Pecos has gone nine years without advancing to the playoffs, and last season picked up just one win, with a lack of offense being the team's main problem in recent years. Valenzuela said of last year's varsity squad, six players were among the 24 working out at the gym on Tuesday. They're mostly freshmen and sophomores, and we've got a couple of eighth graders. Pecos' boys, who are coming off a winless 1999-2000 campaign, have been getting in their workouts as part of an area summer basketball league, competing against teams from Monahans, Fort Stockton, Odessa, Rankin and other area cities. You're not going to replace him.
Life goes on.
But you're going to have to do things a little differently. Before Tuesday night's game, Oates spoke to several team leaders on the importance of remaining focused over the final two-plus months of the season. Kapler also homered and is in the midst of a hot streak with a nine-game hitting streak and three homers in his last seven games. I still have a lot of work to do. Davis had allowed 10 hits and eight runs in his previous 5 2-3 innings.