Perhaps one of the biggest adjustments which Elysa Martinez has had to make in her first season on the collegiate hardwoods is about her high school roots.“It seems like everybody wants to know where Sands is. I just tell them it’s just 30 minutes down the road,” Martinez said.This 2023 Sands High School graduate is doing her best to put her high school and Ackerly on the college basketball map in her first season to play college ball at Howard College at Big Spring. Last month, Martinez was recognized as the Western Junior College Athletic Conference Player for the week ...