The Golden Tornadoes’ search for a new head baseball coach is finished.
They didn’t even have to look outside their own dugout.
After serving as coach Bobby Alvarez’s right hand man the past four years, Steve Garcia has been promoted to head coach, according to Lamesa High School Athletic Director Gregg Moreland.
Alvarez resigned his coaching duties here last month to accept an assistants’ job at Class 4A Greenwood.
“There’s a bigger difference than just scooting one seat over. There’s tremendously more pressure,” Moreland said of the move from assistant to head coach.
“But after talking with Steve we feel like he’s more than ready ...