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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Sports
February 13, 2001
Eagles close hoop season against `Cats
PECOS, February 13, 2001 - The season ends tonight for the Pecos Eagles'
basketball team, with what figures to be one of their toughest games of
the year, on the road in Fabens against the Wildcats.
The Eagles wrap up play for 2000-2001 with a 7 p.m. game against Fabens,
which has won nine straight games since their district-opening loss in
overtime to San Elizario, but still needs a win tonight over Pecos or a
San Elizario loss to clinch the District 2-4A title and a first-round bye
in the Class 4A playoffs.
Fabens has come on in recent weeks, winning most of their district
games by 20 points or more. This past Friday they routed Canutillo, 87-60,
and last month in Pecos, the Wildcats scored 40 points in the final 8½
minutes of play, turning a 50-40 lead over the Eagles into a 90-55 victory.
Ezra Varlea kept the Eagles in the game with a 25-point effort during
the first three quarters, but missed Friday night's 63-35 loss to Clint
due to a sprained ankle. Fabens, meanwhile got 23 points out of Manny Solis
and 15 from Alonzo Favela, but it was the 3-point bombardment by Abel Juarez
in the fourth quarter that turned a close game into a rout.
"We're going to get Ezra back tonight, but we'll still be missing Cesar
(Coria)," said coach Tino Acosta. Coria sat out Friday's game after missing
practice. "But that's the way it goes, you've got to stand by your policy."
"He (Varela) may face a box-and-1 tonight," said Acosta, whose team
has been struggling to put up points in the second half of district play.
"At this point as long as we get them to play hard and to the best of their
abilities, we've accomplished the main goal I set for this season."
While the Eagles try to avoid their second straight winless season
in district, Fabens will try to claim the 2-4A title after missing the
playoffs a year ago. San Elizario also has clinched a playoff spot and
faces Clint tonight, while Canutillo takes on El Paso Mountain View. Clint
and Canutillo are tied for the third and final 2-4A playoff berth, each
with 5-4 record.
Softball season opens for Pecos
By JON FULBRIGHT
Staff Writer
PECOS, February 13, 2001 - The 2001 softball season opens at home today
for the Pecos Eagles, as they host a team playing its first-ever varsity
game, the Crane Golden Cranes.
"We know how that is," said Eagles' coach Tammy Walls, who went through
a one-win season back in 1998 when Pecos began its varsity softball program.
The Eagles still have a couple of starters from that team around this year,
which is shaping up as the best so far for Pecos.
The Eagles swept their three scrimmage games this past Saturday in
Sweetwater. Walls said Stephenville didn't show up for the scrimmage, but
Pecos beat the host Mustangs, Kermit and Lubbock Cooper.
"I saw some good things on defense. Our batting was a little slow,
but I was expecting that because we've only had a couple of girls out for
more than a short time," Walls said.
Senior Alexa Marquez and freshman Stephanie Herrera did the pitching
for the Eagles on Saturday. Walls said Marquez would start today, while
Herrera would play at shortstop, and Ashley Salcido would play short when
Herrera is on the mound.
"Ashley is probably going to be playing third base. She did an outstanding
job there this weekend," Walls said. "She played second, third and short
and looked good at all three positions."
Aside from Herrera, Walls said freshman Leslie Rodriguez would be the
other new starter for Pecos, taking over Salcido's former spot at second
base. Others returning for the Eagles include outfielders Marisela Arenivas,
Kathy Maldonado and Evelyn Galindo, first baseman Jessica Rodriguez and
catcher Rebecca Wein.
Walls said she would have them all available today, but would be missing
some next week, due to other extracurricular events. "We may have to pull
out of the Midland Tournament, since I've got a bunch of my kids either
going to powerlifting, the state swim meet or a track meet. I just won't
have enough left," she said.
The Eagles will have enough to compete in this weekend's Andrews Tournament,
where they'll face Frenship in their tournament opener at 9 a.m. on Friday.
Eagles travel to Ft. Stockton
for second scrimmage game
PECOS, February 13, 2001 - The Pecos Eagles were short of players to host
a freshman baseball scrimmage Monday and will be too shorthanded to host
a junior varsity scrimmage today. But the Eagles will take what players
they do have south to Fort Stockton for a 4:30 p.m. scrimmage against their
former district rivals.
The Eagles will face the Panthers in the second of three pre-season
scrimmages. They'll host Midland Greenwood this coming Saturday, by which
time they'll have all their players out from basketball, which winds up
its season in Fabens tonight.
"It will basically be the same ones who appeared against Permian,"
said Eagles' coach Bubba Williams, who was happy with the play of his starters
on Friday against the Panthers. Pecos took a 6-3 lead with their regular
players in the lineup, before Permian rallied against the Eagles' reserves
for an 8-6 win.
"The only one who won't play is Richard (Rodriguez). He won't be going
because he's still sore," Williams said. Rodriguez played second base at
the start of Friday's scrimmage, but is coming back from an emergency appendectomy
operation in late December.
On the mound, Williams said he may use pitchers Barney Rodriguez and
Angel Villalobos again today, while a couple of other pitchers, including
junior Capi Magana, could see action. Magana and Richard Rodriguez are
the only two returning pitchers for the Eagles from last season, though
Barney Rodriguez did get in a brief appearance during the playoffs for
Pecos.
Boys' victories help Pecos
post win over Greenwood
PECOS, February 13, 2001 - The Pecos Eagles' first win of the Spring 2001
tennis season on Saturday was a little different from most of the Eagles'
wins over the past two seasons.
The Eagles went to Midland and beat the Greenwood Rangers by a 14-11
overall score, 11-7 in the varsity matches. And coach Bernadette Ornelas
said the bulk of the Eagles' wins came from the boys' side of the bracket,
something that hasn't happened since Pecos graduated almost all of its
boys' squad after the 1998-99 season.
"The boys are strengthening up, as the results show," said Ornelas.
"Greenwood was shorthanded three boys, so some of their boys had to play
twice and they got a couple of wins against our lower seeds."
Pecos won six of their nine boys' matches, while Greenwood's girls
took eight of their 14 singles and doubles matches against the Eagles.
Tiffany Jarrett and Phillip Salcido got Pecos their other win, in mixed
doubles play.
Trentt Graham, Orlando Mendoza, Michael Orona and Stephen Lamb all
won both in singles and doubles play on Saturday, while on the girls' side
Jarrett also picked up a pair of wins, as did Natalia Ornelas, who earned
the only win for the Eagles in Top 6 singles play.
"The girls had some tough matches, and there were several split sets,"
Bernadette Ornelas said. Her daughter was involved in two of the Eagles'
three split set wins, while Chantel Orona got Pecos' other win for the
girls in three sets.
This weekend, the Eagles will play in their first tournament of the
spring season, at Fort Stockton.
Pecos (14) at Greenwood (11)
Boys Singles
Trent Graham defeated Chance Snyders, 6-1, 6-1; Orlando Mendoza defeated
R.B. Barnett, 7-6, 4-6, 6-3; Michael Orona defeated Shawn Holster, 6-3,
7-5; Stephen Lamb defeated Juan Carlos Garza, 6-1, 6-4; Jay Dannelley lost
to Snyders, 7-5, 6-4; Phillip Salcido defeated John Bowen, 6-0, 6-3; Joel
Sotelo lost to Garza, 6-1, 6-4.
Girls Singles
Brenda Fuentes lost to Emma Alka, 6-4, 6-4; Natalis Ornelas defeated
Lorrie Tumlinson, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6; Kristina Dominguez lost to Amber Sartor,
6-3, 6-3; Precilla Levario lost to Amy Barber, 6-0, 6-3; Elizabeth Carreon
lost to Miranda Ramirez, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4; Whitney Lamb lost to Tanna Follice,
6-3, 6-4; Tiffany Jarrett defeated Rachel Proctor, 6-4, 6-4; Chantel Orona
defeated Cara Young, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Amanda Fleming defeated Young, 6-3,
6-3; Jennifer Rayos lost to Sartor, 8-3; Savana West lost to Proctor, 6-0,
6-0.
Boys Doubles
Graham and Mendoza defeated Snyders and Holster, 7-5, 6-1; Orona and
Dannelley defeated Bowen and Burnett, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6; Lamb and Salcido lost
to Burnett and Holster, 8-3.
Girls Doubles
Fuentes and Ornelas dfeated Barber and Tumlinson, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Dominguez
and Levario lost to Sartor and Follis, 6-4, 6-4; Carreon and Lamb defeated
Ramirez and Proctor, 7-6, 6-4.
Mixed Doubles
Salcido and Jarrett defeated Garza and Young, 6-2, 6-0.
Pecos Enterprise
York M. "Smokey" Briggs, Publisher
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