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little, if anything, at NASCAR's premier race. No pole winner has gone on to win "the Great American Race” since Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett in 2000.

But for Stenhouse, the

accomplishment meant everything.

He was surprisingly dumped by Roush Fenway Racing in October, long after the two-time Xfinity Series champion thought he was good for another year with the only NASCAR team for which he's driven. The team had a chance to bring back former devel-opmental driver Chris Buescher and gave him

Stenhouse's seat in the No. 17 Ford.

Stenhouse, coinciden-tally, replaced Buescher at JTG and brought crew chief Brian Pattie with him.

“I think there's a hand-ful of us that feel like we have something to prove,” Stenhouse said. “I feel like I can still get the job done behind the wheel and win races like we did in the Xfinity Series. ... That was

a huge move for me going over there, bringing people that I'm familiar with that have always been in my corner. I think I'd have been lost not having them there.”

There was an opportunity in Sunday qualifying for two teams that don't hold char-ters to lock up spots in the starting grid. Justin Haley and Brendan Gaughan, the youngest and oldest drivers on the Daytona 500 entry

list, landed those.Haley was the surprise

winner of last July's rain-shortened race at Daytona, getting the victory for Spire Motorsports during a lengthy weather delay. It was his third and final Cup Series start in 2019.

“We definitely have a car fastest enough to win this race under green-flag conditions," said the 20-year-old Haley, who

is now driving for Kaulig Racing.

T h e s t a r t - u p t e a m doesn't have a backup car on hand and expects to be really cautious during its qualifying race.

T h e 4 4 - y e a r - o l d Gaughan plans to make four starts this year — all at superspeedways — before retiring. He has one top-five finish in 62 career Cup starts, at Talladega in 2004.

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finished his career on tour in 2010 by winning the Etonic Don Johnson Eliminator in Columbus, Ohio, the highlight of a year in which Scroggins finished in a three-way tie for the points title for the PBA Player of the Year.

The award culminates a bowling journey which began at Western Bowl when Scroggins was a 12-year old.

“It was a dream I had that when you look back you see you hava a lot chances that could have gone the wrong way,” Scroggins said. “I always wanted to be in the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame and this now just makes that all real.”

Ironically, Scroggins, who coaches bowling as a club sport at Randall High, is already a member of the PBA Hall of Fame, where he was inducted in 2017. He competed on the PBA50 tour for bowlers 50 and over and won three titles in 2015 but has since retired from com-petitive bowling.

Scroggins is still inter-ested in growing the sport locally, which he‘s as proud of as anything.

“Being the first bowler in the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame means a lot to me,” Scroggins said. “Hopefully it will open some doors for other bowlers in the area.”

Gilbreath, inductee No. 186, became the top runner

in town and one of the top high school runners in the state in the early 1970s. He won the Class 5A state championship in the 220 yards for Amarillo High in 1972 with a time of 21.0 sec-onds, and was the only AHS state champion in track for the next 44 years.

From there, Gilbreath won a national title in the 220 at New Mexico Junior College, then went on to the University of Arizona where he finished third in that event and was a two-time All-America. Gilbreath pulled a muscle in the 1976 U.S. Olympic trials which kept him from making the Olympics that year despite being ranked No. 1 in the world for half the year.

“I wasn‘t expecting this,” Gilbreath said. “When I was running, I was run-ning because I loved it. I just wanted to beat people.”

Gilbreath had hopes of making the Olympic games in 1980 in Moscow, but the U.S. boycotted them due to the Soviet Union‘s occupation of Afghanistan. Gilbreath retired from run-ning after that and settled in Houston, where he and his wife run a successful mar-keting agency.

Despite not making the Olympics, Gilbreath is satis-fied with how things turned out for him.

“I had these goals from the day I won state,” Gilbreath said. “I went on to win some competitions in college and that was so great. I‘m so excited about this honor.”

Eudy, inductee No. 187,

achieved her success further along in her career than the other inductees. After grad-uating from Southwestern Oklahoma State, Eudy began a lengthy apprenticeship for a volleyball coaching career, spending 17 years with Ector County ISD in Odessa as a junior high coach.

In 2000, Eudy accepted the job as Jan Barker‘s top assistant at Amarillo High, stepping into an established program that already had several state champion-ships and with Eudy as an assistant, the Lady Sandies won five titles. Barker was inducted into the PSHOF two years ago.

“(Barker) was very patient with me and knew I had a good eye for fundamen-tals,” Eudy said. “She let me make decisions. To get to this level she taught me I was capable of doing a lot of other things.”

That mea nt f i na l ly becoming a high school head coach at Bushland in 2012. Eudy guided the Lady Falcons to a Class 2A state championship in 2013, and a Class 4A title in 2016.

In six years at Bushland, Eudy posted a 217-32 record, and perhaps most remark-able of all, didn‘t lose once in 48 district matches.

“When I started looking at all those pictures on the wall (at the PSHOF) I never thought that would lead to something like this,” Eudy said. “A lot of people who‘ve coached a long time have never gotten to do some-thing like this.”

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second straight win in Austin. Last season, Texas Tech snapped a 22-game losing streak when playing in the state’s capital.

But all those posi-tive vibes will need to be erased as the Red Raiders look toward taking on a TCU squad in the midst of a five-game skid – the last victory being a 65-54 deci-sion over Texas Tech back on Jan. 21.

“We try to have carry over from game to game,

possession to possession, half to half,” Beard said. “But, certainly, didn’t have our best effort in Fort Worth. Not disrespecting them. TCU was the better team. They were the reason we didn’t play well.

“But, from our point of view only, we feel we can play a lot better. And, so, this is a game we’ve been looking forward to.”

Texas Tech can look back to the TCU contest as a major learning lesson because, in many ways, it mirrored Saturday’s con-test against the Longhorns – minus the victory.

In the loss to the Horned Frogs, graduate transfers

TJ Holyfield and Chris Clarke did not perform to their expected levels, while another senior – Desmond Bane – did.

Bane, who led all scor-ers with 27 points, knocked down a jumper to help TCU balloon its lead to 15 points (55-40) with 7:42 left in the contest.

From there, the Red Raiders did their best to forge a comeback but could not string together enough stops or shots to spark a rally.

“We can’t dig ourselves into a hole. I think we did the same thing at TCU,” Holyfield said Saturday of what he can take away

from the Longhorns win going into the Horned Frogs matchup. “But we played them once, so we have an idea of how they play.”

Indeed, the main take-away from the TCU loss will be slowing down Bane who has scored in double figures in all but three games this season. The 6-foot-6, 215-pound guard leads the team in scoring with 16.4 points per contest, followed by RJ Nembhard (12.3 points) and Kevin Samuel (10.7 points, 8.7 rebounds).

But, the Red Raiders appear to be finding their own way after putting together a pair of wins against Oklahoma and

Texas to move into a tie with West Virginia (18-5, 6-4) for third place in the conference standings.

The biggest improve-ment has come from Holyfield, who’s shown consistency from the offensive and defensive end. The former Stephen F. Austin standout has finished in double digits in three of the last four games and recorded three or more blocks in the last four contests.

“Holyfield, he’s showing that in the last couple of games that he can be a shot blocker,” Texas Tech guard Terrence Shannon Jr. said following Saturday’s win

over Texas. “He’s been doing a tremendous job lately. This game, he had five blocks and they were big-time blocks because most of them came late.”

As for how Texas Tech can ensure they’re in a good position to win Monday night?

Shannon Jr. provided a quick synopsis.

“We just need to play the game the right way, with fewer turnovers,” he said, alluding to 15 mis-cues against the Horned Frogs earlier in the year. “We can’t turn the ball over to the other team. And we have to play hard on defense.”

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tournament-caliber teams, and we want to show that we belong in the tournament.”

After getting within a game of last year’s Final F o u r , M a t t P a i n t e r ' s Boilermakers lost noncon-ference games to Texas, Marquette, now-No. 8 Florida State and now-No. 19 Butler before Christmas. Then they stumbled to five league losses in seven games in January to stand at 11-10.

But Purdue (14-10, 7-6) has won three straight, including Wednesday’s home rout of No. 17 Iowa followed by Saturday’s

win at Indiana. Both are Quadrant 1 wins that top an NCAA Tournament resume, joining a 29-point win against preseason No. 1-ranked Michigan State in mid-January and a November neutral-court win against VCU.

O v e r a l l , P u r d u e i s 4-7 against opponents in Quadrant 1, defined as home games against top-30 teams in the NET, neutral-site games against top-50 teams and road games against top-75 teams. The Boilermakers also have a 29-point win against reigning national champion Virginia for a Quadrant 2 victory, while a December loss at Nebraska is their only Quadrant 3 loss.

As of midday Sunday, P u r d u e w a s h e a d e d

for a No. 10 seed in BracketMatrix.com’s average of 89 tournament projections, with the Boilermakers appearing in 70 mock brackets for the 68-team field. And there are still five Quadrant 1 games ahead, including Tuesday at home against No. 22 Penn State (No. 19 in NET), Saturday at Ohio State (17th) and a road rematch with the Hawkeyes (28th) on March 3.

A strong finish could get the Boilermakers comfort-ably clear of the bubble by Selection Sunday, which is five weeks away.

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Arizona State: The Sun Devils (15-8, 6-4 Pac-12) have won five of six,

including Quadrant 1 wins against Arizona and Washington.

Oklahoma: The Sooners (15-8, 5-5 Big 12) have been up and down, though Saturday’s win against No. 13 West Virginia is their third — and best — Quadrant 1 win.

Rhode Island: The Rams (18-5, 10-1 Atlantic 10) are surging, winning 10 straight to go from 91st in the NET as of Jan. 6 to No. 35 as of Sunday. There are two big games ahead a g a i n s t s i x t h - r a n k e d Dayton, the first coming Tuesday.

Wisconsin: The Badgers (14-10, 7-6 Big Ten) are in a similar position to league-mate Purdue, though their win Sunday against Ohio State improved them to 7-7 against Quadrant 1

teams after entering the day at No. 37 in the NET.

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Cincinnati: The record looks good for the Bearcats ( 1 5 - 8 , 8 - 3 A m e r i c a n Athletic Conference), but Sunday’s loss at Connecticut dropped them to 1-5 against Quadrant 1 teams with three Quadrant 3 losses (Colgate, Bowling Green and Tulane) to sit at 46th in the NET. They also have just one Quadrant 1 opponent remaining (at No. 25 Houston on March 1).

Florida: The Gators (14-9, 6-4 Southeastern Conference) are going i n t h e w r o n g d i r e c -tion. Ranked sixth in the preseason AP Top 25, Florida has lost four of six after Saturday's loss at

Mississippi.Memphis: The Tigers

(17-6, 6-4 American Athletic Conference) suf-fered a Quadrant 3 loss to South Florida at home Saturday, dropping them 13 spots to 60th in the NET. Memphis has one Quadrant 1 win and recently lost No. 2 scorer D.J. Jeffries for four to six weeks to a knee injury.

N . C . S t a t e : T h e W o l f p a c k ( 1 5 - 8 , 6 - 6 Atlantic Coast Conference) ended up on the wrong side of the bubble last year and could do it again. A recent three-game skid included a Quadrant 3 home loss to struggling rival North Carolina, though games with No. 7 Duke (twice) and No. 8 Florida State offer chances to improve a No. 62 NET ranking.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants Cooperstown to open its doors for Pete Rose.

Trump tweeted Saturday that baseball's career hits leader should be in the Hall of Fame. On Wednesday, Rose again asked Major League Baseball to end his lifetime ban for betting on

the Cincinnati Reds while playing for and managing them.

"Pete Rose played Major League Baseball for 24 sea-sons, from 1963-1986, and had more hits, 4,256, than any other player (by a wide margin). He gambled, but only on his own team win-ning, and paid a decades

long price. GET PETE ROSE INTO THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME. It's Time!" Trump tweeted.

Rose agreed to the life-time ban in August 1989 after an investigation for MLB by lawyer John Dowd found the perennial All-Star placed numerous bets on the Reds to win from

1985-87. Dowd is one of Trump's former lawyers.

Rose was turned down by Commissioner Rob Manfred in December 2015 in a previous request for reinstatement. In this new application, Rose's lawyers contended the penalty is unfair compared with discipline for steroids use

and the current electronic sign-stealing scandal involving the Houston Astros.

The 78-year-old Rose also asked baseball's Hall of Fame to remove the prohi-bition adopted by the Hall's board of directors in 1991 to prohibit players on the per-manently ineligible list from

appearing on the Hall ballot of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Trump has attended several sporting events in recent months. He was booed at Nationals Park in October during Game 5 of the World Series between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros.

Trump goes to bat for Rose in Hall of Fame