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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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ALBUQUERQUE — Five local athletes were honored Monday with seven total selections on all-state football teams. The New Mexico High School Coaches Association released all-state teams this week for Classes 3A through 6A and six-man. The association had not released the Class 2A and eight-man all-state teams at press time. Two Portales players made second-team in Class 4A, with Braydon Mignard selected at defensive end and Dylan Looney picked as an offensive lineman. A pair of Clovis players were honorable mentions on the C...
ELIDA - The Dora Lady Coyotes advanced to Saturday's championship game in Elida's Tiger Invitational, turning back Grady 56-38 in Friday's semifinal round. Dora (6-1) was slated to face the Clovis junior varsity, a 41-37 semifinal winner over Reserve, in the title tilt. Nine players scored for the Lady Coyotes, led by 15 points from senior Brynn Dillard and 12 from sophomore Faith Jasso. Dora broke the game open by outscoring the Lady Bronchos 15-4 in the third period to open...
Even though the Clovis High football season ended more than a month ago, it was quite a weekend for Wildcat alumni as one claimed a bowl game MVP award and another will head to a national title game. In Arkansas, 2016 Clovis grad Daulton Hatley earned MVP honors as Southeastern Oklahoma State University defeated Emporia State 37-34 in the Farmers Bank and Trust United Bowl. A little closer to Clovis, sophomore Malik Phillips and the New Mexico Military Institute Broncos punched their ticket to the NJCAA Division I title game...
CARLSBAD — Clovis High’s first-year wrestling programs got a look at some of the competition they’re likely to see throughout the season in Saturday’s Cavern City Invite. The Lady Wildcats, competing for the first time, were fourth in a nine-team field with 31 points, while the boys earned eighth place among 10 teams with 79 points in their second outing of the campaign. Carlsbad outlasted Hobbs 191-173 for boys team honors, while the girls title went comfortably to El Paso Hanks (132) over Carlsbad (78). Senior Michael...
A total of 11 athletes from Curry and Roosevelt counties were selected to the New Mexico High School Coaches Association all-state team, including five first-team selections. The teams for all five classifications were selected by coaches around the state. Receiving first-team honors were Portales’ Teagan Faust as a defensive specialist on the 4A squad. Four Melrose athletes received first-team nods in Class 1A — April Arenivar at defensive specialist, Graci Odom at outside hitter, Jayda Brittenum at middle blocker and Joh...
PORTALES — At Saturday morning ceremonies, Eastern New Mexico University will bestow degrees on 507 students in the Greyhound Arena on the ENMU campus. Of that number 117 will receive graduate degrees, DeLynne Bargas, ENMU’s registar said. In the spring 2020 graduation ceremony, which was held outdoors, about 400 students walked up to receive their diplomas. Saturday's ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in the arena, and doors will open at 9 a.m. for those who are attending. Students will wear caps and gowns. Und...
PORTALES — In a game of runs, Eastern New Mexico University’s men were having a hard time keeping up with scrappy Oklahoma Panhandle State. Then first-year Greyhounds coach Brent Owen made a defensive switch, and it paid off royally as ENMU stormed back late to beat the Aggies 85-72 on Monday night at Greyhound Arena. Trailing by nine points with less than nine minutes remaining, the Hounds decided to go to a matchup zone defense. It seemed to befuddle Panhandle, and put a halt to the Aggies’ free-flowing offense. The Hound...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University senior Jasmine Gannon and freshman Mikaela Garvin were accorded postseason honors in volleyball on Wednesday by the Lone Star Conference. Gannon, a senior outside hitter from Clovis who prepped at Texico H.S., earned a spot on the All-LSC second team. Meantime, Garvin, a lefty from San Antonio, was named the conference’s freshman of the year and headed up the league’s seven-player all-freshman contingent. ENMU’s season came to an end at 7-19 on Tuesday night in a 25-20,...
DALLAS — West Texas A&M’s Hannah Kelley-Lusk added more Lone Star Conference accolades to her resume Thursday, taking the conference’s player of the year and forward of the year awards. The 46 all-conference student-athletes were selected by LSC head coaches with total selections based on each team’s division finish, while individual awards were selected by division following a vote of the league’s head coaches. Regular-season champion Dallas Baptist posted nine total selections, including five first-team choices and two m...
TYLER, Texas — Most times, a tie might feel like kissing your sister. For the Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team, though, it had to feel more like a victory at the end of a tough season. ENMU wrapped up its 2021 campaign on Saturday, battling Texas-Tyler to a 1-1 Lone Star Conference standoff. It was the Greyhounds’ second tie in 15 matches — both in coming in road conference tilts — after a 2-1 start to the campaign. Outshot all day by the Patriots, ENMU (2-14-2, 0-11-2 LSC) forged in front in the 62nd minu...
PORTALES — Portales High’s volleyball team wasn’t able to accomplish what it set out to do on Saturday — finish second in District 4-4A standings. Artesia (14-9, 4-2 district) claimed that honor with a 25-23, 25-19, 25-19 victory over the Lady Rams at the Ram Athletic Center. On Sunday, PHS learned it will be the eighth seed in this week’s 12-team Class 4A state tourney. The Lady Rams are slated to host ninth-seeded Albuquerque Academy in a 6 p.m. single-elimination play-in match on Tuesday at the RAC. Tuesday’s four play-i...
ROSWELL — Portales High junior Michael Riess claimed boys individual medalist honors in Friday’s District 4-4A cross country meet at the New Mexico Military course. The Rams finished second in team standings behind Lovington while the Lady Rams were third in girls competition, trailing host Roswell Goddard and Lovington. Team scores were unavailable. Meantime in District 4-5A, hosted by Roswell High at NMMI, Clovis qualified its boys team second and its girls squad third. In both meets, the top three of four teams earned tri...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal School district went just over a year without in-person art or music. Music Education Brandon Boerio told the board Tuesday how the students returned, almost without missing a beat, back to their winning ways. A pair of music programs were honored at the board meeting for their statewide victories, with the Clovis High School band taking its ninth consecutive state championship at the Zia Marching Fiesta Oct. 23 and choir students dominating the Southeastern New Mexico Music Educator’s Ass...
LAWTON, Okla. - Senior Aminata Kenyawani was ninth individually, helping Eastern New Mexico University's women take fourth place as a team on Saturday in the Lone Star Conference cross country championships, hosted by Cameron University. Kenyawani posted a six-kilometer time of 22 minutes, 42.83 seconds for the Greyhounds, who finished with 106 points to trail Dallas Baptist (35), West Texas A&M (38) and Texas A&M International (96) in a field of 16 full teams. ENMU put all...
LUBBOCK — After capturing women’s team honors in the LCU Region Preview meet on Oct. 16, hosted by Lubbock Christian, Eastern New Mexico University’s cross country squads headed to Cameron University in Lawton, Okla. on Saturday for the Lone Star Conference championships on Saturday. At LCU, the Greyhounds had the top two and six of the top 10 finishers in the 5K women’s race, led by sophomore Dorcas Kosgei with a winning time of 19 minutes, 13.1 seconds and junior Lethabo Seems, second in 19:32.4. For the men, the top tim...
LOVINGTON — Portales High’s Michael Riess and Clovis High’s Sammy Fuentes each finished in the top five on Thursday in a pre-district cross country meet. The event, originally scheduled for Portales, was moved to Lovington in midweek due to the unavailability of the course in Portales, PHS coach Laura McNeill said. Riess ran a time of 16 minutes, 58 seconds in the five-kilometer event, trailing only Lovington’s Derrick Castellanos (16:50). Meantime, Fuentes came in fifth with a clocking of 17:44, helping the Wildcats finish...
RAGLAND - On the edge of the caprock, a father and his teenage son built a makeshift set of goalposts that doubled as a pasture gate behind the village's general store. It was here the boy, Lewis Reagan, practiced his placekicking for the Tucumcari Rattlers football team. Those practices paid off when, as a senior, he kicked a state-record 58-yard field goal - one of three that split the uprights that night - during a 22-20 upset victory on Oct. 23, 1981, over Lovington. Nearl...
Gifted students have to check their privilege and get over themselves. It doesn’t matter whether they are minorities. It doesn’t matter whether they were brought to the United States as children. It doesn’t matter how poor their families may be. It doesn’t matter if they have inspiring personal stories. It doesn’t matter how hard they work. No, the very fact that they are getting accommodated in classrooms and programs that don’t necessarily represent the demographic...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Another highlight-reel game from Justin Manyweather has netted the Eastern New Mexico senior top honors from the Lone Star Conference. Manyweather, who set school records with 16 catches and 234 receiving yards in Saturday’s 50-47 win over Western New Mexico, was named the LSC’s Offensive Player of the Week, according to a release from the conference office. The award is the first for a Greyhound player this season. The Fullerton, California native was targeted 17 times on his 16 receptions, and his two-t...
The Clovis High band is now more than halfway through its competitive season, and it has a trio of competition victories to show for it. The band's baseball-themed "Home Run" show won top honors at Saturday's Lubbock Westerner, with the outstanding band award to go with nods for best percussion and color guard as well. Clovis High Band Director Bill Allred said the band's performance was notable for how it overcame weather challenges. "It was ridiculously hot," Allred said. "T...
PORTALES — When Portales High’s girls beat Lovington in a season-opening tournament at Roswell, it came down to penalty kicks. This time, the Lady Rams made sure, although it actually still took them a while to get going. They broke open a tight contest at halftime with six second-half tallies — five by junior forward/midfielder Julissa Flores — in an 8-2 District 4-4A drubbing of the Lady Wildcats on Saturday at the PHS soccer pitch. “We talked a lot (at halftime) about we need to get as many points as possible,” PHS girls c...
After a year on the bench, the Clovis High band hit it out of the park in its first competitive performance on Saturday. The Wildcat marching band took grand champion honors, along with best large school band and best percussion section, at the High Plains Marching Festival. The event was the first competitive performance of the baseball-themed show "Home Run." Band Director Bill Allred said he was proud of the performance in any case, but especially given the band's...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Senior Aminata Kenyawani placed 89th in a field of 322 runners, leading Eastern New Mexico University’s women to an 18th-place team finish out of 37 total squads in Saturday’s Chile Pepper Festival cross country meet, hosted by the University of Arkansas. The event featured NCAA Division I and smaller four-year universities, along with junior college contingents. NCAA Division II power Colorado School of Mines came in sixth in men’s competition while the Orediggers won the women’s team title, tallying 39...
With Homecoming activities in full swing this week at Eastern New Mexico University, it’s only natural (at least, for me) to do some reminiscing about a long ago gathering of Greyhounds. I hit the newspaper archives for both the Portales News-Tribune and the Clovis News-Journal for a peek at Homecoming from a half century ago. Eastern’s 1971 Homecoming took place on Nov. 12-13, and was attended by a “near record crowd,” according to the News-Journal, although no specific numbe...
PORTALES — Four Eastern New Mexico University graduates, a Clovis bank and a group supporting ENMU music students will be honored Saturday during the ENMU Foundation Homecoming Breakfast Saturday at the Campus Union Building. The breakfast is part of this week’s homecoming festivities leading up to the 6 p.m. Saturday game against Lincoln University. Award recipients are The Bank of Clovis for Business of the Year, John W. Templer for Philanthropist of the Year, and University Friends of Music for Volunteers of the Year. For...
