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Jake Cooper won Friday's first go-round in tie down roping in the 43rd annual Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Pioneer Days Rodeo at Curry County Events Center, but he was less than satisfied. Cooper's time of 9.3 seconds was more than two seconds ahead of runnerup Cody Jordan of Hobbs, but he doesn't think it'll hold up in the final two days of the rodeo. New contestants will go at it tonight and again on Sunday. CMI photo: Tony Bullocks Kyle Broce of La Junta, Colo., received a no-score on his steer wrestling effort...
Women of all ages donned bonnets and cowboy hats Friday morning to celebrate their western heritage. The 12th annual Pioneer Women Breakfast welcomed 125 guests, including reigning and potential Rodeo New Mexico queens and princesses, city officials, Chamber of Commerce members, and most importantly, descendants of the men and women who helped put Clovis on the map. CMI correspondent photo: Joshua Lucero Miss Rodeo America Chenae Shiner of Utah speaks at the 12th annual Pioneer Women Breakfast Friday morning at Clovis Civic...
Double elimination MAJORS Monday Game 1: Zia Indians 17, Quay Cubs 6 Game 3: Quay Storm 19, American Red Sox 9 Game 6: Zia Rangers 12, American Yankees 11 Tuesday Game 2: American Braves 9, Zia Braves 8 Game 4: Zia Orioles 16, Zia Pirates 6 Game 5: Zia Angels, bye Wednesday All games, ppd., rain Thursday Winners bracket Game 7: Zia Indians 7, Roosevelt Braves 6 Game 8: Americaqn Braves 13, Quay Storm 1 Game 9: Zia Orioles 7, Zia Angels 3 Game 10: Zia Rangers 11, American Rangers 8 Losers bracket Game 11: Zia Pirates, bye...
River Fine was Portales High's only representative on the South squad for this weekend's Class 1A-3A New Mexico High School Coaches Association all-star series at Cobre High School in Bayard. Fine was chosen as a third baseman. The teams will play a doubleheader at 4 p.m. today, then a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 10 a.m. PHS coach Arturo Ontiveros also released All-District 3-4A and All-Class 3A selections for the recently completed season. Fine and outfielder Omar Legarda were honorable mention selections for the Ra...
Joshua Prock isn't intimidated by trying to build a women's basketball program at Eastern New Mexico University. He's already had success in what he called a similar situation at Division III Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. "(Eastern is) a similar situation to where I'm at right now," said Prock, hired as the Zias' coach on Thursday. "I think if you work hard, positive things can happen. I'm more a glass-is-half-full guy than the glass-is half-empty-guy." Prock, 35, a 1996 Clovis High graduate, was one of eight c...
Rain hit eastern New Mexico hard Wednesday night, with Portales taking the brunt of the inclement weather with about an inch of rain, but emergency crews in both Portales and Clovis reported they responded to no calls for injuries. Mark Fettig, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque, said the highest rain total reported in Roosevelt County was 1.1 inches a mile northeast of Portales. The biggest issues in Curry County were with dust and wind, Fettig said, but he noted reports of hail in Texico and...
Double elimination MAJORS Monday Game 1: Zia Indians 17, Quay Cubs 6 Game 3: Quay Storm 19, American Red Sox 9 Game 6: Zia Rangers 12, American Yankees 11 Tuesday Game 2: American Braves 9, Zia Braves 8 Game 4: Zia Orioles 16, Zia Pirates 6 Game 5: Zia Angels, bye Wednesday Winners bracket Game 7: Zia Indians at Roosevelt Braves, 7:30 p.m. Game 8: Quay Storm at at American Braves, 7:30 p.m. Game 9: Zia Angels vs. Zia Orioles, 7:30 p.m.-x Game 10: American Rangers vs. Zia Braves, 7:30 p.m.-x Losers bracket Game 11: Zia...
Roosevelt General Hospital CEO Larry Leaming says the ultimate goal of a state-run health exchange is to get uninsured people in New Mexico health coverage. But with that goal in mind, Leaming says it's not clear how the state will achieve that goal while making health care affordable. "Well if we're going to have an exchange, we should be the ones to design it," Leaming said. "I'm very much opposed to governmental bureaucracy. Even good ideas can turn into regulations." Leaming sits on the board of directors for the state's...
"This is dust storm country. It is the saddest land I've ever seen." Washington Daily News reporter and columnist Ernie Pyle wrote those words in 1936 after a trip across the drought-ravaged Midwest. They could sum up where we're at in eastern New Mexico in 2013. I knew things were not good on our land in eastern New Mexico and it hadn't been for a long time. A daytrip shocked me as to just how bad the drought has become. Even the hardy buffalo grass has dried to the point of near desiccation. As you step on a clump it...
They spend hours each month preparing for what they hope will never happen — a disaster. Comprised of volunteers culled from almost every public and government sector in Roosevelt and Curry counties, Local Emergency Planning Committees promote emergency planning, preparedness and public awareness in the case of a natural or manmade disaster. National Weather Service Doppler Weather Radar image A composite reflectivity image of a large storm just north of Clovis on May 25 t...
Gov. Susana Martinez will have three candidates to chose from when deciding who will replace retiring District Court Chief Judge Teddy Hartley following a sometimes dramatic session Friday of a special judicial nominating commission. The candidates picked by the panel include former two-term Clovis City Commissioner and assistant district attorney Fred Van Soelen, Assistant District Attorney Brian Stover and Portales attorney Wesley Pool. The names of the three finalists were revealed in a motion by Portales attorney Randy...
A convicted killer stole 40 seconds of freedom after being sentenced to life in prison Friday when he escaped while being escorted from district court in Muleshoe. Daniel A. Cardon Jr., 50, who was convicted earlier in the day by a Bailey County jury of gunning down his estranged wife, broke free from police and ran about a block before being apprehended, according to Bailey County Sheriff Richard Wills. Wills said Cardon was transported for detention at the Lubbock County Sheriff's office due to security concerns. Cadron...
A Fort Sumner teen was charged with second-degree murder Thursday for his involvement in a fight a little more than a week ago during a drinking party in Fort Sumner, according to jail records. Caleb West, 19, was released on a $200,000 bond early Thursday evening. Police say Anthony Sandoval of Espanola was involved in a physical altercation with West on May 17. Sandoval was knocked unconscious when his head hit a cement floor during the struggle. Sandoval regained consciousness, but was discovered dead May 19 at a Fort...
Eastern New Mexico University senior designated hitter Peter Creamer has been chosen as an NCAA Division II honorable menton All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Creamer, from Boston, is the first player in the history of the ENMU program to earn All-American status from the NCBWA. Creamer, who led the Lone Star Conference with a .422 batting average and also had 36 RBIs, 31 runs scored and five stolen bases, was a first-team All-LSC and All-South Central Region selection this...
Three members of the Eastern New Mexico University baseball squad — senior designated hitter Peter Creamer, senior outfielder Luis Quinones of Las Cruces and junior infielder Colton Sims of Reno, Nev. — were chosen to the ABCA/Rawlings All-South Central Region team on Tuesday. Creamer, who led the Lone Star Conference in hitting at .422, earned his fourth postseason honor, including first-team All-LSC and third-team Daktronics All-America team. Quinones and Sims were both first-team All-LSC and second-team Daktronics Sou...
Eastern New Mexico University is closing in on filling two head coaching positions. The school is looking to fill its women's basketball and softball positions after Lindsey Wilson and Lauren Sigwing resigned those posts, respectively, earlier this month. ENMU athletic director Jeff Geiser said Tuesday that the school received 43 applications for women's basketball, and had the list narrowed down to eight for telephone interviews on Tuesday and today. He said the school expects to invite from two to four finalists for...
David Hemley said if employers are using a candidate's credit score as an initial screening tool for hiring, they probably shouldn't because it's not indicative of that person's job performance. Hemley, a professor of economics at Eastern New Mexico University, is concerned that the unemployed in New Mexico may stay that way because a state senate bill that would have kept credit scores out of the hiring process was vetoed by Gov. Susana Martinez. "The thing is, I can see where that can be extremely discriminating," Hemley sa...
PUEBLO, Colo. — Eastern New Mexico University sophomore Alesha Jones finished 16th out of 22 runners in Friday's preliminaries of the NCAA Division II national outdoor track women's 800 run, hosted by Colorado State-Pueblo. Jones, from Wilcox, Ariz., posted a time of 2 minutes, 14.55 seconds to finish sixth in the first of three heats in the event. She set the school record in the event during the Lone Star Conference championships earlier this month in Canyon, Texas, with a time of 2:12.08. The top two in each heat plus t...
PUEBLO, Colo. — Eastern New Mexico University sophomore Kaspars Briska finished 14th overall in Thursday's preliminaries of the 3,000-meter steeplechase in the NCAA Division II national outdoor track meet, hosted by Colorado State-Pueblo. Briska, who had a top time coming in of 9 minutes, 4.71 seconds, finished in 9:37.34 on Thursday. He needed to make the top 12 out of 20 entrants to advance to today's 7:35 p.m. final. All of the runners were well off their top times. ENMU's second entrant in the nationals, sophomore A...
Three Clovis lawyers and an attorney in Portales have applied to become the next district judge for Curry and Roosevelt counties. One of the four will be picked by Gov. Susana Martinez to succeed 9th Judicial District Chief Judge Teddy Hartley, who is retiring in June. A press release late Wednesday from the Judicial Selection Office at the University of New Mexico law school identified the four applicants for Hartley's job as: - Christian Paul Christiansen, Portales - Wesley O. Pool, Clovis - Brian Scott Stover, Clovis -...
Sunland Inc. Vice President Katalin Coburn said she's excited that Sunland is one step closer to getting its products back on the shelves as peanut butter production resumed Monday. Sunland is bouncing back from a salmonella outbreak that linked its products to 41 cases in 20 states last fall and shuttered its plant for months. Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Director Karl Terry said the community never lost faith in the company that is the heart of the Valencia peanut capital and the country's largest organic peanut...
Eastern New Mexico University sophomores Kaspars Briska and Alesha Jones have their work cut out in the NCAA Division II national outdoor track meet this weekend in Pueblo, Colo., but both are ready to give it their best shot. Briska, a junior college transfer from Riga, Latvia, qualified for the nationals in the 3,000 steeplechase, posting the 14th-best time in Division II at 9 minutes, 4.71 seconds in the Texas Relays on March 27. Jones, also a juco transfer from Wilcox, Ariz., is a senior academically but will have at...
This fishing report, provided by Bill Dunn and the Department of Game and Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers and anglers. Conditions encountered after the report is compiled may differ, as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities. Northeast Charette Lakes — Fishing was fair using Power Bait, worms, Pistol Petes and salmon eggs for trout. We had no reports on perch. Cimarron River — Water flow below Eagle Nest on Monday was 67 cfs. Trout fishing was fair...
ALBUQUERQUE — All that could be heard was the "click-clack" of their spikes on the concrete as they trudged from the field, up the stairs, and funneled into the concourse at Isotopes Park, where fathers, brothers, mothers and sisters gathered for the requisite conciliatory confabulation. "Second in state," one Texico fan said, "that's something to be proud of." That statement, however true, was met with glum looks after the No. 12 seed Wolverines, clutching their red trophy, were run-ruled by second-seeded Cobre 11-1 in Frida...
Three Eastern New Mexico University baseball players, the most in program history, were named to the Daktronics All-South Central teams Thursday. Senior Peter Creamer was named to the first team as a designated hitter, while senior outfielder Luis Quinones and junior utility player Colton Sims grabbed second-team spots. Creamer led the Lone Star Conference with a .422 average and led the Greyhounds with 36 RBIs. Quinones hit .375 with nine doubles, two homers and a triple on the season, and ended his career third on the ENMU...
