SNYDER — Jordan Anderson didn’t realize until the fifth inning she was working on a no-hitter, and her heart raced a bit when Darrian Doerdeline hit a liner into center field, only for Heather Isbell to run it down and end the game.

The exact lowest point of the UTEP athletic program is a question with no end of answers, but May 26, 1998, rises to the top of any list.

Lee and Toni Percivill will add a third Original Team Roping Association district to their schedule next year, creating a “tri-district” within the OTRA structure.

2013 Little League City Tournament

After five straight years of seeing its season end in the Class 1A regional quarterfinals of the state baseball playoffs, Fort Hancock is moving on to the regional semifinals for the first time since

CHICAGO — In case they weren’t aware already, the Chicago Blackhawks now know they’re going to have to earn it if they want to get past Detroit.

The Red Wings hammered home that message on Saturday.

Damien Brunner and Brendan Smith scored in the second period and Detroit beat the Blackhawks 4-1 in Game 2 to even their Western Conference semifinal series.

It was a strong response by the Red Wings after Chicago handled them easily in the series opener, 4-1.

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 WOODROW — Childress put on a hitting clinic against Bushland in the second game of the teams’ Region I-2A quarterfinal series Saturday afternoon at Pirate Field.

The Bobcats pounded out 14 hits against three Bushland pitchers and run-ruled the Falcons, 16-3 in five innings.

Childress (25-6) will face the winner of the Wall-Henrietta series in the regional semifinals at a time and site to be determined. Bushland, the two-time defending regional champion, finished 26-5-1.

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BASEBALL

MIAMI — The rivalry has simmered for a year.

Now the stakes are even higher.

After defeating the Indiana Pacers in a bitterly contested six-game series in last season’s Eastern Conference semifinals, the Miami Heat now will face the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, a series that opens Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at AmericanAirlines Arena, for the right to advance to the NBA Finals.

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CONCORD, N.C. — At the height of his father’s success at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. would sit in the Turn 1 condos overlooking the track.

The Earnhardts are from Kannapolis, just one town away, and watching Dale Earnhardt at the speedway was a source of pride. Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the late Earnhardt sweeping both the All-Star Race and the Coca-Cola 600, an event his son compared to the years his father dominated NASCAR.

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ARLINGTON — Elvis Andrus had a career-high five hits, Mitch Moreland homered and Texas roughed up Anibal Sanchez in the Rangers’ 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.

Andrus scored three runs, had two RBIs and stole a pair of bases as he hit leadoff for the second straight game in place of ailing second baseman Ian Kinsler. Andrus finished off his 5-for-5 game with a single to right in the eighth.

Moreland hit a solo shot off Sanchez leading off the third, his 10th home run of the season.

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Sitting at attention on the Andress High School football field that produced several of the current and former pro football players standing in front of them, 500 children at the Ray Mickens Celebrity Football Camp no doubt dreamed that they would make that journey to the NFL.