Ready or not: Slaton, Roosevelt open 3-2A

The high school baseball season is only two weeks old, and like most area teams, Roosevelt and Slaton are still trying to sort things out.
Slaton coach Steve Ribera said his Tigers remain in a “feeling-out phase” in terms of settling their positions on defense and in the batting order, and the Eagles are in much [...]

High School Track and Field

Slideshow: Midland 3, Lubbock High 1

Slideshow: Midland 3, Lubbock High 1

Plainsmen beat Midland Lee, inch one game closer to playoffs

Eric Carrasco and Brendon Fleischhauer scored goals for Monterey, which held on to beat Midland Lee 2-1 on Saturday in a District 2-5A boys soccer match at Lowrey Field.
The win gave the Plainsmen (12-4-2, 9-4-2 in district) a seven-point lead over Amarillo and Odessa Permian for 2-5A’s fourth and final playoff spot, and it also [...]

Smyer girls cool, calm — collect title, place in history

AUSTIN — An online search of Smyer, Texas, turns up a town with a listed population of 479.
It’s a good bet almost all of them were the ones packing the two sections behind the bench in the corner of the Frank Erwin Special Events Center on Saturday morning, watching the hometown Lady Cats make history [...]

Idalou gets past Tuscola, claims regional title

BY JONATHAN HULL l FOR THE AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
MIDLAND — Idalou just proved the state basketball rankings are more of a guideline than a standard.
The Wildcats were the only squad among the four-team field at the Region I-2A Tournament at the Chaparral Center not listed in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches state poll.
That didn’t keep them [...]

Estacado edges Hirschi in overtime, secures return trip to state

It took four extra minutes, plenty of willpower and the luckiest of breaks.
Estacado needed every bit of it — and then some — to send itself back to Austin.
The third-ranked Matadors flirted with disaster in Saturday’s Region I-3A championship game against Wichita Falls Hirschi, falling behind late in regulation and nearly coughing up their chance [...]