Serving the High Plains
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PORTALES - It was a matter of perspective. For the Logan girls basketball team, Saturday night's Eastern Plains Athletic Conference championship game at Greyhound Arena was a stirring comeback, a double overtime victory, an achievement 44 years in the making. For Melrose it was a lost opportunity, a title that slipped away. Logan, down big for most of Saturday's game, rallied to force overtime, then forced another one, and won its first EPAC championship since 1976 by defeating the Lady...
TEXICO - Opening night is always a special time for any sports team. Fresh start, 0-0 record, all that. For the Texico boys basketball team, with a new head coach and so many new players, it was filled with even more anticipation Tuesday night at Texico High School, and even more excitement after the Wolverines pulled away from Tucumcari for a 74-50 victory. "Opening night, it's amazing," Wolverines junior post David Davalos said. "It's a thrill to play here for Texico, it's a blessing,...
TEXICO - As opening nights go, Tuesday's could have gone better for the Texico girls basketball team. And yet, head coach Richard Luscombe wasn't overly disappointed. Considering it was just one game in and his team had to replace some key starters from last season and wasn't even at full strength Tuesday, Luscombe thought losing only 37-35 to Tucumcari at Texico High School, especially after trailing by seven at halftime, wasn't too bad a start. "With the team that we have this year and with...
CLOVIS — The night of Nov. 2, 2018 might be one the Clovis High football team may want to remember as among its best of last season. It was a game the Wildcats lost 10-7. Huh? Yes, the ’Cats did lose their final regular-season game and missed out on handing La Cueva its first loss of the season. Instead, the Bears prevailed and went on to become undefeated state 6A champions while Clovis was one-and-done in the playoffs and wound up 4-7. The Wildcats, though, were not only in that ear...
Logan White was torn. The 1980 Portales High graduate was watching last October’s World Series like a father watching his children compete against each other in a Little League game. White is currently the San Diego Padres’ Senior Advisor and Director of Player Personnel who has scouted for the Baltimore Orioles and more recently, the Los Angeles Dodgers. White scouted and signed Nathan Eovaldi, Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig, and on a late-October Friday sat riveted to an extra-inning World Series Game 3 that wore on deep into the night and ha...
PORTALES - For much of Saturday night's EPAC girls basketball championship game at Greyhound Arena, the Texico players seemed to be battling two opponents - themselves and a formidable Logan team. Missed opportunity after missed opportunity, easy shot attempt after easy shot attempt that didn't go down, punctuated the first half and some of the second for the Lady Wolverines. But, once they limited their opposition to just the Logan Longhorns and played with more confidence, it was just enough...
CLOVIS - Staring out from his prison cell, Nikko Nathan could see more than just metal bars. He saw two Nikkos - the Nikko he currently was, the one wasting his life, another kid from a broken home, in and out of jail since age 11; and the Nikko he could be, if only he found his niche, some positive path for his life to take. He chose the latter Nikko, gave up the street life, found his way into mixed martial arts, made it his focus. Recently, the new Nikko took one of the biggest steps an MMA...
PORTALES - There were two coronations as a result of Saturday's Midwestern State-Eastern New Mexico football game, but only one that the Greyhounds were hoping for. With a blistering passing attack, Midwestern State crowned itself Lone Star Conference champion, beating Eastern 56-43 at Greyhound Stadium to finish 8-0 in conference play, 9-0 overall in the regular season. Though in the Greyhounds' defeat, Clovis High graduate and current ENMU senior Kamal Cass - with the help of his blockers -...