Sports

At a specially called meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 28, the Alpine ISD Board of Trustees, in closed session, approved the hiring of Coach Andy Smith to serve as the next Athletic Director and Head Football Coach of the Alpine Fightin’ Bucks.

With just one scrimmage under their belts, the Alpine Lady Bucks hit the road to Coahoma last Thursday and Saturday, playing four games in two days and coming away with a split – winning two and taking a loss in two games.

BUCKS BASEBALL Feb. 23-25: Comanche Classic Tournament, TBA Mar.

The Alpine High School Fightin’ Buck track and field team will officially begin their season this coming Saturday in Fort Stockton at the Comanche Relays. Back in January, the track team competed in their first ever indoor track event in Lubbock at Texas Tech, but their official season does not begin until this weekend.

The Alpine High School golf team recently competed in tournaments in Pecos and Fort Stockton. The Pecos tournament was held on Feb.

Four Alpine Lady Bucks basketball players have been named to All-District. First Team All-District honors go to Novah Carrasco and Alexis Rodriguez.

All-District selections for the Alpine Bucks basketball team have been announced. Offensive MVP goes to Jace Canaba.

With second place in District 4-3A secured and the bi-district battle with Dimmitt set, the Alpine boys basketball team hit the road to Sanderson last Friday for a warmup game before this past Tuesday’s bi-district match in Denver City. The Bucks did a few things differently and played what coach Aaron Hardwick said was one of his team’s best defensive games in a 76-44 win over the Class 1A Eagles.

Heading into Tuesday’s regular-season finale at Odessa Compass Academy, the Alpine Bucks had won seven of their last eight games and secured second place in District 4-3A behind Tornillo who, at 29-1 overall, rolled to the district championship and is poised to make a deep playoff run. But the Bucks are a very different team than they were at the beginning of district play – the team is at full strength with key players recovering from early injuries – giving the Bucks just the boost they need at just the right time.

The 2023 edition of the Alpine Lady Bucks have a lot of questions to answer. Since the Lady Bucks finished the 2022 season with a 14-2 loss to Littlefield last April 28, Alpine has a welcomed a new coach to school – Chris Virdell – and Virdell has not only led a month’s worth of practices while coaching the Lady Bucks basketball team to the playoffs this week but has only seen his softball team play in a full game situation against an opponent other than themselves.