Notebook 
Prep hoops notebook: Frenship, Plainview girls still have score to settle(2)
As the District 4-4A season wound down this week, and it appeared the Frenship and Plainview girls basketball teams would once again be headed for a tie for the league crown, there was some lighthearted debate about where to play the seeding playoff game.
Frenship coach Terry Lowrey wanted to play at Plainview.
Plainview coach Danny Wrenn [...]
Basketball NotebookFrenship boys fighting to make playoffs
Frenship boys basketball coach Jason Dear knew his team would struggle with youth and inexperience in 2009-10, but he never imagined it would put the Tigers in the position they’re in now.
With just three games left in the District 4-4A season, the Tigers (11-14, 1-4), last year’s league champions, are dangerously close to being eliminated [...]
Prep hoops notebook: Lady Plainsmen turn tides against Tascosa
The Monterey girls basketball team’s fourth-place finish in District 2-5A last season essentially came down to one thing — being swept by Tascosa.
The Lady Plainsmen beat everybody else in the district at least once but struggled against the Lady Rebels, who finished in third, one game ahead of Monterey. So going into this season, one [...]
Prep football notebook: Baker putting Olton back on the map
Joel Baker quickly tired of becoming everyone’s football GPS.
The most-asked question of the second-year Olton head football coach has been, “Where’s Olton?” For years, the Mustangs have been a playoff afterthought, or not much of one at all since they’ve not won a playoff game since 1990.
But Baker is quickly changing that perception, and suddenly [...]
Live updates from the game
UPDATE, 4:50 THID QUARTER
Disaster has struck for the Westerners as Midland has taken complete control of the game.
LHS almost caught a break when Midland QB Jack Bolger was stripped of the ball at the 1-yard line at the end of a 30-yard run. But Midland’s Antwon Goodley recovered the ball in the end zone for [...]
Prep football notebook: Minjarez, Pearson enjoy successful coaching debuts
From Class 5A to six-man, several head coaches made their debuts last week, some as the man in charge for the first time and some just at a new school.
None, however, were more successful than Seagraves’ Armando Minjarez. The Eagles’ defensive coordinator the past two seasons, Minjarez had the Eagles in the right spots at [...]