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ROSWELL – It was a struggle, but Elida outscored Gateway Christian 11-2 in the final stanza to edge the homestanding Warriors 55-52 on Thursday in District 4-1A boys action. Junior Hardy Fraze scored nine of his team-leading 15 points in the fourth quarter as the Tigers (13-10, 6-0) stayed atop the district standings. They’ll get a forfeit win on Tuesday against Lake Arthur, which has ended its season due to lack of numbers, before hosting Dora (13-8, 5-1) on Friday with the district’s regular-season title possibly on the l...
For about 12 innings, it looked like the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team was well on its way to a Lone Star Conference doubleheader sweep on Friday at Greyhound Field. But junior center fielder Dalton Kramer capped a three-run sixth with a tying two-run double, and an RBI double by senior right fielder Jake Chapman in the seventh lifted Texas A&M-Kingsville to a 7-6 victory. In the opener, the Hounds put together a six-run first, junior left fielder Luciano Terilli went 3-for-3 with a walk and junior right-hander...
CANYON, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s final two scheduled games in the West Texas A&M Invitational were canceled due to the prospect of inclement weather. On Saturday morning, the Greyhounds (7-1) completed a 3-0 run through the event with a 10-2, run-rule victory over Colorado State-Pueblo. All of the team’s games so far have been against Rocky Mountain Conference opposition. After beating Colorado-Colorado Springs 9-2 and Fort Lewis 3-2 on Friday, the Hounds broke through for three runs in the bottom of the third...
Amber Campbell, a former Tucumcari resident, was among eight people named Saturday to the Class of 2023 for the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame. Campbell, 42, who said she gained her love for sports as a child in Tucumcari, was a USA Olympian in 2008, 2012 and 2016 in the hammer throw. At Coastal Carolina University, she was a five-time NCAA All-American in the weight throw, hammer throw, shot put and discus. She won 11 national track titles and was a two-time Pan American Games medalist. At Tucumcari, she qualified as an...
LAREDO, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s Lone Star Conference baseball series against Texas A&M International certainly didn’t end well. Looking for a series win over the Dustdevils, the Greyhounds (4-4, 4-4 LSC ) instead settled for their second split of the season with a 7-4 loss in Sunday’s finale. An RBI single by junior designated hitter Nomar Prieto and a pair of bases-loaded walks in the second spelled the end of the day for ENMU freshman right-hander Kinter Logan (0-2) and put the Hounds in a 3-1 hole. They cu...
SILVER CITY – Clovis High’s girls will send sophomore Sophie Collazo to the state wrestling tournament after she earned third place in Region 2 competition over the weekend at Silver H.S. The Lady Wildcats, with five girls competing, finished 20th in a 33-team field with 36 points. Atrisco Heritage won the team championship with 194 points to 147 for runnerup Roswell Goddard. Collazo (12-15 for the season) went 5-1 in the tournament, losing only to Valley’s Lorelei Troncoso on a first-period fall in her second match. She c...
LITTLEFIELD – Farwell’s girls opened Texas Class 2A playoff action on Monday with a dominating 67-28 victory over New Deal. The Lady Blue (30-3), ranked second in 2A behind Martins Mills and winners of 16 in a row since a loss at Class 5A Amarillo Tascosa in December, advance to a 6 p.m. (CST) area round matchup on Friday against Clarendon (28-2) at West Plains H.S. in Amarillo. Farwell had no trouble with the Lady Lions (21-15), blowing out to a 39-10 halftime lead. Nine players scored for the Lady Blue, led by junior Bel...
MELROSE – The Melrose Buffaloes were up against it – another loss and their District 6-1A hopes would be shattered. In all likelihood, they would’ve been relegated to third place in the district. Not that that’s so bad – the top three teams in Class 1A all reside in the district. On Saturday night, the second-ranked Buffs erased an 11-point, second-quarter deficit, outscoring top-ranked Logan 12-5 in overtime for a 79-74 victory. Melrose (19-3, 2-2 district) and Logan (21-3, 2-2) are tied for second in the district behind de...
LAWTON, Okla. – For the second time in Lone Star Conference play, Eastern New Mexico University’s men put together a furious late rally on the road, only to fall short. Cameron was in control for most of Saturday’s Lone Star Conference matchup, but had to fend off the Greyhounds in the closing seconds for an 84-80 victory. The result lifted the Aggies (15-8, 11-6 LSC) one-half game ahead of the Hounds and into third place in the West Division standings. ENMU (14-8, 10-6) still holds the No. 5 seed for the LSC’s post-se...
ALBUQUERQUE – Former Eastern New Mexico University basketball player and Texas Tech baseball coach Larry Hays of Dora and former Olympic track athlete Amber Campbell of Tucumcari are among eight persons named to the 2023 class of inductees for the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame. The announcement was made on Saturday in a press conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Others chosen were University of New Mexico skiing coach George Brooks, former New Mexico State and NBA guard Charlie Criss, former New Mexico H...
DORA – Seniors Bre'Ann Rodriguez and Faith Jasso combined for 29 points and Dora's girls stayed perfect in District 4-1A play on Thursday night with a 47-36 victory over Gateway Christian. Rodriguez scored 15 points and Jasso 14 for the Lady Coyotes (14-6, 5-0 district), who opened a 14-4 lead at the quarter. Sophomore Justice Deason added 10 points for Dora. The Lady Warriors (11-9, 3-2) were paced by 10 points from senior Riley Strickland. In other girls action on T...
FORT SUMNER – Melrose held Fort Sumner to eight first-half points and the Lady Buffs, ranked third in Class 1A by MaxPreps, posted a 47-34 win over the second-ranked Vixens in a District 6-1A clash. Sophomore Skyler Wicker led Melrose (18-3, 2-1 district) with 14 points while senior Graci Odom added 12 on four of the Lady Buffs’ nine 3-pointers. Melrose led 24-8 at the intermission, fought off a third-quarter rally by the Vixens (17-5, 3-1) and pulled away with an 18-point fourth quarter. Junior cousins Emmarie and All...
CANYON, Texas – Taighen Whitzel has gotten off to quite a start this season for Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team. The senior designated player from Carlsbad delivered a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh on Friday, capping a two-run rally which lifted the Greyhounds to a 3-2 win over Fort Lewis in the West Texas A&M Invitational. Whitzel went 2-for-4, actually lowering her batting average through seven games to .727 (16-for-22). She’s collected eight extra-base hits and driven in 13 runs. Trail...
PECOS – Texico broke open a tight game with a dominating fourth quarter on Friday and the Wolverines maintained their spot atop the District 6-2A standings with a 68-54 victory over Pecos. Leading by a point, Texico (12-10, 3-0 district) outscored the Panthers 22-9 in the final stanza to win going away. Senior Cade Figg, junior Alex Fuentes and freshman Jett Curtis all had 14 points in the victory, with Figg scoring all of his in the second half, including 11 in the final s...
Several Clovis High athletes are poised to begin the next phase of their athletic careers. In a ceremony on Wednesday at Rock Staubus Gym, volleyball player Elizabeth Warwick and football players Aiden Brown, Jeremiah Johnson and Kohen Matus were the focus of attention. Warwick, an outside hitter/middle blocker for the Lady Wildcats, is headed to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview as a walk-on. Brown and Johnson signed national letters of intent at Eastern New Mexico...
LAREDO, Texas – Senior shortstop Isaac Gonzales led off a four-run fifth with a game-tying home run and Texas A&M International went on to notch its first win of the season by beating Eastern New Mexico University 8-5 in the opener of a four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series on Friday afternoon. Junior third baseman Abiam Medina led a 13-hit attack for International (1-5, 1-4 LSC), going 3-for-3 with a solo homer, a walk, two runs scored and three runs batted in. ENMU (2-3, 2-3), coming off a four-game split with t...
Eastern New Mexico University football coach Kelley Lee and his staff have announced the signing of 69 high school prospects to national letters of intent for the 2024 season, including six from the immediate area. Lee said he thinks the local athletes have a chance to be significant contributors over time. They include linemen Jeremiah Johnson and Aiden Brown from Clovis, defensive back Tillmon Richards and wide receiver Zane Mayberry from Portales and wide receiver/defensive back Michael Cardonita and inside linebacker...
If nothing else, Clovis High's boys showed they could win a slugfest on Friday night. Plagued by inconsistent shooting, not to mention 23 turnovers, the Wildcats gutted one out against Roswell High, winning their District 4-5A matchup 53-47 at Rock Staubus Gym. Senior center Marvin Cox scored 21 points and may well have had a triple-double with rebounds and blocked shots. What shots he didn't block, he often changed. "We put ourselves in a hole early, but we found a way to win...
LOVINGTON – It's been a rough week for Portales High's boys. The Rams got off to a good start on Friday, with junior forward Paxton Culpepper and junior guard Bradley Aguilar each converting a pair of 3-point shots en route to a six-point lead at the quarter against Lovington. But the Wildcats took control with a 15-8 scoring edge in the third segment and claimed a 57-51 District 4-4A victory over the Rams. Sophomore forward Kayle Covington scored 19 points for Lovington (...
LOVINGTON – Lovington’s girls had lost four of their previous six games coming in, but everyone agrees the Lady Wildcats have their best team in some time. Buoyed by a strong first half, Lovington created a three-way tie at the top in District 4-4A on Friday with a 57-46 victory over Portales High. The Lady Wildcats (15-8, 2-1 district) scored 36 first-half points and never looked back. “We just didn’t come ready to play,” Lady Rams coach Wade Fraze said. “We didn’t play...
WICHITA FALLS, Texas – It’s still going to take a lot of work, but Eastern New Mexico University’s women kept their slim hopes of a Lone Star Conference tournament berth alive on Thursday night. Senior guard/forward Deja Adrian spearheaded a game-ending 6-0 run over the final two minutes to lift the Greyhounds past Midwestern State 65-60 in the first game of a four-game road swing. Freshman guard Jaz Salon scored a season-best 22 points while Adrian followed closely with 21 for the Greyhounds (8-13, 4-11 LSC), who are still s...
Coming in with little to lose and pretty much everything to gain, Fort Sumner gave Clovis High's boys a pretty good fight most of the way. In the end, though, the Wildcats had a bit too much depth, length and athleticism for the defending Class 1A state champion Foxes, and they pulled away behind a triple-double from 6-foot-7 senior center Marvin Cox for a 68-54 victory in Saturday's matchup at Rock Staubus Gym. Cox finished with 16 points, 21 rebounds and 10 blocks,...
TEXICO – Texico jumped out to a 13-point halftime lead and held on to beat third-ranked Santa Rosa 57-52 on Saturday to take the early lead in the boys District 6-2A race. The Wolverines (10-10, 2-0 district) put four players in double figures, led by senior Cade Figg with 17 points. Meantime, senior Daltyn Cain, junior Alex Fuentes and freshman Jett Curtis all finished with 11. The Lions (16-5, 1-1) went on a 22-13 run in the third canto to pull close as sophomore Maddox Lucero, scoreless at halftime, funneled in 16 of h...
Losing a series finale is always difficult. In this case, though, Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team came away feeling pretty good – despite an 8-0 setback on Sunday – after splitting a season-opening, four-game Lone Star Conference set against top-ranked and defending NCAA Division II champion Angelo State at Greyhound Field. That's certainly better than last year, when the Greyhounds were routed in four games by a combined score of 39-6 to open the campaign at San...
No Jahcoree Ealy? At least so far, no problem for Eastern New Mexico University's men. While Ealy – the Lone Star Conference scoring leader – awaits a ruling on what Greyhounds coach Brent Owen has termed "an NCAA situation," ENMU went about its business in impressive fashion over the weekend, capped by Saturday's 95-82 victory over Texas-Permian Basin at Greyhound Arena. It's not to say the Hounds won't need Ealy back; they're obviously much better off with him. Owen sai...
