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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — It was truly a Super Tuesday for the Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball team. Even with everything that transpired later in the Lone Star Conference tournament at Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas this weekend, Tuesday was historic for the Eastern women’s program, which hosted a conference tournament opening-round game for the first time since 2004. So, the atmosphere at Greyhound Arena Tuesday night was understandably electric, with an espec...
FRISCO, Texas — Top-seeded Texas A&M-Commerce held off a furious late rally by Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday to topple the Greyhounds 68-59 in the women’s semifinals of the Lone Star Conference basketball tournament. ENMU (22-9), seeded fifth, cut a 21-point deficit to six twice in the final 90 seconds before the Lions (29-2), ranked No. 10 in NCAA Division II, put the game away with some late free throws. Junior guard Chania Wright led Commerce’s balanced attac...
RICHARDSON, Texas — It’s a fair argument Zamorye Cox, Alivia Lewis and Natalie DeLonge carried the Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball team all season, as they combined for 49% of the team’s points, 40% of its rebounds and 50% of its assists in the regular season. Their all-around efforts were recognized by the Lone Star Conference Wednesday, as each member of the trio earned a second-team All-LSC selection. The Greyhounds, seeded fifth in the postseason LSC tournament, joined Lubbock Christian and West Texas A&M as the...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team opened Lone Star Conference play with a stunning comeback in the opener of a Friday doubleheader against Texas-Permian Basin. The Greyhounds tried to do the same thing in Game 2, but the Falcons’ Abrie Castillo held them off. Sophomore center fielder Jenny McElroy drove in five runs with a double and a pair of home runs, the latter a two-out walkoff shot in the bottom of the seventh, as ENMU claimed a 9-7 victory in Ga...
PLAINVIEW, Texas — Kambrey Blakey and the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens are heading back to the NAIA Division I National Tournament. But they didn’t exactly have their fingers crossed for a berth. Blakey, a Portales native, had 15 points and eight rebounds Saturday as Wayland Baptist won the Sooner Athletic Conference tournament with a 68-57 victory Saturday over Oklahoma City University. The fifth-ranked Flying Queens (31-2) outscored their three opponents 254-178 to ear...
PORTALES — Senior right-hander Nick Bartley threw seven innings of three-hit ball and second baseman Lincoln Choate hit a key two-run double on Friday night, lifting Texas-Permian Basin to a 5-0 win over Eastern New Mexico University in the opener of a four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series at Greyhound Field. Bartley (2-1) walked three and struck out seven. He gave way in the eighth to Paul McRae, who walked the first two hitters before Braeden Gould induced a double-play grounder from ENMU freshman Camden M...
The Clovis Girls Athletic Association is accepting registration for girls and boys youth slow-pitch softball. Registration will be held 1 p.m.-3 p.m. the next three Saturdays and 6 p.m.-8 p.m. the next three Wednesdays in March at the Spencer softball fields at Lore and Echols streets. Signups are also available 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays at 1520 Mitchell St. Fees are $40 for T-ball (ages 4-6) and $60 for slow-pitch (ages 6-17). Cash payments are due upon registration, and a $10 late fee applies after March 31. All players must...
TEXICO — The Texico boys basketball team saved what may have been its best performance of the season for its last home game of the season. Playing sharp in the first half and looking poised in a suddenly iffy fourth quarter, the seventh-seeded Wolverines held off 10th-seeded Navajo Pine to win their state 2A first-round playoff game 64-54 Saturday afternoon at Texico Sports Arena. The Wolverines broke loose after a back-and-forth first quarter to gain some nice separation by halftime, separated some more in the third q...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University filled its women’s soccer coaching position last week, announcing Southern Mississippi assistant Abbey Barnum as its seventh coach in program history on Friday. Barnum, who played on a pair of Lone Star Conference regular season and tournament champions at Midwestern State, will be a head coach for the first time in her still-short coaching career. “I’m thrilled that Abbey has agreed to be our next head women’s soccer coach at Easter...
TEXICO — Every basketball season comes to an end. The Texico girls basketball players were just hoping theirs didn’t end quite so soon. The sixth-seeded Lady Wolverines sure fought hard to avoid that happening in Friday night’s state 2A first-round game against 11th-seeded Clayton at Texico Sports Arena. Despite falling into a deep, deep first-quarter hole, Texico battled back and actually had a chance to win the game in the final minute. But key Texico turnovers in the wanin...
PORTALES — For the season, Valley’s girls shoot about 29 percent from 3-point range. That doesn’t mean the Vikings couldn’t get hot on a given night, and Portales High wasn’t about to take that chance in Friday’s Class 4A state round-of-16 matchup. The Lady Rams limited Valley to six 3-pointers — four coming in the final quarter when the game was all but out of reach — en route to a 60-47 victory over the 14th-seeded Vikings at the Ram Athletic Center. Sophomore forwa...
ROSWELL — Clovis Christian’s girls certainly waited to “explode” on offense on Friday night. In a game where neither team had made a 3-pointer heading into the final minute, sisters Lola and Sofia DeGroot each hit one in the final seconds to lift the 11th-seeded Lady Eagles past third-seeded Gateway Christian 26-25 in a Class 1A state round-of-16 matchup. CCS (16-12) advances to Wednesday’s quarterfinals, where it will face District 6 rival Fort Sumner in an 8 a.m. game at Bernalillo H.S. Lola DeGroot’s 3 pulled CCS to 25-2...
PORTALES — State representatives for the Portales area had mixed feelings about the legislative session this year, where recreational marijuana remained a discussion item while a “red-flag” gun bill became law. Following the 30-day legislative session, senators and representatives from eastern New Mexico visited the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Luncheon on Thursday to share the highlights from this year’s session. Rep. Phelps Anderson, who represents Rooseve...
On this date ... 1965: F-100 supersonic fighter-bomber jets were reported landing at Cannon Air Force Base as units began returning from rotational duty. The F-100s, some of which had been flying missions in Vietnam and Laos in recent months, apparently were returning from deployments to Southeast Asia, according to the Clovis News-Journal. Cannon officials declined to comment on the planes’ activities. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: [email protected] For more regional history, see the website: p...
