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BERNALILLO – The Melrose girls basketball team looked as if it was in trouble during the first half Friday, but it wore down To'hajiilee, outscoring the Lady Warriors by 20 points in the second half en route to a 50-35 victory. That moves Melrose into the Class A girls championship against Fort Sumner/House Saturday morning. Game time is 10 a.m. Also Saturday, Elida's boys play Magdalena at 6 p.m. for the Class A title. Elida beat Mesilla Valley Christian, 86-69, in the semifi...
CANYON — Clovis High junior R.J. Nora got his track season off to a good start in the Canyon Invitational over the weekend. The Wildcats finished ninth in the 10-team Class 5A-6A field, scoring 30 points. Nora accounted for 24 of them with second-place showings in the 110 hurdles (15.69 seconds), triple jump (43 feet, 11 1/2 inches) and long jump (21-5). Other points for the Cats came in the 3,200 relay, fifth in 9 minutes, 10.94 seconds with freshman Sammy Fuentes, senior Jase Nordgren, junior Gavin McKelvain and freshman E...
PORTALES - At the end of a wild weekend, Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team came out of it with a Lone Star Conference series win. The Greyhounds capped the four-game set, featuring 90 combined runs and two extra-inning tilts, by holding on late for an 11-9 victory over Texas-Permian Basin on Sunday at Greyhound Field. ENMU (5-11, 4-10 LSC) took three games from the Falcons (4-17, 3-17), outscoring them 40-36 and outhitting them 49-41, with six triples and 18...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's softball team opened its home and Lone Star Conference schedules over the weekend by welcoming a pair of nationally ranked-teams to Greyhound Softball Field, including No. 1 Texas-Tyler on Sunday. Suffice it to say, the Greyhounds gave a reasonably good account of themselves. They earned a split with No. 23 Texas A&M-Commerce on Friday, winning 8-5 and losing 9-1, before dropping 6-3 and 11-0 decisions to Tyler. ENMU (8-12 overall) fe...
HOBBS — Clovis High’s baseball team wasn’t able to salvage one on Saturday in a six-team tournament hosted by Hobbs H.S. Teams from the southern part of New Mexico faced squads from the north, and the northern contingents got the better of the Wildcats in the three-game slate. After losing to Los Lunas 8-1 on Thursday, Clovis absorbed a 14-0 setback to Rio Rancho Cleveland on Friday. Then on Saturday, a seventh-inning rally fell short and the Cats (1-3) lost to Belen 7-5. “After a tough one yesterday, the kids came out and...
LAS CRUCES — Clovis High’s girls were positioned to sneak out of town with a Class 5A round-of-16 victory on Friday night. The Lady Wildcats just weren’t able to close the deal. Leading by two points about midway through the final stanza, the Lady Cats saw Las Cruces High pull away down the stretch to claim a 50-41 victory. The fifth-seeded Lady Bulldawgs (22-7) advanced to a Tuesday night quarterfinal match at fourth-seeded Farmington while Clovis, the No. 12 seed in the 16-team field, saw its campaign end at 18-11. “I th...
BASKETBALL State tournaments (Seeds in parentheses) NOTE: First-round and quarterfinal games at sites of higher seeds. Boys CLASS 5A Saturday’s first round (1) Las Cruces High 84, (16) Albuquerque High 34 (9) Sandia 49, (8) Santa Fe High 46 (5) Atrisco Heritage 62, (12) Eldorado 58 (4) Hobbs 80, (13) Farmington 66 (3) La Cueva 67, (14) West Mesa 34 (6) Los Lunas 59, (11) Rio Rancho Cleveland 53 (10) Carlsbad 49, (7) Rio Rancho 47 (2) Volcano Vista 74, (15) Organ Mountain 41 Wednesday’s quarterfinals Sandia at Las Cruces Hig...
CARLSBAD — The Clovis High girls track team opened its season in Thursday’s Ralph Bowyer Invitational, as did the Portales boys and girls. No team scores were available on the girls’ side at press time on Friday. Meantime, the Rams finished with 20 team points. CHS girls coach Darrel Ray surmised that his squad finished “third or fourth” in the meet. “We’re a couple of clicks behind everybody,” Ray said. “We haven’t had great weather so far and we haven’t done a good job of conditioning yet.” Highlighting the Lady C...
HOBBS - Clovis High's baseball team dropped an 8-1 decision to Los Lunas on Thursday in the opener of a four-team, round-robin tournament hosted by Hobbs. The Wildcats (1-1) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when junior Joseph Albert singled and eventually scored on a single by junior Jasiahs Jimenez. But it was all Tigers after that. "They're very athletic," CHS coach Richard Cruce said of Los Lunas. "They have a lot of kids who played on their state (Class 5A)...
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...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's women had already clinched a spot in this week's Lone Star Conference tournament prior to Saturday's matchup against rival Western New Mexico at Greyhound Arena. Still, the Greyhounds wanted to make sure they were the 11th seed, and didn't drop to 12th in the 12-team event. They did so with a blistering start en route to a 66-43 thumping of the Mustangs. Then the news, in theory, got better. Their first-round opponent was slated to...
CLOVIS - Clovis Christian knew it would be tough trying to beat District 6-1A rival Fort Sumner for a third time this season in Saturday's district tournament finals. The Foxes wasted little time taking charge, and made sure there wouldn't be any comeback. Sophomore Seth Saiz scored 28 points and junior Clay Norman added 18 on six of the team's nine 3-point baskets as Fort Sumner cruised to a 67-48 victory at the CCS gym. Because it won the regular-season title, CCS (19-8)...
LITTLEFIELD — The season came to an end on Friday night for the Farwell Steers, who dropped a 61-55 decision to Gruver in a Texas Class 2A boys area round matchup. The Greyhounds (25-7) built a 17-point lead through three quarters before Farwell rallied late to make it close. Six-foot-3 senior Colton Millsap scored 19 points and 6-5 junior Jefferson Weaver added 18 for Gruver. High scorer for the Steers (24-8) was senior Leo Nunez with 20 points. In New Mexico area girls district championship games on Friday night: Melrose 3...
PORTALES — After a year’s hiatus for the program, Eastern New Mexico University athletic director Paul Weir on Monday announced the hiring of Brandon Misuraca as the new men’s soccer coach when the Greyhounds resume play this fall. Misuraca spent the past three seasons as the first coach of the Oklahoma Panhandle State program, leading the Aggies to an overall mark of 23-17-9. Before that he was an assistant coach at University of the Cumberlands in Florence, Ky. and the University of Houston-Victoria, both NAIA Divis...
PORTALES - Portales High's girls were looking at a top-four seed for the upcoming Class 4A state tournament. With a 58-45 win over Roswell Goddard in Friday's District 4-4A tournament championship game at the Ram Athletic Center, the Lady Rams sealed a No. 4 seed in the 16- team Class 4A state tournament, meaning they could have two home games before possibly traveling to The Pit in Albuquerque for the semifinals on March 10. Senior post Kylyie Paden and senior guard Taris...
LOVINGTON — Clovis High’s tennis teams managed a 10-10 overall split over the weekend in a five-team tournament hosted by Lovington. Playing two singles and two doubles matches against each foe, the Wildcats defeated Portales 4-0, lost to Hobbs 4-0 and went 2-2 against Lovington, Roswell Goddard and Artesia. The Lady Wildcats were 3-1 against Goddard and Portales, 2-2 against Lovington and 1-3 against Artesia and Hobbs. Ayia Al Saleh went 2-0 for the Lady Cats in singles and teamed with Niliyaah Hall to win both of their dou...
LUBBOCK — Senior Malethabo Seema took first place in the women’s 800 on Saturday’s final day of competition in the Lone Star Conference indoor track meet, hosted by Lubbock Christian, to help ENMU’s women to a sixth-place team finish with 37 points. Meantime, the ENMU men were ninth in team standings with seven points. Seema, who ran a time of 2 minutes, 16.12 seconds, won the LSC outdoor championship in the event last spring and placed third in the indoor version in 2020 before COVID-19 wiped out the spring campaig...
ALBUQUERQUE — First-round pairings were announced on Sunday for 16-team state tournaments by the New Mexico Activities Association. Nine area teams — four girls, five boys — were selected for round-of-16 games, which are slated for Friday (girls) and Saturday (boys) on the home courts of the higher seeds. First-round and quarterfinal games (next Tuesday for girls, Wednesday for boys) will also be played on the home courts of the higher seeds. In girls contests on Friday, 12th-seeded Clovis High (18-10) travels to No. 5 Las C...
BASKETBALL Prep District tournaments (Seeds in parentheses) Boys District 4-5A Tuesday (3) Clovis 57, (4) Roswell High 52 Thursday (2) Carlsbad 51, Clovis 41 Saturday Championship (1) Hobbs 69, Carlsbad 49 District 4-4A Monday Playoff for top seed At Hagerman Artesia 76, Roswell Goddard 73 Tuesday (3) Lovington 63, (4) Portales 51 Thursday Lovington 46, (2) Roswell Goddard 43 Friday Championship (1) Artesia 63, Lovington 38 District 6-2A Tuesday (4) Santa Rosa 53, (3) Clayton 49 Thursday Texico 54, Santa Rosa 52, OT Saturday...
CARLSBAD - Clovis High's boys played Carlsbad pretty evenly on Thursday night ... after the first quarter. The Wildcats weren't able to overcome the slow start, and saw their season end with a 51-41 loss to the Cavemen in the District 4-5A tournament semifinals. "We didn't score well in the quarter, but we felt like we were still in pretty good shape," Cats coach Jaden Isler said of the 10-3 deficit. "The rest of the game we played fairly even." Six-foot-7 senior center Tylan...
LITTLEFIELD — Farwell’s boys began Texas Class 2A postseason play on Tuesday with a 72-59 bi-district victory over Floydada. Senior Grayson Waldrop nailed four 3-pointers and scored 21 points for the Steers (24-7), who were to face Gruver (24-7) on Friday night in an area round matchup also slated for Littlefield. The Whirlwinds (20-7) led 16-10 at the quarter, but the Steers went on a 23-9 run in the third stanza to open a 10-point lead. Senior Leon Nunez added 18 points while senior Juan Gaxiola had two 3s and 12 poi...
LOVINGTON — Basketball experts say 3-pointers can shoot you into a game or out of it in a hurry. As they often do, Lovington’s boys relied on the long ball to lead the way on Tuesday night. Six players combined to hit 14 of them, and the Wildcats overcame an early 10-point deficit for a 63-51 victory over Portales High in a first-round District 4-4A matchup. “They shot the ball pretty well tonight,” Rams coach Randy McBroom said of the Wildcats (20-7), who won at Roswell Goddard 46-43 on Thursday to reach Saturda...
CARLSBAD - Thursday's Clovis High-Carlsbad District 4-5A tournament semifinal wasn't much different than the two regular-season matchups. The only thing was this time the Cavegirls made some hay from the 3-point line. Carlsbad, seeded second in the four-team stepladder bracket, converted eight trifectas in this one and pulled away to a 45-31 victory over Clovis High. The Cavegirls (21-6), who won the regular-season district clashes 29-22 and 28-19, advanced to Saturday...
TEXICO - After shooting 5-for-6 from the free throw line in the first half, Texico's accuracy slipped away during the third quarter (0-for-4). The Wolverines found it just in time, going 6-for-8 in the overtime frame to outlast Santa Rosa 54-52 in a District 6-2A boys semifinal on Thursday night. Junior Jahvon Askew and senior Cade Collins both converted 3-of-4 in the OT as second-seeded Texico (13-11) advanced to Saturday afternoon's title tilt at top-seeded Pecos (20-6)....
LUBBOCK — Despite a four-game losing streak, Eastern New Mexico University’s women locked up a spot in next week’s Lone Star Conference postseason tournament on Thursday without playing. The question going into Saturday’s LSC and regular-season finale against Western New Mexico at Greyhound Arena was whether the Greyhounds would be the 11th or 12th seed in the 12-team event. ENMU (9-13, 5-10 LSC) dropped a 73-46 decision to 16th-ranked and two-time NCAA Division II champion Lubbock Christian on Tuesday night, leaving the Hou...
