ABILENE --Â Every ingredient was in place except one for Monterey on Friday as the Lady Plainsmen desperately fought to extend their season in the Class 5A regional semifinals.
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ABILENE -- When you climb to a certain elite level as a program, there are numbers and games that you just don’t expect, even four rounds into the playoffs.
By the time the third round of the playoffs arrives, the notion of survive-and-advance looms larger than ever and Monterey showed exactly how and why last week against Amarillo High.
Monterey's Rylee O'Brien & Hayley Neuman chat about the challenge ahead vs. Justin Northwest in the regional semifinal round.
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PLAINVIEW -- As far as clichés go, the one about skinning cats sure didn’t seem like the one that would pop up in regard to the showdown between Monterey and Amarillo High in the Class 5A regional round.
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ARLINGTON -- Strong starts and a big finish in the state semifinals got Lubbock Christian to the TAPPS Division IV state title game. But Shiner St. Paul stole that script Saturday, and the Lady Eagles didn’t respond in time or enough.
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Monterey's Makayla Perez & Anays Perez break down a pair of gritty 2-1 triumphs against the Lady Sandies that punched a ticket to the 5A regional semifinals.
PLAINVIEW --Â Monterey has spent most of the 2023 season with the uncanny ability to come up with something big when it mattered the most in tight games.
The UIL playoffs get revving again Thursday around the region with Monterey carrying the Hub City softball banner into the regional round and the city’s three best baseball teams going to work in the area round.
ABILENE -- Lubbock Christian’s relentless offense was too much for Coram Deo to handle on Tuesday.
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GRAHAM --Â Trinity Christian spent most of the season making opponents try to keep pace with a high-octane offense and that paid off with a thick stack of victories.
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Monterey's Hayley Neuman & Anays Perez talk about a thriller to advance and what they need to do to get past the Lady Sandies.
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FORT STOCKTON --Â Clutch situations are pretty familiar to Monterey and Anays Perez. But Saturday took that to a whole other level.
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WICHITA FALLS -- Keller Central’s offense was relentless from the start in a decisive third game against Frenship in a Class 6A area-round playoff series on Saturday and that proved to be enough to drop the curtain on the Tigers’ 2023 season.
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FORT STOCKTON --Â Monterey steamrolled El Paso Ysleta 17-1 in the first game of a Class 5A area-round series on Friday, using four home runs and three huge innings to cruise.
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Trinity Christian grabbed the lead three hitters into its first offensive at-bat Thursday and never looked back on the way to a 15-1 triumph against Waco Vanguard in a TAPPS Division III area playoff matchup.
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AMARILLO -- Just enough. And at this time of year, that’s all that matters.
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ABILENE --Â First games are a great opportunity for teams to figure out a blueprint that will work moving forward.
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Spring playoffs on the diamond reach full speed starting Thursday, with the softball playoffs hitting the second round and the baseball playoffs getting off the ground.
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Chalk it up to getting older, combined with being the father of teenager myself, but it’s hard not to feel an extra wave of sentimentality as May arrives to signal the oncoming end of another school year.
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Lubbock Christian seniors Keeley Durham & Leah Richardson were along for the playoff ride last season and have embraced more prominent roles in their final seasons.
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Lady Lion standouts Corey Fortner & Maggi Underwood talk about the anticipation of the playoffs beginning.
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AMARILLO -- Tatem Pendergraft did everything in her power to put Amarillo High in position to stave off pesky Lubbock-Cooper on Saturday, so it made sense that she took center stage for the final push.
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FORT STOCKTON --Â Frenship is moving on in the Class 6A playoffs, but El Paso Socorro made sure the Tigers had to work to punch their latest ticket.
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Not every day is going to be this easy, but Monterey sure made it look that way in the first two games of the Class 5A playoffs.
FORT STOCKTON -- Frenship’s bats surged to life in the 1st inning to set the tone Friday in the first game of a Class 6A bi-district series against El Paso Socorro
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SOFTBALL | LCP creates a perfect blend for an upset to derail Amarillo High in Game 1 of bi-district
There isn’t a cookie-cutter method to pulling off an unlikely upset in sports. Usually it takes some different twists and turns, along with something unique.
LCP ends Amarillo High's 28-game winning streak and grabs the lead in best-of-three playoff series.
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AMARILLO --Â Monterey wasted no time flexing some muscle in the Class 5A playoffs by rolling past Tascosa 21-0 on Thursday to open a bi-district playoff series.
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Tiger seniors Jill Franco & Emma Peeples chat about their team's resurgence, which led to a co-District 2-6A championship and a head of steam for the postseason.
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Monterey standouts Alexis Lusk and Rylee O'Brien, along with coach Brian Cronk, chat about a 27-5-1 season and a looming postseason that brings a renewed level of potential.
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Spring sports reach an important crossroads this week, with playoffs beginning in softball, the final week of the baseball regular season and track & field athletes set to vis for a trip to the state meet.
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