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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Sports
Monday, October 16, 2000
Eagles roll over Lions, 46-7
By JON FULBRIGHT
Staff Writer
PECOS, Oct. 14, 2000 -- A balanced attack is nice to have, but if you
can just run over your opponent, why bother passing?
That's pretty much what the Pecos Eagles did Friday night to the Clint
Lions -- run, run and run some more, as they racked up 491 yards on the
ground on the way to a 46-7 homecoming victory over the Lions, in the District
2-4A opener for both teams.
Daniel Terrazas became the first Pecos running back in five years to
go over the 200 yard mark in a single game, rushing for 272 yards and three
touchdowns on 19 carries, while Omar Luna also went over the 100 yard mark,
gaining 119 and scoring a pair of touchdowns on only 10 carries.
"As we game-planned for them, we saw some things we thought we could
take advantage of," said Eagles' coach Gary Grubbs, as the Eagles were
able to run pitches and sweeps against a tight Clint defense effectively
for almost the entire night.
The running game was strong enough to allow Pecos to throw the ball
only three times all night. Alex Garcia completed two of those passes,
for 50 yards, with his lone miss an intentional spike into the ground to
stop the clock near the end of the first half.
He completed a 17-yard pass to Richard Rodriguez on the next play,
but it was his first completion that provided the biggest down note on
the night for the Eagles. Garcia hit Jason Carrillo with a slot pass near
midfield, and the sophomore cut back past a Lions defender at the 30 and
appeared headed for a touchdown when he grabbed his left hip and collapsed
at the 20 yard line.
Trainer Joel Birch initial diagnosis was a hip flexor injury, which
will keep Carrillo out indefinitely. Grubbs said X-rays on Carrillo was
scheduled for today.
Carrillo came into the game as the Eagles' leading rusher, but had
been nursing hip and knee injuries for the past four weeks. Omar Luna scored
on a 20-yard run on the next play, and Pecos already had scored their first
TD of the night a few minutes earlier, on a 53-yard run by Terrazas, who
is normally a back-up runner on offense.
"Daniel was going to carry the ball a lot anyway," even before Carrillo's
injury, Grubbs said. "We had problems getting Daniel the ball in the past
because he had problems cramping up while playing offense and defense.
But he's doing a better job with his conditioning this year."
Terrazas' first score came on a straight dive up the middle, while
in the second quarter, it was a pitch he was just able to grab from Garcia
that got him around the right end for a 77-yard TD run, giving the Eagles
at that time a 19-0 lead.
Pecos did show a few lingering problems from their Sept. 29 loss at
Monahans in the early going on Friday. Garcia fumbled on consecutive plays
on the Eagles' first series, with Clint's Johnny Settle recovering the
second one at the Pecos 38, and the Eagles also muffed two more punts Friday,
with Ray Martinez recovering the first muff near midfield late in the first
period. But unlike their loss to the Loboes, the Eagles' defense was able
to shut down the Lions after both turnovers, and kept Clint's passing game
in check most of the night.
"We gave up 133 yards passing, but he (Clint quarterback Tony Alvarado)
was only 8-for-24 passing, and we did a good job tackling after they caught
the ball," Grubbs said. Alvarado hit just two of his first nine passes,
and the Eagles kept state-leading receiver Domingo Lozano under control
for most of the night.
Grubbs blamed the strong crosswinds for the Eagles' problems handling
punts, and in the second half Pecos elected to go without a return man
on any of kicker Julio Munoz' efforts. "Because of the way the wind was
blowing we didn't think he could net more than 20-25 yards on a punt, and
we decided not to put the kids in a situation where they might drop a punt,"
he said.
Both punt muffs came on plays where the Eagles were also hit for 15-yard
roughing the kicker penalties. The second, when Luna came up the middle
and hammered Munoz, set up the Lions' only score of the night, a three-yard
run by Manny Estrada with 38.5 seconds left in the half.
"We thought that we could block it because they only had their punter
10 yards back. We thought we could put pressure up the middle and Omar
almost got it," Grubbs said. A 28-yard sideline pass from Alvarado to Bobby
Morales and an offsides penalty against the Eagles helped set up Estrada's
score.
Munoz would botch a punt snap in the third period, setting up Pecos
at the Clint 13-yard-line for their fifth touchdown of the night, a two-yard
Matthew Levario run. Before then, Terrazas had gone over the 200 yard mark
with a series of runs on Pecos' first possession of the second half, and
capped it off with a one-yard TD run to give the Eagles a 25-7 lead.
Luna went over 100 yards late in the third period, taking a pitch around
the left side for a 60-yard TD run, and Terrazas was one block away from
reaching the 350-yard mark in the fourth quarter, as he was caught by Clint's
Martinez just in time to prevent a 95-yard TD run midway through the final
period. The Eagles ended up taking the ball in anyway, as Rodriguez took
over at quarterback from Garcia and scored on a 33-yard keeper to cap a
14-play drive with 2:59 to play.
The 541 yards in total offense is the first time Pecos has gone over
the 500 yard mark in a game in over 20 years, while for Clint, it came
a week after they allowed El Paso Burges 474 yards in losing by the exact
same 46-7 score. And just to show how much things can change from one week
to the next, Burges was held to 91 yards total offense on Friday, in dropping
a 52-7 decision to El Paso Riverside.
The Eagles will try to keep that kind of turnaround from happening
to them this coming Friday, when they travel to Fabens for an 8:30 p.m.
game against the Wildcats. Fabens won its first-ever District 2-4A game
Friday after two years of narrow losses, by a 27-13 score over Canutillo,
while El Paso Mountain View routed San Elizario, 42-0, in the other district
opener.
at Pecos
Clint
0 7 0 0
- 7
Pecos
13 6 20 7
- 46
First Quarter
Pec. - Terrazas 53 run (Levario
kick), 5:39.
Pec. - Luna 20 run (kick
failed), 7:31.
Second Quarter
Pec. - Terrazas 77 run (run
failed), 7:32.
Cln. - Estrada 3 run (Rivera
kick), 11:22.
Third Quarter
Pec. - Terrazas 1 run (pass
failed), 5:34.
Pec. - Levario 3 run (Levario
kick), 8:26.
Pec. - Luna 60 run (Levario
kick), 10:59.
Fourth Quarter
Pec. - R. Rodriguez 33 run
(Levario kick), 9:01.
Cln Pec.
First Downs
13 15
Rushes-Yds
39-59 50-491
Passing Yds
133 50
Passes
8-24-0 2-3-0
Punts-Yds
6-27.5 0-0
Fumbles-lost
0-0 3-2
Penalties-Yds
3-22 4-45
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing - Clint, Estrada
23-59, Alvarado 9-14, Martinez 7-12, Munoz 1-(-26). Pecos, Terrazas 19-272,
Luna 10-119, Levario 6-37, R. Rodriguez 4-34, Lara 3-21, Garcia 4-10, Carrillo
1-2, Sparkman 1-2.
Passing - Clint, Alvarado
8-24-0-133. Pecos, Garcia 2-3-0-50.
Receiving - Clint, Lozano
5-75, Morales 2-42, Chairez 1-2. Pecos, Carrillo 1-33, R. Rodriguez 1-17.
Missed Field Goals - None.
Eagles win short game after long trip
PECOS, Oct. 16, 2000 -- The Pecos Eagles took a very long trip to play
a very short game, but the results were worth the eight-hour drive to Canutillo
and back on Saturday.
The Eagles came close to posting a rare shutout on the Canutillo Golden
Eagles, before settling for a 15-0, 15-4 win over Canutillo that left Pecos
tied with Clint for the lead in the District 2-4A standings.
The game itself took only a half hour to play, and Eagles’ coach Becky
Granado said after shutting out the Golden Eagles in Game 1, “The score
was already 14-0 when they scored,” in the second game. “They scored four
points on our own mistakes. They served to us and we let it drop and we
started hitting the ball out.”
At the same time, she said Pecos didn’t need much effort to get their
points on Saturday.
“All we had to do was just serve,” said Granado. “In the first game,
Philly (Fobbs) got us started. We scored six straight points, and didn’t
even have to go through a full rotation.”
“We didn’t have to work too hard to get our points,” she said. “I don’t
know what happened to Canutillo. They didn’t play us like they did here
(in a 15-8, 15-8 loss). They were just out there,” she said.
Fobbs led Pecos with 7 kills, though Granado said offensively, “it was
tough to score any points because they kept giving us everything. All we
had to do is serve.”
The win, coupled with Clint’s 15-8, 15-9 win over El Paso Mountain View,
leaves the Eagles and Lions tied for first place, both with 6-2 records.
Pecos is 24-8 on the season and will head to El Paso on Tuesday to face
Mountain View, while Clint hosts Fabens, which lost to San Elizario on
Saturday, 15-4, 15-11.
Pecos also won Saturday’s freshmen match over Canutillo in two games,
while the junior varsity lost to the Golden Eagles by 15-4, 15-13 scores.
Second half scores help Bears rout Cougars
PECOS, Oct. 16, 2000 -- It took the Balmorhea Bears a little longer to
pull away from the Dell City Cougars this time around, but the Bears were
able to shut the door on the Cougars in the second half of their game Friday
night in Dell City and come away with a 51-18 win in the District 8-A six
man football opener for both teams.
The Bears played a shutout game with the Cougars in Balmorhea last month,
before breaking away for 20 late first half points on the way to a 46-6
non-district victory. This time, Balmorhea appeared ready to take
control at the outset, jumping out to a 16-0 first quarter lead, only to
see Dell City answer with two touchdowns of their own, plus a field goal,
in the second quarter.
Balmorhea also scored another TD during the period, and it was the three
extra-point kicks by Urvano Baeza that allowed the Bears to remain ahead
at halftime, 24-18.
That’s the way it stayed for the first 8 ½ minutes of the third
period, until the Bears finally broke through with a Adriel Roman touchdown
run to wide then lead to 30-18. Roman would then add a 20-yard TD run two
minutes into the fourth quarter, while Billy Lozano scored on a 31-yard
run just 15 seconds later, after a Dell City turnover, to put the game
away.
“We just played better overall,” said Bears’ coach Ennis Erickson, whose
team had gone to Dell City a year ago and lost by a 42-18 score. He said
Lozano had a strong night on offense both running and passing the ball,
while Arturo Rodriguez had a pair of interceptions and Jerry Mendoza also
picked off a Dell City pass in the win.
Balmorhea scored on their first possession of the night, on a 16-yard
run by Isaiah Rodriguez. Baeza added the two-point kick, and then got both
the extra point kick and the touchdown late in the first period, on a four-yard
run.
Dell City got on the scoreboard in the second period, thanks to an 18-yard
run by Mason Templeton, who also added the extra-point kick. But Balmorhea
answered right back, as Rodriguez returned the ensuing kickoff 80 yards
for a touchdown. Baeza’s kick made it 24-8, but the Cougars answered that
score immediately, as Templeton passed 41 yards to Bobby Rodriguez for
a touchdown. Dell City missed that kick, but after getting the ball back
and driving inside the Bears’ 10-yard-line, Templeton would nail a 25-yard
field goal after Balmorhea’s defense stopped Dell City’s bid to cut the
lead to as little as a point.
Lozano would end up running for 122 yards on the night and throwing
for 94 of the Bears’ 124 yards in passing, while Jourmain Matta had four
of Balmorhea’s five receptions on the night for 114 yards, most of that
on a 65-yard touchdown reception from Logan Humphries midway through the
final period, which completed the scoring for the Bears.
The win improves Balmorhea’s season record to 4-2 and more importantly,
gives the Bears a leg up over Dell City (3-3) in the race for the six-man
playoffs. Balmorhea now comes home Saturday to face the Marathon Mustangs.
“It’s still real early,” Erickson said, about the Bears’ playoff chances
after Friday’s win. The Bears get a bye week after facing the Cougars,
then close out the regular season with Sierra Blanca and Sanderson.
Pecos earns top see with win over Clint
PECOS, Oct. 16, 2000 -- Tennis matches are only for seeding purposes the
first three weeks of the District 2-4A fall schedule, but the Pecos Eagles
look to have put themselves in good position to earn a third straight trip
to regionals following Saturday’s 10-9 win over the Clint Lions at the
Pecos High School tennis courts.
Reversing the results of two years ago, when Pecos used a sweep of their
boys matches to edge out Clint. This time it was a sweep on the girls’
side that carried the Eagles to victory.
“It was lopsided. We won all the girls matches, while they won on the
boys’ side,” said Eagles’ coach Bernadette Ornelas, adding that the different
turned out to be Clint’s lack of players on the girls’ side.
“They only brought five girls, so they had to forfeit some matches,”
she said. The Lions lost a girls singles and doubles match by forfeit,
and also had to forfeit the lone mixed doubles match scheduled Saturday.
All of the Lions’ wins on the boys’ side were straight set affairs,
while on the girls’ side, the closest match was a 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 win by
Prescilla Levario over Laura Lozano. Clint failed to score more than three
points in any other set on the girls’ side, while in the boys’ division,
the Eagles managed more than three points only two times, in a 6-1 7-5
loss by Jay Dannelley to Alvaro Chacon and a 6-3, 7-5 loss by Stephen Lamb
to Steve Baca.
The victory gave the Eagles the No. 1 seed for Thursday’s District 2-4A
Tournament, which will determine the qualifiers for Region I-4A play on
Oct. 27-28 at Wichita Falls. Pecos will play El Paso Mountain View starting
at 9 a.m. CDT at San Elizario, while Fabens will host Clint in the other
semifinal match. The winners of the morning matches will play for the District
2-4A title Thursday afternoon.
Clint (9) at Pecos (10)
Boys Singles
Trent Graham lost to Martin
Renteria, 6-0, 6-3; Jay Dannelley lost to Alvaro Chacon, 6-1, 7-5; Orlando
Mendoza lost to Jesus Ortega, 6-0, 6-2; Stephen Lamb lost to Steve
Baca, 6-3, 7-5; Michael Orona lost to Hugo Gines, 6-0, 6-0; Allen Almunia
lost to Daniel Sosa, 6-0, 6-0.
Girls Singles
Rebecca Wein defeated Laura
Loera, 6-2, 6-1; Natalia Ornelas defeated Lisa Corral, 6-0, 6-0; Brenda
Fuentes defeated Sara Elizondae, 6-1, 6-0; Kristina Dominguez defeated
Stephanie Marmalejo, 6-1, 6-1; Prescilla Levario defeated Laura Lozano,
6-4, 2-6, 6-3; Elizabeth Carreon won by default.
Boys Doubles
Graham and Dannelley lost
to Renteria and Chacon, 6-2, 6-2; Mendoza and Lamb lost to Ortega and Baca,
6-3, 6-2; Orona and Almunia lost to Gines and Sosa, 6-1, 6-1.
Girls Doubles
Wein and Fuentes defeated
Corral and Elizonde, 6-0, 6-2; Ornelas and Dominguez defeated Loera and
Marmalejo, 6-1, 6-3; Levario and Carreon won by default.
Mixed Doubles
Albert Almunia and Whitney
Lamb won by default
Pecos Enterprise
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