CANUTILLO, Texas — Canutillo High has become the fifth high school in El Paso County to see its football season disrupted due to Covid-19. Canutillo Independent School District officials confirmed to ABC-7 on Wednesday evening that the Canutillo Eagles are postponing their upcoming Friday game hosting the El Dorado Aztecs. A school district spokeswoman said
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EL PASO, Texas — Eastwood has become the fourth high school in the El Paso metro area to see its football season disrupted due to Covid-19. Ysleta Independent School District officials confirmed to ABC-7 on Tuesday evening that Eastwood is postponing its upcoming Friday game hosting Pebble Hills. The district said the decision was made
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EL PASO, Texas — The next two football games for El Paso High School are being postponed due to a confirmed case of Covid-19, an El Paso Independent School District spokesman told ABC-7 on Sunday night, but declined to elaborate further. After opening the season this past Friday with a 61-15 loss to Clint, El Paso
Continue Reading The scores from Friday night’s action are below: Socorro 8, Ysleta 35 – Final Andress 30, Franklin 20 – Final Del Valle 20, Americas 28 – Final Montwood 42, Burges 28 – Final Eastlake 59, Parkland 25 – 2nd quarter Coronado 16, Chapin 10 – Final Iraan 6, Anthony 48 – Final Clint 61, El
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – Thursday night saw the return of high school football in El Paso. A season unlike any other as athletes took to the field for the first time during a pandemic. While the game on the field was the same, the atmosphere around it was completely different. Fans were limited to just
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District will allow fans in the stands when high school football games begin on Oct. 1, the district announced Monday. All games will have limited stadium seating to allow for social distancing and fans will be required to wear face masks at all times, officials said.
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EL PASO, Texas – Cathedral High School has cancelled its first two games of the 2020 football season. Sources confirmed to ABC-7 that the reason was because of a positive case of COVID-19 at the private school. Cathedral was supposed to play a football game at Mountain View High School this Friday. Mountain View will
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EL PASO, Texas – Aaron Dumas may not know for sure if there will be a 2020 high school football season, but he knows for sure where he will be playing in 2021. The star Americas (HS) running back committed to New Mexico today via his twitter page, marking a huge coup for first-year coach
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EL PASO, Texas – Treyvon Hughes couldn’t get enough of the El Paso gridiron in four year playing for the UTEP Miners. So he’s starting his career on a similar track, coaching running backs at Mont High School School. Hughes was named an assistant coach for the Rams on Monday, specializing in the position he
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The University Interscholastic League (UIL) released new guidelines which postpone the start of fall sports for the two largest conferences across the state. The new guidelines directly apply to the 5A and 6A conferences in the state, which will affect most schools in the El Paso region. High school football
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EL PASO, Texas — A meeting of the UIL (University Interscholastic League) Monday could decide the fate of fall high school sports. The governing body for Texas public high school athletics is expected to meet Monday regarding a plan for fall athletics in the state. The UIL has yet to come forward with a concrete
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EL PASO, Texas — After a redshirt freshman season, the offseason plan for Deion Hankins was pretty straightforward. “I said Deion, ‘You’re not fat, there’s no fat on your body,'” says UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel. “He’s like ‘Yeah Coach, why would I lose weight if there’s no fat on me?’” So Hankins spent his
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – The New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA) remains confident that there will be high school sports next school year. Wednesday, the NMAA released its amended sports calendar for 2020-2021. After New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that contact sports in the fall would not be allowed, the NMAA decided to move
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EL PASO, Texas — It seems a cloud of smoke has been covering the start of this year’s high school football season in El Paso. On Thursday morning, an order from the local Health Authority may have cleared that up. The order directed at public and private schools in El Paso County specifically states that
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EL PASO, Texas — Amid the growing cases of Covid-19 in the city, El Paso High School is suspending all football, volleyball, and cheer workouts effective immediately. No member of the El Paso High athletic community has tested positive or showed symptoms of Covid-19, but Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach Ray Aguilar Jr. is
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EL PASO, Texas — Kenneth Cooper Jr. doesn’t consider himself a hero, he was just trying to do the right thing. Cooper Jr., 15, is a soon-to-be junior at Pebble Hills High School. He plays quarterback for the Spartans and is looking forward to starting on the varsity team for the first time. Cooper Jr.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The University Interscholastic League legislative council has lifted the ban for Friday night live broadcasts of Texas high school football games during the 2020 season Wednesday morning. The unprecedented decision, made due to fears of CoVid-19, reverses the “Friday night rule” which banned Friday night footballs games from being broadcasted on
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(Editor’s note: ABC-7 erroneously reported earlier that practices were ending after the first day in the SISD system due to virus concerns. This was based on a miscommunication and we regret the error.) EL PASO, Texas — For high schools around El Paso, June 15th has been circled on the calendar for a few weeks.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A student football player who worked out at Cathedral High School’s training facility this week has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, prompting the school to suspend athletic activities for the next two weeks. El Paso Catholic Diocese officials made the announcement on Friday evening. “Out of an abundance of caution, the
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel didn’t have to look very far to find a possible recruit. On Friday, Americas High School running back Aaron Dumas tweeted that he had received an offer from UTEP. The soon-to-be senior already has other offers from division one programs that include Arizona State and
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EL PASO, Texas — You can’t say El Paso doesn’t have the talent when it comes to football. Back in April, Burges High School running back Tavorus Jones received an offer from the University of Texas, but that was only a sign of big things to come. Thursday, Jones tweeted that he had received another
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AUSTIN, Texas — It’s the first step in getting sports back on high school campuses. On Tuesday, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) sent an email to school district athletic directors and coaches informing them that summer strength and conditioning workouts will be allowed to begin on June 8th. The news comes a day after Texas
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SAM ELIZARIO, Texas — The San Elizario Eagles have found their next head football coach, and they didn’t have to look very far. Roberto Herrera will lead the Eagles next football season after having served the last 2 years as defensive coordinator for the football program. Herrera has 22 years of coaching experience. In 2018,
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EL PASO, TX Even though he still has two more years of high school left, a running back from Burges High School just received an offer to play football at the University of Texas. Tavorus Jones sent out a tweet Monday night that after a great talk with Longhorns head coach Tom Herman, the Longhorns
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El Paso, TX El Paso High School has found its next head football coach, while San Elizario High School now begins a search of their own. Tuesday, Ray Aguilar Jr. announced he was leaving San Elizario to take a head coaching position at El Paso High School. For the last two seasons, Aguilar Jr. has
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More than a month after Chapin’s head football coach announced he was stepping down, the school appears to have found their new head coach. ABC-7 has confirmed Ryan Warner will be taking over the program. Warner was the offensive coordinator at Franklin High School, but his roots run deep at Chapin High School because that’s
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EL Paso, Texas — Chapin High School is now in search of a new head varsity football coach. Sources confirm to ABC-7 that football coach Rene Hernandez is leaving the program. Hernandez was the head coach for the Huskies for the last 13 seasons, but he’s been with the program for 20 years. Hernandez had
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Wichita Falls 42 Parkland 14 Canyon Randall 35 Canutillo 14 Burges 7 Lubbock Cooper 49
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Wichita Rider 63 Hanks 27 Clint 15 Springtown 53 Mountain View 0 Decatur 69
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EL PASO, Texas — Legendary football coach Bob Savage, who led Bel Air High School’s program from 1973 to 1992, has died at the age of 85, ABC-7 has confirmed. (You can watch a KVIA archive profile of Savage’s two decades as a coach in the video player at the top of this article.) Savage,
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