Sports

This year’s Honors Convocation, held on April 24, recognized 107 of Sul Ross’ student athletes and student trainers at the Marshall Auditorium. These athletes received Distinguished Scholar awards for their achievements.

The Runnin’ Bucks of Alpine High School took to the track and field at Elmer Gray stadium in Abilene this past weekend for the Region 1-3A track meet. The 800-meter relay team of Danica Mulholland, Novah Carrasco, Valeria Crespo, and Vanessa Rice placed third and had a time that beat out another team in a different region, earning them the Wild Card spot at the state meet in Austin.

The Alpine Bucks took to the field last Friday night, to celebrate senior night and take on the Kermit Yellowjackets one more time. Their bats were hot, and their stealing game was on point.

The bats were flying Saturday, April 22 when the Sul Ross Lobos took on Howard Payne in an offensive slugfest. Both teams began the game with even wins and losses in American Southwest Conference play, with an 11-13 record, but the bats would not reflect those losses in this matchup.

Although the Lady Bucks’ softball team would fall to Littlefield last Friday during their Bi-District bid, they had an impressive season of 18-10. Game one would see Littlefield on the board first, leading by three until a homerun by Kody Hawkins in the bottom of the third would bring in Jacee Portillo and Sierra Ruckman and tie the game.

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Both the Alpine Bucks and Lady Bucks showed the 13 other area teams how to get it done, with the Runnin’ Lady Bucks bringing home the Area Championship. This past weekend, the Alpine High School track and field teams travelled to Denver City to take a shot at the area title and to try and advance to the regional competition.

Alpine vs. Presidio.

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The offensive juggernaut that is the Alpine Lady Bucks hit a brick wall last Friday in Stanton. The host Lady Buffs had an answer to the Lady Buck bats and held a 2-0 lead into the sixth inning before Alpine, 17-7 overall, 8-1 district tied it in the sixth and scored three runs in the 10th inning for a 5-2 victory.