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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Sports
Friday, January 28, 2000
Eagle boys host, girls play at Canutillo
PECOS, Jan. 28, 2000 -- The Pecos Eagle basketball teams take a break from
their usual January doubleheaders tonight, as the boys stay in Pecos to
face the Canutillo Eagles while the girls go to Canutillo for their games.
Play opens with the freshman contest here starting at 4:30 p.m. The
junior varsity boys will play at 6 p.m., followed by the varsity game at
7:30 p.m.
The girls will actually get an earlier start on their game in Canutillo,
since there will be only one sub-varsity game. That will start at 5:30
p.m. and be followed by the varsity contest at 7 p.m.
Both Pecos teams continue to look for their first wins of the season,
and come into tonight’s games with 0-18 records after their home losses
on Tuesday to El Paso Mountain View. The girls saw a 16-16 halftime tie
turn into a 40-27 loss, while the boys saw their 24-all tie with the Lobos
at the half end up as a 57-47 Mountain View win.
Canutillo beat Mountain View and San Elizario to open district play,
and defeated the Eagles twice last season, including a season-ending 48-33
win in Pecos. “They still have Chris (Grant), their 3-point shooter,” said
coach Tino Acosta. “They beat the No. 1-ranked team in El Paso two weeks
ago and are ranked in the Top 10, but so what, we’re going to play them
tough.”
Pecos and Canutillo already have played once on the girls’ side, with
the visiting Eagles scoring a 51-41 victory back on Jan. 11. Ale Pineda
had 26 points in the game for Canutillo, most in the first half. The Eagles,
who were led by Maricela Arenivas’ 16 points, were within four points of
Canutillo with 4½ minutes to play when their shooting went cold,
and they were outscored 12-6 down the stretch.
“Now it’s down to four games, two here and two on the road,” said coach
Brian Williams. “I don’t know if Pecos has ever had a team that didn’t
win a game, but I told them they didn’t want to be the first team to do
that.”
Williams is hoping for a better effort than in the second half of Tuesday’s
loss . The Eagles didn’t score a point for the first 6:45 of the third
period, and Williams said his players lost track of the defense they were
supposed to be in during an 8-0 Mountain View run.
Pecos’ boys will go to Canutillo in February to close out their regular
season. The teams will play doubleheaders again for the girls’ final three
games, beginning on Tuesday at home against Fabens.
UIL's realignment glues coaches to TV
AUSTIN, Jan. 28, 2000 (AP) - Riveting television it's not. But when it
comes to high school football in Texas, there's probably nothing more important
than the biennial shuffling of districts and classifications.
So next Tuesday, while their players are in class, coaches and school
administrators across the state will be huddling around TV sets to see
who their district rivals will be under University Interscholastic League
realignment.
More than 1,200 schools. One continuous scroll of names and districts
rolling across the bottom of the television screen.
And while Fox Sports Net's live, 30-minute broadcast sounds like an
insomnia cure-all, it's political high drama in Texas prep sports.
"It just shows you how big high school football is in Texas," said Fox
Sports Net spokesman Ramon Alvarez. "It's not riveting television by any
means, but there is a need for this."
That's because the secrecy that surrounds realignment - akin to guarding
military secrets in some small countries - prevents schools from getting
an early look at which district they will play in next season. It also
prevents schools from getting a jump on creating a favorable schedule.
The UIL realigns football and basketball districts every two years. Moving
up or down in a classification or changing districts can ignite state championship
dreams - or drown them.
It could also mean keeping or losing a job, said Midland Lee football
coach John Parchman.
"One coach might be saying `Oh boy, we can't compete in that district'
while another might be dancing a jig," Parchman said.
Coaches will jump at the first chance Tuesday to fill in their non-district
schedules.
"If you wait more than a couple of hours, you'll be out of luck," Parchman
said.
Tuesday will be the third time Fox has broadcast the realignment announcement.
Pecos Enterprise
York M. "Smokey" Briggs, Publisher
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324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772
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