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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1972
Page
6
Pecos High School Rowdies lose 77-71 to Seminole and 81-74 to Andrews on opening day of the McCamey Junior Varsity Basketball Tournament.
Pecos High School freshmen teams stay undefeated with a pair of wins over Alpine ninth graders. The A team 78-56 and B team 54-32 as Winchell Terry scores 25 and Kenneth Williams 23 for Pecos.
El Paso golfer Lee Trevino, winner of three national championships in three weeks, is Texas Professional Athlete of the Year. He topped Bob Lilly of Dallas with 283 points and 86 first place votes, while Willie Ellison ranked third with 176 points. Trevino began on Dallas municipal courses and claimed the U S British and Canadian Open titles that year.
Pecos and Odessa Ector meet in Odessa as Pecos aims to snap a two game skid. Leaders for Ector include Joe Davis Wayne Yates and Ray Lewis while Pecos carries a 14 6 mark and has not beaten Odessa since 1967. JV contest preceded the varsity at 2 pm with Ector JV defeating Rowdies 66 52 in the Pecos JV Tournament championship game.
Adelino Contreras of Barstow wins the perfect score prize in last week's Pecos Eagles basketball contest. He scores $15 total: $10 for predicting winners and $5 for correct margin. His call Pecos Monahans 64 58 Loboes. Second place Kenneth Thomason wins $3 for Monahans 69 66. Third place Steve Kirkwood wins $1 for Mona Hans 62 56. Top 10 includes Lois and G B Crouch, Jim White, Jim Craig Hess, Zay LeFevre, Anna Contreras, Mark Callison.
Plano star Pat Thomas headlines the first offensive unit with teammates Mike Wood and Steve Wilson on defense, while Gregory-Portland’s Marty Akins tops the offense. Brenham’s Wilson Whitley earns two way honors as Silsbee’s James Hunter climbs to first team, with Brownwood's Kurt Newton and others also honored.
Rowdies dropped two losses in the McCamey Tournament and their 213-3 start record shifted to 13-5 as they faced Odessa Ector. Earlier in the year they were 12-2 but have now lost five times to District 2-3A JV teams. Bennie Abila led with 13 points against Seminole, Bobby Herod 12, and David Maddux one fewer. Donny Herod scored 18 against Andrews. Pecos Eagles Football Booster Club hosts a banquet Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with E. J. Holub as guest speaker. tickets $2.50.
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