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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BOVINA — Texas area girls prep basketball teams continued their solid starts to the season over the weekend, with Bovina and Muleshoe improving to 3-0 while Farwell posted its second win in two starts. After giving up 21 second-quarter points, Bovina found itself trailing 30-24 at halftime at home on Saturday. Then the Fillies stormed back with a 27-7 third-quarter surge to down Anton 63-44. Junior Alyssa Martinez led Bovina with 14 points, while also reaching double digits for the Fillies were Makaylah Luna with 11 and P...
FOOTBALL Prep summaries Thursday Texas Class 3A Division I Bi-district round at Littlefield Muleshoe 21, Brownfield 17 Brownfield 7 10 0 0 — 17 Muleshoe 0 14 7 0 — 21 Scoring summary First quarter B — 3 run (kick good) Second quarter M — Zach Radloff 14 run (Jaxher Lopez kick) B — 8 pass (kick good) M — Sebastian Kirven 5 pass from Zach Hasley (Lopez kick) B — FG 32 Third quarter M — Irvin Torres 32 pass from Hasley (Lopez kick) Team statistics Bro Mul First downs 15 20 Rushse-yards 29-85 41-199 Passing yards 229 141 Total ya...
MULESHOE — Led by Muleshoe, the three Texas area girls basketball teams have combined to get off to a 5-0 start this season. The Lady Mules (2-0) opened their season with a pair of home games, turning back Hale Center 53-42 on Nov. 6 and Lubbock Trinity Christian 45-31 on Tuesday night. Muleshoe built a 24-18 halftime lead, then outscored Hale Center 12-7 in the final canto to put the game away. Junior Kylie Hernandez notched 17 points, including a trio of 3-pointers, and senior Natalie Ambriz added 13 for the Lady Mules, w...
SILVER CITY — Eastern New Mexico University’s women erased an early four-point deficit with a 29-3 first-half and routed Fort Lewis 76-57 on Friday in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge. Senior guard Laura Rowe had three 3-pointers and led three Greyhounds in double figures with a career-high 17 points and also led the team with seven rebounds in the season opener for both teams. Senior post Kamirah Decker added 12 points, while senior guard Anasha Hurst chipped in a pair of 3s and 10 points. ENMU went on a 12-1 surge to lea...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's volleyball team may appear to be fading a bit after its late-season, five-match winning streak. The fact is, the Greyhounds are probably playing even better now as they wind down the season. ENMU suffered its third consecutive loss since then - coming against teams with a combined record of 54-15 - and saw its LSC postseason tournament hopes put in jeopardy on Friday night when Dallas Baptist notched a 25-27, 26-24, 25-23, 19-25,...
RIO RANCHO — Texico’s bid for a return to the Class 2A state finals came up short on Saturday as the Lady Wolverines bowed to eighth-seeded Hagerman 25-14, 25-18, 25-16 in a losers bracket match. Veteran Texico coach Kristen Scanlan said her team just couldn’t muster up the energy it needed against the Lady Bobcats (16-9). “We just didn’t play very well,” Scanlan said. “They had a lot of off-speed shots that we couldn’t dig up.” Senior Jalissa Harrison had eight kills for the second-seeded Lady Wolvferines (18-7), while sen...
TATUM - It's not just that Tatum's football team won a state championship on Friday night. Yes, the Coyotes did that with their 22-14 overtime win over Melrose in the 8-man finals. And that - to use a Ron Burgundy-ism - is kind of a big deal. But that was just the end of the story, the climactic scene. The "how" seems almost as important as the "what," because Tatum was on the verge of losing the game, then appeared to have won it on the fourth quarter's final play, then won...
LITTLEFIELD — Muleshoe survived a back-and-forth game with Brownfield on Thursday, and the Mules are on to the second round of the Texas Class 3A Division I playoffs. Senior quarterback Zach Hasley threw a pair of touchdown passes, including a 32-yarder to junior Irvin Torres in the fourth quarter as the Mules outlasted the Cubs 21-17 in the bi-district round at Littlefield H.S. Their reward is a date with defending 3A-I champion and third-ranked Jim Ned (11-0) at 3:30 p.m. (CST) on Friday at Lubbock’s Lowery Stadium. The...
RIO RANCHO - Unfortunately, it was a short stay for Portales in the Class 4A state volleyball tournament. Seeded No. 8, the Lady Rams faced top seed Hope Christian in Friday's opening round and lost to the Huskies 25-16, 25-18, 25-13 before being eliminated by fourth-seeded Gallup 25-21, 24-26, 25-22, 25-20 later in the day. "Things just didn't go right," first-year Lady Rams coach Jacki Bailey said. "But I'm really proud of what we did this season." Two other members of...
RIO RANCHO — Melrose took care of its business on Friday in the Class 1A state volleyball tournament, and the Lady Buffs were in line to reach their eighth consecutive state final and possibly with a fourth crown during that time. The top-seeded defending state champions cruised past eighth-seeded Pine Hill 25-10, 25-15, 25-18 in a first-round match on Friday morning at Rio Rancho H.S., then summarily dismissed District 6-1A rival and fourth-seeded Fort Sumner 25-16, 25-8, 25-11 during an afternoon quarterfinal clash at R...
FOOTBALL Prep summary Saturday Class 5A playoffs First round Clovis 0 0 0 7 — 7 Las Cruces High 14 7 14 7 — 42 Scoring summary First quarter LC — Zayke Hawkins 10 run (kick good), 5:46 LC — Dallas Boyd 14 run (kick good), 1:25 Second quarter LC — Elijah Ogas 5 run (kick good), 3:34 Third quarter LC — Hawkins 52 run (kick good), 11:40 LC — Hawkins 32 pass from Boyd (kick good), 3:58 Fourth quarter C — R.J. Nora 2 run (Ki Cox kick), 6:39 LC — Boyd 43 run (kick good), 4:58 Records — Clovis 3-7, Las Cruces High 6-4. Prep play...
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...
PORTALES - Meghan De los Reyes has had quite a journey in her college coaching career. A native of Massachusetts, she's been an assistant coach at Alaska-Anchorage, Southern Oregon and, most recently, Chico State in California. Now she assumes her first head coaching role, leading the Eastern New Mexico University women's program as the Greyhounds try to bounce back from a year of inactivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ENMU played three preseason exhibitions, and will open...
MeLROSE - Of all the area teams still playing football this week, Melrose probably had to do the least amount of scouting. That's because the foe, Tatum, is so familiar that the teams were probably ready to meet for the 8-man state championship right after last week's semifinals. Excluding the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign, the second-seeded Buffaloes (7-1) will seek their sixth title in seven seasons on Friday night when they take on the top-seeded Coyotes (9-1) in a 7...
LUBBOCK - With no experience as a college football head coach or coordinator, Joey McGuire appeared to be a long shot to take over at Texas Tech after the dismissal of Matt Wells. He appeared to be a long shot until the Tech search committee interviewed him, that is. McGuire, who led Cedar Hill High School to three state championships before joining the staff at Baylor for the past five seasons, on Monday was named the Red Raiders' next head coach. "We are excited for this...
PORTALES — The night before Eastern New Mexico University’s football team was to leave for the Houston area and a game against North American University on Saturday, first-year Greyhounds coach Tye Hiatt received some devastating news. His older brother, Calvin, 43, was killed Wednesday night in an accident near the family’s home town of Vale, Oregon, in the eastern part of the state. Calvin Hiatt died when a trailer hauling a bull for sale for his father, a cattle rancher, came loose and forced the truck he was driving to ov...
PORTALES — First-year Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball coach Brent Owen made no bones about the fact that the Greyhounds were picked for 14th place in the 17-team Lone Star Conference preseason poll. “That’s definitely locker room material,” Owen said Monday as the Hounds prepare to open the 2021-22 campaign against Fort Lewis on Saturday and New Mexico Highlands on Sunday, both set for 1 p.m., in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge at The Pit in Albuquerque. “That’s where they think we’re at, and it’s up to us t...
LUBBOCK — Clovis High’s swimmers opened the 2021-22 season with top-five team finishes over the weekend in the Lubbock Fall Invitational. The Wildcats were fourth in the 31-school competition with 288 points, trailing Lubbock High (603), Andrews (443) and Lubbock Coronado (316). Meantime, the Lady Wildcats garnered third place with 307 points, behind only Coronado (644) and Lubbock High (619). “We were pretty excited about both teams’ finishes,” Gordy Westerberg, who serves as a co-coach for the team with Vincent de Maio,...
FARWELL — The Farwell Steers have drawn a tough first-round opponent in the Texas Class 2A Division I playoffs — the two-time defending state runnerup Post Antelopes. Perhaps fortunately, though, Post was hit by graduation and isn’t quite the same squad this season. The Antelopes bring a 4-6 record and the No. 3 seed from District 2 into Friday’s 7 p.m. (CST) matchup at Levelland. Still, Steers coach Darren Kelley said his squad figures to have its work cut out. “We’ll have to play well,” he said. “They’re big, and they’ve go...
LAS CRUCES — Clovis High had its chances, especially early, in Saturday’s Class 5A first-round playoff game against Las Cruces High. In the end, the Bulldawgs were just too much. Cruces, seeded fifth in the 12-team bracket, scored early and often and ended the 12th-seeded Wildcats season with a 42-7 victory. The Bulldawgs (6-4) will stay right there at the Field of Dreams, facing intracity rival and fourth-seeded Centennial (9-1) in a 2 p.m. quarterfinal kickoff on Saturday. Cruces scored on its first two possessions bef...
FOOTBALL Prep summaries Friday New Mexico playoffs Class 2A quarterfinals Texico 55, Capitan 33 Capitan 0 6 20 7 — 33 Texico 20 7 14 14 — 55 Scoring summary First quarter T —Max Villareal 27 pass from Cade Figg (kick failed), 6:33 T — Cade Collins 1 run (run failed), 1:51 T — Collins 10 run (Villareal run), 1:01 Second quarter T — Kayden Queener 57 pass from Figg (Oscar Estrada kick), 7:26 C — Gabe Hayes 2 run (kick failed), 4:33 Third quarter T — Villareal 3 run (Estrada kick), 9:14 C — Caleb Kayser 12 run (run failed), 5:4...
LITTLEFIELD — Muleshoe pulled out a wild one on Friday night against rival Littlefield, staying hot as the Mules prepare for the start of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Invoking the new UIL rule where teams get one play for essentially a 2-point conversion beginning with the third overtime, senior quarterback Zach Hasley converted with a run after the Mules stopped Littlefield’s attempt to claim a 38-36 District 2-3A Division I win over the Wildcats. It was the Mules’ third consecutive win and lifted them to the .500...
TEXICO - At more than one point on the sideline of Texico's 55-33 triumph over Capitan Friday night, Wolverine coach Bob Gilbreath summed up his thoughts on a play with words that were somehow dismissive and explanatory at once. "Playoff football." Fans who flocked to the Field of Hopes and Dreams got more than a little of everything in the three-hour, 15-minute affair with 50 first downs, 1,079 yards of offense and 13 touchdowns - the last one coming as the final horn sounded...
ALBUQUERQUE - Eastern New Mexico University's women, playing their second of three preseason exhibitions, rebounded nicely on Thursday night after their opening debacle. Coming off an 84-25 setback at Arizona on Oct. 28, the Greyhounds competed relatively well most of the way against a good New Mexico squad before the Lobos pulled away to an 88-72 victory at The Pit. ENMU led by six points twice in the second quarter, the latter at 25-19 less than two minutes into the stanza...
