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Laredo Morning Times

SUNDAY
JUNE 16, 2013

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Fuego on fire
Laredo running club places in San Antonio
By CLARA SANDOVAL
LAREDO MORNING TIMES

SAN ANTONIO The Laredo running club Fuego is catching fire after their recent performance at the Carrabas half marathon relay . Earlier in the year, Fuego ran the Beach to Bay Marathon in April placing ninth overall in the mens open division, one of the toughest divisions in the race. Early Saturday morning, Fuego competed with two teams in the half marathon relay and they both did extremely well in their second outing of the season. In the mens open division, the team of Justin Champion, Albert Cantu, Steve Espinoza and Ismael Madrigal took third and placed seventh overall. The 19-and-under team of Marcos Amador, Marlon Amador, Jose Villalobos, who all run for Martin, and Tommy Munoz placed second in the division and eighth overall.

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Laredo Lemurs Jon Gaston hits the ball Saturday evening during a game against the El Paso Diablos at Uni-Trade Stadium.

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The Laredo running club Fuego raced at the Carrabas half marathon relay on Saturday in San Antonio.
"We are very humbled by the support of the community ," Espinoza said. "After the Beach to Bay , we decided to take out kids and run another event to continue the success that we had in that event. We are trying to put Laredo on the running scene.

Lemurs clinch series victory over El Paso

Laredo improves to 18-11 overall with 4-1 win at Uni-Trade Stadium
By ZACH DAVIS
LAREDO MORNING TIMES

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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

LOCAL ALL-STARS

Note: This game finished at press time. To read a complete game recap with interviews from coaches and players, check out LMTOnline.com. Coming into the game losing five straight series, the Laredo Lemurs clinched their first series victory since May 24-26. With a dominating pitching performance from Garrett Rau and the bullpen as well as a pair of home runs by the offense, the Lemurs

won the first three games of the four game series winning 4-1 on Saturday over El Paso. The victory moved Laredo to 18-11 on the season as they have won three straight games, raising their lead in the South Division to two games over Amarillo (15-12). They are also just percentage points

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ATHLETICS

LMTs Clara Sandoval wins TAPPS award

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
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Cigarroas Jose Luis Flores, left, and Alexanders E.J. Garcia, right, played in the 40th Annual Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association 4A-5A All-Star game on Saturday.

Garcia, Flores play in THSBCA game

By CLARA SANDOVAL
LAREDO MORNING TIMES

ROUND ROCK Laredo was well represented at the 40th Annual Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association 4A-5A AllStar game played at Dell Diamond

on Saturday night in front of a sparse crowd. Alexanders E.J. Garcia and Cigarroas Jose Luis Flores suited up for the South All-Star team in the outfield and on third base. "It is an honor to be even selected to play this game," Garcia said.

"To come out here with the greatest players in Texas it was fun." "This was a great experience and I feel really honored that I was chosen to come play at this game with the best players in Tex-

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St. Augustine High School nominated LMT sports reporter Clara Sandoval for consideration as one of the Sportswriters of the Year to TAPPS- the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. The announcement was made that Clara was selected for this prestigious award together with Kenny Barboza of the Boerne Star, Michael Sudhalter of the Houston Leader and Travis Yoestring of the Tyler Morning Telegraph at the

annual TAPPS meeting in San Antonio, Texas on Friday , June 14, 2013. "Claras longtime support of St. Aug athletics through her accurate, comprehensive, and vivid reporting is greatly appreciated. She has a unique way of not only reporting the scores but telling the stories of our athletes," shared Olga Gentry , principal. School Athletic Director Rodrigo Romo stated that the award presentation will be made at St Augustine later this month.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS

Ginobilis struggles continue

By CLARA SANDOVAL
LAREDO MORNING TIMES

SAN ANTONIO The offensive struggles that Spurs guard Manu Ginobili has faced in the NBA Finals is well documented as he has not put up numbers like he did in Game 1. During the regular season, Ginobili averaged 11.8 points per game with a .425 field goal percentage and a .353 3-point percentage. Ginobili scored 13 points on a 4-of-11 performance in San Antonios 92-88 victory against Miami on the road to open up the Finals, but that offensive outburst has been missing for the past

three game. "I have not compared it to other years, but I am not worried about anything that has bee mentioned," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. For the next three Finals games, Ginobilis offense has been missing as he averaged 5.6 points per game. The Spurs have gone 1-2 during that stretch with the only win coming on Tuesday in a 36-point victory to open the series at the AT&T Center. The lack of offense does not concern Ginobili since he has a trust in the system that Popovich has built since arriving to the Spurs organization 16

years ago. "I trust the system. I trust my teammates," Ginobili said. "I try to force a little less and find my teammates." Ginobili trusts the team concept, and while his numbers are valuable to San Antonio, he feels the Spurs have a deep bench that has been able to put up some numbers in his offensive absence. "I try to trust my game and trust the system," he said. "I did not have a super game in Game 3 and we won by 30. It is a matter of us and not me, of course the team needs me to play much better but if not I think weve got resources

to overcome anybodys bad games." Tuesday night it was Danny Green who had an offensive outburst with 27 points and Gary Neal chipped in with 24 points in San Antonios 113-77 victory to take a 2-1 lead in the series. In Thursdays game, Ginobili scored five points and only attempted five field goals in 25:52 minutes of play in the Spurs 109-93 loss. During the post game press conference, Tim Duncan said Ginobili needed to be more selfish with the ball and start looking to take more shots instead of

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Manu Ginobili holds the ball during practice Saturday at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. Ginobili has averaged only 5.6 points per game in the past three NBA Finals games against Miami.