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Staff report SAN ANGELO, Texas — Freshman pitcher/designated player Kenedy Urbany belted her eighth homer of the season in the first game and tossed a five-inning, three-hit shutout in the nightcap as 11th-ranked Angelo State swept past Eastern New Mexico University 8-3 and 10-0 in Lone Star Conference softball on Saturday. The league-leading Rambelles (31-9, 16-3 LSC) held the Zias to just three runs in the three-game series. ENMU (11-30, 1-18) has dropped 18 consecutive LSC games since a conference-opening win in late...
Staff report The Portales Rams managed to win only one event in Friday’s Jim Love Invitational track meet at PHS, but they scored in enough events to earn a second place team finish. PHS compiled 69 points to edge past Texico (65 1/2) and Belen (65) and finish behnd only Friona (79). Michael Nichols earned the lone win for the PHS boys, going 18 feet, 11 inches in long jump to finish just ahead of teammate Jonathan Bargas (18-8). They scored in 15 events overall, though, to squeak out the runnerup finish. “It was a great...
Staff report STANFORD, Calif. — Eastern New Mexico University senior Isaiah Samoei set a school outdoor record in the men’s 10,000 and earned a provisionalo qualification to NCAA Division II national track competition on Friday night at the Stanford Invitational track meet. Samoei, from Eldoret, Kenya, clocked a time of 29 minutes, 19.38 seconds to finish ninth in the race. Seven of the eight runners ahead of him were Divisoin I....
Floyd 9, Dora 2 Dora 000 200 0 — 2 1 6 Floyd 012 042 x — 9 10 0 WP — W.T. Whitecotton. LP — Jesus Villegas. Top hitters — Dora: Andrew Gramzow 1-3, 2-run HR. Floyd: Lane Wallace 3-4, 2B, 2 RBIs, 3 runs; Whitecotton 2-4, 4 RBIs, run; Torres 3-3, 3 runs. Junior varsity — Floyd 11, Dora 7....
Baxter Black link Baxter Black On the edge of common sense John lives down the road from me. We have cattle across the fence from each other. He is good at a lot of things; carpentry, electronics, sports and hunting, but cows are not his strong suit. He runs a handful on 90 acres. He called me one day askin' if we had seen a cow of his. I told him we had cleared the pasture and had not seen her in with our bunch. I left town for a weekend and when I returned he had left a...
Staff report DUMAS, Texas — Clovis Media Inc. newspapers picked up 14 awards Saturday during the Panhandle Press Association's awards banquet, held in Dumas, Texas. The Clovis News Journal picked up 12 awards, eight of them first place. The Portales News-Tribune picked up two awards. The CNJ also picked up the Division II general excellence award for the association's larger-circulation papers. It is the paper's third straight and 10th since 2002. The Muleshoe Journal won 10 awards in Division I, including three...
Today Dodgeball Tournament — 2 p.m., Greyhound stadium gyms. Information: [email protected] Monday Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 356-8598. Step aerobics — 4 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 356-8598. Relay for Life Team Captain Meeting — 5:30 p.m., PMS Annex Zia Room. Information: 760-0526 or relayforlife.org/portalesnm. Tuesday Boot Camp — 5:30 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 356-8598. Books N Babies — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library....
Portales police, sheriff, and fire call logs: Caller reported: Thursday • 12:35 a.m.: Suspicious circumstances, 1000 block of North Chicago Avenue. • 5:45 a.m.: Burglary, 1200 block of West Hickory Street. • 6:10 a.m.: Burglary, 700 block of West 14th Street. • 6:33 a.m.: Burglary, 500 block of South Avenue F. • 7:27 a.m.: Motor vehicle accident with injuries, South Roosevelt Road T and 3. • 7:55 a.m.: Animal complaint, 1000 block of Community Way. • 8:13 a.m.: Alarm activation, 400 block of East 17th Street....
David Stevens link David Stevens Editor When we think about our most famous residents, we remember music producer Norman Petty, pro football’s Hank Baskett or maybe cartoonist William Hanna, who was born in Melrose. When the world’s intellectual geeks think about our part of the universe, only one name comes to mind: Jack Williamson. If the science fiction writer were alive today, he’d likely have a recurring role on the “Big Bang Theory.” The fantasy literature...
Staff writer [email protected] DUMAS, Texas — As a child, Wendy Davis spent summers in Muleshoe with her grandparents, and got her driving lessons on a small farm road leading to Littlefield. Now, Davis is traveling farm roads, state roads and interstates across Texas hoping they lead her to Austin for a four-year term as governor. Davis, the Democratic nominee in the open Texas governor’s race, spoke briefly about her time in Muleshoe and mostly on education policy as a guest speaker Friday at the Panhandle Press Ass... Full story
Staff writer [email protected] The U.S. economy will have 55 million job openings through 2020 and not enough workers to fill them, according to a 2013 study by Georgetown University based out of Washington, D.C. According to the study, over the course of the next several years, the U.S. will see 24 million new jobs created and 31 million job openings due to “baby boomer” retirements.link File photo The health care industry is already experiencing issues with having e...
link Lillian Bowe: Staff photo There were 47 artists participating in the sidewalk chalk competition, sketching designs under the theme “Dreams and Nightmares.” Staff writer [email protected] Dreams and nightmares are what Portales High School senior Kaytlin Driscoll’s sidewalk art was about. One side — a seemingly innocent girl’s dreams. The other — someone turning her dreams into a nightmare. “She looks innocent, but she is really not and that is why her...
Jim Constantopolous Guest columnist As much as we would like to use America’s abundance of natural gas as a political lever against Russia’s Vladimir Putin, uncertainty over the demand for relatively high-cost U.S. gas will likely force us to be more realistic about what we can accomplish. A better strategy would be to supply Europe with coal and nuclear technology, which could be used instead of Russian natural gas for electricity production. To that end, we should eliminate government restrictions on coal mining and...
Wendel Sloan link Wendel Sloan Local columnist Around Portales I’ve seen numerous people holding up “need help” signs. In the past, mostly because of traffic, I seldom stopped. Lately, I’ve been donating a few bucks. Most recently, I parked and motioned a young man over. His handmade sign, written with red marker on white paper taped to brown cardboard with red tape, read: “Homeless & Hungry and In Need Of Some Help. I’m Willing To Work For What I Get.” In blue...
T he writing of another chapter in Texas’ troubled history with the death penalty is under way, and is being shaped by questions about the state’s supply of lethal injection drugs and the right of the public to know what is being used in its name. Last month, State District Court Judge Suzanne Covington in Austin delivered a limited victory for transparency and the rights of defendants when she ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to tell the attorneys of two death row inmates the source of the new supply of... Full story
Saturday Fox/Vixen Relays At Fort Sumner Boys Team standings: 1. Clayton 109; 2. Santa Rosa 102; 3. Fort Sumner 46; 4. Mountainair 43; 5. Logan 36; 6. Raton 22; 7. Pecos 19; 8. Tucumcari 18; 9. Hagerman 15; 10. Lake Arthur 14; 11. Melrose 12; 12. Desert Academy 11; 13. Mesa Vista 5; 14. Corona 3. High-point athletes: Dante Torello, Santa Rosa 17 1/4; Victor Zamora, Mountainair 16 1/2. Field events Shot put: 1. Dakota Montoya, Clayton 48-1 1/4; 2. James Moncayo, Santa Rosa 46-4 1/2; 3. Kenyon Aguilar, Mountainaiir 45-5 1/2.... Full story
Staff report ARTESIA — Sophomore Mireya Lopez earned a second-place finish at girls No. 6 singles, highlighting Portales High performances in the Artesia Invitational tennis tournament on Friday and Saturday. PHS girls finished with 15 team points while the boys had one point in the eight-school event. Team standings were not available. Lopez defeated an opponent from Silver 6-7 (3-7), 7-5, (10-6) in her first-round matchup, then beat an Onate player 6-0, 6-1 before losing to a New Mexico Military opponent 6-2, 6-1 in the...
Texico 15, Eunice 8 Eunice 014 010 2 — 8 8 4 Texico 048 300 x —15 13 2 Luis Bustamonte, Isaiah Nichols (4) and Cole Rimer; Jarron Hill, Gentry Doolittle (6) and Josh Tredway. W — Hill. L — Bustamonte. Top hitters — Eunice: Nichols 2-3, run; Max Gladden 3-3, 3B, 4 RBIs, 3 runs. Texico: Doolittle 2-4, 2B, 2 RBIs, 2 runs; John Myers 2-3, 3B, 2 RBIs, run, 2 BBs; Rafael Maldonado 2-5, 2B, 3B, 2 RBIs, 2 runs; Tredway 2-3, 2 runs; C.J. Montano 2-3, RBI, 2 runs. Records — Eunice 3-11, Texico 8-0. Junior varsity ... Full story