Local Sports Headlines – Tascosa Baseball Wins District Game

Tascosa picked up its first District 2-6A baseball win on Thursday.

The Rebels won a back and forth game with Midland Lee 9-8 on a walk off game winning RBI by Andres Hernandez. Tascosa moves to 1-1 in district play.

- The District 3-5A baseball race gets going today with a full schedule of games. Amarillo High is at Caprock, Palo Duro hosts Plainview, Randall
is at Dumas, and Canyon is home against Hereford.

- Two more playoff matchups for next week have been announced in high school soccer.

REGION 1 - CONFERENCE 6A
BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP – Boys
Tascosa ( Visitor) vs. El Paso Montwood (Home)
Thursday, March 23rd --- 5:00 pm Central
Ratliff Stadium----Odessa, Texas

REGION 1 - CONFERENCE 5A
BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP – Boys
Palo Duro ( Visitor) vs. Abilene Cooper ( Home)
Friday, March 24th--6:00 pm
Frenship Soccer Complex

– In a matchup of the teams with the top two records in the Lone Star Conference, the No. 4 West Texas A&M baseball team visits No. 8 Angelo State
this weekend for a key regional non-conference series. Both the Buffs and Rams are 16-2 on the year and ranked in the top ten.

The series begins today with a single game at 6:30 p.m. in San Angelo.

– The #12 Lady Buff softball team is also in San Angelo this weekend as they renew one of the best rivalries in Division II Softball with the #2
Belles of Angelo State in a Lone Star Conference series. Game one is tonight at 7 p.m.

Angelo State enters the weekend with an overall record of 28-1 with a 9-0 mark in LSC play and has won 24 straight games. WT is 22-4 overall and 7
-2 in the LSC.

- Top seeds Villanova and Gonzaga both posted first round wins as the NCAA Basketball Tournament got rolling on Thursday.

East Regional
Villanova 76, Mount St. Mary’s 56
Wisconsin 84, Virginia Tech 74
Virginia 76, UNC Wilmington 71
Florida 80, East Tennessee State 65

West Regional
Gonzaga 66, South Dakota State 46
Northwestern 68, Vanderbilt 66
Notre Dame 60, Princeton 58
West Virginia 86, Bucknell 80
#11 Xavier 76, #6 Maryland 65
Florida State 86, Florida Gulf Coast 80
Saint Mary’s 85, VCU 77
Arizona 100, North Dakota 82

South Regional
#12 Middle Tennessee 81, #5 Minnesota 72
Butler 76, Winthrop 64

Midwest Regional
Purdue 80, Vermont 70
Iowa State 84, Nevada 73

The other two top Regional seeds play on Friday. Kansas meets UC-Davis in the Midwest Region and North Carolina begins the South Region against
Texas Southern.