Articles from the February 21, 2015 edition

Staff report MIDLAND, Texas — Lubbock Christian was nothing if not efficient Friday night. The Chaparrals parlayed seven hits, one walk, a hit batsman and three Eastern New Mexico University errors into a 7-3 win over the Greyhounds in the opener of a three-game series at Security Bank Ballpark, home of Midland’s minor league team. LCU stranded just two baserunners in ending a five-game losing streak that was the program’s longest since 2012. The teams will finish the series with a doubleheader today starting at noon (MST)... Full story

Staff report SANDIA PARK — The Portales boys basketball team will carry plenty of momentum into the championship game of next week’s District 4-4A tournament. Jeremie Karnbaye led four players in double figures with 18 points on Friday night and the Rams clobbered East Mountain 81-41 to complete a perfect run through District 4-4A. Meantime, the Lady Rams also won big, posting a 53-14 victory. Both Portales squads will host district tournament finals next Saturday at the Ram Athletic Center, with the girls game set for 5:3... Full story

z Staff report SANDIA PARK — The Portales boys basketball team will carry plenty of momentum into the championship game of next week’s District 4-4A tournament. Jeremie Karnbaye led four players in double figures with 18 points on Friday night and the Rams clobbered East Mountain 81-41 to complete a perfect run through District 4-4A. Meantime, the Lady Rams also won big, posting a 53-14 victory. Both Portales squads will host district tournament finals next Saturday at the Ram Athletic Center, with the girls game set for 5:3...

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Staff report ALBUQUERQUE — Clovis High’s swimming teams may not have a lot of depth, but they showed they have some quality in Friday’s preliminaries of state swimming competition at Albuquerque Academy. CHS swimmers posted 11 school records — seven for the boys, four for the girls — and qualified seven boys events and six girls events for today’s championship finals (top eight in prelims). They also have seven girls events and two boys events in the consolation finals (ninth through 16th on Friday). Senior Everett War... Full story

Staff report CANYON, Texas — Freshman Simone Laurenz of Portales hit a game-breaking, two-run triple to right field in the seventh inning and Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team completed a 6-1, 6-1 sweep of Newman on Friday in the Lady Buff Invite, hosted by West Texas A&M. The Zias (9-3) face St. Edward’s (9-6), which split a pair of games with WT on Friday, in a doubleheader today while the Lady Buffs take on Newman in a twin bill. ENMU led 3-1 after escaping a jam in the bottom of the sixth, then padded its l...

Our newspaper upset a few people on Valentine’s Day with a story about area relationships that included a gay couple. As of Friday, seven readers had canceled their subscriptions and others had threatened to do the same because of the report. Most quoted Scripture, a few spewed vile epithets, all stated or suggested that gay relationships are sins against God and should not be acknowledged as “normal” in the newspaper. It wasn’t our intention to make news ourselves, or to make any kind of political statement. Our intenti... Full story

Our newspaper upset a few people on Valentine’s Day with a story about area relationships that included a gay couple. As of Friday, seven readers had canceled their subscriptions and others had threatened to do the same because of the report. Most quoted Scripture, a few spewed vile epithets, all stated or suggested that gay relationships are sins against God and should not be acknowledged as “normal” in the newspaper. It wasn’t our intention to make news ourselves, or to make any kind of political statement. Our intenti...

Monday Parks, Recreation & Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m. at Clovis City Hall. Tuesday Free blood pressure screenings — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Clovis Carver Public Library. Wednesday Public works — 8:30 a.m. at Clovis City Hall. Thursday High Plains Patriots meeting — 7 p.m. at the Master’s Center, 810 East 21st St. Information: 575-749-2955 Friends of the Library meeting — Noon at Clovis Carver-Public Library. Friday Clovis-Portales Kennel Club: A K-9 agility event is scheduled for Curry County Events Center, 8 a... Full story

On this date … 1970: Sasser’s Western Wear at 311 Main was “Cowboy headquarters” in Clovis. Owners Mickey and Sue Simms offered “Western wear for the entire family,” and “Everything for the horseman,” according to their newspaper advertisement. 1965: Area crime reports provided information about burglars stealing from vending machines at the VFW Hall on West Seventh in Clovis, a broken window at KCLV radio station at 1221 Main in Clovis — someone threw a glass soft-drink bottle through it — and the theft of an ash-tray stand...

Local columnist I should have known it was impossible to eat at a restaurant in Lubbock, wearing my military uniform, without getting my tab picked up by a kind stranger. My wife Cassandra and I were in Lubbock recently for a medical appointment. We’d just gotten done, and decided to eat a late breakfast before driving back to Clovis. The restaurant was half full when we arrived. The clientele was, as you would expect at 10:30 in the morning, mostly senior citizens with a few younger relatives joining them. I could feel t...

Editor’s note: Following is one in a series of features about destinations some consider treasures of the High Plains. A trip to Blackwater Draw is a journey back in time. The discovery of “fluted” points, spearheads known as Clovis points, coupled with mammoth and bison bones prove that some of the earliest New World inhabitants lived at Blackwater Draw, experts say. The dig site northwest of Portales has hiking trails that allow visitors to witness evidence of the Folsom, Paleoindian and Archaic cultures and hosts an annua...

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Staff writer [email protected] Samantha Calderon was picking up her younger sister and nephew at a Clovis school bus stop a few weeks ago when she witnessed a child turned into a punching bag for another student. Calderon ran over to stop the fight. When she ran over, the bully ran away, leaving his victim crying and bleeding. She then took the boy home to his aunt and uncle, who told her he is bullied every day at school. “They pick on him every day at school because he’s bigger,” Calderon said. “I talked to (his au...

Staff report CANYON, Texas — Senior catcher Aurelia Sandoval’s fifth-inning squeeze bunt drove home the go-ahead run iand the Eastern New Mexico University softball team held off St. Edward’s 5-4 to split their doubleheader on Saturday in the Lady Buff Invite, hosted by West Texas A&M. St. Ed’s built an 8-0 lead in the opener and held on for an 8-5 victory. The Hilltoppers (10-7) tied the second game 3-3 with a three-run fourth, capped by a two-run double from Emily Mayfield. The Zias (10-4) regained the lead in the next in...

Staff report CANYON, Texas — Senior catcher Aurelia Sandoval’s fifth-inning squeeze bunt drove home the go-ahead run iand the Eastern New Mexico University softball team held off St. Edward’s 5-4 to split their doubleheader on Saturday in the Lady Buff Invite, hosted by West Texas A&M. St. Ed’s built an 8-0 lead in the opener and held on for an 8-5 victory. The Hilltoppers (10-7) tied the second game 3-3 with a three-run fourth, capped by a two-run double from Emily Mayfield. The Zias (10-4) regained the lead in the next in...

Staff report MIDLAND, Texas — Junior left-hander Clyde Kendrick pitched six solid innings and sophomore Kiegan Basso struck out the side in the bottom of the seventh on Saturday, preserving Eastern New Mexico University’s 3-2 win over Lubbock Christian in the finale of a three-game series. The Chaparrals, who won Friday’s series opener, rallied to take the first of Saturday’s scheduled seven-inning games 6-5 with two runs in the bottom of the eighth. Kendrick (1-0) struck out eight and walked three, allowing just four hi... Full story

Staff report MIDLAND, Texas — Lubbock Christian was nothing if not efficient Friday night. The Chaparrals parlayed seven hits, one walk, a hit batsman and three Eastern New Mexico University errors into a 7-3 win over the Greyhounds in the opener of a three-game series at Security Bank Ballpark, home of Midland’s minor league team. LCU stranded just two baserunners in ending a five-game losing streak that was the program’s longest since 2012. The teams will finish the series with a doubleheader today starting at noon (MST)... Full story

Staff report MIDLAND, Texas — Junior left-hander Clyde Kendrick pitched six solid innings and sophomore Kiegan Basso struck out the side in the bottom of the seventh on Saturday, preserving Eastern New Mexico University’s 3-2 win over Lubbock Christian in the finale of a three-game series. The Chaparrals, who won Friday’s series opener, rallied to take the first of Saturday’s scheduled seven-inning games 6-5 with two runs in the bottom of the eighth. Kendrick (1-0) struck out eight and walked three, allowing just four hi...

Staff writer [email protected] Gary Bonestroo, owner of the Bonestroo Dairy Farm in Portales, started building the track behind his farm 15 years ago to give people a chance to ride and have fun. “I wanted people to have the enjoyment of being in a race without having to go through qualifying or anything like that,” Bonestroo said, while checking the engine on his trophy truck. “You can just come out here and race for fun.” This weekend, Bonestroo’s track is being used for the Boneyard Grand Prix Military Appreciat...

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Staff report STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Senior guard Kathy Thomas scored 17 points, leading three Tarleton State players in double figures on Saturday in the TexAnns’ 77-68 Lone Star Conference women’s victory over Eastern New Mexico University. Junior center Breanna Fuller scored 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting and added nine rebounds off the bench for the TexAnns (15-9, 8-7 LSC), while sophomore forward Ikpeaku Iwobi added 11 points and 11 rebounds. TSU opened the game up a bit late in the half and eventually built an 18-po... Full story