EL PASO, Texas – Monday was decision day for Tyrone McDuffie. The Parkland High School offensive lineman made his decision on where he will be playing college football after graduation. McDuffie chose the University of Colorado. Four offers were on the table for McDuffie, all of them were from Division 1 schools. McDuffie had offers
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EL PASO, Texas – It was pretty well known that KJ Lewis’ time in the Sun City was winding down. Tuesday, it was made official by Lewis himself. The 4-star basketball recruit, and University of Arizona commit announced via Twitter that he’s transferring to Duncanville High School for his senior year. Duncanville is located in
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas A&M sends Ivan Melendez and his longhorns packing from the college world series with a 10-2 win. While the season might be over for Melendez the El Pasoan certainly had a season to remember and gave his city something to smile about. Melendez was a standout at Coronado he then
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EL PASO, Texas — Dak Lopez was diagnosed with leukemia in April. Right now he’s in remission but he’ll be in hospital for the next month or so undergoing a second round of chemotherapy. Then the next step will be getting a bone marrow transplant for the four-year-old. “It’s the biggest thing that needs to
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EL PASO, Texas – Bruce Gordon always wanted the very best for his students, whether it was on the track, or in life. He knew early in life that he wanted to be a coach. After graduating from UTEP in 1974, Gordon wasted no time and began his coaching career. Gordon graduated from Coronado High
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EL PASO, Texas – David Moore knew at an early age that coaching may be in his future. Moore’s father coached basketball at Ysleta High School, and he always had a love for the game. “I grew up playing sports, and that’s just something that I loved to do,” Moore said. “It just seemed that
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EL PASO, Texas – When Kenneth Lucero was a senior at Coronado High School, he had a decision to make. Focus entirely on basketball, or try something new and join the track and field team. Throughout his first three years at Coronado, coaches tried to persuade him to run cross country and run track, but
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AUSTIN, Texas – It wasn’t how the Americas Trail Blazers were hoping to end their season, but it didn’t take away from the journey and all the Blazers accomplished. Friday afternoon in Austin, Americas lost to O’Connor, 7-5 in the 6A softball state semi-final game. The Blazers jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in
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EL PASO, Texas – The Americas Trail Blazers are certainly blazing new trails, and it’s a trail they hope will lead to a state title. Thursday morning, the Americas softball team boarded a plane for Austin, TX, the site of the 6A state softball tournament final four. The Blazers will face Northside O’Connor High School,
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Lubbock, Texas – Americas High School’s softball team has made it to the Final Four. The Trailblazers beat Flower Mound Marcus 4-1 Saturday morning to advance to the state championship. It’s the program’s first ever time making it to the Final Four, and the second ever El Paso softball team in history to make it
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EL PASO, Texas – The question might not be whether or not Eugene Costello was going to be the Andress head boys’ basketball coach, but rather why it took so long to officially give him the job. EPISD officially removed Costello’s interim coaching tag on Thursday, making the 41-year old Costello the full-time head coach
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EL PASO, Texas — Americas softball is on the brink of becoming the second ever El Paso softball team to make it to the final four. “We knew at the beginning of the season we wanted to go really far,” Sydney Saenz Americas center fielder said. “We knew that we had potential and that’s obviously
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EL PASO, Texas – Things are peaking at the right time for the Americas softball team. For the first time since 2012, the Trail Blazers find themselves in the sweet 16 of the Class 6A tournament. Americas is coming off a victory against Midland High School in the regional quarterfinals. It was a hard fought
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EL PASO, Texas – After 7 years, the Del Valle Conquistadores are headed back to the regional quarterfinals of the state playoffs. Saturday, Del Valle completed the sweep against Lubbock Coronado to become area champions. It’s Del Valle’s first area championship since 2015. Unfortunately, Del Valle was the only team from El Paso to punch
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EL PASO, Texas – It was a good day to be a Trail Blazer and Ranger on Friday. The Americas softball team is headed to the sweet 16 of the 6A state playoffs after defeating Midland High School in the best-of-three series. This will be the first time Americas is headed to the sweet 16
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EL PASO, Texas – Eight teams from the El Paso area will be looking to punch their ticket to the next round of the state high school baseball playoffs. While in softball, only one team from El Paso, the Americas Trail Blazers, remain in the playoffs. The scores below are from Thursday’s games: CLASS 5A
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EL PASO, Texas — Playoffs are well and truly underway for high school softball and baseball and 12 Borderland teams remain fighting for the respective titles. In baseball eight teams from the El Paso area had big wins over the weekend to see their season continue. This week they’ll compete in the round of 64
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EL PASO, Texas – The high school baseball playoffs are now underway, while in softball six teams from El Paso were looking to punch their ticket to the regional quarterfinals. The scores below are from Friday. All games are a best-of-three series CLASS 6A BASEBALL BI-DISTRICT ROUND Americas 5 San Angelo Central 0 – Game
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EL PASO, Texas – The high school softball playoffs continued Thursday. The scores below are from Thursday: CLASS 6A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Pebble Hills 1 Midland 6 (Game 1 final) – Midland leads best-of-three series 1-0 Americas 7 Abilene 8 (Game 1 final) – Abilene leads best-of-three series 1-0 CLASS 5A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Jefferson 0 Hanks
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EL PASO, Texas – The high school softball playoffs began Wednesday night for some El Paso schools. All the teams that were in action Wednesday were from class 5A. The scores from Wednesday are below. With the exception of the game between Ysleta and El Paso, the other two games are best of three series.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Ian Uraga is bringing home a silver medal after placing second in the 6A UIL tennis boys singles tournament. Wednesday, Uraga lost in the championship match in straight sets (7-5, 6-4) to San Antonio Reagan’s Kyle Totorica. Uraga is just a sophomore and it was his first time qualifying for the state
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EL PASO, Texas – Two Coronado High School tennis players are looking to bring home a state title. Coronado’s Naomi Katz and Ian Uraga both qualified for the state tournament. Katz is a senior at Coronado and is no stranger to playing at this level. Last season as junior, Katz finished in second place at
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Deuce Benjamin shares the same name as his father, former New Mexico State basketball star William Benjamin. Now, they share the honor of being Aggies. The Las Cruces High School star announced his commitment to New Mexico State Saturday, ensuring the one-time New Mexico Gatorade Player of the Year will
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EL PASO, Texas – The love for swimming came at an early age for Coronado swimmer, Gigi Gotaas. She says it all started when she was 3-years-old, all she wanted to do was get in the pool and splash around. That is what led to a stellar swimming career in high school, and one that
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EL PASO, Texas – In El Paso’s Lower Valley, NFL Quarterback Steven Montez is getting loose on a high school field. “It kinda feels like it comes full circle right?” poses the 25-year old Montez. It does, because Del Valle high school is the same place where Montez started his football journey ten years ago.
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EL PASO, Texas – Friday was a very good day for El Paso soccer teams looking to take that next step towards a state title. In the boys regional quarterfinals in Class 5A, it was a showdown between two of the best soccer teams in El Paso. The Bel Air Highlanders and the Del Valle
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GREENVILLE, South Carolina – East Carolina star guard Tristen Newton, an El Paso native, officially entered the transfer portal on Monday. UTEP fans are already clammoring for the former Burges Mustang standout to return home. Newton is fresh off a campaign in which he finished third the American Athletic Conference in scoring (17.4ppg) and placed
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EL PASO, Texas – Words like ‘can’t’ and ‘impossible’ simply don’t exist for Franklin goalkeeper Allyson Gonzalez. Her path to play soccer at the next level was met with several obstacles, but through it all Gonzalez was able to overcome them. Thursday, Gonzalez signed her letter of intent to play soccer at Angelina College, a
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EL PASO, Texas – ABC-7’s Wil Herren filed a special report about former Franklin baseball coach and current Southlake Carroll coach Larry Vucan. Vucan guided the Franklin Cougars to multiple playoff appearances in his eight seasons on the west side. He was named the head coach at Southlake Carroll ahead of the 2017 season and
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – The Las Cruces Bulldawgs came close, but once again their bid for a state title came up short. Saturday at The Pit in Albuquerque, the Bulldawgs lost to the Volcano Vista Hawks in overtime by a final score of 66-55. This was the second straight year that Las Cruces made it
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