Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Eastern New Mexico University got its indoor track season rolling on Friday in Northern Arizona University’s Axe ’Em Open. Junior Hernon Joseph highlighted ENMU performances with an NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark in long jump of 23 feet, 10 inches, good for third place and the top mark so far in the Lone Star Conference. Meantime, freshman Jamoi Jackson posted what would have been a provisional time in the 60-meter dash (6.83 seconds), but conversion due to altitude made it 6.87 and left him t...
ARTESIA – Junior Julia Spears and freshman Molly Kidd each posted an individual win and both swam on two relays to help Clovis High's girls capture the team championship in Saturday's Artesia Invitational swimming meet. Clovis finished with 157 team points to 134 for Artesia in the 11-school competition. Meantime, the Clovis boys were third with 111 points, trailing Hobbs (154) and Artesia (112). "It was a good meet," CHS co-coach Vincent de Mayo said, noting that the u...
LUBBOCK – Down by one point at halftime, Farwell put together back-to-back 20-point quarters to pull away from Lubbock Christian 69-53 on Tuesday night. Sophomore Braddock Foster poured in 21 points for the Steers (13-9). Junior Ryder McElroy and senior Ruben Molina each added 11 points. The loss ended a six-game winning streak for the Lions (12-6). Leading the way for Lubbock Christian were seniors Trew Farris with 14 points and Carson Farnsley with 13. In other area boys action on Tuesday: Gruver 82, Bovina 32 – At Bov...
ALAMOGORDO – Portales High’s girls used a strong second quarter to pull away from Alamogordo en route to a 48-32 victory on Friday night. It was the fourth consecutive win for PHS (12-4) in the Lady Rams’ third true road game of the campaign. Junior guard Myleigh Banda scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds for Portales. Junior guard Angel Ornelas added 12 points, including seven in the final stanza, and added five assists. Portales stretched a one-point lead to 20-10 at halftime, outscoring the Lady Tigers 13-4 in th...
FARWELL – Farwell’s basketball teams ran away from Amarillo Highland Park in District 3-2A action on Friday night, with the boys winning 71-17 and the girls rolling 78-11. In the boys’ tilt, the Steers (14-9 overall) rolled to a 41-11 halftime lead, putting three players in double figures for the game – junior Ryder McElroy (18) and seniors Cesar Snyder (13) and Corey Stancell (10) – in the district opener for both squads. Senior Ben Hoe led the Hornets (7-14). Meantime, the Lady Blue (22-3, 3-0 district), ranked second th...
After a couple of tough road losses, it didn't take Eastern New Mexico University's men long to right the ship on Thursday night. Six-foot-9 sophomore post Jose Murillo scored 21 points on 9-of-9 shooting from the floor, including dunks on ENMU's first two possessions, and the Greyhounds ran away from Cameron 105-84 in Lone Star Conference basketball at Greyhound Arena. The Hounds (9-4, 5-2 LSC) dropped three-point decisions at Texas-Permian Basin and at No. 11 Angelo State...
MELROSE – Texico and Melrose advanced to the semifinal round on the boys side while Texico and Logan did the same on the girls' side Thursday in the EPAC basketball tournament. In boys tilts on Thursday: Texico 64, Grady 37 – The sixth-seeded Broncos kept the game competitive for the better part of three quarters, but the Wolverines stepped up their defensive pressure and pulled away after forcing 17 Grady turnovers in the second half. Four players scored in double digits for...
It was a little tougher than perhaps expected, but Clovis High's came up with enough plays at the end on Friday night to turn back their rivals from Portales. Senior forward J.J. Jones scored 16 points, including two key 3-pointers in the second half, as the Wildcats pulled away late for a 60-48 victory over PHS at the Ram Athletic Center. The 6-foot-4 Jones hit a buzzer-beating trey in the third quarter to extend the Cats' lead to 40-36. He hit another one midway through the...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls picked up early pins from juniors Zulehiry Mendoza and Yocelyn Romero and went on to post a 36-24 District 4-5A wrestling victory over Roswell High on Thursday night. Mendoza defeated Lady Coyotes junior Star Boardman by second-period fall at 107 pounds, while Romero scored a pin in the first minute against sophomore Kyliah Stewart at 126. Forfeit winners for the Lady Wildcats were sophomores Sophie Collazo at 138 and sophomore Sunnay Ward at 145, junior Jaylyn Trujillo at 185 and freshman Gua...
Slowly but surely, Clovis High's girls are working their way toward District 4-5A competition and a shot at the postseason. Friday night, the Lady Wildcats boosted their record to 12-3 with a workmanlike 60-39 victory over Espanola Valley at Rock Staubus Gym. Five games remain before district play begins on Jan. 30 against Carlsbad at The Rock. CHS is in the beginning of a stretch of eight of 10 games at home. This week, Clovis hosts West Las Vegas on Tuesday, Organ Mountain...
MELROSE – Melrose’s boys and girls were set to face Logan on Saturday night in the championship games of the 66th annual Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament. In boys semifinals on Friday, the third-seeded Buffaloes defeated Fort Sumner 52-40 while the unbeaten (14-0) Longhorns, seeded No. 1, got past No. 4 Texico 72-64. For the girls, the top-seeded Lady Buffs slipped past Texico 32-27 and the Lady Longhorns, seeded third, upended No. 2 Fort Sumner 37-27. Melrose (11-1) opened a 20-11 lead at the quarter in the sec...
ANDREWS, Texas – Coming off what co-coach Vincent de Maio called "strenuous winter training," Clovis High's swim teams returned to meet competition from the holiday break on Friday and Saturday in the Andrews Invitational. The CHS girls were second out of 19 teams with 573 ½ points, trailing only El Paso High (865). The boys finished sixth out of 20 squads at 309, with El Paso High also winning that division with 828 points to 442 ½ for Andrews. The Wildcats a...
DES MOINES, N.M. – Melrose’s boys figured they were in for a test on Saturday, and they certainly got all they wanted. Des Moines, ranked fifth in Class 1A by MaxPreps, posted a 10-1 advantage in 3-point baskets to hand the previously unbeaten and second-ranked Buffaloes a 63-53 setback. Senior Caleb Sumpter netted 20 points while senior Noah Johnson had five 3s and 16 points. Four of the trifectas accounted for most of Des Moines’ scoring in the period as the Demons (10-3) erased a one-point halftime deficit with a 15-10...
The Portales High girls certainly got rid of the bad taste in their mouths from a blowout loss on Tuesday at Texas Class 6A power Frenship. The Lady Rams completed a three-game sweep in the Portales Shootout on Saturday, cruising past Las Vegas Robertson 55-30 as junior guards Myleigh Banda and Angel Ornelas combined for 34 points. Portales (11-4) led just 33-27 late in the third quarter after 3-pointers by Robertson sisters Arianna and Natalia Martinez, but limited the Lady...
MELROSE – The annual Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament begins its annual four-day run with four games today at Melrose. Pairings for the event were announced Sunday, with all games scheduled for Melrose H.S. Today’s games matches the No. 1 vs. No. 8 and the No. 2 vs. No. 7 seeds in boys and girls play, with the 4-5 and 3-6 matchups to be played on Thursday. Consolation and championship semifinals are slated for Friday, with eight final-round tilts on tap Saturday. Championship games on Saturday are slated for 6:3...
SANTA FE – On paper, it wouldn’t have seemed the scenario for success. Clovis High’s boys were thumped at Amarillo Tascosa on Friday night, then returned to Clovis and left again early Saturday to face Santa Fe High, the No. 2-ranked team in Class 5A by MaxPreps. But the Wildcats gutted it out, got the game into overtime and then outlasted the Demons 58-55. Second-year CHS boys coach Josh Mattox said defense carried the day. “We battled,” he said. “We made a lot of mistakes on offense, but I thought we did a good job defensi...
SAN ANGELO, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s men have shown they can probably compete with anybody in the Lone Star Conference. Over the weekend, though, the Greyhounds came up just a little short. After a three-point loss at Texas-Permian Basin on Thursday night, the Hounds nearly made up an 18-point deficit in the final three minutes on Saturday before falling to 11th-ranked Angelo State 88-85. Down 80-62, ENMU (8-4, 4-2 LSC) hit the Rams with a game-ending 23-8 blitz to make it interesting. Hounds coach Brent Owe...
FARWELL – Farwell's girls have beaten some mighty good teams this season, including several which are a class or two above them. Tuesday, though, they got all they could handle from a traditionally strong Class 1A program going through a bit of a down year. Junior Bella Jaime scored nine points and the Lady Blue (19-3), ranked fifth in Texas Class 2A by MaxPreps, rallied in the fourth quarter to slip past Nazareth 37-32. Earlier this season, Farwell handed the Swiftettes (...
WOLFFORTH, Texas – The bad news is it really hurts to get drilled by 49 points. The good news is the Portales High Lady Rams are highly unlikely to see another team anywhere close to the talent level of Frenship again this season. Ranked fourth in Texas Class 6A by MaxPreps – and coming off just their second loss of the campaign – the Lady Tigers put a 61-12 whipping on PHS on Tuesday night. “Probably 90 percent of their roster is taller than anybody we’ve got, and more mobile,” Portales girls coach Wade Fraze said. “On a pos...
MESCALERO – After the first day of their two-day trip out west was postponed due to weather, Texico’s squads traveled to Capitan on Friday night and earned a pair of victories – the girls edging the Lady Tigers 31-29 while the boys won easily 68-35. In the opener, the Lady Wolverines took a three-point halftime lead after outscoring Capitan 12-7 in the second quarter. High scorers for Texico (4-7) were senior Kaya New and sophomore Brylee Burgin with five points each, while junior Joni Foster paced the Lady Tigers (3-8)...
ODESSA, Texas – Six-foot-8 senior post Lathaniel Bastian notched his sixth consecutive double-double with 26 points and 14 rebounds as Texas-Permian Basin held on late to edge Eastern New Mexico University 79-76 in Lone Star Conference men’s basketball on Thursday night, handing the Greyhounds their first LSC setback of the campaign. Juniors Maison Adeleye and Alex Matthews added 17 and 12 points, respectively, for the Falcons (9-3, 4-2 LSC), who took a double-digit lead after going on a 16-4 run late in the opening hal...
Randy McBroom knew Alamogordo would challenge his Portales High boys basketball team on Friday night in the Portales Shootout. What he didn't anticipate from the Tigers was 10 3-pointers. Seven players tallied eight or more points as Alamo (10-3) took the lead for good on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the quarter and went on to beat the Rams 72-55 at the Ram Athletic Center. "We competed for the majority of the night," Rams coach Randy McBroom said. "It was just one of those...
Evannie Fulfer hardly qualifies as a 3-point shooter, but she shot one with a lot of confidence in overtime on Friday night. Senior guard Audrey Paden hit a 3-pointer less than 10 seconds into the OT and Fulfer added another on the next trip down, and Portales High's girls went on to a 47-41 victo4y over the Cavegirls in the Portales Shootout at the Ram Athletic Center. Staring at a 12-point deficit late in the third period and with nothing seeming to work, it was all...
AMARILLO – Five-foot-8 junior guard Jaemon Palacios erupted for five 3-pointers and 23 points in just three quarters on Friday night, and Amarillo Tascosa pulled away in the second half for a 70-49 victory over Clovis High’s boys. Junior guard/forward Jacorey Fields added 15 points and senior forward Jailyn Sledge notched 14 for the Rebels (18-6), who have played nearly twice as many games as the Wildcats (10-4). Tascosa converted nine 3-point field goals in the contest. Eight players tallied for CHS, but only 6-foot-7 senior...
AMARILLO – Clovis High’s girls finished with a season low in scoring. But one day after their top two players combined for just 11 points in a lopsided win over Santa Fe High, they were back on the attack at Amarillo Caprock. Senior guard Zarai Lewis scored 16 points and senior post Kailyn Jefferson added 15, and the Lady Wildcats held on late for a 40-37 victory over the Lady Longhorns. In a nip-and-tuck battle, senior forward Mackenzie Roche made 1-of-2 free throws with under 30 seconds left to give CHS (10-2) a 38-37 lead....
