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Staff report ARTESIA — The Portales girls tennis team captured team honors over the weekend in the Artesia Invitational. The Lady Rams had a strong weekend in both singles and doubles as they faced Lovington, Silver, Raton and Onate. Singles champions for PHS were McKenzie Bucksath at No. 3, Mireya Lopez at No. 4 and Zamorye Cox at No. 5, Hannah Evans and Daniele Ruiz placed third at No. 1 and No. 6 singles, respectively. “We played hard for 14 hours on Friday and came away with three champions in singles,” Lady Rams coach An...
STAFF REPORT LUBBOCK — Right fielder Ethan Kohnle drove in four runs with three doubles and Lubbock Christian outlasted Eastern New Mexico University 13-10 in non-league baseball on Tuesday. Junior Jesse Pintado drove in three runs with a triple and a single as the Chaparrals (16-16) built an 11-4 lead before holding off a rally by the Greyhounds (9-19). ENMU got a three-run homer from Daniel Ward in the sixth, then added two in the seventh and one in the eighth to pull to 11-10 before Kohnle gave LCU some breathing room w...
STAFF REPORTS Eastern New Mexico University plans to wrap up spring drills tonight with its annual Green & Silver game, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Greyhound Stadium. About 85 players are involved in spring drills, coach Josh Lynn said, adding that a player draft was conducted on Sunday night. Captains for the Silver team are quarterback Jeremy Buurma, center Maanaima Lang and defensive lineman Michael Cowden, while captains for the Green team are quarterback Ryan Greene, center Lane Cummings and defensive lineman Dakota...
link Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Ram junior Jacob Salgado connects for a base hit during the fifth inning of the Rams first game in a doubleheader against the East Mountain Timberwolves Tuesday afternoon at Ram baseball field. Staff writer [email protected] The Portales Rams got great starts from their pitchers in Tuesday’s District 4-4A doubleheader against East Mountain at Ram Field as Grant Wagner and Rey Ornelas both pitched complete games and gave up only four hits c...
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Sports writer [email protected] The game started innocently enough. Clovis High pitcher A.J. Wright threw up a scoreless first, then Lady Wildcats leadoff hitter Ashley Gallagher blooped an opposite-field single to right. link Staff photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis senior shortstop Ashley Gallagher throws late to first base trying to get Roswell High’s Alexis Alvarado during the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game at Lady Wildcat Field. The visiting Lady Coyotes posted an 11-0 win over CHS in five innings. Things quickly tur... Full story
Staff report PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University plans to wrap up spring drills tonight with its annual Green & Silver game, slated to begin at 7 p.m. at Greyhound Stadium. About 85 players are involved in spring drills, coach Josh Lynn said, adding that a player draft was conducted on Sunday night. Captains for the Silver team are quarterback Jeremy Buurma, center Maanaima Lang and defensive lineman Michael Cowden, while captains for the Green team are quarterback Ryan Greene, center Lane Cummings and defensive l...
Staff report LUBBOCK — Right fielder Ethan Kohnle drove in four runs with three doubles and Lubbock Christian outlasted Eastern New Mexico University 13-10 in non-league baseball on Tuesday. Junior Jesse Pintado drove in three runs with a triple and a single as the Chaparrals (16-16) built an 11-4 lead before holding off a rally by the Greyhounds (9-19). ENMU got a three-run homer from Daniel Ward in the sixth, then added two in the seventh and one in the eighth to pull to 11-10 before Kohnle gave LCU some breathing room w... Full story
Staff report PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University junior Laura Grube earned a provisional qualification for NCAA Division II national track meet last week with a throw of 121 feet, 9 inches in women’s javelin in the Bobcat Relays, hosted by Division I Texas State at San Marcos, Texas. “Provisional” means she’s on a list which could earn her a berth in the national meet, scheduled for May 21-23 at Allendale, Michigan, if not enough athletes meet the actual qualifying standard. Grube, from Crowe, Oregon, finished fourth in... Full story
Texico 5, Tucumcari 0 Texico 000 120 2 — 5 8 2 Tucumcari 000 000 0 — 0 2 3 Ben Crist, Hayden Spears (6) and Brock Thompson; Jesus Villanueva, Saul Moriel (6) and David Lopez. W — Crist. L — Villanueva. Top hitters — Texico: Rafael Maldonado 1-4, 3B, RBI, run; Matt Odegaard 1-2, HR, 3RBIs, run; Tanner Dickerman 2-4; Cole Rohrbach 2-3, run. Tucumcari, Lopez 2-3. Records — Texico 6-3, Tucumcari 3-5.... Full story
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Staff writer [email protected] link Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Guest speaker Arel Moodie tells students how to conduct themselves during job interviews Tuesday evening during the professional development dinner. Eastern New Mexico University students looking for a competitive edge when entering the job market were in luck Tuesday night as guest speaker Arel Moodie explained how to interview for and retain a job. Moodie, a speaker who travels the country talking to...
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MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] link Staff photo: Alisa Boswell Tony Johnson, owner of Shop in a Box on East Second Street, helps a customer Tuesday afternoon. One of Johnson’s employees was held at gunpoint Friday night when the store was robbed. It didn’t take long for Portales police to arrest a man suspected of robbing a Portales smoke shop at gunpoint last week. Tony Johnson, owner of Shop in a Box on East Second Street, said his employee recognized William Val...
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Editor’s note: This is a weekly series profiling public service workers link Calderon Name: Roberto Calderon Title: Booking officer Time: Four years What do you do exactly? Basically, I oversee all the intakes and releases for the facility. I am also in charge of making sure people in the booking area know how to do their job and I help with other areas in the facility. What’s the oddest thing you’ve seen in your time here? A guy got brought in who was on drugs and he’s...
Local columnist link Helena Rodriguez Music is on my mind. I seem to sing often at work lately, and not because I like to whistle while I work, but because many little things set off a song in my mind. One day one of my students was singing a song by one of my old favorite music groups, Los Tigrillos. “Ay Esther, ay Esther,” she was humming. Naturally, I finished the verse for her. “Tiene las piernotas como Lucifer.” In translation, “She has huge legs like Lucifer....
Staff report The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office will be closing its office doors on Fridays for the next two months to conserve on electricity costs. Sheriff Malin Parker said deputies will still be out on patrol on Fridays; the administrative office just won’t be open for business. “We don’t know that it will make much of a difference, but we are hoping it will,” Parker said of shutting down all the utilities each Friday. Parker said his office is about to reach the maximum it can spend on utility costs for the current f... Full story
Staff report Elida Municipal Schools has decided to opt out of including a spring break in its schedule this year. Superintendent Jim Daugherty said the decision was based on a combination of testing and school activities pushing the break so far back into the school year. “Last year when we were looking at our school calendar, we wanted to place spring break after our testing period was over, and we also wanted to place it after the state FFA contest because we had a lot of students participate in that,” he said. “Because it...
Staff writer link Kevin Wilson While waiting for the oven to finish my dinner, I took a brief trip online to find a friend had photographed his dessert. I normally abhor such things, but he had a blueberry Newton. Wait, what? I had no idea these existed. I knew of the standard fig variety, and of the strawberry, and the long-ago discontinued apple — which were awesome from the fridge or the microwave. But never the blueberry. I talked to my friend the next day, and asked h...
Today • Preschool story time — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 • Wii Wednesday — 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Preschool story time — 6 p.m., Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 • Child Find screening — 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment only at Floyd schools. Information: 575-478-2211. • Living Last Supper — 7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church. A live depiction of the Last Supper. Information: 575-356-8597 • Stuff the Truck food...
Third grade A/B honor roll Jasmine Elizabeth Acosta Ashlyn Paige Acree Brennan D. Armijo Pedro Eduardo Avery Maya Dolores Avila Victor Ivan Baca Isaiah Ruben Baldivia Bentleigh Banister Jasmin Xitlali Beltran Derek Jay Bowers Drue Ray Bowers Savanna Lynn Bricker Lacee Ryan Brooks Sean Paul Bustamante Noah Nathaniel Cabezuela Edgar Josue Castillo Bryan Castro Angel Manuel De Leon Devin Cole Diaz Luz Belen Dimas Manuel Emilio Encinias Estrella Erazo Nicodemus Ragnar Eriksen Santino Cruz Espinoza Dayanna Fernandez Lorena... Full story
On this date ... 1950: John Burroughs headed the “Good Government” ticket in Portales’ upcoming city elections. Burroughs’ group, which also included City Council candidates Pat Patterson, Jack Mears, Joe Ray and Roger Pattison, said they wanted to eliminate politics from the hiring of city employees. Another priority was to purchase a two-way radio system for city police. Opponents questioned whether Burroughs, who said he had lived in Portales four years, was even eligible to run for office. Opponents also alleged the “Go...
