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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Clovis High's tennis teams claimed victories in dual contests against Portales High on Tuesday at the CHS tennis courts, the boys winning 6-3 while the girls posted a 9-0 sweep. In boys play, the Wildcats went with a roster of junior varsity players against the Rams, who have only four squad members. The Cats claimed forfeit wins at Nos. 5 and 6 singles and at No. 3 doubles. In singles, boys winners were junior Jackson Rossi, 7-6 (7-3), 6-0) at No. 1; freshman Ben Brooks,...
EUNICE – Sophomore Carson Pfaffenberger hit a three-run homer in the second inning and Portales High's baseball team went on to a 16-7 victory over the Hobbs junior varsity in Friday's championship semifinals of Eunice's Cardinal Classic. The Rams (2-1) were slated to face the host Cardinals (3-2) in Saturday night's championship tilt. Friday's game was stopped after 5 ½ innings due to the tournament time limit. Pfaffenberger, senior Kaiden Gutierrez and junior E...
Portales High's softball team visited Lady Wildcat Field for a doubleheader on Tuesday night, and two football games broke out. The Lady Rams, playing their season-opening contests, put together six innings of four or more runs en route to a 17-13, 31-14 sweep of Clovis High. PHS had two four-run innings and a seven-run frame in the opener. Trailing 15-6, the Lady Wildcats rallied for four runs in the sixth and three in the seventh to make it close. Senior Giselle Romero went...
While the Clovis High baseball team is already well into its season, Portales High was just getting started in Tuesday night's matchup at Ram Field. Portales gave the Wildcats all they wanted, but a two-run double in the sixth by freshman Javi Jimenez held up for CHS in a 5-4 victory over the Rams. The hit gave the Cats (6-5) a 5-3 lead, and they held on with sophomore left-hander Joseph Hernandez working the final four innings in relief and allowing just two hits and a run. "...
Ruger Bravo found himself in an unusual position on Friday night. With no relief appearances since his freshman season in 2022, Bravo came in from the bullpen in the sixth inning charged with protecting a one-run lead in the opener of a key four-game Lone Star Conference series against Texas-Permian Basin. The senior left-hander allowed no runs over four two-hit innings, and the Greyhounds held on for a 6-5 victory at Greyhound Field. The teams were scheduled for two seven-inning tilts on Saturday. They’ll complete the s...
PORTALES – Four members of the Portales High Lady Rams basketball team have been chosen for All-District 4-4A first-team honors. Named to the 12-player squad were senior guard Audrey Paden, junior guards Myleigh Banda and Angel Ornelas and junior forward Evannie Fulfer. Portales finished the season with a 20-9 record after losing to Gallup 66-56 last week in the Class 4A state quarterfinals at The Pit in Albuquerque. Other first-teamers were seniors Lorin Wagner and Kymber Beltran, junior Hattie Harrison and sophomore J...
CANYON, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s women recorded several top three finishes over the weekend in the WT Spring Open, the outdoor track opener hosted by West Texas A&M. ENMU put four runners into scoring positions in the 400, led by freshman Helena Klutsey-Carboo, second in 57.33 seconds. Placing sixth through eighth for the Greyhounds were sophomore Meghan Rodriguez (1 minute, 2.63 seconds), freshman Mariana Marquez (1:02.52) and senior Sevannah Romero (1:04.87). Sophomore Riley Midgett ran 26.59 for sixth in the...
CANYON, Texas – Unfortunately, it wasn't Eastern New Mexico University's day on Saturday. Playing in the NCAA Division II men's basketball regionals for the first time in 20 years, the Greyhounds held a six-point lead heading into the late stages of the half. But third-seeded Colorado Mesa and standout 6-foot-9 junior forward Trevor Baskin were too much in the end, and the Mavericks pulled away late for a 95-77 victory. Baskin, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference's p...
ROSWELL – Down 5-0 after two innings, Roswell High rallied back and finally scratched out the winning run in the bottom of the 11th on Saturday to edge Clovis High 6-5 in the third-place game of Roswell Goddard’s Southwest Classic. The Wildcats (5-5) wasted no time jumping out to a 5-0 lead, but they were unable to add on and by the fourth frame the Coyotes (4-2) had pulled even. “I can’t fault the way we play the game of baseball,” CHS coach Richard Cruse said. “I said all year that we’ve got a chance to be pretty good....
CARLSBAD – Clovis High’s boys earned a split of dual matches on Friday in Carlsbad’s six-team Claire Higgins Invitational. Saturday’s second day of competition was rained out. The Wildcats and Lady Wildcats were slated to face Artesia and Roswell High, respectively. Carlsbad and Hobbs tied for boys team honors with three points each, while the Cats and Artesia both finished with two points and Las Vegas Robertson and Roswell High scored a point apiece. The Cats defeated Robertson 6-3 while losing to Carlsbad 8-1. Clovis went...
LAWTON, Okla. – Junior right-hander Josaiah Estrella pitched six solid innings and Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team salvaged a four-game Lone Star Conference split against Cameron on Sunday, defeating the Aggies 7-1. ENMU (13-13, 11-13 LSC) has now split five of its six league series. The Greyhounds have home splits against then-top 5 teams Angelo State and West Texas A&M, but struggled to tread water against the lowly Aggies (7-21, 7-21). Estrada (2-1) allowed just four hits, with two walks and four str...
(Seeds in parentheses) Boys Class 5A First round March 9 (at higher seeds) (1) Volcano Vista 85, (16) Santa Fe Capital 50 (8) Santa Fe High 66, (9) West Mesa 53 (5) La Cueva 78, (12) Eldorado 67 (4) Atrisco Heritage 84, (13) Farmington 77 (14) Sandia 69, (3) Rio Rancho Cleveland 61 (11) Albuquerque High 74, (6) Clovis 50 (7) Los Lunas 61, (10) Alamogordo 55 (2) Organ Mountain 79, (15) Roswell High 70 At The Pit, Albuquerque Wednesday’s quarterfinals Volcano Vista 69, Santa Fe High 42 La Cueva 80, Atrisco Heritage 70 A...
CANYON, Texas – Unfortunately, it wasn’t Eastern New Mexico University’s day on Saturday. Averaging just over 90 points per game during the season, the Greyhounds suffered through several long droughts and dropped a 95-77 decision to Colorado Mesa at West Texas A&M’s First United Bank Center. Six-foot-9 junior forward Trevor Baskin, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s player of the year, scored 31 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for the third-seeded Mavericks (28-4). They advanced to a 4 p.m. (MDT) Sunday semifinal...
CANYON, Texas – After a flying start to the season, Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team has suddenly hit the meatier part of its schedule. The Greyhounds have played consecutive Lone Star Conference series against Lubbock Christian, Cameron, Angelo State and West Texas A&M. After posting their first win all-time against LCU in the series opener, they’ve lost 10 of the last 11. Wednesday, ENMU (15-14, 8-13 LSC) dropped a twin bill to second-ranked WT 9-0 and 9-1, both ending on the eight-run rule, to wrap up their...
ROSWELL – It didn’t take long for Clovis High’s baseball team to turn a pitchers duel into a rout on Thursday. Locked in a scoreless tie with Alamogordo, the Wildcats erupted for eight runs in the top of the fourth and blistered the Tigers 11-0 in a quarterfinal game of Roswell Goddard’s Southwest Classic, ending the contest in five innings on the 10-run rule. The Cats (5-3) advanced to a Friday semifinal match against the host Rockets (2-1), a 10-0 winner on Thursday over Ruidoso. Final-round games were slated for Saturday....
ROSWELL – It hasn't exactly been the kind of start the Clovis High softball team was looking for ... and that's putting it mildly. Three games, three run-rule losses for the Lady Wildcats, who gave up double-figure runs in the first inning of both games against Roswell Goddard on Wednesday night in 20-1 and 19-0 setbacks. Tuesday night, CHS dropped a 17-0 decision to Lovington at Lady Wildcat Field. CHS coach Johnny Saiz said his squad struggled in Wednesday's twin bill even t...
LOVINGTON – Lovington’s girls won two of three doubles contests and edged Clovis High 5-4 in a dual match on Tuesday. The Lovington boys defeated Clovis 9-0. Senior Cecilia Sanchez and sophomore Diana Gonzalez posted a 6-0, 5-7, 6-4 win over CHS sophomore Emily Bjorklund and eighth-grader Stella Greer at No. 2 doubles, while juniors Neftali Suchil and Joselyn Salcido claimed a 6-1, 6-2 verdict over the Lady Wildcats’ tandem of senior Hannah Heath and sophomore Tara Zimmerman at No. 3 doubles. Juniors Madita Ewert and Hansi...
RIO RANCHO – Fighting an uphill battle most of the night, Texico’s boys finally inched ahead of Tularosa on a steal and layup by junior Alex Fuentes with about a minute left. But the Wolverines fouled Wildcats junior Estavan Barraza on the next trip downcourt, and he made four free throws in the remaining time to lift third-seeded Tularosa to a 55-52 win in a Class 2A state quarterfinal game at Rio Rancho on Wednesday morning. Barraza had just one field goal in the game, but he finished with 10 points on 8-for-8 free thr...
RIO RANCHO – Portales High’s girls put up a valiant effort after falling behind by 17 points in the third quarter of Tuesday’s Class 4A state quarterfinal game against Gallup. The Lady Rams rallied to grab a three-point lead early in the final stanza, but they couldn’t hold on as the fourth-seeded and defending 4A champion Lady Bengals posted a 66-56 victory at The Pit on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Junior Rylie Whitehair dominated the smaller Lady Rams inside and scored 20 points to lead three players...
THE STAFF OF THE NEWS HOBBS – Clovis High’s girls finished third out of five full teams while the boys were sixth in a seven-team field in Monday’s season-opening Buck Brandon Invite at Rockwind Community Links. Lovington took the girls team title at 379, 11 shots ahead of Roswell Goddard. The Lady Wildcats followed at 422, two strokes ahead of Hobbs, while Texico was fifth at 435. The boys division was highly competitive, with New Mexico Military shooting 332 to edge out Goddard by one shot. Following were Lovington at 33...
MELROSE – Clearly, Melrose is one of the handful of top teams in a competitive Class 1A boys basketball field. On Saturday, the fourth-seeded Buffaloes advanced to the 1A state quarterfinals, scheduled for today at Bernalillo H.S., with a 51-36 victory over No. 13 Mesilla Valley. Still, they know that if they want to make a deep run, they'll have to pick up the pace. "We're glad to get the 'dub,' but it wasn't the way we wanted to win," said senior Michael Cardonita, who finis...
This isn't the way Clovis High's boys envisioned the season coming to an end. Albuquerque High came into The Rock for Saturday night's first-round Class 5A state tournament game and dominated virtually from the get-go, riding a 31-point outing from senior guard Isaiah Maldonado to a dominating 74-50 win. A pair of double-digit seeds were slated to face off into today's 9:45 a.m. quarterfinal tilt at The Pit in Albuquerque, with the 11th-seeded Bulldogs (18-10) taking on No....
FRISCO, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s men were in pretty good shape to make the NCAA Division II South Central regional no matter what happened in last week’s Lone Star Conference tournament. The fourth-seeded Greyhounds left no doubt, though, winning the event on Sunday and taking the league’s automatic bid as senior point guard Lyron Bennett capped a 9-0 run over the final 45 seconds with a 3-point buzzer-beater for a 91-88 victory over third-seeded Lubbock Christian. It’s the school’s second LSC tourney tit...
LOVINGTON – The fourth time wasn’t the charm for Portales High’s boys on Saturday night. The Rams finished the season with five losses in their last seven games – and four of them came against their District 4-4A rivals, including Saturday’s 70-61 decision in a first-round Class 4A state tournament game. Portales (16-13), seeded 10th, held its own in the first and third stanzas, but found itself trying to fight uphill after the Wildcats (18-11) put together strong first and third segments. Lovington, seeded seventh in the 16-...
PITTSBURG, Kan. – Eastern New Mexico senior Timothy Frederick finished in the top eight in two sprints on Saturday in the NCAA Division II national indoor track meet, hosted by Pittsburg State. Frederick, from La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago, gave the Greyhounds eight team points by finishing fourth in the 400 at 47.66 seconds and sixth in the 200 at 21.46. He earned first-team All-American honors and gave ENMU 22nd place out of 68 schools with athletes competing in the meet. Last year, he placed 12th in the national indoor m...
