeded Texas A&M-Commerce (24-3) at Frisco, Texas. “It was everything you expect a Lone Star Conference game to be,” first-yea...
ALBUQUERQUE — Freshman Julia Spears earned a sixth-place finish in the 500 freestyle, keying Clovis High’s girls to a 16th-place team standing in state swimming competition on Saturday at Albuquerque Academy. Spears swam a personal-best time of five minutes, 25.11 seconds in the event to earn the only medal of the day for the Lady Wildcats, who scored in a total of six events. Host Academy ran away with team honors, scoring 308 1/2 points to 246 for runnerup Eldorado. Los Alamos was third with 238 in a 29-team field. The Lad...
ELIDA — After running off a 12-game winning streak earlier this season, Clovis Christian’s boys have been a bit up-and-down lately. Of course, the Eagles have generally been facing good competition. Saturday night was certainly one of those “up” nights for CCS. The Eagles, who lost at home to Dora by 31 points on Friday night, buried 11 3-pointers, including five in the opening period, en route to a 76-70 non-district victory over Elida. The teams meet again on Saturday at CCS in their regular-season finale. Junior Carter...
ELIDA — Senior Rylan Creighton scored with four seconds left off a full-court pass from junior Aiden Yates, giving Elida’s boys a 64-62 victory over Hagerman on Tuesday night in a battle of highly-ranked small-school teams. Hagerman (17-2), which came back with a 56-41 win at New Mexico Military on Wednesday night, is ranked second in Class 2A while the Tigers (16-3) are No. 2 in Class 1A. Creighton finished with 23 points, while Yates had 21 and senior Jose Jimenez 12 for the Tigers, who erased an eight-point halftime def...
TEXICO — Junior Jahvon Askew scored 17 points on Monday night and Texico’s boys squeezed past Melrose 43-37 in a non-district matchup. The Wolverines (11-7) carried a three-point lead into the fourth quarter and outscored the Buffaloes 14-11. Sophomore Cade Figg added 12 points on four 3-pointers for the Wolverines. High scorer for Melrose (13-5) was senior Brody McAlister with nine points. Melrose girls 36, Texico 30 — In the girls’ half of the twin bill, Melrose opened a 24-13 halftime lead and staved off Texico...
Exactly 10 years ago, the Supreme Court was presented with a case involving affirmative action. The majority rejected a policy employed by the University of Texas that allowed it to consider race as one factor in its admissions decisions. A majority of the court rejected the university’s arguments that this was a good way to achieve “diversity,” and sent the case back to the lower courts to determine if “strict scrutiny” justified the use of the policy. Justice Clarence...
ALBUQUERQUE — Saturday’s Tom Casey Memorial Invite swim meet, hosted by Albuquerque Academy, wasn’t exactly what Clovis High co-coach Gordy Westerberg had in mind. In normal meets, he said, teams may have two or three entries in a relay and four individuals per event. This meet restricted teams to one relay and two individuals per event. “My original plan was to focus on the relays and put kids in one individual race, most likely an ‘off’ race — one they normally don’t get to swim — so there went my plan out the window,...
TEXICO - Two years, a pandemic and a change of venue. But the Logan Longhorns were back like they never left. The defending champions made it two straight titles in the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference girls bracket, using a series of timely runs to outlast top-seeded Fort Sumner 42-36 Saturday night at Texico Sports Arena. Kyra Conway had 19 points to lead all scorers, including five points in a 9-0 Logan run that bridged the third and fourth quarters and gave the...
PORTALES — Once Portales High’s boys picked up the pace on defense, it helped their offense. Unfortunately for the Rams, it was just too little, too late on Saturday night. Trailing by 12 points with less than four minutes to go, the Rams rallied to pull even with Andrews in the finale of the three-day Portales Shootout at the Ram Athletic Center. But the Mustangs converted 2-of-4 free throws in the final 30 seconds, and that was just enough to hold on for a 54-52 victory after a desperation 3-pointer by PHS was off the mar...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation Alumni Committee is seeking nominations of distinguished Clovis High School alumni at its 12th annual “Purple Pride Hall of Honor Awards” through 4 p.m. Feb. 1, according to a district release. The Hall of Honors Banquet is schedule for 12:30 p.m. June 4 at the Clovis Civic Center. Nomination forms are available at clovis-schoolsfoundation.org/nominations/...
TEXICO - Logan DeVaney is probably known a bit more for his football prowess than his basketball skills. Still, as one of a handful of seniors on the Melrose boys basketball team, he has a sense of when to try to take over a game. DeVaney converted 8-of-10 free throws, missing only his first and last tries, and delivered the first 3-point basket of his high school career on Friday night as the Buffaloes turned back Texico 50-46 in the championship semifinals of the EPAC boys...
CANYON — Four Clovis High boys placed in the top eight and the Wildcats earned a 14th-place finish out of 24 teams last Thursday in the Randall Ruckus wrestling tournament, hosted by Canyon Randall H.S. Junior Semaj Satcher had the best finish for the Cats, placing fourth in the 195-pound division. Meantime, junior Michael Tree was sixth at 170, junior Joe Chavira placed seventh at 220 and freshman Berry Kaell took eighth at 120. Host Randall took team honors with 247 points to 204 1/2 for Canyon High. Clovis’ District 4-5...
LITTLEFIELD — Portales High’s boys played a dominant first half and cruised to a 65-50 victory over Tahoka on Wednesday to take fifth place in Littlefield’s 10-team Wildcat Classic. In a late consolation bracket game on Tuesday, the Rams (5-5) lost to Olton 66-51. PHS went 2-2 in the three-day event. Junior center Emmanuel Diahn scored 18 points and grabbed a team-leading seven rebounds in the finale against the Bulldogs (3-13). Portales doubled up Tahoka in each of the first two stanzas and led 38-19 at halftime. “We t...
PORTALES - When they get to the New Mexico portion of their schedule early next month, Portales High's girls should feel pretty well-tested. They faced defending Texas Class 3A champion Brownfield on Monday and played tough against the Lady Cubs, who returned all five starters. In the end, though, Brownfield posted a 46-39 win at the Ram Athletic Center. "They're good," Lady Rams coach Wade Fraze said. "We played well tonight, just not well enough (to win)." PHS won't face a...
NEW HOME — On the heels of a championship two days earlier in Texico’s Citizens Bank tournament, the Farwell girls basketball team saw a 13-game winning streak come to an end on Monday afternoon in a 56-49 loss at New Home. The Lady Leopards, ranked No. 7 in Texas Class 2A, pulled away in a tight one by outscoring the 12th-ranked Lady Blue 19-14 in the final stanza. Farwell (16-2), playing its fourth game in five days, went into halftime with a one-point lead. Sophomore Addy Burns led New Home (15-4) with 16 points, fol...
CLOVIS - Heading into Monday's quarterfinal matchup of the Plateau Holiday tournament at Rock Staubus Gym, Clovis High girls coach Jeff Reed claimed he was nervous. As it turned out, there was little to worry about. The Lady Wildcats held Taos to seven first-half points and were never threatened in a 42-21 victory over the Lady Tigers. Clovis (8-3) advanced to Tuesday's championship semifinals against Atrisco Heritage, while Taos faced Los Lunas in the consolation semifinals....
ALBUQUERQUE — Eight Texico High football players claimed a total of 10 spots on the Class 2A All-State team, released Tuesday by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. The selections included four first-team honors, two taken by Brayden Bender, four second-team selections and a pair of honorable mentions. Bender was honored on the first team at slot receiver and inside linebacker, and was joined on the team by Grant Jenkins at offensive line and Cade Collins at running back. Max Villareal garnered second-team s...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — New Mexico Military Institute’s football team reached its highest heights Friday, the rank of National Junior College Athletic Conference Division I national champion. The second-seeded Broncos led wire to wire at historic War Memorial Stadium, using a 24-0 first half to take down No. 1-ranked Iowa Western 31-13 and capture its first NJCAA title in program history. First-year Broncos head coach Kurt Taufa’asau was named National Coach of the Year while running back Anthony Grant earned Most Valuable Playe...
EUNICE - It's been a busy, but profitable, last few days for Clovis Christian boys basketball team. Playing their fourth game in five nights, the Eagles edged host Eunice 51-50 in overtime on Monday night, extending their winning streak to six games. Over the weekend, they captured the Mountain Top Invitational tournament at Cloudcroft, knocking off Cliff 55-38 in Saturday's championship tilt. Sophomore Jaden Martinez gave CCS the lead in Monday's game by hitting the second of...
