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SOCORRO – If this keeps up, Texico might be inclined to add Paige Mallorey to the staff for all its sports. So far she’s gone 2-for-2, winning a Class 2A state title in volleyball as an assistant coach in the fall and adding the 1-3A girls state championship in golf on Tuesday. Down by nine strokes to host Socorro after Monday’s opening round, Texico put four players in the top 13 in the tournament and pulled away to six-stroke team victory (792-798) over the Lady Warriors at the New Mexico Tech golf course. “I think the girl...
Eastern New Mexico University has selected Kevin Fite as its next athletic director, the school announced in a release on Thursday. He is scheduled to begin his new duties on July 1. Fite, who spent the last 13 years as the senior associate athletics director for compliance at Oklahoma State. He brings nearly 35 years of athletic administrative experience from Oklahoma State, Houston and the NCAA national office. ENMU began the search for a permanent AD after Paul Weir resigned in October and accepted a position as deputy...
District 4-5A Friday at Roswell Boys Team standings: 1. Hobbs 110; 2. Roswell High 85 ½; 3. Clovis 60; 4. Carlsbad 47 ½. Clovis results Field events Long jump: 4. Max Roche 19-6 1/2. Triple jump: 4. Seven Chapman 35-11. Shot put: 1. Jeremiah Johnson 50-5 ¾; 3. Aiden Brown 49-6. Javelin: 2. Kohen Matus 150-4. Track events 100: 3. Kyrese Phillips 11.64. 200: 1. Kash Roberts 23.14. 800: 3. Sammy Fuentes 2:01.94. 1,600: 1. Sammy Fuentes 4:38.32; 3. Victor Gorostieta 4:48.19. 3,200: 3. Victor Gorostieta 10:46.35. 400 relay: 2. Ka...
SAN ANTONIO – Eastern New Mexico University junior catcher Samantha Gutierrez has been named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-South Central Region softball second team. Last week, Gutierrez was named to the all-region second team selected by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. In 2024, the San Diego, Calif. native helped the Greyhounds (26-26) reach the quarterfinals of the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament, hitting a team-best .379 with 17 doubles, 10 home runs, 45 runs batted i...
SOCORRO – Senior Liz Elam had a share of the individual lead and Texico’s girls were lodged in second place, nine shots beck of host Socorro, after Monday’s opening day of the state Class 1-3A golf tournament at the New Mexico Tech golf course. The Lady Warriors came in with a team score of 403 to 412 for the Lady Wolverines. St. Michael’s was third at 437, followed by Dexter at 452 and Gateway Christian at 474. Elam, who finished fifth in last year’s state tourney, shot 41-47 – 88 and shared the lead with Santa Fe Prep’s J...
SAN ANGELO, Texas – Strong performances in field events helped propel Eastern New Mexico University’s women to a third-place team finish over the weekend in the Lone Star Conference outdoor track championships, hosted by Angelo State. The Greyhounds tallied 68 ½ points in the 11-team get-together, the best showing in program history. ENMU’s men were seventh out of 12 teams with 48 points. West Texas A&M dominated the meet, winning its fourth consecutive title in both divisions. The Buffaloes ran up 284 ½ points to 122 ½ f...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls scored in everything except long jump, the 100 and the 200 on Friday to claim second place in District 4-5A track competition. The Lady Wildcats finished with 81 points, well behind first-place Hobbs with 133 but comfortably ahead of Roswell High (47) and Carlsbad 42. Meantime, the CHS boys were third with 60 points, behind Hobbs (110) and Roswell High (85 ½). Carlsbad tallied 47 ½ points. Junior Gabrielle Foggie, the defending Class 5A girls state champion in the 400, ran a season-best time...
It was a satisfying day overall for Portales High sophomore Skyler Massey, especially in high jump. Massey set a personal best, clearing five feet to win the event and help the Lady Rams to a second-place team finish in Friday's District 4-4A meet at Greyhound Stadium. Now she has her sights on a possible win in Class 4A state competition in Albuquerque this weekend. "My goal is to PR (set a personal record) again in high jump, and hopefully in every event," Massey said....
GRANTS – At the end of the day, it just wasn’t in the cards for Portales High’s baseball team. The 15th-seeded Rams gave it a great shot in Friday’s opener of the best-of-3, Class 4A first-round playoff series, only to see Grants rally late for a 4-3 win. Saturday’s game turned out to be no contest. The Pirates (22-6) jumped on top 4-0 in the first inning, then finished off a 10-run rule win with six in the sixth to oust the Rams 13-3. “We started off bad and ended bad,” Rams coach Arturo Ontiveros said of Saturday’s cl...
GALLUP – Portales High’s softball team gave top-seeded Gallup all it wanted in Saturday’s opening round of the Class 4A state tournament, but the Lady Bengals made a pair of first-inning tallies stand up for a 2-0 victory. Sophomore Morgan Belone went 2-for-3 with a double for the Lady Bengals (20-5), and knocked in both runs in the first inning. Senior Brenna Becenti finished 2-for-2 and scored a run. Freshman Annaleah Lujan went the distance in the circle for the Lady Rams (10-16), allowing just six hits with three walks...
RIO RANCHO – Seeded 15th, Clovis High’s baseball team gave No. 2 Rio Rancho a run for its money in their Class 5A opening-round best-of-three series over the weekend. In the end, the Wildcats came up short, dropping a 2-0 decision to the Rams in Saturday’s second game, winning the series 2-0. Rio Rancho (24-4) advanced to a 10 a.m. Thursday quarterfinal matchup at Jennifer Riordan Spark Kindness Sports Complex in Albuquerque against seventh-seeded Carlsbad (21-7), which completed a sweep of Centennial on Saturday by edgin...
ALBUQUERQUE – Three area teams came home with second-place finishes in small-school state track competition over the weekend at the University of New Mexico’s track complex. District 6-1A rival Logan, led by a strong performance from junior Hayden Judd, nipped Melrose 100-98 for the Class 1A boys team championship. The teams were tied 90-90 going into the 1,600 relay finale, and the Longhorns finished first in the event while the Buffaloes were second. Meantime, Texico led for much of Class 2A boys meet before defending cha...
TEXICO – Finally, a close game against Pecos went Texico's way, and the Wolverines are advancing to the Class 2A state quarterfinals because of it. Texico erased deficits of 5-0, 10-8 and 12-11, scoring twice in the bottom of the seventh to nip District 6-2A rival Pecos 13-12 on Wednesday night. It's the third time in four meetings this season that the teams have played tight, high-scoring contests decided late. The Panthers won the first two, erasing an 8-0 deficit for an 1...
LUBBOCK – Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team, which had previously earned only one Gold Glove award in All-Lone Star Conference postseason picks, had three in selections announced on Wednesday at the conference’s baseball awards banquet, held in conjunction with the start of a four-team, double-elimination conference tournament. Juniors Beau Preston at first base, Demetrio Archuleta at second and Tucker Gideon in the outfield notched gold gloves. Meantime, junior left fielder/relief pitcher Luciano Terilli was n...
MELROSE – There's nothing like getting off to a quick start to take the suspense out of things. Defending Class 1A champion Melrose did just that on Wednesday, getting a three-run homer from junior catcher Dathan Yeary before anyone had been retired in the bottom of the first and rolling to a 19-0 win over Magdalena in a state quarterfinal game shortened to 4 ½ cantos by the 10-run rule. The third-seeded Buffaloes (12-6), who defeated District 3-1A rival Logan13-7 in l...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis and Portales’ girls had no luck in Wednesday’s opening round of state tennis competition. At Jerry Cline Tennis Center, the Lady Wildcats had one entry in singles and one in doubles in Class 5A, while the Lady Rams had a doubles entry in Class 1-4A at Albuquerque Academy. For the Lady Cats, junior Hannah Lingala lost a 6-0, 6-0 decision to third-seeded senior Ellise Jay of Mayfield in singles. Jay advanced with a 6-2, 6-3 quarterfinal victory over La Cueva junior Varinn Sood, but she bowed out in the s...
Saturday at Logan District 6-2A Boys Team standings: 1. Santa Rosa 174 ½; 2. Texico 128 ½; 3. Pecos 85; 4. Clayton 44. Texico results Field events High jump: 1. Keaton Dumas 5-10; 2. Alex Fuentes 5-8; 3. Luke Thompson 5-8; 6. Nathan Autrey 5-4. Long jump: 5. Jaheim Moses 16-11. Triple jump: 6. James Hawkins, 35-5. Shot put: 2. Cade Figg 40-10; 6. Daniel Harrison 32-3. Discus: 2. Cade Figg 135-2; 4. Taye Smith 128-1 ½. Javelin: 1. Alex Fuentes 133-5 ¾; 6. Kye Conley 90-8. Track events 200: 2. Jaheim Moses 25.16; 6. Kye Con...
ALBUQUERQUE – The track season comes to an end this weekend for New Mexico Class 1A, 2A and 3A schools with state competition on tap Friday and Saturday at the University of New Mexico track facility. A total of 54 boys and 54 girls will represent the area in the smaller two divisions, with Texico in Class 2A sending 11 boys and 18 girls. Area boys Class 1A schools will have 11 representatives from Melrose, 10 from Floyd, nine from Elida, seven from Grady and six from Dora, while on the girls side, Melrose is sending 15, D...
LOGAN – Melrose recovered from a heartbreaking loss in Game 1 to beat Logan 4-2 and gain a split of Friday's District 3-1A baseball doubleheader. The Longhorns (16-4, 7-2 district), who rallied to win the opener 6-3 in eight innings, clinched the district title while the Buffaloes (11-6, 6-3) were second. On Sunday, Logan earned the top seed and one of two first-round byes in the Class 1A state tournament, while Melrose was given the third seed and hosts sixth-seeded M...
ROSWELL – Texico's girls shot a four-person score of 377 to post a lopsided victory in Monday's District 4-1/3A golf tournament, played at the New Mexico Military golf course, and qualify for next week's state tournament at the New Mexico Tech golf course in Socorro. Dexter was a distant second at 430, while Gateway Christian shot 454 and Ruidoso came in a 474. Texico senior Liz Elam took medalist honors, shooting 39-42 – 81. Other Lady Wolverines scores were senior Sie...
Friday was the final night of the regular season for the Clovis and Portales High softball teams, and it was definitely tough sledding for both squads. Portales, though, did get a bid to the Class 4A tournament on Sunday. The Lady Rams (10-15, 5-9 District 4-4A) were seeded 16th and travel to No. 1 seed Gallup for a 4 p.m. first-round tilt on Friday. At Artesia, the Lady Bulldogs were rude hosts to Portales on Friday night, sweeping the twin bill 19-0 and 12-0. The Lady Rams...
HOBBS – Clovis High’s girls are sending three players to Class 5A state tennis competition, scheduled for today and Thursday at Jerry Cline Tennis Center in Albuquerque. Junior Hansini Lingala will represent the Lady Wildcats in singles after finishing second in Friday’s District 4-5A tournament, while senior Hannah Heath and junior Madita Ewert won the district tournament in doubles. Lingala will take on third-seeded senior Ellise Jay of Mayfield in her first-round match at 3 p.m. The winner moves on to the 7 p.m. quart...
Portales High's baseball team seemingly was cruising to a District 4-4A doubleheader sweep of Lovington on Friday at Ram Field when suddenly the wind started blowing. It nearly caused the roof to fall in on the Rams. Senior left-hander Edel Legarda pitched 3 2/3 innings of perfect ball before the Wildcats began to put some things together. With the wind picking up, they scored four times in the sixth, then threated to overtake the Rams in the seventh before an unusual double...
LOVINGTON – Clovis High’s girls earned 1-2 finishes from freshmen in both the 1,600 and the 300 hurdles on Friday to claim team honors in Lovington’s Ross Black Relays, which concluded the regular season. The Lady Wildcats posted 118 points in the six-school event to outlast Carlsbad (106) and Portales High (95), followed by Roswell High (63), Roswell Goddard (56) and Lovington (26). Team scores were not provided by Lovington on New Mexico MileSplit and were unofficial. Lovington captured the boys team title, finishing with...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s baseball team essentially had its destiny in its hands going into Friday’s District 4-5A and season-ending doubleheader against Roswell High. With a sweep, the Wildcats could have finished second in the district and perhaps locked in a reasonably good seed in the upcoming 16-team Class 5A state tournament. A split would have all but assured a berth, but the Cats left it in the hands of the New Mexico Activities Association selection committee after dropping 11-9 and 2-1 decisions, relegating them...
