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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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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...
ANSON, Texas — Both Farwell squads finished third in a tournament hosted by Anson on Monday and Tuesday, and both teams earned a pair of all-tournament selections. In girls action, the Lady Blue (19-3) won twice on Monday, then lost to the host Lady Tigers 61-54 in Tuesday’s semifinals before coming back to beat Iowa Park 59-36 in the third-place clash. Against Anson, Farwell cut a 15-point halftime deficit to two with a 22-9 blitz in the third quarter, but the Lady Tigers (15-5) pulled away again down the stretch. Fre...
BUSHLAND, Texas — Clovis High’s girls needed a mulligan on Thursday night. Down 16-4 at the quarter, the Lady Wildcats regrouped and played Bushland fairly evenly the rest of the way. But they couldn’t dig out of the early hole, and dropped a 55-39 decision to the talented Class 3A Lady Falcons. Four players were in double figures for Bushland, led by junior Emma Troxell and sophomore Chloe Cochran with 14 apiece. Meantime, sophomore Brooklyn Boyett had 12 points, and senior Ellie Frye scored 10. Junior Ali Thomas paced...
TATUM - It won't make up for losing in the 8-man state championship football game, but Melrose's boys at least earned a bit of revenge on Thursday. The Buffaloes used a 23-5 surge in the third quarter and eventually went on to rout Tatum 60-25. The schools met for the 8-man state title at Tatum in November, with the Coyotes pulling out a 22-14 victory in overtime. Senior Logan DeVaney was the only player in double figures for the Buffs (6-3) with 11 points, but five others...
LAS CRUCES — At this rate, it wouldn’t be too surprising if Organ Mountain petitioned the New Mexico Activities Association to get into District 4-5A. The Knights (5-8) are winless except when facing 4-5A members. They are perfect against Clovis High (3-0) and Roswell High (2-0) after beating the Wildcats 55-47 on Thursday night. Meantime, CHS fell to 1-10 for the season. “We played better, offensively and defensively, than the other two times we played them,” Cats coach Jaden Isler said. “But we couldn’t make a wide-open s...
LAREDO, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s Lone Star Conference schedule got off to a bumpy start on Friday. First, the ENMU women shot less than 30 percent from the field in falling to Texas A&M International 71-43. Then the men saw a 15-point, second-half lead evaporate in a 72-63 setback at the hands of the Dustdevils. Today’s scheduled ENMU men’s tilt at Texas A&M-Kingsville was postponed earlier this week due to COVID-19 protocols for the Javelinas, as was Kingsville’s Friday clash against top-ranked Lubbock Christi...
LITTLEFIELD — The Texas portion of their schedule is over for the Portales Lady Rams. The rest of the way it will be New Mexico competition only. PHS (9-3) finished off the old year the right way on Wednesday, beating host Littlefield 48-39 for the championship of the Wildcat Classic tournament. Senior guards Taris Rippee and Teagan Faust tallied 14 and 12 points, respectively, for the Lady Rams, who played without flu-stricken senior post Kylyie Paden. Despite all that, Portales coach Wade Fraze called it an “ugly” win. Noth...
SAN ANTONIO — Maybe, come spring, they'll tell us. The players themselves will have had time to think about it, process it and come up with an answer to the question. Why did they find themselves now? Of course, they may not want to. Or, perhaps, they'll be told not to, because who needs the headlines and the headaches. It's hard to know. Easy to know? All season long, Lincoln Riley's Sooners appeared unmotivated, uncertain, unclear, in a fog, lost. Never was Oklahoma as good as it ought to have been. Never did the Sooners t...
John Madden was so much more than a Super Bowl-winning coach, legendary broadcaster and someone who built a video-game empire. He was a regular guy. "What made him so popular was that he was so genuine and so accessible," said Al Michaels, who worked in the ABC and NBC broadcast booths with Madden for seven years. "In traveling around the country, John had a great connection with city folk, rural folk, with farmers, with people out there doing the grunt work. He just had this...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A good many game watchers tuned in to the Liberty Bowl on Tuesday night expecting to see one team run up the score. And sure enough. Texas Tech folded, spindled and mutilated Mississippi State, 34-7, just the opposite sort of runaway from the one so many were forecasting. Mississippi State came in with the No. 3 passing offense in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the Red Raiders held the Bulldogs to their lowest point total of the season. Only Alabama...
The 1986 hit movie "Hoosiers" depicted a small-school Indiana basketball team that improbably won the state championship, defeating bigger-enrollment schools along the way. Forrest in southern Quay County can boast a real-life version of "Hoosiers," except the Pirates won the state title twice in the early 1930s and might have done it a third time if misfortune hadn't struck. Forrest's state title treks might sound like the stuff of fiction. However, tangible evidence of...
ANSON, Texas — The Farwell Steers rolled into the semifinals of Anson’s 10-team tournament on Monday with a pair of wins, routing Post 73-25 and getting past Wellington 46-43. The Steers (13-2) were slated to face Class 4A Sweetwater (11-8) in the semifinals on Tuesday, then play for either third place or the championship to wrap up the two-day event. Farwell had no trouble with the winless (0-11) Antelopes, building a 44-14 halftime lead. Sophomore Corey Stancell led a balanced Steers attack with 15 points, while senior Jua...
TEXICO - Craig and Jaylyn (Cooper) Cook may not have known they were meant for each other right away, but it didn't take long. Coming into contact for the first time during Texico's holiday basketball tournament in 2009, each caught the other's eye. Now, they're not only married with a 20-month-old son, Kyce, but they also are the head basketball coaches at Texico High School - Craig for the boys, Jaylyn for the girls. A list provided to The News by the New Mexico Activities...
LITTLEFIELD — Especially in a low-scoring game, it’s hard to survive a drought which lasts nearly a quarter. Off to a seven-point lead early in the second stanza of Monday’s first-round Wildcat Classic matchup against Tulia, Portales High suddenly went dry for nearly the final 6 1/2 minutes of the half. In the end, it cost the Rams. While the Hornets only managed three points in that stretch, it was enough to keep them close. They took the lead with an 8-0, fourth-quarter run and held on late for a 47-45 victory. On Tuesd...
LITTLEFIELD — Forgive the Portales High girls if they weren’t totally ready at the beginning of Tuesday’s quarterfinal matchup against Springlake-Earth in Littlefield’s Wildcat Classic. After all, the game did start at 8:30 a.m. — New Mexico time. It took the Lady Rams a while to get untracked, but they finally started to pull away late and beat the Class 1A Lady Wolverines 58-42. Senior guard Taris Rippee scored 20 points while senior post Kylyie Paden finished with 18 points, eight rebounds and four steals for Portales...
ARLINGTON, Texas – The NFC East title was secured before kickoff. All that was left was the game. Dallas didn’t mess around with Washington. Instead, the Cowboys took charge early by scoring six first-half touchdowns, using that cushion to roll for a 56-14 victory on Sunday night. With that we have five things of note from the blowout victory: Defense, defense and more defense What more can be said about the defense? DeMarcus Lawrence had a pick-6, avoiding a sliding Washington quarterback Taylor Heinicke from crashing int...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shortly after the Texas Tech football season ends Tuesday night at the Liberty Bowl, many of the staff members will immediately pivot to duties at their next jobs. Sonny Cumbie will be head coach at Louisiana Tech, Jake Brown will serve him as a co-offensive coordinator, Keith Patterson will be head coach at Abilene Christian University and Derek Jones and Joel Filani have jobs lined up at Virginia Tech and Washington State, respectively. They all got off the bus, however, when the Red Raiders pulled up to th...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Boys L&L Pallet Holiday tournament At The Rock, Clovis Tuesday Consolation round Los Lunas 47, Clovis 44 Los Lunas (5-6) — Hadley Beaty 11, Jalin Holland 13, Eric Aragon 21, Isaiah Aragon 2. Totals 17 9-11 47. Clovis (0-9) — Brian Weiss 2, Luciano Webster 12, Kash Roberts 5, Jaydon Levenshown 2, Juan Hernandez 8, R.J. Nora 9, Andrew Hall 6. Totals 16 7-14 44. Los Lunas 14 12 11 10 — 47 Clovis 10 11 10 13 — 44 3-pointers — Los Lunas, Beaty 2, E. Aragon, Holland. Clovis, Hernandez 2, Webster 2, Robert...
CLOVIS — It’s been a while since Clovis High’s girls have won their own holiday tournament. It’s also been a while since the Lady Wildcats had a player score more than 30 points in a game. Both happened on Wednesday night at The Rock, where CHS overcame an early eight-point deficit to beat Organ Mountain 77-63 in the finals of the Plateau Holiday tournament. Senior guard Yvonne Fuerte erupted for 31 points — including 20 in the second half — and the Lady Cats (10-3) fini...
CLOVIS — First, Brian Weiss went off. Then, Juan Hernandez took the reigns. Both players recorded personal scoring bests on Monday night as Clovis High’s boys broke through for their first win of the season, a 67-43 victory over Roswell High in the fifth-place game of the L&L Pallet Holiday tournament at Rock Staubus Gym. Weiss, a senior guard, scored 14 of his game-high 24 points in a 14-4 run over the final five-plus minutes of the second period, giving the Cats (1-9) a 27-...
CLOVIS — Three years after completing a four-year run in big-time college basketball and seven years removed from helping Clovis High’s girls to a strong four-year run of their own, Danni Williams finds herself a long ways from home — and enjoying it. Williams has played professionally in five countries since finishing her eligibility at the University of Texas in 2019. Currently, she’s been able to spend about a week in Clovis after completing the first half of the season...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Saturday Boys Centennial 58, Clovis 52 Centennial (4-5) — Michael Bruder 2, Nicolas Serna 15, Dax Rios 11, Azael Dominguez 11, Ozias Aguilar 7, Sean Crawford 8, John Sierra 4. Totals 20 13-22 58. Clovis (0-7) — Brian Weiss 4, Luciano Webster 8, Manuel Gutierrez 3, Kash Roberts 2, Juan Hernandez 19, R.J. Nora 6, Andrew Hall 10. Totals 21 9-15 52. Centennial 13 14 19 12 — 58 Clovis 8 8 25 11 — 52 3-pointers — Centennial, Serna 3, Dominguez, Rios. Clovis, Hernandez. Total fouls — Centennial 18, Clovis...
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....
ALBQUUERQUE — The Melrose Buffaloes were well-represented on the New Mexico High School Coaches Association’s all-state team for eight-man football. So was its entire district. Of the 60 selections announced over the weekend by the association, 49 belonged to the five teams of District 2 — 14 for state champion Tatum, 16 for the state runner-up Buffaloes, 14 for semifinalist Logan, four for semifinalist Fort Sumner and one for Mesilla Valley. Leading the way was Michael Cardonita, who garnered three selections in total. He wa...
