Lockney falls short of No. 1 Canadian

photos courtesy of Connie Barnett

A record setting 28-8 season came to a close on Tuesday night in Canyon for the Lady Horns of Lockney.

After going ahead by three early in the ballgame, Lockney trailed by only one at the end of the first period. "It was a very fast paced ballgame, but we knew there was the possibility of that going into this game." said Lockney head coach Lisa Schumacher.

The Lady Cats of Canadian continued to wear on Lockney out scoring them 21-9 in the second period. With just over three minutes left before the half, Lockney would suffer a critical loss, with a reoccurring shoulder injury to point guard Heather Brock. "Anytime Heather is not on the floor it's a huge loss, but i felt like some of the other girls came in a did a good job."said Schumacher

It was after the intermission that the Canadian Lady Cats began to turn on the heat with a 5-0 run and out scoring the Lady Horns 24-10 at the end of third quarter. "I felt like all night long we did a good job in the full court as far as handling the ball, but when we went into the half court set we struggled a little bit." said Schumacher "My kids never gave up, they worked hard the entire ballgame. Their hearts were huge last night!"

Canadian would finish the game in the fourth with Morgan Saul, who led all scorers with 26 points and 14-15 from the free throw line.

Coach Schumacher said "We loose six senior this year but we have a good group of young kids coming that work really hard and love the game, so we are excited about that."





Line Score
Canadian 15 21 24 17--77
Lockney 14 9 10 17--50

Canadian: Saul 26, Merket 16, Chister 9
Lockney: Johnson 11, Williams 11

Floydada falls to No. 6 Shallowater

photos courtesy of Jim Covington

A strong second half defense by the Fillies would help Shallowater extend their season one more game. Hill's 23 point performance advances the Fillies to the regional quarterfinals Tuesday night against Spearman

Whitley Beedy would score the opening six points of the game without an answer from Shallowater, but the lead didn't last long as the Fillies went on a unanswered eight point run to end the first period 12-11.

"I thought we played very good in the first half, especially in the first quarter." said Floydada head coach Mark Styles.

Floydada only trailing by one would continue to play close until late in the first half when Shallowater went on a 11-3 run to end the half 27-19.

"Our theory and it always has been, if you play as hard as you can and have fun with your teammates, everything will take care of itself." coach Chuck Darden said. "we knew that we had to get it all rolling tonight against Floydada and we hung in there."

Beedy fouled out of the ballgame with 18 points early in the fourth period and the loss was one the Fillies could take advantage of as Beedy's exit led to a 16 point run for the Fillies to open up the lead to thirty in the fourth.

"Anytime you loose a player who is on a roll it hurts, Whitley was on a

roll and it hurt us late in the game." said coach Mark Styles. "I thought these girls improved all year long, and it was a history making season." "I've always heard there is joy in the journey, and we enjoyed the whole ride."

Line Score

Floydada 11 8 12 10 -- 41
Shallowater 12 15 18 23 -- 68


Floydada: Beedy 18, Aleman 11, Terrell 5, Gooch 4

Shallowater: Hill 23, Scaff 16, Vasek 10, Burton 8

Lady Horns Stampede through Sunray for Area Championship

photo courtesy of Connie Barnett

Six seniors and a world of talent for the Lady Horns proved too much for the for the Lady Cats of Sunray. Lockney would use a half court defense and six very talented Senior players to hold the Lady Cats to only 17 points in the first half and only 19 points in the second half. The Lady Horns will advance to the regional quarterfinals Tuesday night against the No. 1 ranked Canadian at Canyon High School.
“I thought we did a great job in our half court defense." Lockney head coach Lisa Schumacher said “I just felt like we were in the driver’s seat.”
The Lady Horns would out score the Lady Cats of Sunray 14-2 in the second quarter and with only 5.2 seconds left in the first quarter Malory Johnson’s in bounds pass to senior Lindsey Moerbe would set Moerbe up for sixty five foot three pointer, and she drained it to end the first quarter up by 3. “Oh My Goodness, I had no idea the shot was going to go in until it hit the backboard” said Moerbe. It was in the locker room at the intermission that Moerbe and her team mates said “We are not letting down, Let’s go!”

Lockney would use the height of Malory Johnson and Courtney Williams under the basket to out rebound the Lady Cats 39-14 and speed on the outside to (photos courtesy of Connie Barnett)
shut
down the three point shooting of Sunray. “They are a great outside shooting ball team and we held them to only three, three pointers all night.” said Schumacher.
“We could not relax in the second half” Said Schumacher. “We had to come back out in the second half and be very focused and that is exactly what we did.” Four Lady Horns would finish the night in double digits including Moerbe who scored 10, Bethany Wilson with 12, Malory Johnson 11, and Courtney Williams with 10.
The Lady Horns advance to the regional quarterfinals next
Tuesday at 6:00pm at Canyon High against No. 1 Canadian.

Lockney 18 14 12 11- 55
Sunray 15 2 7 12- 36

Lindsey Moerbe half court three pointer

District 2-2A Standings Girls and Boys

Girls Final Standings





1. Floydada (7-3)


2. Tulia (6-4)


3. Muleshoe (5-5)


4. Friona (5-5)


5. Childres (4-6)


6. Dimmitt (3-7)





Floydada (7-3) will play Shallowater (13-1) (1-0) this Friday at LCU in Lubbock at 6:00pm


Tulia (6-4) (1-0) will play Abernathy(13-1) this Friday at 7:00pm in Littlefield


Muleshoe (5-5) was defeated by Spearman (8-2) (1-0) 43-35 and are out of the play-offs





Boys Final Standings





1. Floydada (9-1)


2. Childress (8-2)


3. Dimmitt (5-5)


4. Muleshoe (4-6)


5. Friona (2-8)


6. Tulia (2-8)



Floydada will have a practice game against Clarendon at 7:30pm in Canyon on Feb. 21

Floydada will play the winner of Shallowater vs Alpine time and place T.B.A.


Childress (8-2) will play Panhandle (7-3) on Feb 24 at Wayland at 6:30 or 7:00 pm


Dimmitt will play Spearman in the Bi-District round Feb. 23-24 T.B.A.

Area Playoff Results

Boys

Floydada 69
Muleshoe 61

Lockney 37
Hale Center 68

Childress 76
Dimmitt 62

Spur 32
Jayton 33

Bushland 63
Spearman 53

Shallowater 69
Slaton 58

Abernathy 54
Post 48

Littlefield 72
Roosevelt 49

Jim Ned 70
Colorado City 32

Greenwood 53
Seminole 65

Tulia 71
Friona 61

Crosbyton 56
Anton 60

Bowie 44
City View 29

Olney 65
Henrietta 56

Holiday 65
Nocona 60

Clyde 76
Cisco 25

Planview 59
Big Spring 61

Abilene Cooper 59
SA Lake View 44

Girls

Randall 55
Plainview 33

Tulia 43
Bushland 33

Shallowater 62
Kermit 34

Petersburg 49
New Home 46

Spearman 43
Muleshoe 35

Sunray 59
Wheeler 37

Anton 65
Clarendon 50

Tahoka 57
Sprinlake Earth 17

Farwell 32
Sundown 38

Idalou 56
Reagan Co. 36

Ballinger 34
Early 33

Caprock 36
Frenship 44

Nocona 50
Cisco 51

And the Winds continue to Blow

After a windy day across the South Plains, with gusts up to 35 miles per hour, the Whirlwinds blew through Muleshoe with a 69-61 final score. Floydada led the ballgame at the end of the first period by a score of 14 to 9, and would continue that trend until late in the ballgame. 6 foot 5 sophomore Cooper Washington would change the momentum of the game with three back to back steals at the mid court mark in the fourth quarter. Muleshoe with a screaming fan section would rely on the State Champion quarterback Wes Wood to sink a three pointer late in the ball game to tie it at 55. The Mules defensive effort in the fourth period would hold that score and send the game into overtime.

Washington would win the tip in overtime to give the Mules the ball first. After several attempts to take the lead with no success, the Floydada Whirwinds took the early lead in overtime. After several trips up and down the floor, it was a defensive foul by Nathaniel Chavez and then a technical foul tacked on that would send Senior Byron Smith to the line to shoot four unguarded free throws. Smith capitalized on the technical foul by making three of four at the line to give the Winds a seven point lead with less than one minute to go. One final foul by the Mules sent Joseph Segura to the line where he sank 1 of 2 to give the Winds a final score of 69-61, and the sole title of District 2-2A Champions.

Line Score

Floydada: 14 19 13 9 OT 14 -- 69
Muleshoe: 9 13 17 16 OT 6 -- 61

Floydada: Smith 29 (5 reb), Segura 11 (2 reb), Miller 9 (5 reb), Caballero 9 (2 reb)
Muleshoe: Washington 17, W.Wood 16, Chavez 8, Hurtado 8

Local Area Playoff's

Bi-District Playoff's

Shallowater 62
Kermit 34

Spearman 43
Muleshoe 35

Idalou 56
Reagan County 36

Anton 65
Clarendon 50

Floydada will play Shallowater on Friday at 6:00pm at LCU's Rip Griffin Center

The No. 12 Seed Spearman will face No. 8 seed Sonora this Friday at 6:30 or 7:00pm at Lubbock Monterey High School.

No. 23 seed Idalou Lady Wildcats will face the No. 9 seed Panhandle Thursday at 7:30pm at
Plainview High School.

Tulia vs Bushland tonight at Hereford Junior High Gym in Hereford at 7:30pm

Anton will face Gruver this Friday at 6pm at Canyon High School.

Petersburg will play New Home for the Bi-District title tonight at Slaton at 6:30pm

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Practice makes perfect

Monday night's exhibition game between the Floydada Lady Winds and the Nazareth Swiftettes would prove to be a tough one for coach Mark Styles and his reigning district champions. Most people would not carry an umbrella to a basketball game, but this would have been a good game to have one as it rained three-pointers through out the game. Thirty six of the total one hundred and eleven points, or roughly one third of the total points scored were from out side the arc. Four of the Floydada starting five would end the game with a three-pointer, and Nazareth showed why they have seventeen state titles at home but putting up an amazing eight tres' before the night was over. Amanda Acker would lead the way for the Swiftettes with four three's and senior Kelby Myrick would add a pair to that before the end of the first half. Floydada struggled early in the ball game to keep up with a fast pace set by Nazareth through out the first half where they trailed at the intermission by eleven.

It was in the third period when the Lady Winds began to make a charge and pulled with in five with help from the sophomore Whitley Beedy and junior Tara Hughes who put together 18 of the 46 points scored. Lexi Terrell and returning All-District forward Megan Aleman both ended the night in double digits, Nazareth would however would prove to be too much for the Lady Winds as they outscored them 19 to 11 in the final quarter of play.
This Friday the Lady Winds will travel to Lubbock Christian University to take on the No. 3 seed, the Shallowater Fillies at 6:00pm in the Area round of the play offs.

Line Scores

Floydada 10 9 16 11 - 46
Nazareth 19 11 16 19- 65

Floydada: Aleman 10, Terrell 10, Hughes 9, Beedy 9
Nazareth: Acker 12, A. Huseman 10, C. Huseman 9, Merritt 8

Lady Winds back in the Post Season

By Corey Johnston

For the first time since 1966, the Floydada Lady Winds own the rights to call themselves "District Champions". With a 7-3 record during district play, the Lady Winds captured only the second Sole District title in 43 years. According to Head Coach Mark Styles "It has been a tremendous year, and hopefully we are not through." The Lady Winds will play the Nazareth Swiftettes in an exhibition game tonight in Floydada at 6:30pm. When asked why Nazareth, Coach Mark Styles replied "Well of course, we had to find somebody who won their District because all of the Bi-District games are being played tonight and tomorrow. Chances are we are going to play Shallowater Friday and we want to be ready for that. We want to continue to play at a high level no matter if it's Shallowater or whoever we play in the area round. And, who better than Nazareth to keep us there."

With the Lady Winds (19-10) enter the play-offs as the number one seed to represent District 2-2A, they will face the winner of No. 6 ranked Shallowater Fillies (27-3) vs. the No. 24 seed Kermit Lady Jackets (14-14) in Lamesa tonight at 6:30pm. According to Head Coach T'Linda Taylor of the Shallowater Fillies "We look forward to the oppuourtunity to play Floydada however, this is the time of the year where you have to play your very best every game."

Plainview I.S.D. hires new athletic director

By RICHARD PORTER

Plainview interim athletic director and defensive coordinator Marcos Hinojos did two things to set himself apart from other candidates who interviewed for the PHS athletic director and head football coach position.

Hinojos, 40, had a plan for change and recognized that there are sports at Plainview High School other than varsity football.

The school board voted 6-0 to name him to the position during a special meeting Monday night.

Hinojos, who has been at PHS since 2001 and has served as defensive coordinator during that time, will begin his new contract on July 1, at a salary of $75,000.

According to PISD Superintendent Dr. Ron Miller, the coach will continue to draw the $2,000 stipend he is getting for serving as interim AD through the end of June and will continue his teaching duties through the end of the school year. He teaches TAKS math.

In introducing Hinojos, Miller said that he was the only one of the 33 applicants -- of which seven were interviewed -- who mentioned anything other than football.

"He was the only one who mentioned the Lady Bulldogs," Miller said.

"Going through that process, Coach Hinojos came out on top," Miller added. "Nobody else could keep up."

The other area where the coach distinguished himself was in presenting a plan for change.

He titled his interview packet "A New Day."

For board member Lonnie DiSalvo, who was part of the committee set up to work through the interview process, those were the key factors.

Other committee members were Miller, board member Brandon Brownlee, PHS Principal Lisa Kersh and Assistant Principal Milton Finley, PHS Head Girls Basketball Coach Danny Wrenn, Estacado Junior High Principal Ritchie Thornton and PISD Director of Operations Rick Garcia.

DiSalvo talked about the combination of change and continuity Hinojos will bring to the job.

He pointed out that as a current member of the Bulldog coaching staff, Hinojos is a familiar figure to the players, but also has firsthand knowledge of changes that need to be made.

More importantly, Di-Salvo said, he has a cost-effective way for beginning to implement those changes.

At the same time, the board member continued, Hinojos has a vested interest in Plainview's athletic program. He has two sons, Jacob, a junior, and Marcos Jr., a freshman, who are part of the Plainview athletic program. He also has a daughter, Alexa, who is a second grader. Hinojos' wife, Jessica, teaches at LaMesa Elementary.

According to DiSalvo, those things tie the coach to the community in a way that would not be immediately possible with somebody new to Plainview.

"I think Coach Hinojos' heart is in Plainview," Di-Salvo said. "He understands that if he's not successful, it affects the whole community."

From the other angle, Wrenn was impressed with Hinojos' commitment to all of the programs in Plainview, whether it was Tiger League football or Little League baseball.

He also liked the fact that the new athletic director has high expectations for his coaching staff. He not only expects them to teach sports on the playing field, but to be good teachers in the classroom.

At the same time, Hinojos expects the coaches to be good role models.

"I think that's just so important," Wrenn said. "We've got a lot of eyes watching us. Being a good role model and helping kids make the right decisions are very important to him."

Board President Daniel Rascon wrapped up Monday's meeting with comments concerning Hinojos' push for discipline and accountability.

"It gives me great joy to hear you say that," Rascon said. "It's just music to my ears to hear you say you want your coaches to be teachers in the classroom."