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BASKETBALL Prep summaries Saturday Boys Farwell Invitational Championship Farwell 56, Portales 44 Portales (3-1) — Xodus Gomez 2, Alex Garcia 3, Eli Gomez 6, Paxton Culpepper 2, Kaden Hightower 7, Markus Aranda 5, Emmanuel Diahn 2, Davian Lucero 7, Greydon Rigsby 10. Totals 17 6-10 44. Farwell (7-1) — Juan Gaxiola 4, Walker Williams 4, Adrian Nunez 4, Leo Nunez 8, Corey Stancell 4, Grayson Waldrop 12, Dustan Sides 16, Jorge Vasquez 2, Andrew Husted 2. Totals 24 3-7 56. Portales 9 14 6 15 — 44 Farwell 15 12 14 15 — 56 3-point...
ELIDA - Clovis High's junior varsity claimed the girls championship in Elida's Tiger Invitational on Saturday, beating Dora 45-37 in the finals. No one reached double figures for the Lady Wildcats (6-1), but eight players scored, led by eight points each from junior Amanda De La Rosa and sophomore Aja Gonzales. Clovis opened a 21-13 lead in a high-scoring first stanza, and carried a 41-26 lead into the final segment before the Lady Coyotes (6-2) put together a late push....
ALBUQUERQUE — Five local athletes were honored Monday with seven total selections on all-state football teams. The New Mexico High School Coaches Association released all-state teams this week for Classes 3A through 6A and six-man. The association had not released the Class 2A and eight-man all-state teams at press time. Two Portales players made second-team in Class 4A, with Braydon Mignard selected at defensive end and Dylan Looney picked as an offensive lineman. A pair of Clovis players were honorable mentions on the C...
FARWELL — Farwell’s girls handled Littlefield in Saturday’s finals of the Farwell Invitational. Tuesday night, they were to get a quick return game with the Lady Wildcats. Junior forward Charlie May Trimble hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 points as the Lady Blue turned back Littlefield 49-42. The rematch was slated for Littlefield. Farwell (12-1), a winner of eight in a row, held the lead virtually all the way but had a tough time shaking the plucky Lady Wildcats (5-5). “They’re a really good team,” Lady Blue coach Mikel...
FARWELL — Dustan Sides was the right man in the right spot on Saturday night. The 6-foot-4 senior post benefitted from penatration by Farwell’s guards, and he took advantage to score a personal-best 16 points in the Steers’ 56-44 triumph over Portales in the boys championship game of the Farwell Invitational. “They were playing zone and our guards were able to penetrate,” Sides said. “I was usually open on the opposite block.” Six-foot-5 senior forward Grayson Waldrop, meantime, did his damage from the perimeter, hi...
SEMINOLE, Texas — Winning meets isn’t everything, especially at this time of year. Clovis High’s squads came up a bit short in Saturday’s Seminole Christmas Invitational, but co-coach Vincent de Maio said the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats learned a lot about themselves. “It was a good meet,” he said. “We learned some things, and we worked on some of the weaknesses we have. Overall, I think the kids swam well.” Both CHS squads finished third overall, the girls scoring 364 points to trail Andrews (431 1/2) and Monahans (400 1...
EUNICE - It's been a busy, but profitable, last few days for Clovis Christian boys basketball team. Playing their fourth game in five nights, the Eagles edged host Eunice 51-50 in overtime on Monday night, extending their winning streak to six games. Over the weekend, they captured the Mountain Top Invitational tournament at Cloudcroft, knocking off Cliff 55-38 in Saturday's championship tilt. Sophomore Jaden Martinez gave CCS the lead in Monday's game by hitting the second of...
STANTON, Texas — After a couple of tough tests earlier in Stanton’s Pinky Jones Hooptown Classic, Portales High’s girls closed out the event with a blowout win. The Lady Rams (6-1) completed a four-game sweep in the event with a 67-29 rout of Lamesa on Saturday afternoon. PHS was slated to face the only team it has lost to on Tuesday night when it visited Levelland. The Lady Tornadoes (1-11) were simply no match on Saturday. Portales opened an 18-7 lead at the quarter and cruised from there. “We got to play everybody a lot,...
On this date … 1906: Portales and railroad officials were looking for those responsible for the theft of the Saturday night mail sack. It had contained about 1,000 letters, officials estimated. The mail sack was located late Sunday afternoon, but only a dozen letters remained inside. “It seems it must have been a deliberate plot to rob the sack and the robbers must have been laying for it,” the Portales Times reported on Dec. 15, one week after the heist. “This is shown by the...
A memorial reception for a lifelong banker friend last weekend set my mind to wandering, as events like that are wont to do. The Saturday afternoon gathering was in honor of Bob Wood, who was president of the First National Bank of Portales when I was a kid. I hadn’t really considered it before, but we are — mostly by choice and because it’s so darned convenient — quite removed from banks and bankers these days. It’s possible to go through a lifetime now rarely setting f...
Normally, the website The Gateway Pundit can and should be laughed off as right-wing, fake-news nonsense. But as Reuters recently reported, the site’s false allegations of election fraud in jurisdictions around the country have stoked harassment and death threats against two dozen election officials. The reason toxic platforms like this exist is because there is a market for them. Only when the news-consuming public learns to be more discerning in where it looks for information will those platforms loosen their damaging g...
If you think New Mexico’s commitment to alternative energy sources is evident only by the wind turbines and solar farms going up, think again. Hydrogen gas is on the way. Earlier this month, officials with BayoTech Inc., alongside Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, unveiled the Albuquerque-based company’s first “hydrogen-generating hub” — the first of many the company plans to help build in the U.S. and Great Britain over the next three years. BayoTech’s CEO said the company’s goal is to be the largest hydrogen distribution...
This past spring I noticed a bigger than usual crop of the plant that becomes tumbleweeds when it dies and the wind blows. I told a few people to be ready for an epic tumbleweed season this year. Then, I failed to see many tumbleweeds last month and wondered what had happened to them all. It turns out they had all gone to Oasis State Park to plot their attack. So, I was right about the bumper crop, but I missed where they were going. I can’t win ‘em all. Some things are easy t...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee on Monday got in the corner of a group of longtime local boxers and their request to use Roy Walker Recreation Center. By a unanimous vote, the committee recommended letting the Sinner’s Den boxing organization operate the boxing facility in the center’s southwest corner. Elijio Sena and Earl Large Jr. of Clovis said they would likely operate the facility 5 p.m-8 p.m. Monday through Friday. Sinner’s Den, they said, has a field of 30 boxers and won a team tr...
PORTALES — The Portales Municipal School Board on Monday said good-bye to two board members and 27 years of service. Board president Alan Garrett has served on the board for 16 years, while Antonio Sanchez served for 11 years. Garrett did not run to keep his seat in the November elections, and Sanchez lost his seat to Braden Fraze in a four-way race that also included candidates William Hilliard and Meredith Seifert. Garrett’s seat will be taken by Jimmie Standifer. Garrett is a professor of Secondary Education and Education...
WASHINGTON — Two Clovis students were announced as nominees to United State service academies by Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., according to a release from the senator's office. Mark Cabeen and Lee McDonald Air Force were among 50 to receive nominations form the senator. Cabeen was nomimnatd for the U.S. Naval Academy, while McDonald was nominated for the U.S. Air Force Academy. A nomination is required to attend the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Merchant M...
PORTALES — In conjunction with an expanded effort at trash removal in alleys, the city of Portales is asking citizens to report instances of illegal dumping. According to a city release, the public works department has dedicated its entire staff to alleyway cleanup. The release reported the city the cleanup has included 600 mattresses and other undisclosed large items that do not fit in alleyway trash bins. Residents are asked to report illegal dumping to city staff at 575-356-6662, and to take large items to the city’s Con...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — The 27th Special Operations Wing will host its fourth public meeting tonight on actions to address per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) identified at the base. The quarterly meeting will be open to the public via Zoom meeting ID 337 873 3806 with passcode 88101. Questions will be accepted through the chat box in the Zoom software. Questions will be captured and answered either during the meeting or later in the meeting minutes. The meeting will be archived at cannon.af.mil/envi...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man whose eighth driving-while-intoxicated conviction was reversed Aug. 26 by the New Mexico Court of Appeals was released from prison on Monday. Prosecutor Brian Stover said the appeals court suppressed most of the evidence in Randall Pruit’s case, so the district attorney’s office had no choice but to drop charges. “We know he had cocaine in his system, but the field sobriety test and blood draw were all suppressed … so I can’t convict him of driving under the influence,” Stover said. “We tried to find any...
A train derailment either late Sunday night or early Monday on the BNSF railroad tracks near Taiban disrupted traffic on a side road off U.S. 60-84, but caused no injuries, according to De Baca County Sheriff Robert Roybal. Railroad crews on Monday were moving rail cars off the tracks to conduct track repairs, Roybal said, and traffic on Red Lake Road was . Attempts to reach BNSF railroad officials Monday and Tuesday for more details were unsuccessful....
SANTA FE — New Mexico joined a growing list of states to confirm the new Omicron variant of COVID-19, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. The first case was identified on Sunday in a female adult who resides in Bernalillo County. The subject reported travel to a state that also had Omicron cases. After an emergency room visit, the individual was discharged stable to home. The variant has now been confirmed in 30 states and 60 countries, and is considered by the Centers for Disease Control as a variant of c...
CLOVIS — More than three months after a 68-year-old Clovis woman was killed while walking in the 2900 block of Thornton Street, the case remains under investigation. District Attorney Andrea Reeb said Tuesday she expects her office to make a decision on whether criminal charges will be filed in “a couple of weeks.” Reeb said prosecutors received details of the case from police investigators four or five weeks ago. Now her investigators are doing followup interviews. Officials have said a 16-year-old boy was driving on Thorn...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Clovis native Shad Mayfield ended his run at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo seventh in the world tie-down roping standings, with $195,909.77 earned on the year. Mayfield, the 2020 world champion in tie-down, won the second and fourth rounds of the 10-round competition and reached as high as second in the world rankings over the course of the finals. But he wasn’t able to make up more ground, as he finished out of the money (top six) in the remaining eight rounds. Caleb Smidt claimed the world tit...
CLOVIS - Dan Macke has made his legal career in Albuquerque, but he considers himself quite familiar with Curry County after more than 20 years of representing its various departments in court cases. He'll now be even more familiar with the county, as he was hired by commissioners Tuesday to be the new county attorney. He took over that day for Steve Doerr, who stepped down from the role. "I realize it's apparent I have big and local shoes to fill," Macke said of Doerr, whom...
MULESHOE — Officials continue to investigate the cause of a fire that broke out early Sunday morning at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Muleshoe. Church members said no injuries were reported. Fire Marshal Benny Parker said damage was contained to the choir loft area and surrounding areas from heat, smoke and firefighters’ efforts to limit spread. Marissa Hernandez, a lifelong church member, said a couple of hundred people were inside, preparing to begin Mas...
