We are back with Season 7 of the Press Pass Sports podcast. Kale and Craig take a look at what happened while we were gone. Perryton and Matador were devastated by tornadoes as both communities rallied around each other. There was a ton of coaching news from Kyle Lovorn and Cory Hamilton stepping down to Marquis Loftis taking over at PD. Jalin Conyers and Hesston Kjerstad are making a name for themselves on the national stage while WT looks to impress with a slew of transfers.

Randall advanced to the Regional finals looking to punch a ticket to Round Rock while Nazareth beat May to make their straight trip to the state tourney while looking for their first state title.

More coaching news and notes including Cole Underwood taking the helm at Perryton.

The 2023 Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame class is loaded as Fred Cooper, Rick Cooper, Kori Cooper Clements, Ziggy Hood and Chris Koetting will be inducted on June 11th.

New Caprock head coach Rowdy Freeman joins the show to talk about what a crazy week he's had, building relationships with students, taking the reigns of his own program and his grandad, Stocky Lamberson.

Randall and Wildorado grabbed state golf titles this past week as we rundown their performance.

Randall, Bushland and Nazareth all look to keep moving forward in the baseball playoffs as we preview each series.

Dan Sherwood has been hired as the next head coach at Randall, Kurt Haberthur takes over in Gruver, Booker goes six-man and tons more coaching and player news and notes.

Randall, Bushland and Nazareth are still alive in the baseball playoffs.

Villanova guard and AHS grad Brendan Hausen talks about his first year at Nova, what's ahead for next year, the play of his brother Braden and lots more.

After 23 seasons at Palo Duro, Jeff Evans has resigned to pursue other opportunities at the collegiate level. Evans leaves huge shoes to fill for AISD plus Jeff Smith heads to WT High and Boys Ranch has a new football coach.

State track last week produced a number of outstanding performances from area athletes. We look at the key moments from each day in Austin. Also, the state girls golf meet is in the books and Happy's Halee Johnson grabs gold plus Canyon and Memphis medal.

We are in the thick of the baseball and softball playoffs so we take a look at the matchups coming up this weekend.

Lots of coaching news as Gaylon Selman has retired from Randall after 23 years, Lee Brandon resigns at Gruver while Gruver baseball head coach Khris Kelp suffers a heart attack before their playoff game and Jeff Lofton returns to West Plains.

District 4-4A dominates the softball playoffs as all four teams move on and now face each other for the right to go to state.

District 4-4A baseball is almost as dominant as three of four teams win bi-district matchups led by Randall who has won 26 straight. Bushland and Clarendon also look impressive in playoff wins.

Trouble broke over the weekend with Bushland softball as their head coach was arrested. The latest on what happened, the school's quick response plus a positive note from UT's Brock Cunningham.

Andy Cavalier was named the head coach for Canadian replacing Chris Koetting.

Canadian girls basketball coach Aaron Marks joins the show to discuss the West Texas Basketball Coaches Clinic including a star studded speaker lineup and a great cause to lift up Floydada head coach Adam Zapada and his son Toby.

Softball is in the area round and baseball in bi-district as we look at the full schedule of play this weekend.

Regional track meets were held on Friday and Saturday from 5A to 1A. Ke'Mauri Pinkard and Sierra Cornell impressed in 5A. Canyon girls and Randall boys grab team titles in 4A while Abree Winfrey continues to dominate the competition. In 3A, Bushland and Childress girls relays turn in great performances while Bushland's Jessie Fowler shows her dominance and the Bushland boys sprint relay team sets a record. Panhandle dominates 2A led by their relay teams. Brayden Freeman flies by his competitioin as does Aletha Usanga. Finally, in 1A, Anna Hudson keeps striking gold, Happy boys mile relay team sets a school record and Nazareth girls mile relay flies by everyone else.

Softball bi-district results with AHS rallying to beat Lubbock Cooper and 4-4A wipes out 3-4A.

Coaching news as Kyle Timmons is out at Follett and Sarah Allen is the new girls basketball head coach at Bushland. Brenen Thompson is headed to OU plus other portal news.

Former Spearman star Morgan Glaspie joins the show to talk about landing the job as a first time head coach at a brand new school, her mentors and more.

State tennis saw Amarillo High and Hereford grab golds as the area players hauled in a load of medals in San Antonio.

Baseball, softball, track and golf news and notes

After 31 years in the education field, Canadian HC Chris Koetting is retiring. We look back at his career and bring in Ben Arbuckle, a former player and now Washington St. OC, and Kyle Lynch, the Canadian HC who hired Koetting in 2003.

Regional golf results as several area teams have qualified while others are on day two and trying to punch a ticket.

News and notes from football, baseball and softball.