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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Eagles beaten by Van Horn, EP Americas
Missed chances at the finish did in the Pecos Eagles in their match against
the Van Horn Eagles, while Pecos was unable to contain El Paso Americas
hitter Justine Farmer and ended up losing a pair of games on Tuesday night
in Van Horn.
The Eagles rallied after losing their first two games to Van Horn, 29-27
and 25-20, to even the match with 25-22 and 25-19 victories. But with the
score tied at 11-all in the deciding game, Pecos made a series of errors
that allowed Van Horn to win by a 15-11 final score.
"We dug ourselves a hole in the first two games, then fought back in
the third and fourth games only to give it away," said Eagles' coach Becky
Granado. "I told the girls we do some good things, but then we turn around
and do some bad things."
"The defense would pick up a lot of balls I thought would hit the floor,
but we also got caught standing around watching the game at times," she
added.
Granado said the Eagles missed chances to score late in the deciding
match on a couple of hitting errors by Stephanie Herrera, then gave up another
point on a bad set by Jessica Flores.
"In the first game we had two missed serves. That's two easy points we
gave away," she added. Pecos held a 24-21 lead in the first game, and also
had chances to win with 25-24 and 27-26 leads before Van Horn pulled out
the victory.
Against Americas, the Eagles were swept by 25-16, 25-19, 25-19 scores.
"I think we were intimidated a little by their big girl (Farmer). She was
pounding the ball," Granado said. "They were having trouble receiving serves,
and we capitalized on their weak back line players some, but we just couldn't
do it enough.
Even though Farmer was able to go over Pecos a number of times for kills,
Granado said "Against Americas we did a much better job blocking that we
did against Van Horn. It was a challenge to block their big girl, and we
got our hands on some of her hits."
Americas also swept Van Horn in their Tuesday match, 25-16, 25-13, 25-9.
Pecos' junior varsity split their Tuesday matches, beating Van Horn, 25-18,
23-25, 25-4, then losing to Americas, 25-17, 25-23. Pecos' freshman girls
only faced Americas, and lost to the Trailblazers, 25-17, 25-21.
Pecos' record falls to 6-12 with the losses on Tuesday. The Eagles will
have this weekend off, before playing their final two pre-district dual
meets next week, in Fort Stockton against the Prowlers and Crane Golden
Cranes on Tuesday and at home versus Kermit and Presidio on Sept. 20.
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
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