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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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TEXICO - A shooting flurry of 15 3-pointers put the Fort Sumner Foxes nearly within reach of the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference finish line Saturday night. A lot of rebounding, and one piece of well-timed defense, provided the final push. Joaquin Segura scored 26 points to lead all scorers, but made the play of the night deflecting a Melrose inbounds pass in the closing seconds to seal a 72-70 victory at Texico Sports Arena for the Foxes' third EPAC title in program...
CLOVIS - Clovis High's boys claimed a win on Saturday in the first-year program's home debut, defeating Artesia 52-21 at Rock Staubus Gym. The Wildcats won five matches by first-period pin and three others by forfeit against the Bulldogs, while eighth-grader Kaleb King claimed a four-point major decision at 220 pounds (a margin of victory of at least 12 points) with a 26-12 win over Ulrich Mendez. Meantime, the Bulldogs posted three first-period pins and an 8-6 decision by...
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...
PORTALES — In their Lone Star Conference opener on Dec. 31, Eastern New Mexico University’s men gave up a 15-point, second-half lead in losing at Texas A&M International. Saturday at Greyhound Arena, they turned the tables, erasing a 15-point Arkansas-Fort Smith lead in the second half to post a 62-59 LSC win over the Lions. Senior guard James Jordan, who helped seal a 65-62 overtime win over Oklahoma Christian on Thursday with four free throws in the final minute of the OT, gave ENMU (6-6, 2-1 LSC) its first lead since ear...
ANDREWS, Texas — Freshman Julia Spears for the girls and sophomore Porter Kidd for the boys won individual events over the weekend as Clovis High’s swim teams combined for a third-place overall finish in the Andrews Invitational. A total of 17 schools competed, all having boys and girls squads except two. The Wildcats were second in boys competition with 466 points, trailing only El Paso High (774), while the Lady Wildcats finished fourth at 426, behind El Paso High (686), Andrews (648) and Monahans (449). Their combined tota...
LUBBOCK -- Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self did not expect his team's eight-game winning streak to continue indefinitely. "First of all, we were not going to go 18-0 in our league. We were probably not going to go 17-1. I'd like to think we would, but that's not the type of league that we play in," Self said after No. 25-ranked Texas Tech's 75-67 victory over No. 6 KU on Saturday afternoon at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock. The Red Raiders (11-3), like KU 1-1 in Big 12 play, handed the Jayhawks (12-2) their...
INDIANAPOLIS — Beating a great team in a rematch is one of the hardest things to do in sports. Just ask the 2011 LSU Tigers. They beat Alabama in the Game of the Century, only to find to their dismay that it only counted for a fraction as much as did the game Alabama won in the BCS final. Or you can ask the 1959 LSU Tigers, who beat Ole Miss 7-3 on Billy Cannon's epic 89-yard punt return on Halloween night. The Tigers got their greatest play ever by one of their two Heisman Trophy winners, but the Rebels got a major m...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday Boys Hereford 57, Portales 29 Portales (5-6) — Paxton Culpepper 3, Kaden Hightower 7, Quadale Brown 5, Emmanuel Diahn 6, Greydon Rigsby 8. Totals 11 5-9 29. Hereford (10-8) — Zevan Gonzales 5, Noah Brown 6, Kenyon Loftis 3, Hayden Gonzales 2, Gaston Sauceda 8, Braedyn Mendoza 11, Marco Lucas 9, Aiden Arias 8, Jadyn Fletcher 5. Totals 21 3-4 57. Portales 8 5 9 7 — 29 Hereford 16 10 16 15 — 57 3-pointers — Portales, Culpepper, Hightower. Hereford, Lucas 3, Mendoza 3, Brown 2, Sauceda 2, Z. Gon...
CLOVIS - Clovis High's boys have found the sledding tough in several close games this season. Thursday afternoon at Rock Staubus Gym, they finally got one to go their way. The Wildcats held Espanola Valley to just three points in the third quarter and 14 for the second half in rallying to claim a 48-42 victory. Senior guard Juan Hernandez scored 11 of his game-high 17 points in the third period while senior guard Luciano Webster added all 10 of his points in the final stanza,...
GRADY - Consolation and championship semifinal matches were on tap Friday at Texico after quarterfinal contests were contested on Wednesday and Thursday at Grady. In Thursday's boys quarterfinals: Dora 55, Elida 53 - The fifth-seeded Coyotes (6-4) erased a seven-point deficit with a 25-point fourth quarter against the Tigers (11-2) and advanced to face top-seeded Fort Sumner in the semis. A potential game-tying shot by Elida at the buzzer was off the mark. Junior Steven...
MULESHOE — Muleshoe’s boys played a dominating first half on Tuesday night and throttled District 2-3A rival Friona 51-34. The Mules (5-7, 1-1 district) led 30-14 at the break and played the Chieftains (11-8, 0-2) even the rest of the way. Seniors Brennan Davis and Jeremiah Barron scored 10 and nine points, respectively, for Muleshoe, which got nine players into the scoring column. For the Chieftains, senior Jared Rejino posted a game-high 16 points. In other boys action on Tuesday: Farwell 41, Nazareth 31 — The Steers (16-3...
PORTALES - Portales High's basketball teams got an unexpected day off on Friday. Scheduled to face their counterparts from Jal on the second day of the three-day Portales Shootout round-robin at the Ram Athletic Center, those games were canceled after a COVID breakout at Jal. On Saturday, the PHS girls were to face Carlsbad while the boys took on Andrews to wrap up the event. Meantime, Portales squads split on Thursday, the girls winning over Kirtland Central 51-35 while the...
PORTALES — It took the Portales High Lady Rams a while to get going Tuesday night, primarily because of Roswell High’s style of play. By the second quarter, though, they had things pretty well figured out. PHS outscored the Lady Coyotes 17-4 in the stanza and cruised from there en route to a 52-34 victory at the RAC. “We had a slow start,” Lady Rams coach Wade Fraze said, noting his team led just 12-10 after the opening quarter. “Roswell’s very disciplined, and they controlled tempo (early) and executed their offense wel...
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...
BOVINA — Lockney tied the score with a last-second basket, then dominated the overtime period to hand Bovina’s boys a 57-48 loss on Friday night. The Mustangs (3-9) erased a five-point deficit through three quarters and had a late lead in their first game since Dec. 14. Senior Josh Barretera scored 13 points and senior Austin Rodriguez added 10 for the Longhorns (11-7), while Bovina was paced by 11 from junior Darian Delarosa. Farwell 71, Ralls 46 — Seniors Leo Nunez and Grayson Waldrop and sophomore Corey Stancell all score...
TEXICO - One thing is sure when it comes to the Melrose-Logan girls basketball rivalry - the teams will always see a lot of each other once the calendar turns to the new year. Long-time District 6-1A foes, it's not unusual for the squads to meet four or five times in a season, including often in the state tournament. They faced off in Friday's Eastern Plains Athletic Conference semifinals and slugged it out before the Lady Longhorns came away with a 33-25 victory. Logan,...
PORTALES - Coming off letting a 15-point, second-half lead slip away in their Lone Star Conference opener, Eastern New Mexico University's men rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit on Thursday night to top Oklahoma Christian 65-62 in overtime at Greyhound Arena. Senior guard James Jordan, playing for the first time since Dec. 2, hit four consecutive free throws in the final minute of the OT as the Greyhounds (5-6, 1-1 LSC) tallied the game's final six points and used...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Monday Boys Amarillo Tascosa 60, Clovis 37 Clovis (1-11) — Brian Weese 5, Luciano Webster 2, Manuel Gutierrez 3, Kash Roberts 6, Jaydon Levenshown 2, Juan Hernandez 10, R.J. Nora 6, Andrew Hall 3. Totals 14 5-6 37. Amarillo Tascosa (7-11) — Josiah Amadi-Hearn 2, Devayne Johnson 10, Ashraf Barsham 15, Jeray Carr 11, Izaiah Mendoza 2, Khalil Jackson 7, Jailyn Sledge 7, Dezaun Ingram 2, Will Dickerson 4. Totals 22 11-15 60. Clovis 9 8 17 3 — 37 Tascosa 10 20 14 16 — 60 3-pointers — Clovis, Hernandez...
UPDATE: The ENMU women's game against Oklahoma Christian was postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. The men's game is still scheduled, but the game time has been moved up to 6 p.m. Saturday's doubleheader against Arkansas-Fort Smith remains on a 2 p.m./4 p.m. schedule. KINGSVILLE, Texas — Texas A&M-Kingsville, coming off an upset of top-ranked and defending NCAA Division II champion Lubbock Christian two days earlier, used a 10-0 surge at the end of the first quarter and a 7-0 run to finish out the half and handed Eastern New M...
CLOVIS — For most of three quarters, it looked like the Clovis Christian and Eunice boys were headed for a similar type of finish to their earlier matchup, won by the Eagles 51-50 in overtime at Eunice. Then, CCS junior guards Carter Teune and Noah Gershon took over. Teune (10) and Gershon (four) supplied the first 14 points in a 17-0 run, and Clovis Christian cruised down the stretch for a 53-36 victory over the Cardinals at the CCS gym on Monday night. Teune finished with 24 points and Gershon 19 as the Eagles (8-2) p...
AMARILLO — Clovis High’s boys were never totally out of Monday afternoon’s game against Amarillo Tascosa until late. Two of the Wildcats’ main problems this season have been rebounding and shooting. They held their own on the glass against a bigger Rebels squad, for the most part, but shooting remained an issue. The Rebels pulled away over the final four minutes, outscoring the Cats 16-3 in the last period, and posted a 60-37 victory. “I thought we did a lot of things well,” CHS boys coach Jaden Isler said. “We were outsized...
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...
GRADY - Fort Sumner's basketball teams were accorded the top seeds in this week's Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament, scheduled to begin tonight at Grady H.S. Fort Sumner's boys bring a 4-2 record into the four-day event, while the Fort Sumner girls are 7-1. Quarterfinal games are on tap at Grady today and Thursday before the scene shifts to Texico H.S. for the final two days. In boys matchups today, eighth-seeded Floyd takes on the Foxes at 4:30 p.m. while second-s...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday Boys Wildcat Classic At Littlefield Consolation bracket Portales 55, Springlake-Earth 49 Portales (4-4) — Xodus Gomez 4, Alex Garcia 2, Elijah Kladiihbah 4, Kaden Hightower 12, Markus Aranda 2, Quadale Brown 8, Davian Lucero 14, Greydon Rigsby 9. Totals 19 11-19 55. Springlake-Earth — Evan DeLeon 12, Micah Sanchez 2, Joshua Samaron 2, Trace Goodman 24, Keshan Holmes 9. Totals 19 5-14 49. Portales 17 10 10 18 — 55 Springlake-Earth 10 13 14 12 — 49 3-pointers — Portales, Lucero 3, Hightower 2,...
