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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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There have been times in the years of following Texas Tech football that I have left a stadium near you trying to comprehend exactly what I just lived through. There was the 2014 abomination against TCU in Fort Worth. Frog quarterback Trevonne Boykin threw seven touchdowns passes that unseasonably warm afternoon in an 82-27 bludgeoning. I staggered out of Amon Carter Stadium like one of the survivors at the end of “The Poseidon Adventure.” Only thing missing was Maureen McGove...
LOVINGTON – When Clovis High's swimming teams left for Saturday's Lovington's Wildcat Invite, co-coach Vincent de Maio said he told them, "It's a training day." The idea was to see swimmers in some different events and different combinations. CHS took the boys' team title with 459 ½ points to 369 for Rio Rancho, while the girls' order of finish was reversed – Rio Rancho winning with 499 points to 407 for the Lady Cats. "It was a good meet for us," de Maio said. "We got...
DURANGO, Colo. – For the second year in a row, Fort Lewis beat Eastern New Mexico University’s men on a buzzer-beater. The 15th-ranked Skyhawks got a last-second basket in the lane from senior guard Junior Garbrah and nipped the Greyhounds 75-74 on Saturday night to cap FLC’s Skyhawk Classic. Last season, Carlsbad High alum Brendan Boatwright hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to hand ENMU a season-opening 84-81 setback in a game played at New Mexico Highlands. Senior guard/forward Jahcoree Ealy, who tallied a personal-best 29 poi...
Portales High senior Devin Diaz and junior Paxton Culpepper were having, shall we say, up-and-down days for most of Saturday's Class 4A state semifinal matchup against undefeated and top-seeded Bloomfield at Greyhound Stadium. Suffice it to say, the duo saved their best for last. Trailing 21-20 with just under two minutes to play, Culpepper directed the Rams into scoring position, going 3-for-4 through the air for 59 yards and scrambling for 16 yards to put PHS on the...
TEXICO – Honestly, nobody could have seen this coming. Not that Texico couldn't win Saturday's Class 2A state football championship game against Eunice. What no one saw coming was the final score – a 44-7 Wolverines rout. Coach Bob Gilbreath admitted as much. Still, he thought his squad was ready to put together a good one. "I felt like our kids were well-prepared," he said. "We had a good game plan in place." It was the Wolverines' first state title since the 2008 Mike Pro...
Saturday At Rio Rancho Events Center (Seeds in parentheses) Class 5A Semifinals (9) Cibola def. (5) Rio Rancho Cleveland 25-21, 25-21, 15-25, 25-14 (1) Las Cruces High def. (2) La Cueva 16-25, 25-18, 25-22, 25-19 Championship Las Cruces High def. Cibola 25-19, 30-28, 22-25, 25-21 Class 4A Semifinals (4) Albuquerque Academy def. (2) Roswell Goddard 22-25, 16-25, 25-21, 25-12, 15-10 (3) St. Pius def. (1) Artesia 25-15, 25-19, 24-26, 20-25, 15-8 Championship St. Pius def. Albuquerque Academy 25-10, 25-16, 25-19 Class 3A...
BOVINA – Senior Landon Nale paced four Ropes players in double digits with 15 points Friday night, and the Eagles posted a 71-26 boys victory over Bovina in the season opener for both squads. Freshman Branson Simental added 15 points while junior Brennan Bearden and sophomore Kade Franklin followed with 12 and 10, respectively. Four players finished between five and seven points for the Mustangs, led by freshman Eric Solis. Lady Mules drop pair in tourney – Muleshoe’s girls absorbed losses to Sudan 68-35 in Thursday’s quarter...
RICHARDSON, Texas – Freshmen Elijah Zeh and Andre Jones were named to the All-Lone Star Conference football team on offense in an announcement on by the league office on Thursday. Jones was also chosen the offensive freshman of the year in the conference. Zeh, from Burleson, Texas, helped lead a rushing attack which finished third in NCAA Division II at 284 yards per contest. He carried 194 times for 792 yards and five touchdowns, highlighted by a two-touchdown, 194-yard performance in a last second loss at Midwestern S...
SNYDER, Texas – Farwell and Muleshoe saw their seasons come to an end in the area round of the Texas football playoffs. After the Mules were ousted in Class 3A Division I by Brock 76-13 on Thursday night at San Angelo, the Steers went out in Class 2A Division I on Friday with a 42-14 loss to Sonora. Senior quarterback Jaime Buitron ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more, and the Broncos (11-1) added scores on a 65-yard return of the second-half kickoff by junior Julian Zaragoza and a 60-yard interception return in t...
ALAMOSA, Colo. – Freshman guard Jaz Salon poured in 21 points and Eastern New Mexico University’s women improved to 3-0 for the season with a 70-58 triumph over Adams State on Thursday night. The 5-foot-3 Salon, from Melbourne, Australia, notched 16 of her tallies in the first half to help ENMU open a 16-point lead late in the second quarter before the Grizzlies (3-2) rallied back to make it close. Senior guard Vanessa Oduah chipped in 16 points while senior guard Jamila Nansikombi-Gunter posted her first double-double with t...
RIO RANCHO – Texico and Melrose moved one step away on Friday from another crack at state volleyball championships. Both the second-seeded Lady Wolverines in Class 2A and the top-seeded Lady Buffs in Class 1A reached Saturday’s state semifinals at Rio Rancho Events Center, with victories in Friday’s winners semifinals. Texico (21-4) knocked off third-seeded Tularosa 30-28, 25-17, 25-17 at Rio Rancho H.S., while Melrose (22-3) avenged a championship-match loss to Gateway Christian by besting the fourth-seeded Lady Warri...
HOBBS – Clovis High's girls posted their second team win in two outings this season over the weekend in the Tori Invite, hosted by Hobbs H.S. The Lady Wildcats tallied 474 points to 436 for Hobbs and 301 for Carlsbad in the 13-school meet. Meantime, the CHS boys finished second for the second week in a row, notching 406 points. Hobbs won it with 522 while Artesia was third at 320. "We had our first look at the district (opponents)," CHS co-coach Vincent de Maio said. "We h...
Texas Tech isn’t throwing this fish back in the Big 12 pond. Not hardly. The Red Raiders don’t want to hear about any cheap wins against a third-team true freshman quarterback, not after they experienced such frustration themselves for 1 ½ games earlier in the year. Tech went on the road last Saturday to No. 16 Kansas, a place where Oklahoma, BYU and Central Florida have lost. The Raiders were ahead 10-0 when Kansas quarterback Jason Bean was hammered on a designed run and...
CANYON – Farwell’s girls built a commanding lead through three quarters and held on for a 50-47 victory over Canadian on Saturday in a game played at Randall H.S. Junior Landri Richey scored 21 points and senior Chloee Whitten added 11 for the Lady Blue, which lost a seven-point decision to Class 4A Canyon in their season opener. Farwell led 42-28 after three stanzas before staving off a late rally by the Lady Wildcats (0-1), who two years ago went 35-2 and reached the Texas Class 3A semifinals. Seniors McKenna Cavalier and...
Senior guard Vanessa Oduah scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds and Eastern New Mexico University's women forced three turnovers during an 8-0 run in overtime to outlast New Mexico Highlands 70-64 on Saturday in the South Central Region Challenge at Greyhound Arena. Senior guard Jamila Nansikombi-Gunter added 18 points and senior guard/forward Deja Adrian had 12 for the Greyhounds (2-0), coming off a 21-point win over Fort Lewis in Friday's season opener. Four Cowgirls...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s girls put two runners in the top 30 and the Lady Wildcats finished eighth in the 15-team Class 5A state cross country meet on Saturday, hosted by Albuquerque Academy. Meantime, the Clovis boys ran shorthanded with junior Sammy Fuentes, the Wildcats’ top runner, nursing injuries and eighth-grader Erik Cordum also not available and the team finished 15th. Rio Rancho swept both team titles in the 5K races, the boys posting a score of 34 to 57 for Volcano Vista and 94 for Rio Rancho Cleveland while...
SILVER CITY – With nothing really to lose, it was probably an easy decision for Western New Mexico. After the Mustangs pulled to within a point on a 22-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Hunter Davis to junior wide receiver Jeremiah Hartfield with 1:01 left, capping a nine-play, 88-yard drive, they eschewed a tying PAT kick and went for the win. They got it on a run by Davis for a 25-24 Lone Star Conference victory over Eastern New Mexico University in the rivals’ annual Chili Bowl clash. It was the fourth lead cha...
RIO RANCHO – The Portales High Lady Rams drew the No. 7 seed on Sunday in this week’s 12-team Class 4A state volleyball tournament. PHS (16-7) finished third in District 4-4A, behind top-ranked Artesia and No. 2 and defending champion Roswell Goddard. Those teams earned the top two seeds and first-round byes in the event, which is double-elimination until the semifinals and championship. The Lady Rams meet 10th-seeded Gallup (17-6) in a 10 a.m. first-round match on Thursday at Rio Rancho Events Center. The winner moves on...
TEXICO – As hard as it might be to believe, Texico will be seeking the school’s first state football crown in 15 years on Saturday when the Wolverines host top-seeded Eunice at 1 p.m. in the Class 2A title clash. Playing in its fifth consecutive 2A semifinal (excluding the 2020-21 COVID season), Texico held off Santa Rosa 29-21 on Saturday. The second-seeded Wolverines (10-2) are after their first state crown since the Mike Prokop-led 2008 contingent stormed to a 12-0 record and outscored its opponents 460-93, but had to eke...
MELROSE – It took only one play Saturday to let you know where this matchup was headed. On the game's first play from scrimmage, Melrose senior Michael Cardonita caught a swing pass from junior quarterback Josiah Roybal and weaved his way down the right sideline and past Clayton defenders for a 62-yard touchdown. Suffice it to say, it didn't get any better for the Yellowjackets after that as the Buffaloes rolled to a 50-0 victory in the 8-man state championship game, which e...
Asked if his Portales High football team has seen anyone the likes of Bloomfield this season, Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said it would have to be his squad. “They play the same defense we do, and the same offense,” Ramirez said Monday. “We’re real similar teams.” They’re set to collide in a 1 p.m. semifinal on Saturday at Greyhound Stadium. In the other semifinal, third-seeded Silver (9-2) plays at No. 2 Lovington (8-3), also on Saturday. Both squads have pretty much run roughshod over the competition this season. While the B...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s volleyball team struggled in its District 4-5A and regular-season finale on Tuesday, dropping a 25-11, 26-24, 25-11 decision to Roswell High. The Lady Wildcats (12-11, 2-4 district) were unlikely to make the 12-team Class 5A state tournament field, which was to be announced today by the New Mexico Activities Association. Meantime, Roswell High (14-9, 5-1) is on the bubble after finishing in a tie with Hobbs for the district title but losing out to the Lady Eagles (12-11, 5-1) based on head-to-head poi...
It was a bit of an unusual game – certainly by Portales High's lofty standards this season. After running roughshod through the first nine games of their season and then absorbing a loss at Lovington which cost them a potential top seed in the Class 4A playoffs, it took the Rams a while to put things together in Friday's quarterfinal tilt at Greyhound Stadium. Thanks to a last-ditch drive, helped by two late penalties on Bernalillo, the Rams broke the scoring ice on an u...
LITTLEFIELD – Farwell and Muleshoe won bi-district football playoff games on Friday night in a doubleheader played at Littlefield H.S. In Class 2A Division I, Farwell (9-2) advanced to the area (second) round with a 42-21 victory over Olton. Then Muleshoe pulled away from a 21-20 halftime lead to drub Lamesa 56-20 in Class 3A Division I. Next up for the Steers in the area round is a 7 p.m. (CST) matchup against Sonora (10-1) at Snyder. Meantime, the Mules face defending 3A-I runnerup Brock (8-3) at 5 p.m. (CST) Friday at San...
Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams opened the season with resounding victories on Friday on the first day of the South Central Region crossover at Greyhound Arena. The event matches teams from the Lone Star Conference against teams from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Junior forward Mario Whitley scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in his ENMU debut, leading five players scoring in double figures, and the ENMU men shot 59 percent from 3-point range and 52 percent overall from the floor in t...
