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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Sports
Friday, March 22, 2002
Eagle teams in Canutillo, Clinto today
The Pecos Eagles baseball and softball teams are both headed west today,
with the boys going to Clint for their District 2-4A baseball opener while
the girls play their third game in district play, on the other side of El
Paso against the Canutillo Eagles.
Both games will start at 5 p.m. CST.
Pecos' girls have won three straight games this season and 15 straight
overall in district play dating back to the 2000 season. The latest was a
week ago at home, when they downed the Fabens Wildcats by a 12-3 final score.
The win raised Pecos' record to 6-3 on the season, while pitcher Stephanie
Herrera improved to 6-1 overall. Rebecca Wein and Neftali Salgado had RBI
extra-base hits in the third inning to break a scoreless tie, and the Eagles
added four more runs in the fourth and sixth innings.
Canutillo had won only once this season before last Friday, when they
defeated El Paso Mountain View by a 6-5 final score. Cassandra Cisneros picked
up the victory, which came despite the Golden Eagles collecting only two
hits in the game.
The baseball team saw their scheduled game against Odessa Permian on Tuesday
cancelled due to high winds and rain in the area, and while the weather in
the Pecos area isn't very good today, temperatures are supposed to be in
the upper 60s for this afternoon's game at Clint.
The Eagles already own a victory this season over the Lions, by a 7-4
score on March 9 at the Cotton Valley Tournament in San Elizario, part of
their current eight game win streak that put them at 12-4 on the season.
Pecos led by only a 2-1 score after five innings against Clint, but scored
five times in the sixth off reliever Jeremy Hickman, while Capi Magana picked
up the win, allowing three runs in the seventh inning.
Today, coach Bubba Williams said Barney Rodriguez, 4-1, would start on
the mound. Rodriguez last pitched eight days ago, when he downed Wimberly
in the opening round of the Alpine Tournament. Clint's Fernie Lopez allowed
Pecos only two runs in five innings two weeks ago, but pitched on Tuesday
in the Lions' 22-9 victory over Anthony, so either David Fierro or Jonathan
Baeza figures to start today on the mound.
Bears competing in Sands after 5th place at Sanderson
The Balmohea Bears track team will be among the teams braving the cold
today in Ackerly, where they'll compete in the Sands Invitational.
The Bears come off a fifth place finish two weeks ago in the boys division
at the Rio Grande Relays in Sanderson.
"You might not think that's so good, but you need to consider that there
are only three runners on the boys track team and they finished fifth out
of nine teams," said Bears' a coach Doug Maynard.
Maynard said the boys scored 52 points to finish behind the host Eagles
with 153 points, Wink with 133, Fort Davis with 120 and Marfa with 60 points.
Trailing the Bears were Dell City with 45 points, Marathon with 11, Sierra
Blanca with four and Grandfalls with two points.
The Bears got the bulk of their points in two events, the discus and shot
put. Jourmain Matta won both events, taking the shot with a 38-foot-11½
throw and the discus with a 132-foot effort. He beat out teammate Reggie
Lozano in that event, as Lozano took second with a 124-foot-3 throw. In the
shot put, Lozano finished third, throwing 36-foot-6.
Balmorhea also picked up a gold medal in the 3200 meter run, where Sammy
Dominguez finished with a 11:37.7 time. Later, Dominguez earned a silver
in the 1600 meter run, finishing with a 5:23.8 time.
On the girls' side, Maynard said the Bears had one runner, Lorissa Rodriguez,
who just missed making the finals in the 400-meter dash. Rodriguez did pick
up two points earlier in the meet, finishing fifth in the triple jump with
a 27-foot-1½ effort.
Pecos Enterprise
York M. "Smokey" Briggs, Publisher
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324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772
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