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When the Clovis and Portales High softball teams met early in the season at Lady Wildcat Field, the teams combined for two football scores in a doubleheader swept by the Lady Rams. Wednesday's rematch – pushed back a day by Tuesday's rain – turned out much differently. Portales won both games again, but took the opener 14-8 after trailing 8-0 early and then squeaked out a 3-2 victory with a run in the seventh in Game 2. "I feel like we're doing things in midseason that we sho...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls outlasted Artesia to take third place in the seven-team Roswell Goddard Invite on Thursday, played at Spring River Golf Course. Sophomore Kylie Sprinkle led the Lady Wildcats, shooting 48-45 – 93, followed by junior Kayleigh Maldonado 49-47 – 96, senior Emilee Spears 53-54 – 107 and junior Jordan Archuleta 61-58 – 119. Lovington took team honors at 370, followed by Goddard 386, CHS 415, Artesia 420, Hobbs 531, Portales 444 and Gateway Christian 473. Individual medalist honors went to Lovington’s...
Had things gone according to plan, Clovis High's tennis girls might be looking at a big District 4-5A win over Carlsbad. Illness limited junior Madita Evert, the Lady Wildcats' No. 1 singles player, to just doubles against the Cavegirls. Then sophomore Emily Bjorklund had to default at No. 4 singles due to a leg injury with a 6-1, 2-1 lead over Carlsbad freshman Charise Young. The final result was a 6-3 victory for the Cavegirls in the district opener for both sides. Carlsbad...
Mario Martinez qualifier Saturday at Fort Sumner Boys Team standings: 1. Clovis JV 71; 2. Santa Rosa 64; 3. Clayton 50; 4. Fort Sumner 41; 5. Melrose 40; 6. Springer 36; 7. Tucumcari 27; 8. Texico 22; 9. Estancia 20; 10. Dexter 18; 11. Elida 17; 12. Floyd 10; 13. Portales JV 6. Area results Field events Long jump: 2. Isaias Nieto, Floyd 19-8; 5. Spencer Eldridge, Melrose 17-9 ¼. Triple jump: 2. Ethan Gutierrez, Clovis JV 34-4; 3. Kyden Everett, Clovis JV 34-1 ½; 4. Issak Bustamante, Floyd 33-7; 5. Benton Cain, Floyd 33-5. S...
Clovis High's girls won two of three doubles matches on Monday to eke out a 5-4 tennis victory over Roswell Goddard at the CHS tennis courts. Meantime, the boys had no such concerns, rolling to a 9-0 sweep as the Rockets managed to win only 15 total games. It was the start of a busy week for the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats, all at home. Clovis is slated to host District 4-5A foe Roswell High in non-district duals today, with the actual district slate beginning on Friday...
JAL – Texico scored in all but one inning on Monday and the Wolverines cruised to a 15-4 victory over Jal. Senior Daltyn Cain went 3-for-5 with a double, scoring three times and knocking in one, while senior Erik Davalos was 2-for-4 and hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning. Leading 4-1, the Wolverines (3-5) broke the contest open with a six-run fourth. Senior Kyle Gonser was 2-for-4 with an RBI and scored twice while sophomore Hunter Bowman finished 2-for-5 with a triple and three RBIs. Senior Easton Cooper was the w...
SNYDER, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s women finished sixth while the men were 10th in the Western Texas College rodeo. Junior Shacie Marr earned all-around honors on the women’s side, taking fifth after a 7.1-second run in Saturday’s short go while partnering with junior Justin McCormick in team roping to claim fifth place in the short go. She just missed making it to the finals in barrel racing, her time of 14.15 coming up .04 seconds short of qualifying. For the men, junior Blasé Steffen partnered with Ranger’s...
HOBBS – Clovis and Portales High track squads competed with less than full contingents in Friday’s Gene Wells Relays, holding some of the younger athletes back for Saturday’s Mario Martinez qualifier at Fort Sumner. Team scores were not available for the meet. “We ran a little more of a targeted meet,” CHS boys coach Mark Sena said. “For the most part, we did OK. We improved our times in the 4-by-1 and 4-by-2 (relays), and we had some other personal bests.” Junior Sammy Fuentes posted a pair of wins for the Wildcats, taking f...
SANTA FE – Portales High’s baseball team scored six runs each in the fourth and fifth innings to break open the game in a 14-0, five-inning triumph over Pecos on Saturday in the third-place contest of the St. Michael’s Invitational. Sophomore left-hander Carson Pfaffenberger went the distance for PHS (7-4) and allowed just a pair of singles to the Panthers (4-4), including one of the infield variety. He had two walks and six strikeouts. Leading 2-0, the Rams got a two-run triple from senior Noah Swift in the fourth and a two...
Luciano Terilli had a tough time in his first pitching start for Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team on Sunday, but he sure delivered at the plate. So did almost everyone else. The junior left-hander, normally the Greyhounds' closer, was thrust into the starting role in the wind-blown finale of a Lone Star Conference series against Arkansas-Fort Smith at Greyhound Field. He lasted three innings on the mound, giving up eight runs, but as the designated hitter from the...
DENTON, Texas – Texas Woman’s senior right-hander Alyssa LeBlanc pitched her second complete game of the series and the Pioneers defeated Eastern New Mexico University 7-3 on Monday to win the three-game Lone Star Conference set. The games were originally slated for Tuesday and today, but due projected thunderstorms during that time in the Denton area they were moved up a couple of days. LeBlanc (10-10) shut out the Greyhounds until the sixth inning, finishing with a five-hitter, five walks and eight strikeouts. Mea...
EUNICE – After some early-season trouncings, Clovis High’s young softball team – whose 14-player roster includes five freshmen and five sophomores – is hopefully making some progress. Tuesday night, the Lady Wildcats had early leads in both games and hung tight with Eunice before dropping 4-2 and 9-5 decisions to the Lady Cardinals. Earlier in the campaign, Eunice handed Clovis a 14-0 setback at Lady Wildcat Field. CHS (2-10) jumped on Eunice for a pair of runs in the top of the first in the opener, one coming on a double by...
ROSWELL – Senior Jett Stone shared medalist honors with a round of three-over-par 39-36 – 75 on Tuesday, helping Clovis High’s boys to a share of third place with New Mexico Military at 339 in Roswell High’s seven-team Coyote Classic golf tournament, played at NMMI’s course. Meantime, sophomore Kylie Sprinkle was fourth overall at 47-41 – 88, helping the Lady Wildcats tie for third with Hobbs at 417. Stone shared first place with Gateway Christian’s Troy Oswald. Artesia won the boys’ division at 319, followed by Roswell Godda...
ROSWELL – Senior Jasiah Mendoza’s two-run double broke a tie in the top of the seventh and boosted Clovis High’s baseball team to a 4-2 victory over Roswell Goddard in the opener of a doubleheader on Tuesday night. Senior right-hander Michael Mathison tossed a five-hit shutout in Game 2 to give the Rockets a 2-0 victory and a split of the twin bill. Mendoza led the Cats’ nine-hit attack, going 3-for-4 and driving in a run with a first-inning hit. Senior Koby Rivera’s RBI single helped CHS take a 2-0 lead in the frame, bu...
SANTA FE – Portales High’s softball team has had a fairly easy path to the finals of the eight-team St. Michael’s Invitational. After rolling to a quick win over Zuni in Thursday’s quarterfinals, the Lady Rams jumped on Santa Fe Indian for 10 runs in the first two innings in Friday’s semifinals to post a 13-3 win. Portales (7-4) was slated to face Santa Fe High – a team it beat 12-1 last weekend – in Saturday’s championship clash. PHS posted a six-run first against the Lady Braves, highlighted by a bases-loaded tr...
SANTA FE – Senior right-hander Elijah Archuleta tossed a five-hit shutout and senior first baseman John Leeder clubbed a two-run double during a five-run, third-inning rally as host St. Michael's blanked Portales High 6-0 in Friday's semifinals of the St. Michael's Invitational. With the loss, the Rams (6-4) were slated to play for third place on Saturday against Pecos (4-3), a 7-1 loser against Cobre in Friday's other semifinal tilt. Archuleta walked two and struck out n...
Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball coach Brent Owen has accepted the head coaching job at Lenoir-Rhyne University, an NCAA Division II program in Hickory, N.C. In a release from ENMU, Owen said the decision comes with “the opportunity to get my children closer to their grandparents and cousins and to put my wife, Ashley, in a better position for her career.” Owen was hired by ENMU prior to the 2020-21 season, which was later canceled due to COVID-19. After a 7-18 record in 2021-22, the Hounds won 17 games the f...
Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team has gone from a solid position in the Lone Star Conference standings to all but out of the postseason. On Friday, the Greyhounds were competitive against Arkansas-Fort Smith, but couldn’t come up with enough offense in dropping 3-1 and 4-3 decisions to the Lions at Greyhound Field. Originally, the four-game series called for single nine-inning games on Friday and today and a pair of sevens on Saturday, but due to expected high winds ENMU decided to go with the twin bill on Fri...
Demon Invitational Thursday at Dexter Boys Team standings: 1. Lovington 109 ½; 2. Portales 77; 3. Socorro 71 ½; 4. Hagerman 56; 5. Ruidoso 38 ½; 6. Dexter 33 ½; 7. Loving 31; 8. East Mountain 30; 9. Eunice 20; 10. Tularosa 12; 11. Mescalero 4; 12. Jal 1. Portales results Field events Long jump: 5. Lazarus Pitts 19-1. Javelin: 1. Manny Chavez 187-8; 2. Antonio Bonilla 156-4. Pole vault: 3. Tommy Lopez 11-6. Track events 400 relay: 1. Anthony Cordova, Ja’Lyn Johnson, Kaidyn Cordova, Jacob Valencia 45.90. 110 hurdles: 2. Manny...
Eastern New Mexico University's track squads hosted their first home meet since 2019 with the Greyhound Invite on Saturday at Greyhound Stadium. The meet was a triangular, also including Wayland Baptist and Hardin-Simmons, and no team scores were kept. Final results in some of the events were not available as of Tuesday morning due to glitches in the system. Still, coach Josh Hardin said the meet was an overall success. "It was amazing," he said after the meet. "To be able to...
GRADY – It looked like a football linescore – Grady scored 14 in the first, three in the second, six in the third and seven in the fourth. The result was a 30-3 victory over winless Jal on Monday, keeping the Bronchos undefeated for the young season at 5-0. The game was called after 4 ½ innings because of the 10-run rule. Senior Zane Rush went 4-for-4 with eight RBIs – a grand slam, a three-run homer and an RBI single. He also drew a walk and scored five runs. Freshmen Andre Garcia and Hays Rush both finished 3-for-4 for Gr...
Routed in its first three meetings this season against Roswell Goddard, Clovis High's softball team managed to throw a bit of a scare into the Lady Rockets on Saturday. Down 7-1 in the fourth inning, the Lady Wildcats pulled to within a run in the sixth but couldn't complete the rally in an 8-6 setback at Lady Wildcat Field. Goddard (10-5) swept the four-game season series from CHS, but after outscoring the Lady Cats 54-1 in the first three tilts – including a 15-0, three-inni...
Eastern New Mexico University's spring football drills came to an end on Friday night with coach Kelley Lee and his staff getting a look at players in game situations in the program's annual Green and Silver intrasquad game at Greyhound Stadium. The Green squad defeated Silver 13-3. Lee said he and his staff were pleased with how the spring drills went. "It was really good," Lee said. "We were able to evaluate our kids. Our young kids got a lot better." Nearly 80 players took...
TYLER, Texas – If it hopes to reach the Lone Star Conference baseball tournament for a second consecutive year, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team will need to come out of its recent funk. And soon. The slumping Greyhounds struggled through the final three games of their Lone Star Conference series against Texas-Tyler over the weekend, dropping a doubleheader on Friday and the getaway game on Saturday as their losing streak reached seven games. Junior left-hander Kolby Parker (2-1) and senior right-hander Log...
LAS CRUCES – The Clovis High baseball team was expecting to take it easy during spring break this week, with no games scheduled. At the last minute, though, a doubleheader at Mayfield was added to accommodate a trip the Trojans made last spring to Bell Park. All’s well that ends well, as the Wildcats posted 5-4 and 11-6 victories to improve to 8-5 for the campaign. “It was huge for us,” CHS coach Richard Cruce said. “The kids just said, ‘Let’s go out there and go play.’” In the opener, the Cats rallied for three runs in the...
