November 30 - Cooper Runs Over Nimitz in Playoffs

November 30 - ACHS Finishes Season Second in State

November 30 - Big Plays Kept Momentum on Cooper's Side

November 30 - FRIDAY NIGHT BASKETBALL:
....HSU Women lost to UTEP, 93-52
....ACU Men lost to Western New Mexico, 62-60
....ACU Women beat Texas Lutheran, 80-53
....AHS Boys lost to Tascosa, 64-55
....AHS Boys lost to San Antonio Jay, 75-66
....CHS Boys beat Lubbock Estacado, 85-64
....CHS Boys lost to Westfield, 67-45

November 30 - UT Shows Aggies Just What "Gig 'Em" Means

November 30 - Cougars Lose in Key City Classic

November 29 - Cooper Hosts Nimitz Tonight in Playoffs

November 29 - Aggies, Horns Mix It Up One More Time

November 29 - Woods Has ACHS Panthers Playing for State Crown

November 29 - Rockets' Mack Hurting: Houston Rockets guard Sam Mack won't be making a three-game road trip with his teammates this weekend after suffering a foot injury, the team announced Thursday.
....Mack sprained his left foot during practice Wednesday, spokeswoman Angela Blakeney said.
....The guard will return to the court in about a week or two, she said. Earlier this year, Mack was kept out for three days when he suffered a deep thigh bruise.
....Mack has been averaging 10.8 points and 3.2 rebounds in 31 games before signing with the Rockets in August.
....Before landing with the Rockets, Mack played for five Continental Basketball Association teams and the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.

November 29 - Hockey coming to Odessa: Professional hockey is coming to the Permian Basin.
....Ector County Commissioners on Monday approved letting a proposed Western Professional Hockey League team use the Ector County Coliseum. Beer sales will be allowed.
....The Odessa City Council endorsed the plan Tuesday night, so the city will have some financial involvement, such as equipment purchases.
....The six-team league began play this fall in Texas and New Mexico. An Odessa team will join the league next October, helping to round out the expanded, 10-team league.
....The Odessa franchise is owned by Miles Prentice III and Bob Richmond, who also own baseball's Midland Angels in the Texas League.
....The team will be named by the public in a contest to be detailed later.

November 28 - Wednesday Night Basketball:

....HSU Women lost to Mary Hardin Baylor, 83-59
....McMurry Men lost to Angelo State, 77-69

November 28 - Cooper's Rodriquez Has had to Grow Up Fast

November 28 - Latest High School Football Pairings

November 28 - Aggies/Horns Set to Renew Fierce Rivalry

November 28 - Rockets sign Bennett: The Houston Rockets signed guard Elmer Bennett and placed center Charles Jones on the injured list Wednesday.
....Bennett was waived last month by the San Antonio Spurs. He played six games with the Oklahoma City Cavalry of the Continental Basketball Association this year.

November 28 - Davis, Wistrom top Big 12 honors: Iowa State running back Troy Davis is the first Big 12 Conference offensive player of the year, while Nebraska's Grant Wistrom takes defensive honors.
.....The awards were announced Wednesday after a vote of the conference's head coaches.
....Davis had 2,185 yards this season - his second consecutive 2,000-yard season - for 402 carries and 21 touchdowns. He leads the NCAA Division I-A in rushing with an average of 198.6 yards per game.
....Wistrom enters his final regular-season game against Colorado with a team-leading 16 tackles for losses and three blocked kicks.
....The conference's first coach of the year is Spike Dykes, who guided the Texas Tech to a 7-4, 5-3 record. He is the Red Raiders' first head coach to guide the school to four consecutive bowl berths.

November 28 - Dirt track racing event set: Practice begins today and racing will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the IMCA modified dirt tracking racing event at Abilene Speedway that will feature a purse of $31,000.

....More than 100 cars are expected to compete in the event. Admission is free Thursday and gates open at 5 p.m. Gates open at 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 11 a.m. Sunday.
Heats start at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
....Admission prices are $7.50 for adults and $3.00 for children ages 6-12 on Friday and Saturday. Sunday's prices are $8.50 for adults and $3.50 for children ages 6-12.
....Pit passes are $7 for Thursday, $20 for Friday and Saturday and $25 for Sunday. Children ages five and under will be admitted free.
....There will also be a $1,000 payout to the winner of Sunday's destruction derby. More information is available at (915) 698-4029 or (915) 692-8800.

November 28 - Cooper schedules pep rally: There will be a pep rally at the Cooper field house at 3 p.m. Friday to support the Cooper football team in its game with Irving Nimitz.
All fans, parents and students are invited to participate.

November 27 - Texas Tech Counting on Aggies to Beat Texas

November 27 - Big 12 Names Inaugural All-Conference Team

November 27 - Irving Nimitz Was Pleasant Surprise to Coach This Year

November 27 - TUESDAY NIGHT BASKETBALL:
....HSU Women beat Southwestern, 77-55
....Wylie Girls lost to Stephenville, 56-45
....Wyle Boys lost to San Angelo Lake View, 68-67 (OT)
....AHS Girls beat Eastland, 52-43
....AHS Boys lost to Burkburnett, 83-62
....Cooper Girls beat South Grand Prairie, 49-40
....HSU Men beat Bayridge Christian, 99-88
....ACU Men lost toTexas-San Antonio, 90-78

November 26 - Wylie Players, Coach on All-6-3A Team

November 26 - A&M and Texas to Decide Big 12 South Crown...Sort Of

November 26 - Munday Playoff Game Not for the Weak at Heart

November 26 - Title on the line Friday when ACHS meets Allen Academy: Abilene Christian High School and Allen Academy of Bryan will play for the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools state Six-Man football championship Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Clifton.
....ACHS is 11-1, losing its season opener to Sidney, while Allen Academy is 9-1-1, losing to Milford and tying Galveston Heritage Christian.
....The two teams met in the semifinals last year and ACHS prevailed, 44-42.

November 26 - Other Six-Man Teams Still Alive: Three area Six-Man schools are still in the University Interscholastic League playoffs.
....Zephyr and Gordon will play their quarterfinal game Friday in Dublin at 7:30 p.m.
Blackwell will face Milford in Comanche, but the time and date was to be worked out in a meeting Monday night in Comanche.
....The winners of the two games will meet next week in the semifinals.
....This will be the second meeting of the year between Gordon and Zephyr. Gordon won the season opener, 34-8. That was Zephyr's only loss of the season, and Gordon is undefeated.

November 26 - Cooper playoff tickets on sale: Tickets for Friday's playoff game at Shotwell Stadium between Cooper and Irving Nimitz will be available this week at the AISD administration building, 842 North Mockingbird.
....Tickets may be purchased between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. today and between 8 a.m. and noon on Wednesday and Friday. Tickets are $4 for students and $6 for adults. All tickets will be $8 at the gate.
....The Cooper-Nimitz game is at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Shotwell Stadium.
....There are two other playoff games Saturday at Shotwell, but tickets for those games will be available at the gate only on the day of the game. Sweetwater and Stephenville will meet in a Class 4A Division II game at 1 p.m., and Lubbock Coronado and Lewisville will tangle in a Class 5A, Division I quarterfinal contest at 6 p.m.

November 25 - Big 12 South Won't Belong to Aggies

November 25 - Texas HS Playoff Picture Has Changed Dramatically

November 25 - Cooper Defense Proved Up to the Task

November 25 - Baylor coach ousted after 4-7 season: Baylor coach Chuck Reedy was fired Sunday, one day after a blowout loss that left the Bears with their worst record since 1978 and a last-place finish in their inaugural season in the Big 12 South.
....Reedy was in the fourth year of a five-year deal he received after Grant Teaff retired following the 1992 season. He received a contract extension last year, although details of that deal have been sketchy.
....The Bears were thought to be on their way up this year after going 7-4 last season, but mounting injuries and an over-reliance on youth sent the team plummeting to a 4-7 record. They were 1-7 in conference play.

November 24 - Tech Beats OU: Oklahoma was able to stop tailback Byron Hanspard. The Sooners weren't as successful against Zebbie Lethridge.

....Texas Tech's shifty quarterback threw for 180 yards and a touchdown, and scrambled for 56 yards and two scores Saturday in a 22-12 victory that kept alive the Red Raiders' hopes for a Big 12 South Division title.
....Texas Tech (7-4, 5-3) would win the South if Texas A&M beats Texas on Friday. Oklahoma (3-8, 3-5) became the first team in school history to lose eight games.

November 24 - HSU Loses in Playoffs: What had all the makings of a terrific come-from-behind victory for Hardin-Simmons University disintegrated in seven disastrous seconds early in the fourth quarter.
....Evangel scored 24 fourth-quarter points for a 45-23 victory Saturday over the Cowboys in the first round of the NAIA Division II football playoffs at the Plaster Sports Complex.
....It's the first time HSU has lost in the first round of the playoffs in five consecutive postseason appearances.

November 24 - SATURDAY NIGHT BASKETBALL:
....Wylie Boys: Haskell outscored Wylie 28-8 in the second quarter to take control of the game and claim an 81-56 boys basketball win Saturday night in the Wylie gymnasium.
....Cooper Girls:Playing its best game of the season, the Cooper Lady Cougars took a 52-49 win over Merkel Saturday in a non-district girls basketball game.
....HSU Women: Hardin-Simmons University connected on 24 of 37 first-half field goal attempts and rolled to a 95-50 win over LSU-Shreveport Saturday in a women's college basketball game at Mabee Complex.
....McMurry Women: McMurry University overcame serious foul trouble with its considerable depth to take an 82-63 win over Ambassador College Saturday night in a women's college basketball game.
....ACU Women: Abilene Christian University opened a 49-7 halftime lead and went unchallenged in a 90-19 women's basketball win against Harris-Stowe College Saturday afternoon.
....McMurry Men: Ivan Ostarcevic accounted for 17 points as he scored on eight of nine field goal attempts, leading Texas-Pan American to a 74-56 victory over McMurry Saturday. ....ACU Men: With a smothering defense in the first half and 50-point offense in the second half, South Alabama opened its 1996-97 season with an 85-62 victory over Abilene Christian University in men's basketball Saturday afternoon.
....HSU Men: Southern Methodist University, dominating from start to finish, cruised past outmanned Hardin-Simmons University, 90-34, in a men's college basketball game Saturday in Moody Coliseum.

November 23 - HSU in Missouri to Play Evangel in Playoffs

November 23 - ACHS Advances in TAPPS Playoffs

November 23 - Friday Night Basketball Scores:
....McMurry Men lost to Southwestern, 79-73
....HSU Men lost to Mid-America Bible, 87-80
....HSU Women beat Mid-America Bible, 95-73
....ACU Women beat Fort Hays State, 70-64
....CHS Boys beat Lubbock Coronado, 52-44
....AHS Boys lost to WF Rider, 80-70

November 22 - Wylie and Aledo Have Intriguing Similarities

November 22 - ACHS Faces Dallas Academy in Next Round of Playoffs

November 22 - Cooper and El Paso Irvin Meet Again in Post-Season

November 22 - Brownwood Game Highlights Area Playoff Action

November 22 - Olajuwon released from hospital: Hakeem Olajuwon drove home Thursday, two days after being hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat.
....Doctors released the Houston Rockets center from The Methodist Hospital after tests, including an exercise stress test, showed no problems.
....He will begin supervised workouts today, but it could be a week before he plays again, team physician James Muntz said.

November 22 - Rangers May Lose Hamilton: For the third straight year, the Texas Rangers are looking for a starting centerfielder.
....Darryl Hamilton was a pleasant surprise last season, after the Rangers scrambled to find a replacement for Otis Nixon, whom they were unable to re-sign.
....But Hamilton is a free agent and is being courted by several other clubs, and the Rangers are preparing for the possibility of life without him.
....They acquired a promising minor leaguer, Lonnell Roberts, from the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday in exchange for a player to be named later.

November 21 - Roby Track Star Signs With Rice: Konnett Mays of Roby, the two-time Class A triple jump champion, signed a track letter-of-intent Wednesday with Rice University.

...She's believed to be the first girl athlete from Roby to sign with a NCAA Division I school.
...Mays picked the Owls over Oklahoma State, North Carolina and Tulane. Wednesday was the last day athletes in basketball and spring sports could sign with NCAA scools.
..."I visited Rice and Oklahoma State and chose Rice because of its academic and athletic programs," said Mays, who plans to major in pre-med. "Some of the schools were good in one (academics or athletics), but Rice is good at both."

November 20 - El Paso Irvin Can Gain Respect Against Cooper

November 20 - 17 ACU Players Named All-LSC

November 20 - Tuesday Night HS Basketball Scores:
....AHS Boys beat Lubbock Coronado, 85-76
....AHS Girls lost to Ballinger, 43-41
....CHS Girls lost to Comanche, 50-49
....CHS Boys beat Wichita Falls High, 72-59
....Wylie Girls lost to Ballinger, 43-41
November 20 - ACU's Hale Gets Honored: Emily Hale of Abilene Christian University has been named first-team all-Lone Star Conference in women's volleyball for the 1996 season, and ACU's Shalon Taylor from Breckenridge was an honorable mention selection.
....Hale, a 6-0 junior hitter from McPherson, Kan., was one of six players named to the all-LSC first team selected by the league's head coaches and announced Monday by the league office.
....Hale ranked second in the LSC in kills (4.02 per game), ninth in digs (3.31), 11th in attack percentage (.254) and 19th in service aces (0.32 per game). She was second-team all-conference as a sophomore.
....Taylor, ACU's 6-2 junior middle blocker, joined teammate Jessica Mayes on the LSC honorable mention list. Mayes, a 6-0 senior from Thornton, Colo., led the league in blocks (1.30) and Taylor was fifth (1.14).

November 20 - TCU Players Tested for Drugs: Three Texas Christian football players were tested for drugs Tuesday after police investigated a gathering outside a campus dormitory where many players live, officials said.
....No charges were filed and no disciplinary action was immediately taken against the players, said TCU communications director Rick D'Amie. Their names were withheld under a federal privacy law, he said.
....Campus police went to Moncrief Hall about midnight Monday after an anonymous report of a group of students congregated outside the dorm, D'Amie said.
....Although D'Amie would not describe the nature of the report, he said no evidence of illegal drug use was found at the scene.

November 19 - Injury to Wylie's Pruitt Not Serious

November 19 - Armbruster Signs with Texas Tech

November 19 - ACHS' Estes Rewriting the Record Book

November 19 - Playoff Schedules of Remaining Local/Area Teams

November 18 - Latest HS Football Playoff Scores/Pairings

November 18 - HSU Opens Playoffs on Road: Hardin-Simmons University will open the NAIA Division II playoffs with a rematch, but it won't be with Howard Payne.
....The Cowboys, who were ranked 11th in the final poll with an 8-2 record, learned Sunday they will travel to Springfield, Mo. to take on fifth-ranked Evangel Saturday at 1:30 p.m. HSU beat Evangel, 49-21, in a first-round playoff game in 1993.
....HSU coach Jimmie Keeling was too excited about the Cowboys' fifth-straight trip to the playoffs to be disappointed with the road game.
...."We're just happy to be playing," Keeling said. "We're glad to be involved."

November 18 - Texas in Big 12 South Driver's Seat: It was supposed to come down to the post-Thanksgiving Day duel between Texas A&M and Texas. And it still might.
.....Texas claimed a share of first place in the Big 12 South on Saturday with a 38-17 victory over Kansas. Meanwhile, Texas A&M stayed in the hunt by beating Oklahoma 33-16, knocking the Sooners out of contention.
....The Aggies' fate is out of their hands next Saturday, though. A&M needs an Oklahoma upset over Texas Tech to create a true title game on Nov. 29 in Austin against Texas.
.....A Tech victory leaves the Aggies out in the Big 12 cold and keeps the Red Raiders alive. ....If Tech wins, the cruel reality for the Aggies would be that the Red Raiders - the team that would have eliminated them - would advance if A&M defeats hated rival Texas.

....The Longhorns remain in the driver's seat through this idle week: A win and they're in. November 18 - Saturday Night Basketball Scores:
....ACU Men 86, Western New Mexico 76
....ACU Women 84, Northeastern State 65
....Arlington Martin 50, Cooper Boys 40; CHS Girls win by forfeit over Dallas Samuell
....Brownwood 48, Wylie Boys 40; Wylie Girls 41, Abilene High 38
....Victoria 71, Abilene High Boys 41

November 17 - McMurry Loses to Sul Ross

November 17 - ACU Finishes Season with Win Over Buffaloes

November 17 - HSU Overpowers Austin College

November 17 - Lukauskis, Wise, Armbruster named all-4-5A: District 4-5A champion Cooper placed two players on the all-District 4-5A volleyball first team.
....Although the Lady Cougars were 11-1 and advanced to the Region I-5A quarterfinals, they earned none of the district's top honors. But seniors Kris Lukauskis and Jessie Wise of Cooper were named to the first team, along with Abilene High senior Kelly Armbruster.
....Second team selections included junior Catherine Weir of Cooper.

November 17 - Aggies Boom/Gig Sooners: D'Andre Hardeman scored two touchdowns and Kyle Bryant kicked four field goals as Texas A&M kept its Big 12 South title hopes alive Saturday with a 33-16 victory over Oklahoma.
....The Aggies (6-5, 4-3 in Big 12 games) could represent the Big 12 South in the title game if they beat Texas in Austin on Nov. 29 and Texas Tech loses to Oklahoma on Nov. 23. The Sooners (3-7, 3-4) were eliminated. Wins by both A&M and Texas Tech next week would put Tech in the title game.
....Neither A&M or Oklahoma could score in the second half against a tricky 16-mph south wind until the Aggies overcame Oklahoma's 16-13 halftime lead with Hardeman's 1-yard run with 5:04 to go in the third period. Bryant added a 25-yard field goal with 36 seconds left in the third quarter.
.....The Aggies pulled away in the fourth quarter when a no-return interception by Phillip Meyers set up Bryant's fourth kick, a 21-yarder with 6:45 left in the game and Branndon Stewart followed with a 31-yard touchdown pass to Albert Connell with 2:24 remaining.

November 17 - UT Dominates Kansas: Ricky Williams rushed for 190 yards and helped set up every Texas touchdown Saturday as the Longhorns beat Kansas 38-17 to move within one victory of the Big 12 South Division title.
....Tied 17-17 at half, the Longhorns took the lead in the third quarter and tacked on two more TDs in the fourth period, taking advantage of winds gusting over 40 mph and the Jayhawks' perplexing inability to score in the second half of home games.
....Kansas (4-6 overall, 2-5 Big 12) managed only seven points in the second half in their last four home games and dropped out of bowl contention.
...Texas (6-4, 5-2) will be the South Division champ if it beats Texas A&M in the regular season finale on Nov. 29.

November 16 - McMurry's Final Game Against Sul Ross

November 16 - HSU Cowboys Entertain Austin College

November 16 - ACU Wildcats Host WTAMU

November 16 - ACHS Beats Seven Points by 50 Points

November 16 - ACU Men Win: The ACU Wildcats gave new coach Shanon Hill a victory in his first game, whipping Adams State, 86-55, here Friday night in the ACU Classic.
....The Wildcats led all the way as six players scored in the double figures, led by Broderick Bobb's 19.
....ACU will play Western New Mexico at 8 tonight at ACU.

November 16 - AHS Boys Win: The Abilene High boys raced to a 22-point halftime lead and held on to defeat Del Rio 66-57 Friday in the Del Rio Shootout.

....Brian Bammell topped AHS with 24 points as the Eagles made first-year coach Jeff Evans' debut a success.
...The Eagles came out firing and led 22-10 after one quarter and 44-22 at intermission.

November 16 - CHS Boys Win: Cooper rebounded from a miserable third quarter to outscore Lubbock Monterey 24-13 in the fourth quarter and grab a 61-52 season-opening win Friday at Cougar Gym.
....The Cougars led 33-24 at halftime, only to go ice cold in the third quarter. Cooper managed just four points in the stanza as Monterey rallied to grab a 39-37 lead entering the fourth.
....However, the Cougars managed to get their offense clicking again in the final quarter as they regained the lead for good with six minutes to play.

November 16 - Tech Facing SW Louisiana: Texas Tech and Southwestern Louisiana are strikingly similar to the 1994 versions of the same teams that faced off two years ago here. Only their affiliations have changed.
....The Red Raiders have broken free from the Southwest Conference for the Big 12, and the Ragin' Cajuns have left the Big West for independence since their only meeting, a 39-7 Tech victory.
....And if both teams' offenses are in gear, the young stars of that first game will destroy some records this time as wily veterans.
....Raiders star Byron Hanspard has a shot at becoming the school's all-time career rushing leader, while USL's Jake Delhomme is looking to become the most prolific passer from a major Louisiana college.

November 16 - CHS Girls Lose: Cooper played its finest game of the young season, falling to Grand Prairie, 53-46, Friday in the Lady Prairie Classic.

....Cooper led 19-18 at halftime, but fell behind in the third quarter.
....Catherine Weir led the Lady Cougars (0-3) with 18 points, including hitting 8 of 10 free throws, while Tamara Hart added 10 points.
....Cooper bids for its first win today at 10:30 a.m. against Dallas Samuell.

November 16 - Aggies Host Sooners: The Texas Aggies and Oklahoma Sooners didn't think it would come to this: hanging on by a thread in the Big 12 South race.
....The Aggies started the season in the Top 25, and the Sooners had new coach John Blake and high hopes. But the two teams go into Saturday's game at Kyle Field needing plenty of help to keep their title chances alive.
...."I feel Oklahoma as being a team very much like ourselves," A&M coach R.C. Slocum said. "They've had some unfortunate things happen at the beginning of the year, but they're coming on now."
....The loser of this game drops out of contention. The Aggies (5-5, 3-3) must beat Oklahoma and Texas and hope for a loss by Texas Tech against Oklahoma. Oklahoma (3-6, 3-3) must win the rest of their games and hope for a Texas loss to Kansas or Texas A&M.

November 16 - Texas Travels to Kansas: Texas, once on the brink of disaster, needs just two more victories to fulfill preseason expectations and be the first champions of the Big 12 South.
....First, the Longhorns (5-4 overall, 4-2 Big 12) have to get past the Kansas Jayhawks, whose motivation Saturday will be nothing less than the salvaging of their own season. Then, if they beat Texas A&M on Nov. 29 in the regular season finale, the Longhorns will play in the Big 12 championship game in St. Louis on Dec. 7.
...."This is where we wanted to be at this point in the season," said Texas tight end Pat Fitzgerald. "We've had a lot of things happen to us, but it won't be difficult to get up for Kansas. It's always tough to win on the road at this stage of the season, but we know our backs are up against the wall."

November 15 - Wylie Takes on Iowa Park in Playoffs

November 15 - ACHS Hosts Seven Points in Post-Season Action

November 15 - Confident Cooper Plays Amarillo Again

November 15 - ACU Men, Women Open Basketball Seasons

November 15 - A Look at All the Area Teams in Playoff Action

November 15 - Eagle Roundball Team Begins Season Play

November 15 - Cooper Starts Basketball Season

November 15 - Juan Gonzalez Captures MVP Award

November 14 - Cooper "Hotter, Better" Second Time Around

November 14 - Wylie's Hall Comfortable Running Offense

November 14 - Cooper Tickets On Sale: Tickets for the Cooper-Amarillo High football playoff game will be on sale today and Friday morning at Cooper High School and at the AISD administration building.
....Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students. All tickets will be $7 at the gate Friday ngith. The Class 5A Division II bi-district playoff game is at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Lowrey Field in Lubbock.

November 14 - UIL Reinstates Teams to Playoffs: In a pep-rally atmosphere filled with students who skipped school to support their football team, Plano High School was reinstated to the state playoffs Wednesday.
....Plano was allowed to advance to the Class 5A Division I playoffs without leading rusher Rashaad Gunn after a hearing by the University Interscholastic League State Executive Committee, which also reinstated Houston Memorial but rejected Palestine for postseason competition.
....Barring any last minute appeals in state court, Plano (5-5) will make a record-extending 30th playoff appearance Saturday night against Allen (6-4); Houston Memorial (7-3) will take on Alief Elsik (5-4-1) Friday night in the Class 5A Division II playoffs; and Tyler Chapel Hill (5-5) will replace Palestine Friday night against Navasota (10-0) in the Class 4A Division II playoffs.

November 13 - Cooper's Offensive Trio Hard to Stop

November 13 - Wylie Girls Beat Cooper

November 13 - AP High School Football Honor Roll

November 13 - CHS Volleyballers Lose: Amarillo High, looking at certain defeat, reeled off the final 10 points of the match to take a stunning 15-13, 5-15, 15-13 win over Cooper in a Class 5A regional volleyball match here Tuesday night.
...."This will be a tough one to live with," Lady Cougar head coach Beth Wills said. "We felt like the match was ours. When it was 13-5, I thought we were in complete control at that point.
...."There was a lot of celebrating going on and I cautioned our players that it wasn't over yet. We had a couple of passing errors and Amarillo High came back and made it 13-8.
...."Then they had a junior girl serve the next seven points for the win. You have to give Amarillo High credit. They just kept chipping away."

November 13 - Wylie Boys Nip Sweetwater: Wylie's John Horn put in an offensive rebound at the buzzer to give Wylie a 42-41 win over Sweetwater in a non-district boys basketball game Tuesday night.
...."We led most of the game and then it started going back and forth near the end," Sweetwater head coach Kenny Chandler said. "It was an ugly game. But Wylie executed at the end and we didn't and they deserved to win."
....Sweetwater led 16-7 after one quarter and held a 25-20 lead at halftime. Wylie came back to tie the game at 35 at the end of the third quarter before the Bulldogs won the final quarter by a 7-6 count.
....Ricky Beard led Wylie with 16 points while Mark Powell added 12. Brett Bishop paced Sweetwater with 11 points.

November 13 - ACU runners honored: Four sophomores on the nationally ranked men's and women's cross country teams from Abilene Christian University have been named academic all-Lone Star Conference.
....Honored from ACU were Jennifer Lyons, Josie Martinez and Joyce Martinez from the women's team and Ossie Mdziniso from the men's team.
....Both ACU teams are ranked in the NCAA Division II top 10 and both finished third at the south central region meet Saturday in Canyon to qualify for the NCAA Division II national meet Nov. 23 in Humboldt, Calif.

November 12 - AP's Texas High School Football Poll

November 12 - CHS Volleyballers Continue Post-season Tonight: It's Cooper vs. Amarillo High, Part I, tonight.
....The Cougars and Sandies meet in the Class 5A football playoffs on Friday, but first there's a Region I-5A quarterfinal volleyball playoff to be decided at 7 p.m. today at the Brownfield High School gym.
....Cooper (20-9), which claimed its second straight District 4-5A title this fall, finally climbed the hurdle of advancing to the regional quarterfinals for the first time since 1967 with a 15-9, 16-14 win Saturday over El Paso Eastwood in the area round.
....But the Lady Cougars face an Amarillo High that is steeped in volleyball tradition.
....Although the Sandies are only 19-11 this year, Amarillo High was the 1994 Class 5A state champion and reached for the Region I-5A finals last year before having a 70-match winning streak snapped by Arlington Martin.

November 12 - Tickets on sale for Wylie playoff game: Pre-sale tickets for Wylie's football playoff game with Iowa Park will go on sale today at the Wylie ISD administration building on Buffalo Gap Road. Starting Wednesday morning, they will be on sale at all WISD campuses. Ticket sales stop at noon Friday.
....Pre-sale price is $5 for adults and $3 for students. All tickets at the gate Friday night will be $6.
....Wylie will face Iowa Park in a Class 3A bi-district game at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Clark Stadium in Fort Worth. Take the Wichita Street exit off of I-820 South to get to Clark Stadium.

November 12 - Pairings set for Cowgirls: Pairings have been set for the NAIA Southwest Regional women's soccer tournament, which will be held Thursday through Saturday at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Okla.
....Hardin-Simmons University is seeded sixth in the six-team tournament. The Cowgirls will face host Southern Nazarene at 2 p.m. Thursday. The winner will play second-seeded Incarnate Word at 2 p.m. Friday.
....The other first-round match featured Oklahoma City University versus Midwestern State at noon Thursday. The winner of that match meets the University of Mobile on Friday. The championship match is at 1 p.m. Saturday.

November 12 - Six-Man playoff games scheduled: The final three area Six-Man bi-district football games have been set for Friday night. All will start at 7:30 p.m.
....Gordon, the No. 2 team in the state, will face Coolidge in Hamilton, Zephyr meets Richland Springs in Comanche and Rochester travels to New Home to battle Lazbuddie.

November 12 - Final match for ACU spikers: Abilene Christian University will play its final volleyball match of the season at 7 p.m. today at Moody Coliseum against Tarleton State.
....ACU has a 9-24 overall record and a 5-12 mark in the Lone Star Conference. Tarleton State is 7-22 and 4-12.

November 11 - Texas in Driver's Seat in Big 12 South

November 11 - Complete Texas High School Playoff Pairings

November 11 - Oilers Win: Just when the Houston Oilers were getting a reputation as a rushing team, Chris Chandler reminded them how quickly a hot quarterback can take over a game.
....Chandler, who sat out last week's game with an injury, threw three touchdown passes - two in the first seven minutes - as the Oilers beat the New Orleans Saints 31-14 on Sunday.
....The Saints (2-8) entered the game worrying about Eddie George, Houston's rookie running back who rushed for 808 yards in the first nine games.
....By the time George scored on a 1-yard run in the third quarter to give the Oilers (6-4) a 28-6 lead, he was the least of New Orleans' worries. At that point, George had been held to 27 yards, including six on the 78-yard scoring drive.
.....George finished with 91 yards on 25 carries, but Ronnie Harmon gave the Saints bigger problems. He ran for 47 yards and caught seven passes for 108 more and a touchdown.
Chandler, though, was the difference early on. He sat out the Oilers' 23-16 loss to Seattle last week with a groin injury, but looked fully recovered.
.....He completed his first seven attempts for 99 yards and two touchdowns on the way to a 13-of-21 performance for 173 yards and three TDs.

November 10 - Tech Loses to Texas: Texas Tech's Byron Hanspard may well be the best running back in the country.

....Saturday, however, he came in third when it counted. And, worse yet, the Red Raiders finished second.
....Shon Williams ran 65 yards for one score and Ricky Williams bolted 75 yards for another, igniting a 28-point Texas first half that carried the Longhorns to a 38-32 victory over Texas Tech before 50,607 at Jones Stadium.
....The Longhorns' victory put them a half-game ahead of Tech for the lead in the South division of the Big 12. Texas (5-4 and 4-2), though, is by no means in control of the squeezably soft South division.
.... Texas, along with Oklahoma, Tech and Texas A&M, remain in contention for the South crown.
..... Mitchell and Williams each rushed for more than 100 yards in the first half, upstaging Hanspard, Tech's one-man rushing offense, and paving the way to victory for the Longhorns.

November 10 - Aggies Beat Baylor: D'Andre Hardeman ran a school-record 95 yards for a touchdown, his second score of the day, and Texas A&M rallied for a 24-7 victory over Baylor Saturday.

....The Aggies evened their overall record to 5-5 and 3-3 in the Big 12 Conference, while Baylor, which hasn't defeated A&M since 1985, dropped to 4-5 and 1-5.

November 10 - ACU Loses to Kingsville: Texas A&M-Kingsville celebrated its new No. 1 ranking by clinching its fifth straight Lone Star Conference championship Saturday.

....Unfortunately for Abilene Christian, it was at the hands of the Wildcats in the form of a 38-0 victory.
....The victory was the 30th straight in conference for the Javelinas, now 7-2 on the season and 6-0 in LSC play.
....It was the second straight shutout loss for ACU, which dropped to 5-4 on the season and 3-3 in conference.

November 10 - McMurry Wins at Home: McMurry University quarterback Braxton Shaver was on fire Saturday, and Oklahoma Panhandle State University couldn't find a water hose.

....Shaver passed for a school-record 370 yards, completing 24 of 37 passes with four touchdowns to lead McMurry to a 31-21 non-conference victory over the Aggies Saturday afternoon at Indian Stadium.
....The win was the second in three games for McMurry, a member of the American Southwest Conference. The NAIA Division II Indians, who will close out their season with an ASC game at home next Saturday against Sul Ross State, improved to 3-7 on the season.

November 10 - HSU Loses: There were no miracles this week for the Hardin-Simmons University football team.
....Just one week after rallying for an overtime win over McMurry University, the Cowboys mounted another miraculous fourth-quarter comeback Saturday at Jackson Field. But the rally fell short as Sul Ross State stunned seventh-ranked HSU, 31-26.
....The loss broke a streak of 10 consecutive conference victories for the Cowboys. And, depending on the outcome of next week's final regular-season games, the American Southwest Conference could end up in a dead heat.
....Howard Payne has finished ASC play at 2-2 after its upset loss to Austin College. With one conference game left for the other four teams, there is the potential that all five teams could finish 2-2.
....HSU is now 7-2 overall and 2-1 in conference, while Sul Ross is 5-4 and 2-1. If both win, they'll share the conference crown.

November 10 - CHS Volleyballers Advance: Twenty nine years of frustration were ended Saturday afternoon, when the Cooper High School Lady Cougars defeated El Paso Eastwood 15-9, 16-14 to advance out of the area round of the Class 5A volleyball playoffs.
....The Lady Cougars will face Amarillo High Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Browfield in Cooper's first regional quarterfinal match since 1967.

November 10 - ACU Women Lose: Zala Volan let an 18-point lead get away Friday night in Canyon, but they didn't let it happen Saturday night at Moody Coliseum.
....The Hungarians held off Abilene Christian University's late bid for a 66-55 exhibition win over the Lady Wildcats, their first win against two losses.

November 10 - ACU Men Win: The Abilene Christian University Wildcats were in midseason form shooting the basketball Saturday night against Bulgaria. Coach Shanon Hays can only hope they hit as well at midseason.
....Led by veterans Chaz Jackson and Jason Millwee and newcomeer Lawerence Gardiner, the Wildcats stormed by the Bulgarians, 100-49, in an exhibition game at Moody Coliseum.

November 10 - Rockets Beat Jazz: Hakeem Olajuwon scored 17 of his 38 points in the fourth period to carry Houston past the Utah Jazz 91-85 Saturday night and keep the Rockets unbeaten after six games.
....Olajuwon scored nine points during a 12-2 Houston run midway through the period that lifted the Rockets from a 73-72 deficit and broke open a game that had been tied 14 times.

November 10 - Mavs Lose Again: Alonzo Mourning hit two key baskets down the stretch and Dan Majerle sealed the victory with a 3-pointer with 1:38 to play as the Miami Heat handed the Dallas Mavericks their fourth straight defeat, 91-84 Saturday night.

November 9 - Longhorns, Red Raiders meet at Big 12 South crossroads

November 9 - HSU Travels to Sul Ross State

November 9 - McMurry Hosts Oklahoma Panhandle State

November 9 - ACU Basketball Teams Set for Action

November 9 - ACHS Wins Behind Estes' Arm: John Estes IV threw nine touchdown passes, leading Abilene Christian High School to a 64-14 undressing of Fort Worth Christian Temple Friday night.
....With the nine scoring strikes, Estes finished the season with 60 TD passes.
....Robert Ascencio, Aaron Andress and David Van Rheenen all pulled in two touchdown passes. Joe Rodriguez, Lee Headstream and Paden Parker accounted for the other three touchdowns.
....Defensively, the Panthers were led by Scott Headstream and Ryan Davis. Headstream and Davis each had two interceptions and Davis was the leading tackler for ACHS, with nine.
...."Scott and Ryan each had outstanding games for us," said ACHS coach Steve Woods, "I was extremely pleased with their play."
....ACHS won their ninth consecutive game and now awaits the winner of the Landmark Baptist-Seven Points Academy game today. The winner of that game will travel to Elmer Gray Stadium this Friday for a first-round playoff contest.
...."We didn't have any injuries tonight, which was important with the playoffs coming up next week," Woods said.

November 9 - CHS Volleyballers in Playoff Match Today: Cooper tries to advance past the area round of the Class 5A volleyball playoffs for the first time in 29 years when the Lady Cougars meet El Paso Eastwood in a 1 p.m. playoff match today.
....The Lady Cougars take a 19-9 record into the game while Eastwood is 12-15.
The last time Cooper made it to the area round of the playoffs was 1967.
....Cooper won the District 4-5A championship with an 11-1 record and received a bye to this point in the playoffs. Eastwood, meanwhile, claimed a 15-5, 16-14 win against El Paso Austin in bi-district.
....CHS will be fueled by Catherine Weir, Kris Lukauskis and Gloria McDonald, three playoff-experience players from last year's team.
....The winner of the Cooper-Eastwood game meets the winner of the Amarillo High-El Paso Montwood matchup.

November 8 - Wylie in Battle of Bulldogs for Title Tonight

November 8 - Playoff-bound Cougars Host Bronchos

November 8 - Eagles Could Make Playoffs with Upset of Mojo

November 8 - Last Night of Action for Most Area Teams

November 7 - Big 12 Outlook is a Matter of Perspective

November 7 - Tech, Texas Both Ready for Pivotal Game

November 7 - There are Six-Man Blowouts and then There are BLOWOUTS

November 7 - Cooper Volleyball Team Readies for Next Playoff Game

November 7 - Houston OKs New Stadium: Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane left for an owners' meeting in Chicago Wednesday with a happy message: "Houston is a baseball city."
....Although a referendum to construct a $265 million downtown stadium for the Astros passed with only 51 percent of the vote, it was enough of a mandate for McLane to keep the Astros in the city.
...."This will keep baseball here well into the next century," McLane said. "This is something we had to have to be competitive and I'll be happy to tell the other owners that we're moving forward in Houston."

November 6 - Wylie, Clyde Showdowns are Nothing New

November 6 - Cooper Ex "Snows" Them at Baylor

November 6 - High School Playoff Picture Still a Little Blurry

November 6 - Eagles Still Thinking Playoffs...Cooper, too

November 6 - Astros Hire Cubbage: New Houston Astros manager Larry Dierker completed his coaching staff Tuesday by hiring Mike Cubbage as third base coach.
....Cubbage was on the New York Mets' coaching staff the past seven years, six as third base coach. He also spent eight seasons as manager in the Mets' minor league system.
....The Astros previously chose former Astros manager Bill Virdon as bench coach, with Vern Ruhle, pitching coach; Jose Cruz, first base coach; Alan Ashy, bullpen coach, and Tom McCraw, batting coach.

November 6 - HSU Soccer Teams in Playoffs: The Hardin-Simmons University men's and women's soccer teams have both advanced to the NAIA soccer playoffs.
....The Cowboys (10-9-1) are seeded third in the NAIA Sectional playoffs which begin Friday in Wichita Falls. The Cowboys will play the No. 2 seed, LeTourneau University, at 1 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
....The Cowgirls (11-8-1) will play in the NAIA Regional tournament Nov. 14-16 at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Okla.
....The HSU men's soccer team finished second in the American Southwest Conference this season with a 4-2 record. The Cowboys have now qualified for the playoffs for two consecutive seasons and three of the last four years. HSU lost to LeTourneau, 5-1, earlier this season.

November 5 - Don't Despair: Lots of Good News on Abilene Sports Scene

November 5 - Big 12 South Comes Down to Texas Tech and Texas

November 5 - AP Texas High School Football Poll: LaMarque Streak Over

November 5 - Tech's Morris Not Eligible: Texas Tech fullback Sammy Morris won't play again this season because of academic problems, the school announced Monday, nine days after he scored the winning touchdown against Texas A&M.
....Morris, a redshirt freshman from San Antonio Jay, had pleasantly surprised Tech with his rapid development this fall in a position considered a question mark coming into the season.

November 4 - Golden Girls Win: The Golden Girls, an Abilene team, won first place last weekend at the Super Senior Invitation state tennis tournament. The was the first tournament of this 65-and-older format for the United States Tennis Association.
....The Golden Girls defeated teams from San Antonio, 2-1; San Angelo, 3-0; Southeast Texas, 3-0, Austin, 3-0, and Waco, 3-0.
....Team members include Hattie Elmore (captain), Mary Buck, Marie Currey, Dorothy Hartwig, Joan Howard, Janice Pugh, Margaret Rucker and Millie Verett.

November 3 - Hardin-Simmons Barely Squeaks by McMurry

November 3 - ACU Loses One in the Red Zone, 17-0

November 3 - Texas Outlasts Baylor: Texas avoided its fourth fourth-quarter collapse of the season - barely.
....James Brown threw two touchdown passes to Pat Fitzgerald and Ricky Williams scored twice as Texas raced to a 21-0 lead, then held on for a 28-23 victory over Baylor on Saturday.
...."We have been fighting and having games go against us, it seems like, and today we made the plays we had to make," said relieved Texas coach John Mackovic.
....The Longhorns (4-4, 3-2 Big 12), who shrugged off a week of adversity surrounding four star players who met with an agent, made it four straight over the Bears (4-4, 1-4), but not without a scare.
....Texas fans stood in fear that their Longhorns might fall prey to another fourth-quarter collapse when Baylor mounted a second-half comeback fueled by two blocked punts and a fumble recovery.

November 3 - Aggies Handle OSU: D'Andre Hardeman scored three touchdowns and Keith Mitchell returned an interception 42 yards for a score and Texas A&M beat Oklahoma State 38-19 on Saturday.

....Mitchell's interception of Tone' Jones' pass early in the third quarter gave Texas A&M (4-5, 2-3 Big 12) a 17-13 lead and turned the momentum in favor of the Aggies.
....Hardeman rushed a yard for his first touchdown later in the quarter to give the Aggies all the points they would need. Randy McCown, who replaced starting quarterback Branndon Stewart in the third quarter, hit flanker Albert Connell with a 47-yard pass to set up Hardeman's 7-yard touchdown run.
....Oklahoma State (4-5, 1-5) pulled within 24-19 on fullback Brian Aikins' 35-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter. Jones used two passes and a keeper to move the Cowboys from their 38 to the Aggies 35 to set up the score.
....The Aggies responded with two TDs by Hardeman early in the fourth quarter.
....Oklahoma State went ahead 13-10 after linebacker Kenyatta Wright sacked Stewart and recovered the resulting fumble, giving Oklahoma State possession at the Aggies 34 as the end of the half approached. Jones connected on short passes to Terrance Richardson and David Thompson to get the Cowboys to the 15. But Jones threw three incomplete passes, and Oklahoma State settled for a field goal.
....The game began badly for Oklahoma State. On the second play from scrimmage, Jones' pass was deflected into the hands of A&M linebacker Dat Nguyen at the Oklahoma State 26. Seven plays later, Stewart scored on a 1-yard keeper.

November 2 - Aggies Travel to Do Battle with Cowboys

November 2 - ACU Hosts A&M/Commerce

November 2 - Drexler Misses Rare Quadruple-Double: Clyde Drexler came within one assist of a rare quadruple-double as the Houston Rockets started the Charles Barkley era without Barkley in a 96-85 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night.

....Drexler, who missed three days of practice this week with a sprained left knee, had 25 points, nine assists, 10 rebounds and 10 steals.
....He left the game with 3:04 to play and the Rockets leading 91-75, then returned with 2:25 to go to try for the rare feat. But Tracy Moore missed a 3-point basket on Drexler's last chance at an assist in the closing seconds.
....Only three players in NBA history have registered a quadruple-double: Hakeem Olajuwon against Milwaukee in 1990, San Antonio's Alvin Robertson against Phoenix in 1986 and Chicago's Nate Thurmond against Atlanta in 1974.
....Barkley did not play in the home opener because of a one-game suspension for fighting with New York Knicks forward Charles Oakley in an exhibition game.

November 2 - Judge defers ruling on Tech player: A judge did not immediately rule Friday on whether to extend indefinitely an order preserving Texas Tech offensive guard Casey Jones' eligibility to play.
....State District Judge John McFall set another hearing for Nov. 14, but said he could rule before then.
...Jones, a fifth-year senior, started the season after questions arose surrounding his eligibility under the NCAA's "75 percent rule." The rule requires student athletes to have three-quarters of their course work completed toward a major by the ninth semester.
...The 6-foot-5, 280-pounder lineman from Shepherd in East Texas had changed his major in midstream, leaving much of his prior course work no longer counted toward his requirements. He was informed of the problem one day before Tech's Aug. 31 home opener against Kansas State.

November 1 - Unbeaten Wylie Entertains Coleman

November 1 - Cooper Hopes for Playoff Spot with Win Tonight

November 1 - ACHS Hosts Happy Hill Farm

November 1 - UT Says Four Players are Ineligible

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