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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Joey McGuire was right. His Texas Tech football team did put the country on notice last Saturday night, that is after a long rain delay if much of the country bothered to notice. And it is this – that after a face plant against Wyoming on CBS and the home opener this weekend against Oregon on FOX, these Red Raiders are not ready for prime time despite their national exposure. After a summer of strutting and flexing, and getting many buy-ins from media and fans that this c...
Friona tournament Thursday (pool play) Clovis Christian 2, Fort Sumner JV 0 Clovis Christian 25 25 Fort Sumner JV 9 17 CCS individual statistics Kills – Hannah McKay 5. Digs – three tied with 1. Aces – Jalisa Raney 6. Assists – Allison McRaven 1, Raney 1. Record – Clovis Christian 1-1. Clovis Christian 2, Friona JV 1 Clovis Christian 25 20 15 Friona JV 23 25 13 CCS individual statistics Kills – Madison Kruckeberg 2, Reece Robb 2. Digs – Shae Stageberg 5. Aces – Hannah Medina 2. Assists – four tied with 2. Record – Clovis Chri...
The Gattis 7th grade football team lost to Texico 34-14 on Aug. 24. Scoring for the Cubs were Braylon Weaver on a 50-yard quarterback keeper and on a 50-yard touchdown pass from Luciana Gallo, with Jacen Maes converting on a 2-point conversion. In their second game, played on Aug. 29, Gattis defeated the Yucca Chaparrals 34-6 as Gallo scored three rushing TDs, Weaver added a touchdown and two 2-point conversions, and Bentley Lukkar scored. Meantime, the defense added a safety. The Cubs were scheduled to play again on Tuesday...
ELIDA – Senior Zane Rush scored touchdowns in three different ways and also tossed a scoring pass as Grady subdued Elida 40-26 in 6-man District 2 action on Friday night. Rush caught a 38-yard pass from senior Xavier Romero for the game's first score, then returned a punt 48 yards later in the period, threw a 13-yard TD pass to freshman Madden Flood in the second stanza and went in on an 18-yard run to put the game out of reach in the final segment. Also for the Bronchos (...
ALAMOSA, Colo. – The Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team completed its season-opening weekend in Colorado with its second draw, tying Fort Lewis 1-1 on Sunday. Meantime, the ENMU men fell to 1-1 for the season with a 3-1 loss to the Skyhawks. In the women’s tilt, senior forward/midfielder Haley Huff put the Greyhounds on the board midway through the first half, converting from close range on an assist by junior midfielder Abbie Dickens. Fort Lewis, playing its season opener, tied it on a goal by freshman defen...
Sul Ross State's season opener at Western New Mexico last week resembled some basketball contests – a game of runs. The Lobos scored 21 consecutive points to take a 21-7 lead late in the half, but WNMU finished on a 28-0 surge and posted a 42-28 victory. When Eastern New Mexico University's football team takes on Sul Ross in an 11 a.m. (MDT) start on Saturday at Alpine, Texas, the Greyhounds will be looking for improvement over their narrow 28-26 season-opening win against New...
SANTA FE – It was a long day for Portales High’s soccer squads on Saturday, but (mostly) a profitable one. PHS went double overtime in both matches against host Academy for Technology & The Classics, the girls pulling out a 2-1 victory while the boys had to settle for a 2-2 tie. Lady Rams sophomore J’Lynn Maestas scored the winning goal on a shot from about 40 yards out in early in the second OT. Sophomore Maria Lujan got the game’s first tally, but ATC tied it shortly before halftime. First-year PHS girls coach David S...
It may not be much, but when you're 0-3 you look for any advantage you can get. Clovis High's football teams welcomes longtime former district rival Carlsbad to Leon Williams Stadium for a 7 p.m. matchup on Friday. The Cavemen (1-2) are coming off a 28-7 loss at Class 6A No. 5 Volcano Vista on Saturday. "We've got them on a short week," CHS coach Andrew McCraw said, "so hopefully they'll be tired." The Cats dropped a 55-14 decision at Carlsbad last season. The Cavemen,...
Clovis High and Portales High are likely going to be seeing a lot of each other in volleyball this season. The teams got off to a rip-roaring start on Thursday night at the Ram Athletic Center, with the visiting Lady Wildcats finally nailing down a 15-25, 25-16, 25-21, 11-25, 15-7 victory to leave both teams at 1-1 for the young season. The teams have a rematch set for Portales on Oct. 3, and they could meet again during a couple of upcoming tournaments. "It was kind of the...
One quarter got away from Clovis High's football team on Friday night. Canyon Randall overcame an early 7-0 deficit with a 22-3 push in the second quarter and the Raiders went on to a 50-23 victory at Leon Williams Stadium. Junior running back Dylan Ray led the charge, rushing for four touchdowns for Randall (1-1). Senior quarterback Tryston Sanchez added a pair of scoring passes to sophomore Kaison Benton. "We didn't tackle very well," Wildcats coach Andrew McCraw said. "We...
ALAMOSA, Colo. – Sophomore forward Giani Mascarel scored a pair of goals in his Eastern New Mexico University debut and the Greyhounds posted a season-opening 4-1 men’s soccer victory over Adams State on Thursday. In the first match of the day, ENMU and Adams State played to a scoreless draw. Both teams were slated to face Fort Lewis on Saturday at Alamosa. Mascarel, from Nice, France and a transfer from Northeastern State (Okla)., found the top right corner of the net in the 18th minute, and less than two minutes later tea...
PORTALES – It's not often a team can lose four fumbles in a half, leading to four scores for the opposition, and live to tell about it. Helped by a penalty, Eastern New Mexico University's football team survived a tying 2-point opportunity by New Mexico Highlands in the closing moments and edged the Cowboys 28-26 on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams at Greyhound Stadium. After a successful conversion try was negated by a false-start penalty, junior l...
Tuesday Texico 3, Brownfield 0 Brownfield 23 14 11 Texico 25 25 25 Texico individual statistics Kills – Aspen Burnes 16, Kinzee Crow 7. Digs – Desiree Holman 15, Abby Haakma 13, Furrow 12, Ella Collins 11, Sonia Ortiz 11. Aces – three tied with 3. Assists – Collins 26. Records – Brownfield 7-8, Texico 2-0. Other Tuesday result: Elida (4-1) def. Tatum 25-12, 25-18, 16-25, 22-25, 15-7. Thursday Melrose 3, Capitan 0 Capitan 13 8 17 Melrose 25 25 25 Melrose individual statistics Kills – Graci Odom 13, Kambree Draper 10, Hally D...
BOVINA – Bovina survived a quick gut-punch by Seagraves on Thursday night and went on to beat the Eagles 24-18, squaring its record for the season at 1-1. Junior Julian Munoz stunned the home crowd by taking the opening kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown. Seagraves then opened an 18-8 lead with second-quarter TD passes from 6-foot-3, 155-pound senior quarterback Jace Humphries to sophomore tight end Hugo Rascon, covering 38 and 17 yards. The Eagles, though, missed on all three conversion attempts – a kick and two passes. The...
Clovis High junior Gabby Foggie isn’t about to transition away from track to cross country, but she sure made a big impression in Friday’s season-opening Clovis High Invitational cross country meet. Running in the sport for the first time, Foggie led a solid CHS showing, winning the three-mile race easily in a time of 21 minutes, 31.02 seconds to lead the Lady Wildcats to the team championship at Ned Houk Park. Clovis, with all seven runners finishing in the top 12, tallied 24 points and doubled up runnerup Hereford with 48....
Trailing for the first time in three games this season, Portales High’s football team didn’t change a whole lot at halftime. No doubt, though, the Rams looked like a completely different team. They erased a 14-7 deficit by scoring on each of their six second-half possessions for a 48-14 win over West Las Vegas at Greyhound Stadium. Junior quarterback Paxton Culpepper threw for a personal-best six touchdowns, five coming in the final two stanzas. He had a five-TD night last season in a win over the Dons at Las Vegas. “It...
Aug. 22 San Jon 3, Clovis Christian 0 Clovis Christian 13 22 16 San Jon 25 25 25 CCS individual statistics Kills – Madisyn Kruckeberg 4, Reece Robb 4. Digs – Kruckeberg 14, Emma Lomas 13. Aces – Hannah Medina 7, three tied with 2. Assists – Medina 3. Records – Clovis Christian 0-1, San Jon 1-1. Thursday Texico 3, Fort Sumner 0 Fort Sumner 21 10 20 Texico 25 25 25 Texico individual statistics Kills – Aspyn Furrow 11, Kinzee Crow 10, Madi Hodges 7. Digs – Furrow 13, Abby Haakma 8, Ella Collins 7, Crow 6, Desiree Holman 6. Aces...
Nothing like August for college football fans. Except for a few early starters, every team is undefeated. The traditional good teams are going to reload. Those believed to be so-so just need a few kind bounces of the ball to win eight games. The also-rans, well, some teams are going to surprise this year – why not us? Then there are the ones who had a breakthrough season in 2022, return almost a fully loaded roster to build on that, and just know they have left those losing w...
SANTA ROSA – Senior quarterback Colton Figg threw for two scores and ran for another, and Texico held off former district rival Santa Rosa 28-26 on Friday night. Figg threw scoring passes of 9 yards to sophomore Denny Turner in the first quarter and 32 yards to sophomore Luke Thompson in the third. Figg’s 6-yard run early in the final stanza made it 28-13 and proved to be the difference. Junior Alex Fuentes added an 8-yard scoring run in the second quarter for the Wolverines (2-0).Figg finished 15-of-20 for 212 yards and als...
PORTALES – If any of Eastern New Mexico University's volleyball, men's or women's soccer or men's or women's cross country teams accomplish much this fall, it will be a surprise to the Lone Star Conference. Preseason polls recently released by the LSC have ENMU's volleyball squad projected for 14th out of 17 teams, men's soccer 10th out of 10, women's soccer and men's cross country 12th out of 13 and women's cross country 13th out of 15. "I'm not really worried about p...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls reached Saturday’s finals of an eight-team tournament co-hosted by Roswell High and Roswell Goddard, losing to Las Cruces High 8-0 in the championship match. The Lady Wildcats opened the tournament on Friday with a 1-1 tie against Las Cruces-based Organ Mountain, topping the Knights 4-3 on penalty kicks to advance, and then blanked Roswell High 2-0 in Saturday’s semifinal round. CHS girls coach Ray Rodriguez said his squad had a tough time getting untracked. “We started off the tournament a littl...
CLOVIS – Pre-district play has been a little bit like Murderer’s Row for Clovis High’s football team the past couple of seasons. Last year, the Wildcats went 0-6 and were outscored 265-64 prior to the start of their District 6-5A schedule, then won three in a row to challenge for a playoff berth before losing at Los Lunas 54-0 in their finale. This season has started off 0-2 heading into Friday’s 7 p.m. matchup with Canyon Randall at Leon Williams Stadium, but coach Andrew McCraw sees some encouraging signs. “We did some...
CLOVIS – Clovis High's boys caught an early break on Thursday night. The Wildcats weren't able to build on it. Junior forward Ihab Mesbah buried a penalty kick from close range in the sixth minute to give the Cats a quick lead, but Hope Christian tallied four goals before halftime and handed Clovis a 5-1 loss at Leon Williams Stadium. After struggling to halftime, the Cats (0-2) picked up their pace in the second half. Junior Angel Avila was able to stop five of six Huskies s...
FARWELL – Things didn't look all that good early for Farwell's football team on Friday night, but the Steers had a feeling their time was coming. A late second-quarter touchdown gave New Deal a 10-point lead at the half, but Farwell blanked the Lions over the final 24 minutes and pulled away to a 40-30 victory in the season opener for both squads. Senior running back Corey Stancell rushed for 138 yards and four touchdowns for Farwell, while junior quarterback Jonathan Armstron...
RUIDOSO – Really, it’s not supposed to be this easy. Portales High’s football team scored its second consecutive lopsided win to open the season with a 54-0 victory over Ruidoso on Friday. The game ended late in the third quarter on the 50-point mercy rule. Through two weeks, the Rams have outscored their opponents 99-0 and barely worked up a sweat. After going on the road twice, PHS now plays five of its next six games at home, with a bye mixed in. Coach Jaime Ramirez said he didn’t anticipate such a dominating perform...
