Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Saturday Roy/Mosquero 3, Clovis Christian 0 Roy/Mosquero 25 25 25 Clovis Christian 11 13 18 CCS individual statistics Kills – Madisyn Kruckeberg 2, Reece Robb 2. Blocks – Robb 1. Digs – Shae Stageberg 7, Hannah McKay 6, Kruckeberg 4. Aces – three tied with 1. Assists – Jalisa Raney 3, McKay 2. Records – Roy/Mosquero 9-3, Clovis Christian 6-5. Tuesday Melrose 3, Santa Rosa 0 Santa Rosa 8 8 21 Melrose 25 25 25 Melrose individual statistics Kills – Chantzee Elliott 14, Kambree Draper 10, Braylan Morgan 7, Hally Draper 5, Ali...
Texas Tech is not yet, and may never be, a football program where style points in a win are required. Red Raider fans should never be tempted to dismiss a Big 12 victory no matter if at times it seems disjointed. If it were style that fans were looking for, they should have gone to Raider Alley a few hours before Saturday afternoon’s game as Shaquille O’Neal, with the stage name of the Big Diesel, was spinning music for a mosh pit of revelers. As for the actual game, when Ari...
ROSWELL – Roswell High rallied from a one-set deficit on Monday night for a 19-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-16 win over Portales High. PHS coach Bailey Greenwalt was disappointed her team couldn’t build off its quick start. The Lady Coyotes (10-1) finally took control with a dominant fourth set. “We played some really good volleyball at times, but we had too many errors,” she said. “It was a good, dominant first set. We led in the second set (16-10), and the third set was back and forth.” Junior middle hitter Skyler Massey post...
Gaia Chies scored early, and the Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team made it stand up on Sunday for a 1-0 victory over Colorado Christian at Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium, the Greyhounds’ first win of the season. Chies, a junior midfielder from Italy, took a pass from senior midfielder Meghann Wingsutton and curled the ball past Cougars goalkeeper Alana Lopp and into the top corner of the net with just over 7 ½ minutes gone – one of just two shots on goal for the Hounds in the match. Meantime, the Cougar...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s boys kept winning on Saturday, but veteran CHS coach Greg Trujillo is a bit concerned with District 4-5A competition about ready to begin. Senior forward Ihab Mesbah had two goals and an assist and junior forward/midfielder Julien Salinas delivered a pair of assists as the Wildcats topped Del Norte 4-2, improving to 10-2 for the season with their sixth consecutive victory. “It was a sloppy game on our part,” Trujillo said. “We didn’t take care of the ball and retain possession. “We couldn’t conn...
After enduring a tough five-set loss two nights earlier to Melrose, it took Clovis High's volleyball team a while to get cooking on Thursday night against Lovington at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. Three aces from junior outside hitter Lileigh Oborny, including two to start her service run, did the trick and the Lady Wildcats eventually cruised to a 25-16, 25-10, 25-7 victory over winless Lovington. CHS struggled a bit to put the first set away and led just 10-7 in Game 2 before a...
The Clovis High boys soccer team got off to a bit of a slow start, but in the end the Wildcats had too much for Portales High. Four second-half goals gave the Cats firm control in a 5-1 victory on Wednesday at the PHS pitch. The match had been slated for Tuesday, but was pushed back a day due to lightning. Senior forward Anthony Cordova gave the Rams a 1-0 lead early in the contest, but senior forward Ihab Mesbah headed in the equalizer off a corner kick from freshman...
Suffice it to say, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team has turned it around against Sul Ross State over the years – and the Greyhounds are glad to now see the Alpine, Texas-based Lobos in the Lone Star Conference. ENMU earned just its second win of the campaign on Friday night, rallying past Sul Ross 21-25, 25-22, 26-24, 25-18 at Steve Loy Family Foundation Arena on the second night of an LSC Volleyball Challenge event. It was the Hounds’ 23rd consecutive win in the series, which dates to the late 1970s. Sul R...
FARWELL – Farwell had trouble stopping Abernathy in the first half, then seemed to figure things out. A missed conversion kick helped keep hope alive for the visiting Antelopes, though, and they rallied for two touchdowns in the final three minutes to stun the Steers 42-41. Sophomore quarterback Jagger Wiley's fifth touchdown pass of the night, a 24-yarder to sophomore Dre Minfield with 2:24 remaining, capped a 79-yard, nine play drive and made it 41-35. Then the Steers m...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s football team broke its lengthy scoring drought on Thursday night and stayed competitive for much of the game. In the end, the Cibola Cougars were a bit too much and walked away with a 36-12 victory at Nusenda Community Stadium. Coming off losses against three of the better Class 6A teams in the state, the Cats had been outscored 158-0 since tallying a TD and a 2-point conversion on their first drive of the season. But early in the second stanza, the pulled to 7-6 when junior running back John Roy...
Tuesday Melrose 3, Clovis 2 Melrose 18 25 25 21 15 Clovis 25 21 17 25 12 Individual statistics Kills – Melrose, Hally Draper 12. Chantzee Elliott 12, Braylan Morgan 10, Kambree Draper 9. Clovis, Ashlynn Evans 22. Blocks – Melrose, Morgan 4, K. Draper 3, Elliott 2. Clovis, Sophie Roberts 2, Brooke Renteria 1. Digs – Melrose, H. Draper 10, Tylee Hill 10, Eden Lunsford 8. Clovis, Jecenia Jimenez 21, Amanda De La Rosa 7, Evans 6. Aces – Melrose, Hill 8, Morgan 6, K. Draper 5, Kailey Jackson 3. Clovis, Evans 5, Jori Mondrag...
The Gattis 7th grade football team opened its season with a pair of wins, defeating Lovington 12-0 and Yucca 28-0. Nathan Lewis ran for touchdowns of 80 and 30 yards in the win over Lovington, while Lewis had another TD, Zaccheaus Johnson added a pair of scores, Luke Clements tallied a touchdown and Larry Bravo-Munoz chipped in a couple of 2-point conversions in the win over the Chaparrals. Yucca’s next game is set for 4:30 p.m. next Tuesday at home against Portales....
GRADY – Senior Deakin Ragland returned the opening kickoff 70 yards for a touchdown, and the rout was on as Grady overwhelmed Hondo 61-0 in 6-man play on Saturday afternoon. The Bronchos (3-1) led 40-0 at the quarter and ended the contest against the Eagles (0-3) at halftime on the 50-point rule with three more touchdowns in the second stanza. Sophomore Zander Ciancio threw for three scores and caught a pass for another. His TD tosses, all in the opening segment, covered 32 yards to sophomore Caden Croy, 14 yards to senior C...
Sports, especially now with less than 50 days before the election, is supposed to be a welcome respite from the nonstop name-calling, negativity and outrage by which this presidential election, as usual, is defined. We’ve grown weary or at least numb to the back and forth, though that doesn’t include the confused dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. Let me throw in a couple of political buzzwords into college football – “socialism” and “democracy.” Hang on for a minute, and I...
LUBBOCK – Clovis High’s cross country girls put three runners in the top 18 on Saturday and the Lady Wildcats claimed fifth place with 196 points in the 39-team Lubbock Christian Invitational. Meantime, the CHS boys came in 11th out of 46 squads with a score of 326. Canyon ran away with both divisions, finishing with 19 points to 125 for Big Spring (Texas) in boys competition and 21 points to 157 for Hereford on the girls’ side. “We’re just going to keep training,” Clovis cross country coach Liz Ledezma said. “Whatever w...
ALAMOGORDO – Junior forward/midfielder Maria Lujan scored in each half on Saturday as Portales High’s girls claimed third place in a four-team tournament hosted by Alamogordo with a 2-0 victory over Silver. Junior goalkeeper Lissette Gomez collected six saves in the shutout win over the Lady Colts (1-9). “The turf is so hot,” first-year Lady Rams coach Laci Lozoya said of the field conditions at Alamo. “We played extremely well despite the heat.” In the boys’ third-place matchup, New Mexico Military (3-4) jumped on the...
Rodeo takes center stage this weekend at Eastern New Mexico University. ENMU will host 17 other schools Thursday through Saturday in the annual College "Daze" Rodeo at Lewis-Cooper Arena. The rodeo arena is about five minutes southwest of the ENMU campus at 2221 W. 18th St. in Portales. ENMU's Shacie Marr, who competes in breakaway roping, barrel racing and goat-tying events, said the event appeals to much of the community. "Especially in Portales ... There's a lot of farmer,...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Both teams struck early, but nothing was settled then and nothing was settled the rest of the way on Saturday as Eastern New Mexico University played former Lone Star Conference member Northeastern State to a 1-1 draw in men’s soccer on Saturday. The Riverhawks (0-2-2) broke through in the eighth minute when a goal from junior midfielder Kei Nagakura, his first of the campaign. About 20 minutes later, junior defender Arthur Macri got the equalizer for the Greyhounds (1-1-2), his first goal for ENMU, off...
After a week off to try to heal their wounds, Clovis High's football team looks to start to get things turned around when the Wildcats play Cibola in a 7 p.m. kickoff on Thursday at Albuquerque's Milne/Wilson Stadium. After three consecutive dominating setbacks to start the campaign, the Cats look to bounce back at the expense of the Cougars (1-3), whose win came in overtime 20-17 at Albuquerque High in the season opener. First-year Clovis coach Stan Hodges is certainly...
SAN ANGELO, Texas – Angelo State junior cornerback Andrew Pitts returned a third-quarter interception 36 yards inside the Eastern New Mexico University 10 and the Rams scored three plays later, eventually holding on for a 26-20 win over the Greyhounds in the Lone Star Conference football opener for both teams on Saturday. The game was nip-and-tuck throughout, but the interception by Pitts set up an 8-yard TD pass on third-and-goal from junior quarterback Braeden Fuller to senior running back Hunter Wallis and gave the Rams (...
LAS CRUCES – Clovis High boys soccer team kept things rolling on Saturday, posting a 2-0 victory over Las Cruces High at Field of Dreams. The Wildcats (8-2) extended their winning streak to four matches, getting goals from sophomore forward/midfielder Damien Navarrette in the first half and senior forward Ihab Mesbah in the second. Assists were credited to junior forward/midfielder Julien Salinas and senior goalkeeper Angel Avila, respectively, the latter on a long clearing pass. “It’s one of the best starts we’ve had in...
During Portales High School's halftime homecoming ceremony last Friday night, the Rams public address announcer introduced nominees and read out quotes from each one. Common themes were faith in the Lord, being a good person and virtues of hard work. But one, which came from Pierce Culpepper – a 6-foot-5 sophomore PHS defensive end – stood out. It was a message to his older brother, Paxton Culpepper, PHS' senior quarterback, about how his season-ending ACL tear was just...
TEXICO – In an early-season matchup of small-school state volleyball powers, Texico had it, lost it and then in the end grabbed it back. Up 2-0 against Class 1A No. 1 Logan on Thursday night, the Class 2A fourth-ranked and defending state champion Lady Wolverines suddenly found themselves in a winner-take-all fifth set before getting it turned around for a 25-17, 27-25, 14-25, 18-25, 15-8 triumph. Senior outside hitter Kinzee Crow delivered eight kills and three aces while s...
MELROSE – Eight-man newcomer Hagerman put together some nice drives on Friday, only to come up empty. On the other hand, Melrose didn't waste any time welcoming the former Class 2A Bobcats to their new level of play. Hagerman finished with a 48-12 advantage in plays from scrimmage, but the Buffaloes (4-0) scored on five of theirs in an overwhelming 52-0 pasting which ended late in the third quarter on a 6-yard run by sophomore Zaiden Saucedo. After running off eight plays a...
"Tommy Lopez, game ball goes to you!" There was a ferocity in Portales High School head coach Jaime Ramirez's voice while delivering the line to a cluster of sweat-soaked Portales High School youngsters, after an exhilarating 21-14 comeback win over West Las Vegas. Sure, Lopez, a 5-foot-9-inch slot receiver-turned-quarterback, had a great game. He totaled two rushing touchdowns and a pick-six – not to mention his pass breakup on a potential game tying touchdown in the g...
