Sports

Coach Monica Salmon and her Lady Bucks softball team are now 3-0 in district and 7-9 on the year with a 16-1 drubbing of the Kermit Yellowjackets. On the win Salmon said, “We played well yesterday against Kermit.

Coach CJ Aragon’s men and women rodeo teams once again performed admirably this past weekend in Sweetwater at the Ranger College Rodeo, finishing fifth overall. This weekend he will take his six boys and four girls to Snyder, and face the Southwest Region’s No. 1 ranked team in West Texas College. The Sully boys’ squad is still in second place with 2,800 points, 1,300 ahead of Tarleton State who is in third. West Texas College has 3,780 points to lead the region, with Weatherford and Clarendon Colleges filling out the top five.

Baseball Apr. 4 ........Presidio @ Alpine 7 p.m.

Both Head Coach Monica Salmon and Head Coach Adam Llanez got their teams back on the winning track on March 22 against the Anthony Wildcats. Both teams traveled to Anthony for the wins. The Fightin’ Buck baseball team got a shutout, 11-0.

The outdoor track and field season started off well for Alaska Anchorage senior and Alpine High School graduate Elena Cano, who used an NCAA Championships provisional qualifying performance in the hurdles to earn Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week honors. She won the 400-meter hurdles at the Hornet Invitational in Sacramento, Calif., last week, and placed second in the 100-meter hurdles and fifth in the long jump, and ran on the Seawolves’ second-place 4x400-meter relay team.

Alpine High School sophomore Madalyn Warren qualified for State in powerlifting via the total weight that she lifted at the Regional Meet in Shamrock. She placed third at the competition. At Regional she squatted 305, bench pressed 165, and deadlift 330 for a total of 800 lbs. That automatically qualified her for state in Corpus Christi. She was in the 148 lb. weight class.

Alpine High School varsity golfer Kaitlynn Wiggins (center) waits her turn on the ninth green at Alpine Country Club during the Alpine Golf Tournament. Avalanche photo by J.T.

Lobo baseball erased four deficits, but fell 8-6 in 11 innings to visiting Belhaven on March 19 in Alpine. Tye Lindsey got it going for the Lobos with a sacrifice bunt to score Jared Lorenz for a 1-0 lead after one.

Baseball •Mar. 25 Kermit @ Alpine 7 p.m.

The Alpine High School girls varsity won the Fightin’ Buck Relays in Alpine on March 19. In the photo Jaycee Portillo and Amanda Ahrens run the 100-meter hurdles.