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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Pecos boys, girls claim 20 firsts at Wylie meet
The Pecos Eagles swim team had a few less competitors than expected this past Saturday, in their final meet before the Christmas holidays, as the Eagle boys finished first and the girls second in a five-team meet at Abilene Wylie, earning 10 first place finishes each at the meet.
Pecos’ boys racked up 631 points to 246 for Lubbock Coronado, while the girls were edged by the host Bulldogs, by a 487-466 margin, with Lubbock Monterey, Coronado and Lubbock High finishing with 263, 85 and 33 points respectively.
“They had a lot that failed and they had another meet, so they split theirs into two teams,” said Eagles’ coach Terri Morse of the Class 5A Lubbock schools. “That’s why it originally was going to be a dual meet.”
While the competition may not have been as strong as possible, Morse said, “We had some pretty good swims. We had some individuals who did their best ever in the races, even where there wasn’t a lot of competition. That was mainly on the boys side; with our girls some of them were sick, and so they didn’t do as well.”
The boys picked up first and second place finishes in both the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relays, despite being one swimmer short for the meet. Freshman Carlos Navarro subbed for Hector Roman on the 200 medley, and along with Josh Elliott, Matthew Florez and Derek Teague won with a 1:51.36 time, while the ‘B’ relay of Abraham Lujan, Oscar Machuca, Brian Carrasco and Sammy Sandoval edged Wylie by .15 of a second for the No. 2 spot, with a 2:12.75 time.
In the 400-free relay, Morse said junior Gus Mendoza replaced Roman, and along with Florez, Teague and Elliott won with a 3:41.10 time. Morin, Carlos and Edward Navarro and Luke Serrano were second, just under 14 seconds back, while in the 200 freestyle relay, the ‘A’ team of Morin, Mendoza, Edward Navarro and Serrano was edged by .01 second for first by Lubbock Coronado, finishing with a 1:43.91 time. The ‘B’ relay of Carrasco, Sandoval, Lujan and Machuca finished third.
Individually, Pecos had eight first place finishes, two each by Elliott and Florez. Elliott took the 200-yard freestyle with a 1:59.68 time and later won the 100-yard backstroke with a 59.94 time, while Florez won the 50 free with a 23.58 time and the 100 free with a time of 52.03. Pecos’ other firsts were by Carlos Navarro in the 200-yard individual medley, with a 2:25.58 time; Serrano in the 100-yard butterfly with a 1:07.16 time, Edward Navarro in the 500-yard freestyle with a 5:36.27 time, and Teague, who took the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:13.90.
Teague also was second in the 50 freestyle, while Carlos Navarro was second to Teague by .01 second in the 100-yard breaststroke; Edward Navarro was second in the 200 freestyle and Serrano was fourth in the 100-yard backstroke.
Other results for the boys included a second by Mendoza in the 500 free and a third in the 200 free; a second by Carrasco in the 200 medley and a fourth in the 100 breaststroke; a second by Morin in the 100 yard freestyle and a fifth in the 100 backstroke; a sixth by Lujan in the 500 free and 100 fly; a third by Machuca in the 200 medley and a fifth in the 100 free; and an eighth by Tye Hegar in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles.
With Roman’s absence, Sandoval was the only diver for Pecos, and placed second in the 1-meter competition.
The girls also won the majority of their events at the meet, but lost out in the overall point standings to Wylie due to depth. “I don’t have as many girls to work with. Sometimes I try to switch Aly (Reynolds) and Conner (Armstrong) around and Adriana (Roman) and Anatalia (Hernandez), but the others are not as familiar with the different strokes.
Reynolds, Armstrong, Roman and Hernandez won both the 200-yard medley and 200-yard freestyle relays, with times of 2:11.38 and 1:57.65 respectively, while Niki Lindemann, Stephanie Lucas, Maggie Hernandez and Neyva Rodriguez took the 400-yard free relay with a 4:41.29 time. The girls also got a second place from their only ‘B’ relay, in the 200 free, with Lindemann, Lucas, Rodriguez and Dakota Hegar finishing with a 2:05.58 time.
Reynolds, Armstrong and Roman also had two individual firsts each at the meet. Roman won the 200 free with a 2:16.90 time and the 500 free in 6:10.89; Armstrong was first in the 50 free with a 28.81 time and the 100 backstroke, with a 1:12.40 time, while Reynolds won the 100 butterfly with a 1:15.31 time and the 100-yard breaststroke, with a 1:18.22 time. Hernandez had Pecos’ other first place finish, winning the 200 medley with a 2:43.84 time, and was second to Armstrong in the 100-yard backstroke.
Lindemann was third in the 200 free and the 100 free; Lucas was second in the 100 fly and third in the 200 medley; Rodriguez was second in the 50 free and the 100 free; Hegar was fifth in the 50 free and Maggie Hernandez was fourth in the 100 fly and fifth in the 200 medley.
Morse said Machuca on the boys’ side and Hegar on the girls’ side were able to qualify for the Lubbock Invitational in mid-January with their times in Abilene. The Lubbock meet will be the final one before District 4-4A competition, while Pecos’ first meet of the new year will be on Jan. 4-5 at the Fort Stockton Invitational.
“We’ll be off this coming week and start back up on the 27th,” Morse said of the holiday break.
Eagles’ offense shut down by Bulldogs
Scoring inside isn’t going to be easy, when the opposing team has a 5-to-6 inch height advantage at four of the five starting positions. And when that team also has a 12-point advantage from beyond the 3-point line through the first three quarters of the game, things are probably going to look pretty ugly on the scoreboard.
That was the situation the Pecos Eagle boys basketball team found itself in Friday night against the Coahoma Bulldogs. With four starters between 6-foot-2 and 6-7, the Bulldogs allowed the Eagles almost nothing from inside all night, coming up with 10 blocked shots in the game. But Pecos also couldn’t find its shooting touch from outside until the final quarter, and trailed by as many as 39 points in the third period before winding up on the short end of a 68-43 final score.
“Our outside shots were just not falling early,” said Eagles’ coach Sammy Soliz, who wasn’t happing with the officiating in the game. “They were blocking us pretty clean up top, but they were bumping up with their bodies.”
The Eagles had both inside shots blocked by the taller Bulldogs, who also caused problems outside at times, blocking a couple of 3-point tries. One of the plays inside ended ups resulting in a double technical foul on Pecos in the final period, after the Eagles had been whistled for a technical in the third quarter.
“Our players are taught to create fouls by going in for contact, and we went in tonight and couldn’t get any contact. I don’t think we were really getting any calls,” he said.
Coahoma had their problems shooting the ball as well in the opening period. Cody Sheppard, who led all scorers with 18 points, had a couple of lay-ups in the opening quarter, but the Eagles only trailed by an 8-4 margin when Matt Tatum hit a jumper in the lane in the final minute of play, giving the Bulldogs a six-point lead going into the second quarter
That shot seemed to get Coahoma’s outside game going. Logan Stone opened the second quarter with a 2-point jumper and one from 3-point range around a lay-up by Jovi Pariagua, and 6-7 post Colter Morgan then connected on a 12-foot jumper from the side. Two more Tatum lay-ups followed to make it 23-4 before Pecos finally got their first points of the period, on a Paul Zubeldia lay-up with 4:19 left in the half.
That would be the only basket for Pecos until J.R. Lujan hit a lay-up in the closing seconds. In-between the Eagles managed just one more foul shot compared to another 10 points for the Bulldogs, who went in at the half up by a 33-9 margin.
Coahoma would widen that to 41-9 before Lujan found an opening for a lay-up at the 4:54 mark of the third period. The lead would grow to 54-15 at the end of the quarter, as Pariagua, Sheppard and Mikey Mendoza would nail 3-pointers in the final four minutes of the period.
“We didn’t go into our regular defense, but looking back maybe we should have gone into our man defense,” Soliz said. “When I saw their outside shooting before the game, they weren’t doing very good.”
Eagles’ guard Timo Reyes, who would have a steal and lay-up in the period, would finally get the Eagles going from outside in the final period, hitting three times from 3-point range in the first 2 _ minutes. Pecos also found some openings inside for lay-ups against Coahoma’s shorter reserve front line players in the period, while guard Chris Sotelo would toss one in from 35 feet out at the final buzzer.
“Looking at the last quarter, I appreciate the effort of the kids. They showed a lot of heart and just didn’t sit down and die.”
Reyes ended up leading Pecos with 15 points, while Lujan added 12. The loss dropped Pecos to 4-7 on the season going into Tuesday night’s game in Kermit against the Yellowjackets. It will be the teams’ first meeting of the season and the last pre-Christmas road game for the Eagles, who’ll close out the 2007 portion of their season at home on Friday, against the Jal Panthers.
Coahoma also won Friday’s junior varsity game by a 38-32 final score. Louis Morales led Pecos with 11 points. Play on Tuesday will start with the freshmen game at 4:30 p.m., while the JV will face Kermit in the Jacket’s old gym at 6 p.m., and the varsity will play in the new gym around 7:30 p.m., following the conclusion of the girls’ game between Pecos and Kermit.
Pecos boys, girls claim 20 firsts at Wylie meet
The Pecos Eagles swim team had a few less competitors than expected this past Saturday, in their final meet before the Christmas holidays, as the Eagle boys finished first and the girls second in a five-team meet at Abilene Wylie, earning 10 first place finishes each at the meet.
Pecos’ boys racked up 631 points to 246 for Lubbock Coronado, while the girls were edged by the host Bulldogs, by a 487-466 margin, with Lubbock Monterey, Coronado and Lubbock High finishing with 263, 85 and 33 points respectively.
“They had a lot that failed and they had another meet, so they split theirs into two teams,” said Eagles’ coach Terri Morse of the Class 5A Lubbock schools. “That’s why it originally was going to be a dual meet.”
While the competition may not have been as strong as possible, Morse said, “We had some pretty good swims. We had some individuals who did their best ever in the races, even where there wasn’t a lot of competition. That was mainly on the boys side; with our girls some of them were sick, and so they didn’t do as well.”
The boys picked up first and second place finishes in both the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relays, despite being one swimmer short for the meet. Freshman Carlos Navarro subbed for Hector Roman on the 200 medley, and along with Josh Elliott, Matthew Florez and Derek Teague won with a 1:51.36 time, while the ‘B’ relay of Abraham Lujan, Oscar Machuca, Brian Carrasco and Sammy Sandoval edged Wylie by .15 of a second for the No. 2 spot, with a 2:12.75 time.
In the 400-free relay, Morse said junior Gus Mendoza replaced Roman, and along with Florez, Teague and Elliott won with a 3:41.10 time. Morin, Carlos and Edward Navarro and Luke Serrano were second, just under 14 seconds back, while in the 200 freestyle relay, the ‘A’ team of Morin, Mendoza, Edward Navarro and Serrano was edged by .01 second for first by Lubbock Coronado, finishing with a 1:43.91 time. The ‘B’ relay of Carrasco, Sandoval, Lujan and Machuca finished third.
Individually, Pecos had eight first place finishes, two each by Elliott and Florez. Elliott took the 200-yard freestyle with a 1:59.68 time and later won the 100-yard backstroke with a 59.94 time, while Florez won the 50 free with a 23.58 time and the 100 free with a time of 52.03. Pecos’ other firsts were by Carlos Navarro in the 200-yard individual medley, with a 2:25.58 time; Serrano in the 100-yard butterfly with a 1:07.16 time, Edward Navarro in the 500-yard freestyle with a 5:36.27 time, and Teague, who took the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:13.90.
Teague also was second in the 50 freestyle, while Carlos Navarro was second to Teague by .01 second in the 100-yard breaststroke; Edward Navarro was second in the 200 freestyle and Serrano was fourth in the 100-yard backstroke.
Other results for the boys included a second by Mendoza in the 500 free and a third in the 200 free; a second by Carrasco in the 200 medley and a fourth in the 100 breaststroke; a second by Morin in the 100 yard freestyle and a fifth in the 100 backstroke; a sixth by Lujan in the 500 free and 100 fly; a third by Machuca in the 200 medley and a fifth in the 100 free; and an eighth by Tye Hegar in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles.
With Roman’s absence, Sandoval was the only diver for Pecos, and placed second in the 1-meter competition.
The girls also won the majority of their events at the meet, but lost out in the overall point standings to Wylie due to depth. “I don’t have as many girls to work with. Sometimes I try to switch Aly (Reynolds) and Conner (Armstrong) around and Adriana (Roman) and Anatalia (Hernandez), but the others are not as familiar with the different strokes.
Reynolds, Armstrong, Roman and Hernandez won both the 200-yard medley and 200-yard freestyle relays, with times of 2:11.38 and 1:57.65 respectively, while Niki Lindemann, Stephanie Lucas, Maggie Hernandez and Neyva Rodriguez took the 400-yard free relay with a 4:41.29 time. The girls also got a second place from their only ‘B’ relay, in the 200 free, with Lindemann, Lucas, Rodriguez and Dakota Hegar finishing with a 2:05.58 time.
Reynolds, Armstrong and Roman also had two individual firsts each at the meet. Roman won the 200 free with a 2:16.90 time and the 500 free in 6:10.89; Armstrong was first in the 50 free with a 28.81 time and the 100 backstroke, with a 1:12.40 time, while Reynolds won the 100 butterfly with a 1:15.31 time and the 100-yard breaststroke, with a 1:18.22 time. Hernandez had Pecos’ other first place finish, winning the 200 medley with a 2:43.84 time, and was second to Armstrong in the 100-yard backstroke.
Lindemann was third in the 200 free and the 100 free; Lucas was second in the 100 fly and third in the 200 medley; Rodriguez was second in the 50 free and the 100 free; Hegar was fifth in the 50 free and Maggie Hernandez was fourth in the 100 fly and fifth in the 200 medley.
Morse said Machuca on the boys’ side and Hegar on the girls’ side were able to qualify for the Lubbock Invitational in mid-January with their times in Abilene. The Lubbock meet will be the final one before District 4-4A competition, while Pecos’ first meet of the new year will be on Jan. 4-5 at the Fort Stockton Invitational.
“We’ll be off this coming week and start back up on the 27th,” Morse said of the holiday break.
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