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More than one hoops game
February 15, 2008It is a yearly joke I make come basketball season.
I cover one game. The whole year.
It is because my main beat is area high school football, then when that ends, I start covering the Wildcats hockey team.
I will also cover soccer, track, and some mix of baseball/softball. But, basketball -- because we have other people covering it and I am on hockey -- is a sport I rarely write anything about.
In 2004, my first year on the job, I drove to Merkel with a buddy to cover City View-Abernathy in the 2A boys regional quarterfinals.
In 2005, it was a Vernon-Sanger girls playoff game at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.
I cannot think of a high school game in 2006, but I think this was the last year of the Oil Bowl hoops game (maybe that was in 2005 too), and I covered than one.
Then last year, I covered the Hirschi-Vernon boys game that decided second and third in District 6-3A.
Because of scheduling, I went to Alvord on Tuesday to cover the WFHS girls beat Boswell in bi-district, 40-32.
I figured that was it. My one game.
It is not that I don't like covering basketball. We just have two other guys who cover it here, so I usually do not get to.
But I found out yesterday that I will be driving to Mineral Wells today to cover the Olney and Windthorst girls basketball area playoff games tonight.
That's three in one year. That's a new record.
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