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Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team opened a 12-0 lead through five innings on Sunday and routed New Mexico Highlands 12-6 to sweep their two-game non-league series at Greyhound Field. ENMU (11-11) was outhit 11-9 by the Cowboys, but took advantage of seven walks, seven hit batsmen, six wild pitches and three errors for its second consecutive dominating win. Junior designated hitter Demetrio Archuleta went 4-for-5, scoring four times and knocking in a run, while...
Angelo State, ranked No. 25 in NCAA Division II, did all its damage early and senior right-hander Cheyenne Floyd made it stand up in a 4-0 Rambelles win over Eastern New Mexico University in Lone Star Conference softball on Sunday at Greyhound Field, giving ASU the series win. Right fielder Tatiana Trotter doubled home the game's first run in the top of the first inning off ENMU sophomore right-hander Marissa Rodriguez (5-5). Rodriguez was chased after surrendering a two-run...
MELROSE – Dora limited Melrose to 19 points through three quarters and the 10th-seeded Lady Coyotes held on late for a 49-44 victory in a first-round Class 1A girls state tournament game on Friday night. Senior Bre'Ann Rodriguez led a balanced attack for Dora (19-7) with 12 points, while sophomore Justice Deason and freshman Karen Inge scored 11 points each and senior Faith Jasso added nine. The Lady Coyotes face second-seeded Cliff (26-2) in a 3 p.m. quarterfinal tilt on T...
FRISCO, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University senior guard Greg Johnson earned men’s first-team All-Lone Star Conference recognition in a banquet on Wednesday night prior to the start of the LSC tournament. Johnson, from Little Rock, Ark., helped the Greyhounds win 19 regular-season games, averaging 17.8 ppg and 2.7 assists per contests. He has scored 30 or more points four times. Named LSC offensive player of the week twice during the campaign, Johnson shot 51 percent from 3-point range (60-of-118) and also posted 99 reb...
ARTESIA – Artesia’s boys swept the three doubles divisions and the Bulldogs edged Clovis High 5-4 on Tuesday afternoon. Artesia also won the girls clash by a 6-3 count. Artesia’s boys posted a pair of third-set super-tiebreaker wins in the boys dual, including a 3-6, 6-3, (10-5) decision at No. 1 doubles with sophomores Cutter Summers and Damian Lopez outlasting the Wildcats’ Landon Wolf and Cooper Harriman, and a 5-7, 6-2, (10-8) verdict for senior Ethan Bunt over Cats eighth-grader Ryan Case at No. 6 singles. In doubles...
HOBBS – Senior Jasiah Mendoza pitched a three-hitter and Clovis High’s baseball team spread the offense out over the game en route to an 8-1 victory over Artesia on Friday, the second day of a three-day event hosted by Hobbs H.S. Bouncing back from a Thursday loss, the Wildcats (4-2) scored in five of the seven innings in blustery conditions. Senior Gabe Tapia went 2-for-4 with run-scoring singles in the second and fifth innings, while senior Quinn Culiver doubled and finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. “To...
Portales High's girls led as close to wire-to-wire as you can on Friday night. Junior guard Myleigh Banda knocked down a corner 3-pointer just five seconds in, and the Lady Rams never looked back in beating Hope Christian 69-38 in a Class 4A first-round state tournament game at the Ram Athletic Center. PHS (20-8), seeded fifth in the 16-team field, now faces fourth-seeded Gallup (22-8) in a 3 p.m. quarterfinal matchup on Tuesday at The Pit in Albuquerque. Junior forward...
FRISCO, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s postseason bid took off in a big way on Thursday night. Shooting a school-record 66 percent from the floor and dominating the paint, the fourth-seeded Greyhounds pulled away to a 103-84 victory over Angelo State in the quarterfinals of the Lone Star Conference men’s basketball tournament at Comerica Center. ENMU (20-9), reaching the 20-win plateau for the first time since 2003-04 with its first postseason victory since the year before that, advanced to a Saturday semif...
LAS CRUCES – It wasn’t Las Cruces High this year, but it was the same result. Since reaching the then-Class 6A semifinals in Danni Williams’ last season at Clovis High in 2015, the Lady Wildcats have made first-round exits in all four of their appearances in the NMAA’s large-school division. The common denominator? All have come in trips to Las Cruces, the first three against the Lady Bulldawgs, while on Friday night the Lady Cats were ousted by Mayfield 31-28. “It’s just so frustrating because you have a chance to win a (s...
LAWTON, Okla. – What started out as an exciting week with Eastern New Mexico University’s first all-time softball win over Lubbock Christian ended with a thud. The Greyhounds are now trying to shake off a five-game losing streak after dropping Sunday’s series finale to Cameron 8-5. The Aggies now lead the all-time series with ENMU 35-6-1. Cameron (9-8, 9-7 LSC) scored three times in the bottom of the sixth to pull out Sunday’s tilt, capped by a double steal which produced the final run. Junior right-hander Emma Souther...
TEXICO – Pecos may not be the same team that has been the most dominant in Class 2A boys basketball over the last decade, but the Panthers are still someone to be reckoned with. On Saturday, they rallied in the final quarter, shooting 10-for-10 from the free throw line in the stanza, to overtake top-seeded Texico 70-61 and claim the District 6-2A championship. Pecos has been in eight consecutive 2A finals, winning five of them – including four in a row from 2017 to 2020 and...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s boys and Portales High’s girls posted fourth-place team finishes in Friday’s season opening Earlybird track meet, but nobody was going to catch Los Alamos. The Hilltoppers compiled 140 ½ points in the 14-team boys competition, well ahead of second-place Artesia (75), while the Los Alamos girls ran away with 157 points to 72 for Hobbs in the 13-team girls field. Hobbs was third on the boys’ side with 64 ½ points, followed by the Wildcats with 56 1/2, while Portales came in ninth with 13. Artesia’s g...
RIO RANCHO – Clovis High baseball coach Richard Cruse wasn’t sure he made the right move on Saturday in starting sophomore left-hander Joseph Hernandez. Hernandez gave Cruse more than he could have expected, though, tossing an abbreviated one-hitter in his varsity debut and getting plenty of run support in the Wildcats’ 11-0 victory over Belen in a six-team event hosted by Rio Rancho Cleveland. The game ended in five innings on the 10-run rule. The only hit off Hernandez was a fourth-inning bloop single over short by junio...
Apparently, all you have to do is bring in an opponent with a number next to its name and it brings out some of the best in the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team. The Greyhounds are yet to win a Lone Star Conference series this season, but they've earned four-game splits against then-No. 1 Angelo State and, over the weekend, fifth-ranked West Texas A&M. ENMU (9-11, 9-11 LSC) came close to clinching a series win with the rival Buffaloes before falling 5-4 in 10...
Apparently, all you have to do is bring in an opponent with a number next to its name and it brings out some of the best in the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team. The Greyhounds are yet to win a Lone Star Conference series this season, but they’ve earned four-game splits against then-No. 1 Angelo State and, over the weekend, fifth-ranked West Texas A&M. ENMU (9-11, 9-11 LSC) came close to clinching a series win with the rival Buffaloes before falling 5-4 in 10 innings in the second game of Saturday’s dou...
SILVER CITY – After racking up 125 points against Western New Mexico on Thursday night at Greyhound Arena, Eastern New Mexico University’s men posted their 11th game at or above the century mark on Saturday in beating the Mustangs 106-77 in the Lone Star Conference and regular-season finale for both squads. Senior guard Greg Johnson led four Greyhounds in double digits with 32 points, shooting 11-of-17 overall from the floor and 5-of-8 from 3-point range. Junior guard Tre’Von Love added 15 points, going 4-for-6 from deep,...
ALBUQUERQUE – Eleven area basketball teams, including boys and girls squads from five schools, earned their way into New Mexico Activities Association state tournament play in selections released on Sunday night by the NMAA. Girls round-of-16 games are set for Friday night, while the boys play on Saturday. Clovis High’s boys (20-8), District 4-5A regular-season and tournament champions, drew the No. 6 seed in Class 5A. The Wildcats welcome Albuquerque High (17-10) for a 6 p.m. tipoff, with the winner advancing to Wed...
LOVINGTON – Portales High's boys got off to a slow start in the first half on Thursday night and could never recover in an 82-64 loss to Lovington in the semifinal game of the District 4-4A boys tournament. Lovington built a 36-17 halftime lead and was quite content to essentially play the Rams even the rest of the way. "We couldn't get out of the hole we dug," PHS boys coach Randy McBroom said. "We dealt with a lot of foul trouble, and that didn't help." Senior guard J...
MELROSE – Suffice it to say, the Logan Longhorns are getting a little tired of coming to Melrose. Logan has faced the Buffaloes four times this season, with three of those games in Melrose – and all three resulting in losses. Junior Chance Brittenum hit four 3-pointers and scored a personal-best 20 points as the Buffaloes (23-3), ranked No. 1 in Class 1A, posted a 73-66 win over the third-ranked Longhorns (23-5), who are 2-5 against Melrose and second-ranked district member Fo...
Portales High’s girls looked to be in deep trouble most of the way in Thursday’s District 4-4A tournament semifinal game against Lovington. Lady Wildcats junior guard Aubrey Aranda hit a 3-pointer on Lovington’s first possession, and they never relinquished the lead in a 50-46 victory over the Lady Rams at the Ram Athletic Center. Sophomore guard Malaiya Castro scored 12 points while Aranda and senior forward Erlin Salcido had 11 apiece. Lovington (17-12) traveled to top-seeded Artesia on Friday night in the finals and suffer...
RIO RANCHO – Clovis High’s baseball team jumped on Los Lunas early on Friday and handed the Tigers a 12-8 setback in a six-team get-together being hosted by Rio Rancho Cleveland. In Thursday’s season opener, the Wildcats dropped a 9-7 decision to the host Storm. They wrapped up play in the event on Saturday against Belen. “I’m happy with the way the kids have competed,” CHS coach Richard Cruse said. “If somebody hit us in the mouth, we always came back.” Senior Jasiah Mendoza went 4-for-4 with a double and three runs scor...
LUBBOCK – The ball didn’t bounce Farwell’s way at the end on Tuesday night, and as a result the Steers’ season is over. Floydada finished out the game on an 11-2 run and the Whirlwinds posted a 59-53 victory at Lubbock Christian’s Rip Griffin Center in a Class 2A regional quarterfinal game. It was the second consecutive season Floydada has eliminated Farwell to advance to the regional semifinals. Prior to last year, the Whirlwinds hadn’t gotten this deep in the tournament since 2008. Floydada (28-8) won its sixth in a row wh...
CARLSBAD – It would be interesting to see what kind of seed Clovis High's girls would get in next week's Class 5A state tournament if it weren't for Carlsbad. The Lady Wildcats have gone 20-8 this season, but three of those losses have been administer by the Cavegirls (16-11) – by a total of five points, no less. Carlsbad had only eight points at halftime on Thursday's District 4-5A tourney semifinal and trailed by 18 in the third stanza, but the Cavegirls held Clovis to 10...
Eastern New Mexico University's men recently had a game where seven of nine players in uniform scored in double figures and the other two finished with six points apiece. The Greyhounds topped that on Thursday night, returning senior guard/forward and Lone Star Conference scoring leader Jahcoree Ealy back to the mix. This time, eight of 10 players reached double digits while the other two had six each in a 125-84 rout of Western New Mexico at Greyhound Arena. The result left E...
Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team got a big monkey off its collective back on Tuesday. No, make that more like a gorilla. Senior designated player Taighen Whitzel’s one-out, walkoff home run in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the Greyhounds to a 4-3 Lone Star Conference win over Lubbock Christian at Greyhound Softball Field, ENMU’s first win all-time against the Lady Chaps. LCU came into the series 42-0 against the Hounds dating to their first meeting in 2010. On Wednesday, the Hounds were primed to make...
