Sports

Seniors Elizabeth Uranga, Honora Hillery, Lauren Penders, and Kylie Garcia earned Academic All-State Cross Country honors this fall. The award is presented by the Cross Country Coaches’ Association of Texas, and is given to cross country athletes who have a cumulative GPA of 92 or higher to recognize their academic accomplishment throughout their high school career. Courtesy photo

Boys Basketball Dec. 9-11 Stanton Tournament @ Stanton Varsity Dec.

Coach Hugh Morrissey is pumped up and pleased. Pumped up for the upcoming rendition of Bucks basketball this season, and pleased with Alpine’s 3-0 start so far. The reigning district champs are coming off a superb 19-5 season with returning both the District MVP in Aiden Morrissey and District Defensive Player of the Year in Jayden Canaba, both seniors. Junior Tray Ervin was Second Team All-District for what should have been the District Sixth Man of the Year.

The Alpine Lady Bucks move to 3-2 on the season after an easy win against Van Horn Lady Eagles 61-20 on Nov. 30. On a night when everything went right for the Lady Bucks, Coach Rick Garcia could relish another breather before district play revs up.

In a team meeting on Nov. 29, Sul Ross State University head football Coach John Pearce announced his resignation after eight seasons.

Hatfield Cason is just a freshman, but his performance in cross country has been more like an upperclassman in high school thus far. He has had six top five finishes to close out a stellar freshman campaign. He finished third in District this year for his highest race of the cross-country season. He also finished third in the Bo Coffman Invitational down in Presidio.

Last Friday night in Kermit the Alpine Bucks faced a football rushing machine and the number seven team in the state in the 11-0 Lubbock Roosevelt Eagles. These Eagles, along with the El Paso Riverside Rangers, were the top two teams on the Bucks schedule this season.

Coach Rick Garcia is excited about his returning District Champions. Not even an opening 57- 31 loss to Monahans on Nov.

As the seconds ticked off the clock at James H. Bird Memorial Stadium in Big Lake, Tray Ervin and Jordan Rodriguez were amidst a water bottle shower celebrating a tad early as Alpine defeated the San Angelo Grape Creek Eagles, 27-14. The referees let the Bucks jump around with bursts of water cascading 15-20 feet high as the players celebrated another first round playoff win and were crowned Bi-District champions once again.

Shaun Foster is like one of those Wild West characters out of a book, 6’3” inches tall, and practically skinny. He’s got a million-dollar smile and a giant head of hair. And he’s got those cowboy good looks, a tall, lanky laidback cowboy, but his play on the grid-iron is altogether different. He is constantly proving a menace to opposing teams’ quarterbacks and other clubs’ offenses in general.