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EUNICE – After some early-season trouncings, Clovis High’s young softball team – whose 14-player roster includes five freshmen and five sophomores – is hopefully making some progress. Tuesday night, the Lady Wildcats had early leads in both games and hung tight with Eunice before dropping 4-2 and 9-5 decisions to the Lady Cardinals. Earlier in the campaign, Eunice handed Clovis a 14-0 setback at Lady Wildcat Field. CHS (2-10) jumped on Eunice for a pair of runs in the top of the first in the opener, one coming on a double by...
ROSWELL – Senior Jett Stone shared medalist honors with a round of three-over-par 39-36 – 75 on Tuesday, helping Clovis High’s boys to a share of third place with New Mexico Military at 339 in Roswell High’s seven-team Coyote Classic golf tournament, played at NMMI’s course. Meantime, sophomore Kylie Sprinkle was fourth overall at 47-41 – 88, helping the Lady Wildcats tie for third with Hobbs at 417. Stone shared first place with Gateway Christian’s Troy Oswald. Artesia won the boys’ division at 319, followed by Roswell Godda...
ROSWELL – Senior Jasiah Mendoza’s two-run double broke a tie in the top of the seventh and boosted Clovis High’s baseball team to a 4-2 victory over Roswell Goddard in the opener of a doubleheader on Tuesday night. Senior right-hander Michael Mathison tossed a five-hit shutout in Game 2 to give the Rockets a 2-0 victory and a split of the twin bill. Mendoza led the Cats’ nine-hit attack, going 3-for-4 and driving in a run with a first-inning hit. Senior Koby Rivera’s RBI single helped CHS take a 2-0 lead in the frame, bu...
SANTA FE – Portales High’s softball team has had a fairly easy path to the finals of the eight-team St. Michael’s Invitational. After rolling to a quick win over Zuni in Thursday’s quarterfinals, the Lady Rams jumped on Santa Fe Indian for 10 runs in the first two innings in Friday’s semifinals to post a 13-3 win. Portales (7-4) was slated to face Santa Fe High – a team it beat 12-1 last weekend – in Saturday’s championship clash. PHS posted a six-run first against the Lady Braves, highlighted by a bases-loaded tr...
Demon Invitational Thursday at Dexter Boys Team standings: 1. Lovington 109 ½; 2. Portales 77; 3. Socorro 71 ½; 4. Hagerman 56; 5. Ruidoso 38 ½; 6. Dexter 33 ½; 7. Loving 31; 8. East Mountain 30; 9. Eunice 20; 10. Tularosa 12; 11. Mescalero 4; 12. Jal 1. Portales results Field events Long jump: 5. Lazarus Pitts 19-1. Javelin: 1. Manny Chavez 187-8; 2. Antonio Bonilla 156-4. Pole vault: 3. Tommy Lopez 11-6. Track events 400 relay: 1. Anthony Cordova, Ja’Lyn Johnson, Kaidyn Cordova, Jacob Valencia 45.90. 110 hurdles: 2. Manny...
Eastern New Mexico University's track squads hosted their first home meet since 2019 with the Greyhound Invite on Saturday at Greyhound Stadium. The meet was a triangular, also including Wayland Baptist and Hardin-Simmons, and no team scores were kept. Final results in some of the events were not available as of Tuesday morning due to glitches in the system. Still, coach Josh Hardin said the meet was an overall success. "It was amazing," he said after the meet. "To be able to...
GRADY – It looked like a football linescore – Grady scored 14 in the first, three in the second, six in the third and seven in the fourth. The result was a 30-3 victory over winless Jal on Monday, keeping the Bronchos undefeated for the young season at 5-0. The game was called after 4 ½ innings because of the 10-run rule. Senior Zane Rush went 4-for-4 with eight RBIs – a grand slam, a three-run homer and an RBI single. He also drew a walk and scored five runs. Freshmen Andre Garcia and Hays Rush both finished 3-for-4 for Gr...
Routed in its first three meetings this season against Roswell Goddard, Clovis High's softball team managed to throw a bit of a scare into the Lady Rockets on Saturday. Down 7-1 in the fourth inning, the Lady Wildcats pulled to within a run in the sixth but couldn't complete the rally in an 8-6 setback at Lady Wildcat Field. Goddard (10-5) swept the four-game season series from CHS, but after outscoring the Lady Cats 54-1 in the first three tilts – including a 15-0, three-inni...
Eastern New Mexico University's spring football drills came to an end on Friday night with coach Kelley Lee and his staff getting a look at players in game situations in the program's annual Green and Silver intrasquad game at Greyhound Stadium. The Green squad defeated Silver 13-3. Lee said he and his staff were pleased with how the spring drills went. "It was really good," Lee said. "We were able to evaluate our kids. Our young kids got a lot better." Nearly 80 players took...
TYLER, Texas – If it hopes to reach the Lone Star Conference baseball tournament for a second consecutive year, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team will need to come out of its recent funk. And soon. The slumping Greyhounds struggled through the final three games of their Lone Star Conference series against Texas-Tyler over the weekend, dropping a doubleheader on Friday and the getaway game on Saturday as their losing streak reached seven games. Junior left-hander Kolby Parker (2-1) and senior right-hander Log...
TYLER, Texas – After dropping a tight series opener on Thursday night, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team was left in the dust by Texas-Tyler on Friday. The Patriots took full advantage of 13 walks to rout the Greyhounds 19-1 in the opener of their Lone Star Conference doubleheader, then junior right-hander Wyatt Wick threw a five-hit shutout for a 6-0 victory in the second of two seven-inning contests. The lone tally for the Hounds (14-19, 12-19 LSC) came on a sixth-inning home run by junior shortstop Willie Pon...
MORIARTY – Portales High’s baseball team broke a tie with three runs in the bottom of the sixth and defeated Santa Fe Capital 9-6 in Thursday’s fifth-place game of an eight-team tournament hosted by Moriarty. Senior Edel Legarda hit a go-ahead RBI single, senior Dylan Saunders delivered a run-scoring double and senior Andru Ontiveros hit an RBI single to snap a 6-6 tie against the Jaguars (6-6). Portales (5-3) pounded out 17 hits, with senior Noah Swift going 4-for-4 and Ontiveros, Swift and junior Elijah Tellez all finis...
LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Senior Daltyn Cain’s two-run single capped a three-run sixth and Texico, down by seven runs early, held on to edge East Mountain 10-9 on Friday in the consolation semifinals of an eight-team tournament hosted by West Las Vegas H.S. East Mountain (6-6) led 8-1 after the second inning, but Texico (2-3) put together three-run innings in the third, fourth and sixth to win it. Senior Erik Davalos pitched the final three innings for the Wolverines for the win, allowing three hits and no runs with two walks and...
Midwestern State's Addison Lindemann did it all in this week's Lone Star Conference softball series against Eastern New Mexico University at Greyhound Softball Field. The freshman right-hander tossed 13 innings and allowed just two runs, including her first collegiate shutout with a 3-0 victory in Friday's series finale. She also delivered a two-run, first-inning homer that set the tone in that one. The Mustangs (7-29, 5-22 LSC), second from the bottom in the league coming...
SANTA FE – Freshman Annaleah Lujan threw a five-inning three-hitter and belted a three-run home run as Portales High’s softball team rolled over Santa Fe High 12-1 on Friday. Lujan went 2-for-4 with a double and her home run, which came as part of a six-run fifth that eventually ended the contest on the 10-run rule. In the circle she allowed only a second-inning run to the Lady Demons (6-6), with two walks and 10 strikeouts. Sophomore Skyler Massey led the attack for the Lady Rams (4-3), going 3-for-4 with a double and two...
LAS CRUCES – The Clovis High baseball team was expecting to take it easy during spring break this week, with no games scheduled. At the last minute, though, a doubleheader at Mayfield was added to accommodate a trip the Trojans made last spring to Bell Park. All’s well that ends well, as the Wildcats posted 5-4 and 11-6 victories to improve to 8-5 for the campaign. “It was huge for us,” CHS coach Richard Cruce said. “The kids just said, ‘Let’s go out there and go play.’” In the opener, the Cats rallied for three runs in the...
Rattler Relays Saturday at Tucumcari Boys Team standings: 1. Portales 71 ½; 2. Logan 60; 3. West Las Vegas 56; 4. Santa Rosa 38; 5. Tucumcari 30; 6. Dexter 29; 7. East Mountain 28; 8. Springer 24; 9. (tie) Cimarron and Pecos 22; 11. Capital 20; 12. Floyd 19 ½; 13. Raton 19; 14. LV Robertson 16; 15. Mora 7. Portales, Floyd results Field events Long jump: 2. (tie) Colton Cain, Floyd and Antonio Bonilla, Portales 19-9; 5. Isaias Nieto, Floyd 19-6; 6. Ja'Lyn...
DEXTER – A late rally fell short and Portales High’s softball team dropped a 9-7 decision to Raton on Saturday in the third-place game of Dexter’s Lindsey Callaway tournament. Meantime, Clovis High scored early and often to rout Hatch Valley 19-2 for fifth place. Senior Giana Marez had a home run as the Lady Tigers (5-3) built a 6-3 lead through five innings, then scored three times in the sixth and held off a pair of two-run innings by the Lady Rams (3-2). Senior Giana Marez had an inside-the-park home run for Raton. Freshma...
AMARILLO – Clovis High’s boys finished 10th in a field of 17 teams over the weekend in the Amarillo Relays track meet. Senior Jeremiah Johnson and junior Sammy Fuentes each posted a second-place finish in the meet, with Johnson going an even 50 feet in shot put for a state-qualifying mark on Friday and Fuentes completing the 1,600 in a time of 4 minutes, 34.17 seconds on Saturday. Meantime, Fuentes accounted for the other points for the Cats with a fourth-place finish in Friday’s 3,200 with a time of 10:03.13. Amarillo High...
Five boys and three girls have been chosen for various all-state basketball honors by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. For the boys, Texico senior Cade Figg was a first-team selection in Class 2A, while Clovis High senior Marvin Cox, Portales High junior Paxton Culpeper in Class 4A and Melrose junior Brayden Eldridge in Class 1A were accorded second-team status. Also, Buffaloes junior Josiah Roybal was an honorable mention pick in 1A. Girls honorees, all in Class 1A, were seniors Graci Odom of Melrose and...
TUCSON, Ariz. – Four members of the Eastern New Mexico University track teams earned NCAA Division II provisional qualifying marks over the weekend in the University of Arizona’s Willie Williams Classic. For the women, senior Tamia Smith went 46 feet, 4 ¼ inches in shot put, good for fifth place. Her throw ranks ninth this spring in NCAA Division II and pulls her to within a foot of the top five. Meantime, freshman Grizell Scarlett posted the third-fastest D-II time in the 100 so far, placing fourth in the event in 11.52 seco...
Thank goodness Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team came back for a stunning win in Friday's Lone Star Conference series opener. Otherwise, the rest of the weekend didn't go too well. After ENMU pulled out a 6-5 win in the opener, Texas-Permian Basin completed a 3-1 series win by taking Sunday's early-morning finale 16-8 at Greyhound Field. The contest was moved up five hours to an 8 a.m. start as the teams tried to beat the winds that enveloped the area as the day...
TYLER, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s softball program came into the season winless all-time against two Lone Star Conference programs – Lubbock Christian and Texas-Tyler. The Greyhounds have now scratched both of those items off their list, winning the second game of Saturday’s twin bill against UTT 3-2. They weren’t able to carry the momentum over to Sunday, however, as the fifth-ranked Patriots (28-7, 19-5 LSC) rode a six-run second to an 8-2 triumph in the series finale. ENMU is now 1-42 all-time against L...
ALAMOGORDO – With about a five-hour bus ride, it was going to be tough to play two games on Monday night anyway. With an hour delay for lightning in the middle, that pretty much took care of a second game. Portales High and Alamogordo did manage to get through one tilt, though, with the Tigers rallying after the delay for a 7-6 victory. PHS (3-2), coming off a championship in Eunice’s Cardinal Classic on Saturday, led 2-0 through three innings when play was halted. The Rams went up 5-1 with a three-run fifth, but the Tig...
After a rough stretch against some of the Lone Star Conference's best squads, Eastern New Mexico University's softball team picked up a much-needed series sweep against last-place Texas-Permian Basin, capped by 8-5 and 6-2 wins in Wednesday's doubleheader at Greyhound Softball Field. ENMU (18-14, 11-13 LSC) entered the week having lost 10 of its previous 11, but the Greyhounds took care of business against a team which came into the series averaging less than two runs a game...
