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Tuesday, November 11, 1997

Eagles boys hoop opener next Tuesday

PECOS, Nov. 11 -- The Pecos Eagles will open their 1997-98 boys
basketball schedule a week from tonight in Monahans, when they
face the Loboes in the first of their 27 scheduled regular season
games.

The Eagles will scrimmage at Crane this Saturday against the
Golden Cranes, the Ozona Lions and Monahans before beginning play
on the Loboes' home court. The Eagles' home opener will be on Nov.
21, when they take on the Stanton Buffaloes.

The Eagles' other home pre-district games will be against Alpine,
Greenwood and the Loboes, along with the annual West of the Pecos
Tournament, scheduled for Dec. 11-13 this year. It's the second of
three tournaments for the Eagles, who'll be going to the Odessa
Tournament on Dec. 5-6, then compete in the Reagan County
Tournament at Big Lake on Dec. 29-31.

District 4-4A play opens for the Eagles with a pair of road
contests, on Jan. 13 and 16 at Andrews and San Angelo Lake View.
Their home opener in district comes on Jan. 20 when Big Spring
visits Pecos, and they close out their season on Feb. 13, versus
defending district champ and state semifinalsist Sweetwater.

Pecos' junior varsity and freshman teams also open their seasons
against Monahans, while the Eagles' junior high teams will begin
play on Dec. 1, with single seventh and eighth grade games against
Fort Davis. Crockett and Zavala `B' team games start on Dec. 4 at
Alpine.

Eagles' 1997-98 Boys Basketball Schedules

(Home games in bold type)
* -- District game
November
15 (Sat.) -- at Crane (scrimmage) 2 p.m.
18 (Tue.) -- at Monahans (9th JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
21 (Fri.) -- Stanton (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
24 (Mon.) -- Alpine (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
25 (Tue.) -- at Balmorhea (9th, JV) 6:30 & 8 p.m.
25 (Tue.) -- at Iraan (JV, Var.) 6 & 7:30 p.m.
December
2 (Fri.) -- at Crane (9th, JV, Var.) 3:30, 5 & 6:30
p.m.
5-6 (Fri.-Sat.) -- at Odessa Tourn. (Var.) Times TBA
5-6 (Fri.-Sat.) -- at Ft. Stockton Tourn. (9th, JV) Times TBA
9 (Tue.) -- Monahans (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
11-13 (Thur.-Sat.) -- Pecos Tourn. (Var., JV, 9th) Times TBA
19 (Fri.) -- at Greenwood (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
29-31 (Mon.-Wed.) -- at Reagan Co. Tourn. (Var.) Times TBA
January
6 (Tue.) -- at Alpine (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30 p.m.
9 (Fri.) -- Greenwood (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
13 (Tue.) -- *at Andrews (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
16 (Fri.) -- *at San Angelo Lake View (JV, Var.) 6 & 7:30 p.m.
20 (Tue.) -- *Big Spring (JV, Var.) 6 & 7:30 p.m.
23 (Fri.) -- *Fort Stockton (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
27 (Tue.) -- *at Sweetwater (JV, Var.) 6 & 7:30 p.m.
30 (Fri.) -- *Andrews (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
February
3 (Tue.) -- *San Angelo Lake View (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
6 (Fri.) -- *at Big Spring (JV, Var.) 6 & 7:30 p.m.
10 (Tue.) -- *at Fort Stockton (9th, JV, Var.) 4:30, 6 & 7:30
p.m.
13 (Fri.) -- *Sweetwater (JV, Var.) 6 & 7:30 p.m.
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Crockett Basketball Schedule

Zavala Basketball Schedule

January
8 (Thur.) -- Kermit (purple & gold) 5 & 6:30 p.m.
12 (Mon.) -- at Monahans (purple & gold) 5 & 6:30 p.m.
19 (Mon.) -- Ft. Stockton (purple & gold) 5 p.m.
23-24 (Fri.-Sat.) -- at Ft. Stockton Tourn. (purple) Times TBA
29 (Thur.) -- at Kermit (purple & gold) 5 & 6:30 p.m.
31 (Sat.) -- at Monahans Tourn. (gold) Times TBA

February
2 (Mon.) -- Monahans (purple & gold) 5 & 6:30 p.m.

Clemens captures 4th AL Cy Young Award

By RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 -- Roger Clemens had a personal reason for
wanting Cy Young Award No. 4. And it had little to do with
baseball.

``I got one for Koby and Kory. I got one for Kasy, and I needed
one for Kody,'' he said of his four children after winning the
award Monday. ``It kind of takes the pressure off dad a little
bit.''

Clemens, who in his first season with Toronto became the first
pitcher to lead in the AL in wins, ERA and strikeouts since
Detroit's Hal Newhouser in 1945, became the first AL pitcher to
win four Cy Youngs. He got 25 of 28 first-place votes and three
seconds for 134 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers'
Association of America.

Clemens went 21-7 with a 2.05 ERA and a career-high 292 strikeouts
in 264 innings, topping 11 wins for the first time since 1992 and
reaching 20 for the fourth time. His ERA was the lowest among AL
starters who won the Cy Young since Ron Guidry's 1.74 in 1978.

He didn't gloat that the Red Sox made a bad decision in allowing
him to leave, saying again that Duquette was the cause of his
departure, but not the motivation for his season.

``That's one guy I don't want assessing my baseball abilities,
especially sitting in front of a computer,'' Clemens said.

Randy Johnson was second with two first-place votes and 77 points
after returning from back surgery to lead Seattle back to the AL
playoffs. He missed four late-season starts because of tendinitis
in a finger.

``I think it was a big factor,'' Clemens said. ``I think Randy
would have been right there and we would have knocked heads.''

Clemens also won the award with the Boston Red Sox in 1986, 1987
and 1991. The only other pitchers to win four Cy Youngs were in
the NL: Steve Carlton and Greg Maddux.

The six-year span between Cy Youngs matched Gaylord Perry for the
largest gap. And the 12 seasons between Clemens' first and last Cy
Youngs is the most ever, one more than Carlton, who won his four
from 1972-82.

With four Cy Youngs, Clemens appears to be locking up lots of Hall
of Fame votes.

``It would be unbelievable. That's the final stop, I guess,'' he
said. ``Hopefully, one day I can take the kids in there turn them
lose and let them see what their dad did for 15 or 20 years and I
won't have to tell them about it.''

After leaving Boston to sign a $24.75 million, three-year contract
with the Blue Jays, Clemens got off to an 11-0 start and was
picked for his seventh All-Star game. He wound up sharing the AL
lead in innings, complete games (nine) and shutouts (three) with
teammate Pat Hentgen, the 1996 Cy Young winner.

Minnesota's Brad Radke was third with 17 points, and Baltimore
reliever Randy Myers got the other first-place vote, finishing
fourth with 14 points.

For winning the award, Clemens gets a $100,000 bonus. Johnson
didn't have a bonus clause for finishing second and Radke gets
$50,000 for finishing third.

Johnson's first-place votes came from Mike Sullivan of The
Columbus Dispatch and Harland Beery of The (Bremerton) Sun in
Washington. Pat Caputo of The Oakland Press in Michigan gave his
first-place vote to Myers.

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