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Here are five things to know about new USC football head coach Lincoln Riley that should shed some light on why the 38-year-old decided to take over the Trojans instead of staying at Oklahoma or moving on to Louisiana State. Quarterback whisperer Riley is a quarterback whisperer, and Southern California is a five-star quarterback assembly line. Notice something in common about the starting quarterbacks for Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia entering this year? If you...
One of the top coaches in college football is on his way to L.A., the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. USC is closing its three-month search for a new head football coach with a bombshell hire, landing Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley to turn around the Trojans program. Riley, a former Texas Tech quarterback, posted a 55-10 record while leading the Sooners during four seasons. He has won four Big 12 championships, seamlessly replacing Bob Stoops following his retirement. Riley previously was Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator and...
FOOTBALL Prep New Mexico playoffs (Seeds in parentheses) Class 6A Semifinals Friday’s results (1) Cleveland 42, (5) Las Cruces High 24 (2) Rio Rancho 35, (3) La Cueva 34 Championship Saturday’s game Rio Rancho at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Saturday’s results (4) Artesia 57, (1) Farmington 14 (2) Los Lunas 26, (6) Roswell Goddard 21 Championship Saturday’s game Artesia at Los Lunas, 1 p.m. Class 4A Semifinals Saturday’s results (1) Lovington 54, (4) Moriarty 12 (6) Ruidoso 35, (12) Bloomfield 22 Champions...
CLOVIS - Clovis High's swim teams captured both divisions of Saturday's Clovis Invite at Clovis Aquatic Center. The Wildcats posted 102 points in boys competition to turn back Rio Rancho (84). Carlsbad and Rio Rancho Cleveland also competed in the event. On the girls' side, the Lady Wildcats were challenged by Rio Rancho and Cleveland, finishing with 93 points to 87 for the Rams and 80 for the Storm. "I was extremely happy with the results from the meet," CHS co-coach Gordy...
FARWELL — Only a week removed from the football playoffs, it was anyone’s guess what the Farwell boys basketball team would look like in its Saturday season opener. As it turned out, the Steers played fairly well, pulling away down the stretch for a 61-53 victory over Slaton. Farwell opened a 13-point lead in the first quarter, then fell behind a couple of times during the middle of the game before regrouping late. Sophomore guard Corey Stancell led the Steers with 15 points, while senior post Grayson Waldrop added 12 and...
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...
FOOTBALL Prep New Mexico playoffs (Seeds in parentheses) Class 6A Quarterfinals Nov. 12 results (3) La Cueva 35, (6) Volcano Vista 21 (5) Las Cruces High 35, (4) Centennial 21 (2) Rio Rancho 44, (7) Cibola 20 Nov. 13 result (1) Rio Rancho Cleveland 42, (8) Hobbs 14 Semifinals Friday’s results Cleveland 42, Las Cruces High 24 Rio Rancho 35, La Cueva 34 Championship Saturday's game Rio Rancho at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Class 5A Quarterfinals Nov. 12 results (1) Farmington, 28, (8) Santa Teresa 6 (6) Roswell Goddard 14, Roswell H...
GOLDEN, Colo. — The Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball team went down for the first time this season on Thursday night, and the Greyhounds went down hard. Colorado School of Mines took control early with a 16-3 run and the Orediggers cruised to an 84-50 victory. Sophomore guard Natalie Stice hit a 3-pointer to open the scoring, but it was all Orediggers after that. Mines (3-0), tied for 23rd in NCAA Division II in one poll and ranked eighth in another, held the Hounds to 30 percent shooting (17-of-57) and out...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Five members of the Eastern New Mexico University football team were accorded All-Lone Star Conference recognition, including two individual award winners, the conference announced on Friday. Senior wide receiver Justin Manyweather was named the league’s receiver of the year and earned a spot on the first-team All-LSC offense. Meantime, sophomore defensive end Mazin Richards was the LSC’s defensive lineman of the year and chosen for the first team on that side of the ball. Also, senior guard Vili Fisii...
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,...
BOVINA — Ropes pulled away steadily on Friday night and the Lady Eagles won a battle of early-season unbeatens with a 72-45 victory over Bovina on Friday night. Nine players scored for the Fillies (4-1), led by senior Alyssa Martinez with 12 points, but Bovina ran into foul trouble as the game went and couldn’t keep up. In the boys contest, Bovina fell to 1-1 for the season as the Mustangs dropped a 44-34 decision to the Eagles. Tuesday boys Bovina 49, Hart 41 — The Mustangs became the first area boys team to play this seaso...
CLOVIS - They graduated all five starters from a scoring-challenged team, so it's pretty obvious what the Clovis High girls basketball team is looking for this season. The Lady Wildcats, who went 5-6 in last spring's COVID-abbreviated campaign, are trying to find any scoring they can as they prepare for Tuesday's season opener at Rio Rancho Cleveland. Still, CHS alum Jeff Reed is relatively optimistic as he begins his 14th year at the helm, and he's ready for the season to...
CLOVIS — Esperanza Tafoya and Marina Sena still have another season to do some damage for the Clovis High softball team. But they already know where their gloves and bats will take them next year. The two signed letters of intent Friday evening at a ceremony held by friends and family at Traci’s Greenhouse — Tafoya to Lamar Community College in Colorado and Sena to University of the Southwest in Hobbs. The two signed their letters in front of family members with cameras in hand, at a table decorated with their uniforms from...
Richardson, Texas — Central Washington University, Simon Fraser University and Western Oregon University will join the Lone Star Conference as affiliate members in football, the league announced Thursday. The decision to invite CWU, SFU and WOU was reached this fall with the teams beginning LSC play in 2022. “We are excited to welcome the Central Washington, Simon Fraser and Western Oregon football programs to the Lone Star Conference,” LSC commissioner Jay Poerner said in a conference releast. “As affiliate members, these th...
PORTALES - Brent Owen's first win as the Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball coach was certainly an up-and-down ride. First, the Greyhounds looked like they would blow out NAIA member Northern New Mexico. Then the Eagles stormed back and took a couple of late leads. In the end, ENMU made enough plays to secure an 87-80 victory in Friday night's home opener at Greyhound Arena. It wasn't pretty, but it was a notch in the win column. "It's way more fun to learn from a...
CLOVIS — The inaugural Clovis High wrestling program gets on the mat for real on Monday. Coach Eric Zottnick and assistants Liz Ledezma and Avery Rasher will lead the team into a 10 a.m. (MST) quad meet at Hereford, also including Pampa (Texas) and Estancia (N.M.). The Wildcats and Lady Wildcats staged an exhibition on Friday at Rock Staubus Gym, and the team traveled to Goddard H.S. in Roswell on Saturday for what was essentially a preseason competition. Not surprisingly, both CHS squads lack experience in the sport. ...
LUBBOCK — Early in the second half, Muleshoe’s hopes of advancing in the Texas Class 3A Division I football playoffs were alive and kicking in Friday’s area-round matchup against defending state champion Jim Ned. Then the Indians took over the game — or more to the point, Xavier Wishert did. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound senior running back/linebacker carried 28 times for 268 yards and scored five touchdowns, including a 99-yard run and another on a pass reception, as Jim Ned (12-0) pulled away to a 49-20 victory. “We played th...
FOOTBALL Prep 6-man All-District 2 Offense Clovis Christian: Noah Gershon, Jaden Martinez, Carter Teune. Elida: Jesse Woodruff, Mason Pritchett. Floyd: Ricky Ramirez. Gateway Christian: Jace Worley, Hurley Breedyk, Haden Wigley, Luke Tipton, Caleb Bogle, Barton Pieratt. Defense Clovis Christian: Noah Gershon, Jaden Martinez, Carter Teune. Elida: Jesse Woodruff, Payton Calloway. Floyd: Ricky Ramirez. Gateway Christian: Jace Worley, Hurley Breedyk, Hayden Wigley, Ethaniel Wigley, Caleb Bogle, Barton Pieratt. Honorable mention...
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...
PORTALES — Results were mixed over the weekend as Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams opened the 2021-22 season in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge. ENMU’s women won both of their contests at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, while the men dropped a pair of hard-fought decisions at The Pit on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Both teams have new coaches this season — Meghan De los Reyes for the women, Brent Owen for the men. The women, who thumped Fort Lewis 76-57 on Friday,...
PORTALES — With a spot in the Lone Star Conference tournament on the line, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team took care of business on Saturday with a 27-25, 25-18, 25-18 victory over Texas Woman’s at Greyhound Arena. ENMU (7-18, 7-10 LSC) won for the sixth time in nine matches. The Greyhounds earned the No. 11 seed in the tourney — the top 12 of 18 teams in the conference qualify — and they get a rematch of Friday’s five-set home loss to Dallas Baptist, this time on the Lady Patriots’ home floor. The top four...
HOBBS — Clovis High’s swimmers posted team sweeps on Saturday in Hobbs’ 14-team Tori Invite. The Wildcats finished with 125 points to 108 for Hobbs on the boys’ side, while the Lady Wildcats scored 129 points and ran away with girls competition, 53 points ahead of runnerup Las Cruces. “I didn’t ease up on them as far as training goes this past week, so the fact that we were able to win on both sides was a huge surprise,” CHS co-coach Gordy Westerberg said. “Our young swimmers are getting better every week.” CHS squads are bac...
RIO RANCHO - Melrose captured its second Class 1A volleyball championship in seven months on Saturday with a 25-13, 25-17, 26-24 victory over Gateway Christian at Rio Rancho Events Center. Melrose also downed Gateway Christian in the 1A championship match in April during a season delayed and compressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The top-seeded Lady Buffs, who finished this season with a 25-1 record, didn't lose a set during the tournament that also included wins over...
COMMERCE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s football team was battling Texas A&M-Commerce on relatively even terms early Saturday — maybe even outplaying the Lions to some extent. Then a 73-yard fumble return for a score by Commerce junior defensive back Cedric Wilcox III three minutes into the second stanza broke the scoring ice, and the Greyhounds were fighting uphill from there. Commerce, a charter member of the Lone Star Conference, ended its stay in football in the LSC and in NCAA Division II on Saturday with a 30-...
MULESHOE — Muleshoe’s football team has put together a four-game winning streak to get above the .500 mark. Now the Mules (6-5), whose late-season run lifted them to second place in Texas Class 3A Division I District 2 and before beating Brownfield 21-17 last Thursday in the bi-district round, face a tall order in their bid to stay alive in the postseason — an area-round date with defending champion and second-ranked Jim Ned (11-0) at 3:30 p.m. (CST) on Friday at Lubbock’s Lowery Field. Mules coach Jason Richards knows his te...
