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Feb. 14 sports calendar

February 14, 2012

TODAY

Softball
Big Spring at Midland Christian, 5 p.m.
Coahoma at Levelland (scrimmage), TBA.

Baseball
Odessa Permian at Big Spring (scrimmage), 5 p.m.

Girls’ basketball
Big Spring vs. Burkburnett (Class 3A bidistrict playoffs), 6 p.m., Anson High School.
Grady vs. New Home (Class 1A Div. II bidistrict playoffs), 7:30 p.m., Post.

Boys’ basketball
Big Spring vs. Nazareth (practice game), 4:30 p.m., Rip Griffin Center, Lubbock Christian University.
Coahoma at Post, 6 p.m.
Forsan at Colorado City, 6:30 p.m.
Sterling City at Garden City, 6:30 p.m.

Late shot lifts Hawks to win

February 14, 2012

ROSWELL, N.M. — Remember that old sports cliché about “throwing the records out the window when these two teams meet?” Apply it to just about any Howard College-New Mexico Military Institute basketball game.

The Hawks and NMMI entered Monday night's Western Junior College Athletic Conference matchup at opposite ends of the conference spectrum — Howard was firmly in second place, while the Broncos were ensconced in the WJCAC cellar.

So, of course, the game wasn't decided until the final moments.