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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Sports
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Eagles opening tournament after rough Tuesday losses
The Pecos Eagles volleyball team took a couple of steps backwards Tuesday
night, and saw their season record drop to 0-6 with a pair of losses to
the Odessa Permian Panthers and Lubbock Estacado Matadors at the Permian
High School gym.
Pecos opened with a 15-10, 15-10 loss to Estacado, then were routed by
Permian 15-3, 15-1. Coach Becky Granado had said the Eagles had defeated
Permian in a scrimmage at Monahans on Aug. 16, and the Panthers had routed
the Matadors before the Eagles' match with Estacado, so Granado found little
to be happy with from either match.
"We just did not do anything," Granado said. "I think in the first game
we had 27 mistakes just on digs.
"I think they watched Permian run all over then and got overconfident
before they got out there. We didn't cover and didn't move around out there,"
she said.
The matches with Permian turned out even worse as the Panthers made short
work of the Eagles
"There was just no desire out there," she said. "We didn't even make
mental mistakes. We just weren't into it from the start."
"I told them until somebody steps it up and becomes the lead and takes
control, we won't be able to do anything," Granado said.
The losses left Pecos with an 0-6 record for the second season in a row
going into the Pecos Cantaloupe Classic Tournament, which starts today for
the freshman Eagles and Friday for the varsity and junior varsity teams.
The ninth graders will face Alpine at 4:30 p.m. today, Monahans at 5:30
and Odessa High at 6:30 p.m. On Friday, the varsity will face Marfa at 10:30
a.m., Fabens at 1 p.m. Anthony at 3:30 p.m. and Fort Hancock at 6 p.m.,
while the JV will take on Marfa, Permian and Andrews. The Marfa game will
be in the new gym, starting at 8 a.m. Friday, and they'll face Permian at
1:50 p.m. and Andrews at 6 p.m., both in the old gym.
The JV lost to Permian on Tuesday, 15-4, 15-12, while beating Estacado,
16-18, 15-10, 15-10. The freshmen won both of their matches on Tuesday,
downing Permian 5-15, 15-9, 15-10, and Estacado, 15-10, 15-2.
Pecos Enterprise
York M. "Smokey" Briggs, Publisher
Division of Buckner News Alliance, Inc.
324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772
Phone 915-445-5475, FAX 915-445-4321
e-mail news@pecos.net
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