MIDLAND Derek Loera pitched a one-hitter and eight different players drove in a run Thursday as the Odessa High Bronchos opened the Tournament of Champions with a 10-0 victory
over Lubbock Monterey... Full story
Without a doubt, Permian Basin sports fans still love their football.
By many measures - attendance, head coach salaries, media attention - football is king.
Yet, comparing baseball and football in the last decade, are Permian Basin athletes... Full story
ANDREWS Former Andrews catcher August Lewis told a little white lie. When these Mustangs asked him to show his 1999 Class 4A state championship ring, he said he couldn't find it.
In reality, he was just waiting to show it.
"At the beginning of the... Full story
It was early last fall, and Carthage head coach Jim Goldman was hanging out during the school's athletic period and watching senior Michael Burchett play catch. Burchett then took it up a notch and pitched to an improvised catcher.
Goldman was... Full story
ANDREWS After finishing his baseball career at Lubbock Christian University in 1975, Rodney Gardner had a career choice to make.
Help his father, a dairy farmer, in his hometown of Causey, N.M., where he graduated high school in a senior class of... Full story
REGIONAL FINALS
>> Class 5A
REGION I-5A FINAL
Game 1, El Paso Socorro 7, Flower Mound Marcus 6; Game 2, Socorro 11, Flower Mound Marcus 5; El Paso Socorro wins series 2-0.
El Paso Socorro (32-5), District 1 (1), advances to Class 5A state... Full story
Andrews senior Malachi Melton said Friday the team has the potential to win a state title.
In Thursday's Region I-3A final against Brownwood, the Mustangs flashed that potential in their biggest game yet.
Behind 4-0 in the bottom of the third... Full story
Permian wasn't supposed to be looking for a new baseball coach this year.
Not after the hiring of Frank Chumbley last summer.
Chumbley, a veteran coach who worked at Flower Mound Marcus before coming to Odessa, resigned after the Panthers turned... Full story
ABILENE Down four runs and facing a projected first-round draft pick, most teams would have been preparing for the end-of-season talk from their coach.
Not the Andrews Mustangs.
The Mustangs rallied for five runs in the third inning Thursday to... Full story
Arvey Villa has always wanted to return to the diamond.
He has plenty of other skills. Plenty of other avenues he could pursue.
But baseball is his passion.
More than a month ago, former Permian baseball coach Frank Chumbley resigned after one... Full story
>> Class 5A
REGION I-5A FINAL
Flower Mound Marcus (24-12), District 6 (3), vs. El Paso Socorro (31-4), District 1 (1), at Christensen Stadium, Midland: Game 1, 5 p.m. Friday; Game 2, 11 a.m. Saturday; Game 3, 30 minutes after conclusion of... Full story
