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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Sports
Friday, September 14, 2001
Freshmen, 8th grade Eagles get first wins
By JON FULBRIGHT
Staff Writer
Three of the Pecos Eagles' sub-varsity football teams got their first
wins of the 2001 season on Thursday, while another came close to rallying
at the finish for their first win of the year.
The Eagles' freshmen and eighth grade teams got their first wins, the
ninth graders by a 40-0 score at home over the Alpine Bucks and the eighth
graders against two different schools, with the purple team winning in Alpine,
36-6, and the gold team beating Crane at home, 6-0.
Also down in Alpine, Pecos' seventh graders were beaten by Alpine, 14-0,
while at Eagle Stadium, the junior varsity came close to a three-touchdown
rally against the Bucks before losing, 23-20.
The freshmen played first in Pecos on Thursday and jumped out to a 32-0
halftime lead, as five different players scored touchdowns for the Eagles.
Rashad Terry ran in from 50 yards out in the first period and Chad Evans
caught a five-yard touchdown pass from Saul Pina after that for a 12-0 lead.
In the second quarter, Tito Gonzales scored on a 53-yard run and moments
later Gilbert Solis intercepted an Alpine pass and returned it 46 yards for
a touchdown. Evans caught his second TD pass of the day from Pina before
halftime, this one from 17 yards out, and Lou Almadar had an 11-yard touchdown
catch from Jack Bradley in the fourth quarter.
Joel Martinez and Mark Navarette had two point conversion runs after Solis'
and Almadar's scores for the ninth graders, who are 1-1-1 on the season.
The JV was tied with Alpine at halftime, 6-6, but then saw the Bucks use
two long scores, including an 85-yard pass play on 3rd-and-18,
to take a 21-6 lead. Pecos came back to within a point, on Bino Barreno's
second touchdown run of the game, from five yards out, and got to within
a point two minutes later, on a 37-yard Jose Reyes pass from Lionel Abila
after the Bucks fumbled the ensuing kickoff.
But a low pass foiled the try for a tying extra point, and instead Alpine
intercepted a two-point conversion pass and ran it back for a 23-20 lead.
Pecos would get two more tries at the end zone, the last following an interception
with under two minutes to play, but after reaching the Bucks' 35, Reyes'
fourth down pass was intercepted. The loss dropped the JV to 0-2-1 on the
year.
The eighth grade teams are both 1-1 after their wins. Josh Payan had a
four-yard touchdown run in the first half, and the Eagles picked up a safety
on defense in the closing minutes after losing the ball on downs inside the
Cranes' five yard line. In the purple game at Alpine, Pecos took a 24-0 halftime
lead as Josh Anchondo scored three times, including once on a kickoff return.
And Eddie Vela also had a TD for Pecos.
The seventh grader purple team is 0-1-1 after being shut out for the second
straight week. However, this time, they were unable to do the same to their
opponent, as Alpine scored once in the second period and once in the fourth
quarter. The seventh grade gold team game against Crane was cancelled because
of a lack of players for Crane.
Tonight's 7:30 p.m. varsity football game between Pecos (1-1) and Alpine
(2-0) is the only District 2-4A contest of the night. Four of the five other
2-4A games were canceled on Wednesday, and the Fabens-Canutillo contest was
canceled Thursday morning.
Eagles seek win streak going into district play
The Pecos Eagles volleyball team will try to go into the District 2-4A
portion of their 2001 season on a three-game winning streak, when they host
the Kermit Yellowjackets and Presidio Blue Devils on Saturday at the Pecos
High School gym.
Play is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. with Pecos playing the first and
final matches, while the Jackets and Blue Devils face each other in-between.
The Eagles' junior varsity and freshman teams also are scheduled to play
Kermit and Presidio on Saturday.
Pecos goes to Clint on Tuesday for their district opener, and came into
this week having won only four of their first 19 matches. But the Eagles
were able to score a 15-6, 15-7 win at home on Tuesday over Fort Stockton,
and coach Becky Granado said she hoped a team meeting the day before helped
solve some of Pecos' communication problems.
"They had a team meeting (Monday) to clear up things that were bothering
them," she said. "I think they started understanding each other better and
that's what teamwork is all about."
One of Pecos' five wins so far this season came against Kermit, last month
in the Monahans Sandhills Tournament, and the Eagles also defeated the Jackets
in pool round play of their own Cantaloupe Classic Tournament the following
week. They have yet to face Presidio this season.
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 newsdesk@nwol.net
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