After opening the season this past Tuesday night at Crane with a 13-3 win over the Golden Cranes, the relatively young Golden Tornadoes experienced some growing pains in the Shallowater Railyard Classic.
While the Golden Tornado girls should have at least 15 regional qualifiers in power lifting, Lamesa High School boys got their chance to shine Thursday at Sundown.
As far as many people are concerned, Friday’s regional semi-final match between the Sands Mustangs and Nazareth Swiftettes could be for the state championship in Class 1A girls basketball.
For a half the Lamesa Golden Tornado boys basketball team played the District 4-3A Champion Tornillo Coyotes on fairly even terms in their bi-district playoff game at Fort Stockton Monday night.
The Borden County Coyotes and Klondike Cougars are familiar foes in District 8-1A girls basketball but the stakes were considerably higher when the two teams squared off Tuesday evening in Tahoka.
A sluggish start forced the O’Donnell Eagle boys into spending the rest of the night playing catch up against Guthrie in their Class 1A Bi-District playoff game Tuesday night at Lubbock Roosevelt.
Basketball is often referred as a game of runs or spurts.
Sub-par free throw shooting haunted Borden County’s boys basketball squad all season long.
After taking six girls to last year’s regional power lifting championships, Lamesa Coach Mario Gonzales believes they will be close to tripling that number next month.
Lamesa High School’s mixed doubles team of Marco Ogeda and Krystal Moreno was one of the Golden Tornado tennis team’s big bright spots in last weekend’s Seminole Tournament.
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