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Thursday Basketball Boys Clovis in Clovis holiday tournament Portales in Pojoaque tournament Texico in Citizens Bank tournament at Texico Melrose in Clovis holiday tournament Grady at Clayton, 7 p.m. Dora in Capitan tournament Girls Clovis in Clovis holiday tournament Texico in Citizens Bank tournament Grady at Clayton, 5:30 p.m. Melrose, Dora in Capitan tournament Friday Basketball Boys Clovis in Clovis holiday tournament Portales in Pojoaque tournament Texico in Citizens Bank tournament at Texico Melrose in Moriarty...
Here are the latest coaches top 10 polls for high school boys and girls basketball teams in New Mexico. (The number in parentheses is how many points the team received — and how many first-place votes, if any.) BOYS Class 5A 1. Volcano Vista, 3-0 (219 — 21) 2. Sandia, 4-0 (182 — 1) 3. Hobbs, 5-0 (160) 4. Organ Mountain, 2-0 (116) 5. Cleveland, 2-0 (116) 6. Atrisco Heritage, 2-2 (89) 7. Albuquerque High, 2-1 (62) 8. Rio Rancho, 4-1 (62) 9. Roswell, 1-0 (35) 10. Santa Fe, 3-0 (33) Class 4A 1. Highland, 1-1 (191 — 16) 2. Arte...
Today Basketball Men ENMU at Texas A&M International, 2 p.m. Women ENMU at Texas A&M International, noon Monday Basketball Boys Dora at Eunice, 7:30 p.m. Farwell vs. Dalhart at Vega, 7:30 p.m. Girls Clovis Christian at Texico JV, 4:30 p.m. Dora at Eunice, 6 p.m. Farwell vs. Dalhart at Vega, 6 p.m. Tuesday Basketball Boys Lubbock Christian at Portales, 6 p.m. Texico at Santa Rosa, 7 p.m. Grady at Floyd, 7 p.m. Bovina at Amarillo San Jacinto, 7 p.m. Men ENMU at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 2 p.m. Girls Artesia at Clovis, 7 p.m....
Eastern New Mexico University edged Cameron, 76-74, Saturday in a Lone Star Conference men's basketball contest. "The ball rolled our way this time," said ENMU coach Daven Võ. Cameron led 17-9 midway through the first half, but the teams went into halftime tied at 36. ENMU trailed 69-66 with five minutes to play, but then went on a 10-5 run to improve its season record to 6-2. The Greyhounds are 2-1 in LSC play. "Cameron is probably the best 0-2 team in our conference," Võ s...
The Logan boys basketball team breezed to the championship of the J.P. Stone Tournament in Dora with three victories, including a 72-29 blasting of Roy-Mosquero on Saturday in the final. The Longhorns (3-0) jumped to a 15-1 lead against the Blue and led 46-8 at halftime. Logan’s superior size — namely 6-foot-7 Hayden Bruhn and 6-foot-5 Mason Wallin — made Roy-Mosquero change its shots near the basket, hampering its offense. Bruhn scored 28 points to lead the Longhorns, including a dunk in the second quarter. Wallin added...
DALLAS — Steve Sarkisian filed his own complaint Sunday about the College Football Playoff process, adding to the pile around committee members. Frankly, I don’t know why they serve. The perks are snacks and all the football you can watch and talk. Pretty much what I do for a living, and coaches and athletic directors and commissioners don’t take potshots at my credibility. At least not publicly. Anyway, Sarkisian took issue with first-round byes for the four highest-ranked conference champs. First I’ve heard him gripe about...
Eastern New Mexico University swept a pair of Lone Star Conference basketball games against Oklahoma Christian on Thursday night at the Loy Family Foundation Arena. The ENMU women dropped the Eagles, 84-48, improving their season's record to 7-1. They are 2-0 in LSC play. The Greyhound men beat Oklahoma Christian, 91-68. The Greyhounds improved to 5-2 for the year, 1-1 in the conference. Ishuana Hunter led the ENMU women with 20 points, four steals and three rebounds, coming...
Style points were probably a bit in short supply on Monday night. No matter. Portales High's boys escaped, holding on late to edge Los Alamos 49-45 in their season opener at the Ram Athletic Center. Leading 21-17 at halftime, the Rams built a 12-point lead with an 18-10 surge in the third stanza. Meantime, the visiting Hilltoppers (0-2) returned the favor with the same advantage in the final frame, pulling within a point with just over a minute left. "We were fighting to...
For just a brief time, it looked like Justice College might be able to hang with Eastern New Mexico University's men on Saturday. That notion ended quickly, though, and the Greyhounds rolled to an 88-45 victory over the Chandler, Ariz.-based Lions at Steve Loy Arena. Junior guards Treyvon Byrd and Isaiah Randolph finished with 20 and 14 points, respectively, while junior guard Cooper Jackson posted 12 points and seven steals. All told, 11 of the 12 Hounds who saw action...
Julieta Ceja has waited a long time to get back on the basketball coach. The Eastern New Mexico University sophomore from Jiquilpan, Mexico, has wasted little time making her presence felt. After sitting out all of the 2023-24 campaign due to an ACL injury suffered in warmups during the season finale the previous year, Ceja has started all seven games for the Greyhounds and on Saturday recorded her first double-double (12 points, 12 rebounds) in a 91-38 blowout of Oklahoma Panhandle State at Steve Loy Arena. Ceja was one of f...
SANTA ROSA – It seems all the Texico Wolverines have had to do is reach the Class 2A state football championship game, and they cruise from there. A year after thumping Eunice – a team it had lost to earlier in the season – 44-7 in the finals, the Wolverines did the same against Santa Rosa on Saturday, posting a 50-0 win over the Lions in a game which ended on the 50-point mercy rule about a minute into the final quarter. Senior running back Alex Fuentes amassed 257 yards rush...
LOS LUNAS – Jeff Reed called it an “ugly” game. Still, winning ugly is better than the alternative. Clovis High’s girls shot 19-for-22 from the free throw line, including 6-of-6 in overtime, and rallied for a season-opening 62-58 victory over Valencia on Saturday afternoon. Senior guard Amanda De La Rosa scored a personal-best 19 points, including 4-of-9 from 3-point range and 5-of-5 from the foul line, while sophomore guard Gianna Cordova added 18 with 3-of-4 from distance, including a 3 to tie the game 54-54 with 21 seco...
ELIDA – Elida's basketball teams opened the season with resounding wins over Hondo on Tuesday night, the boys cruising 65-25 while the girls posted a 57-14 triumph. In the boys matchup, the Tigers opened a 16-5 lead at the quarter and never looked back. Senior Hayden Fraze tossed in 16 points and sophomore Hayden Wolf added 13 as all 12 Elida players reached the scorebook. For the Eagles, junior Ismael Ontiveros had eight points while senior Caleb Chavez and xxx Bryley M...
While Portales High’s girls have a veteran leader in Wade Fraze, the boys enter the 2024-25 basketball season with a new coach in Ty Thatcher. Both teams kick off their campaigns this week. The Rams welcome Los Alamos to the RAC for a 5:30 p.m. tip on Monday, while the Lady Rams start play on Thursday in a tournament at New Home, Texas. Girls – Fraze begins his 12th season at the helm with a squad that returns four starters from last season’s 20-9 (4-2 District 4-4A) contingent. “Hopefully, that experience will help us this...
Two Eastern New Mexico University athletes were among those named to the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024, according to an ENMU news release on Monday. Greyhound football players Steve Loy and Michael Sinclair are in the class that also includes New Mexico State’s Randy Brown (basketball) and Fredd Young (football), rodeo’s Roy Cooper, and Paralympian Alana Nichols. “These athletes and coaches have had significant careers, achieved high standards of athletic success, and contributed to sports, thereby bestowi...
BOVINA – Sophomore Isaac Tavera scored 15 points and junior Angel Lara added 10 on Monday night as Bovina’s boys used a big fourth quarter to turn back Friona 49-39. Tavera (two) and Lara (one) accounted for the Mustangs’ three 3-pointers. Bovina (1-1) was tied with the Chieftains (0-3) at halftime and through three quarters, but pulled away with a 16-6 edge in the final segment. Senior Justen Trevino tallied 16 points for Friona. Friona 40, Bovina 34 (girls) – Outside of the second quarter, the Squaws (4-1) had no more th...
With some recent wins, Eastern New Mexico University's women have made their all-time series against West Texas A&M look at least a little better. Senior guard Jayla Smith led three players in double figures with a season-best 20 points, shooting 8-of-11 from the field and 3-of-4 from 3-point range, and narrowly missed a double-double with nine rebounds as the Greyhounds handed WT a 74-57 shellacking in the Lone Star Conference opener for both teams on Saturday at Steve Loy Ar...
MELROSE – Heavily favored to repeat its 8-man football championship from a year ago, Melrose had just a little bit of trouble getting out of the gate on Saturday. Not to worry, though. The Buffaloes scored the final 40 points of the contest and throttled District 3 compatriot Mesilla Valley 62-12, the game ending about five minutes into the final stanza on the 50-point mercy rule. Senior quarterback Josiah Roybal threw for a pair of touchdowns and ran for two more, giving h...
EUNICE – The score was virtually identical to the teams’ first meeting this season, and once again Texico had to come from behind late to get past Eunice. Junior wide receiver Maverick Hawkins scored on an 82-yard pass play from junior quarterback Bennett Wahlen with about seven minutes remaining, and senior running back Alex Fuentes added the go-ahead 2-point conversion run as the top-seeded and top-ranked Wolverines rallied for a 36-27 win over the fifth-seeded Cardinals in the Class 2A state semifinals. In October, Tex...
RICHARSON, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University senior running back Ron Craten has been named to the All-Lone Star Conference first team in football in a release from the conference office this week. Craten, a transfer from Mississippi College and a native of Oak Grove, La., led the conference in rushing yards per game (109.33), rushing touchdowns (13) and points scored (78), rushing yards per game (108.4) and scoring per game (8.7). Playing in only nine games for the Greyhounds (3-8, 1-8 LSC), Craten finished third in rushi...
Metro State finally met its match in the Lone Star Conference. Coming in at 3-0 with all three coming against LSC opponents, the 19th-ranked Roadrunners saw that streak end on Wednesday night with a 93-84 loss at the hands of Eastern New Mexico University at Steve Loy Arena. Metro had previously beaten Sul Ross State (89-61), Texas-Tyler (62-59) and Texas A&M-Kingsville (88-77). Five players were in double figures for the Greyhounds (3-1), including junior guard Jaden Clarke...
LEVELLAND – Ropes put a relatively quick end to Farwell’s season on Friday night. The Eagles scored three times in the opening stanza and cruised to a 28-0 victory over the Steers in the bi-district (second) round of the Texas Class 2A Division II football playoffs. Senior running back Mason Marmolejo scored three times for Ropes (11-1) while sophomore quarterback Kaden Riker added the other TD, all on the ground. Ropes will face Wink (11-1) this weekend in a regional semifinal tilt, at a site and time to be determined. The W...
NAZARETH – A fast start helped Nazareth’s boys defeat Bovina 58-36 on Friday night. The Swifts (2-0) opened a 22-8 lead after one quarter, then put the game completely out of reach by outscoring the Mustangs 18-8 in the third stanza. High (19), Bacius (14) and Rogers (11) combined for 44 of Nazareth’s points. Sophomore Matthew Espinoza tallied 20 points for the Mustangs (0-2), including three of the team’s four 3-pointers. In Tuesday girls action: Farwell 65, Shallowater 56 – At Shallowater, the Lady Blue opened a 17-8 lead...
Clovis High’s basketball teams are gearing up for the start of the 2024-25 basketball season this week, both featuring many new faces on their rosters. The boys play at home on Tuesday against Albuquerque-based Atrisco Heritage at The Rock, then visit Rio Rancho on Saturday afternoon. Meantime, the Lady Wildcats’ opener is set for Saturday afternoon at Valencia. Boys – Corey Pickett, who has spent 11 years as an assistant coach in the Wildcats’ program, takes over a team this season which was 20-9 overall and 4-2 in Distric...
TEXICO – To say Texico barely broke a sweat on Saturday would probably have to be classified as a huge understatement. The Wolverines, defending Class 2A state champions and the top seed this year, ran nine plays in the first quarter – all in Navajo Prep territory – and scored five times en route to a 52-0 win over the Eagles in a quarterfinal round matchup ending at halftime on the 50-point rule. Next up for Texico (10-0) is a trip to fifth-seeded Eunice (9-3), a remat...
