Kenneth Johnson returned an interception 88 yards for a touchdown on the final play of the game and the Liberty Hill seventh-grade A-team Lions stunned the Patterson Cavaliers 25-19 in the teams’ season opener on Tuesday.
Kenneth Johnson returned an interception 88 yards for a touchdown on the final play of the game and the Liberty Hill seventh-grade A-team Lions stunned the Patterson Cavaliers 25-19 in the teams’ season opener on Tuesday.
Gatesville's Carlo Martinez and Luis Macias finished 1-2 and the Hornets won their own Bill Bradley Invitational cross country meet on Saturday.
Killeen High running backs Emory Arthur and Kadarius Marshall proved to be a devastating one-two punch.
BELTON — The first half played out beautifully for the Belton Tigers on Friday night. They forced turnovers, won the field-position battle and made plays on offense to secure a 27-7 halftime lead in their season opener at Tiger Field.
COPPERAS COVE — The Jason Hammett era in Copperas Cove got off to a rocky start Friday night as the Waxahachie Indians gashed the Bulldawgs on the ground.
Cross country standouts Aaron Crittenden of Ellison and Tyson Tamez of Temple are seeing an awful lot of each other lately.
TAYLOR — Caden Strickland scored four touchdowns, and Reid Vincent rushed for 179 yards to lead the Salado Eagles to a 49-3 romp over Taylor in nondistrict action Friday night.
Jiya Edwards recorded 13 kills and eight blocks to help the Copperas Cove volleyball team pick up its first win of the season, 17-25, 25-11, 25-7, 25-12, on Tuesday at Elgin.
Two games into the season, the Copperas Cove Lady Dawgs volleyball team is still in search of its first win.
Ellison’s Harvey sisters recorded a pair of top-10 finishes to help the Lady Eagles place third at the Ennis Lions Den Invitational cross country meet on Saturday.
GATESVILLE — Logan Edwards caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Luke Mullins late in the first half, giving the Hornets the lead for good on the way to a 22-16 win over Hillsboro on Friday that snapped Gatesville's 14-game losing streak.
FLORENCE — The Goldthwaite Eagles beat the Florence Buffaloes 34-3 on Friday at Stampede Stadium by dominating on the ground offensively and not giving up much on defense.
Temple's Tyson Tamez edged Ellison's Aaron Crittenden by 1.5 seconds to win the Waco High Invitational cross country meet Thursday at the Heart of Texas Soccer Complex.
Salado cross country star Jaci McGregor collected her third victory in as many tries on Thursday at the Salado Tenroc Invitational at Tenroc Ranch.
Gatesville junior Luis Macias easily won the Glen Rose Invitational cross country meet on Wednesday.
The Copperas Cove Bulldawgs have a new coach in Jason Hammett, but any differences seen on the field will likely be subtle.
The Lampasas volleyball team lost on Tuesday at Lake Belton, 21-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-15.
The Lampasas Independent School District on Tuesday announced on Twitter that Friday's high school varsity football game at China Spring was canceled "due to Covid related issues at China Spring."
The Ellison boys and girls cross country teams won their season openers on Saturday at the McGregor XC Invitational.
LAMPASAS — Ace Whitehead ran for three long touchdowns, passed for two others and the 4A-D1 No. 3 Lampasas Badgers routed 4A-D2 No. 4 Wimberley 57-28 on Friday.
Gatesville’s home football game Friday night against Lorena was canceled when Lorena discovered one its players tested positive for the coronavirus.
Ace Whitehead ran for two touchdowns, passed for two others and No. 3 Lampasas steamrolled Stephenville 41-0 on Friday at Tarleton Stadium in Stephenville.
SALADO — After a less than ideal end to the first half of Friday night’s game at Eagle Stadium, the Salado Eagles could have easily rolled over, turned on their auto-pilot setting and called it an evening, especially after rain and wet field conditions put a damper on their home opener.
GATESVILLE — Glen Rose dominated the second half and the Tigers pulled away for a 48-29 victory over Gatesville on Friday at McKamie Stadium, sending the Hornets to their 14th consecutive loss.
FLORENCE — Florence fell 55-0 to the Bangs Dragons on Friday in the Buffaloes' home opener after a battle in the rain at Stampede Stadium.
Defending Class 4A state champion Jaci McGregor began her final season at Salado with another victory, helping the Lady Eagles win the Brownwood Invitational on Wednesday.
Senior libero Megan Manibusan’s 21 digs helped lead Salado to a 25-11, 26-24, 25-16 sweep of Llano on Saturday in Llano.
BELTON — With a talented running back in the opposing backfield, Salado head coach Alan Haire knew his team would have to keep producing.
LAMPASAS — The No. 3-ranked Lampasas Badgers defeated the Brownswood Lions 55-23 in their season opener Friday at Badger Stadium.
It won’t be easy for the Lampasas Badgers to top their historic 2019 campaign, but despite losing several outstanding seniors, the Badgers remain loaded.
Since an eye-opening five-win season in 2016 that saw Florence playing for a district championship in the final week of the regular season, the Buffaloes have been in steady decline.
It’s a fresh start for Gatesville, which might sound odd for a team with more than a dozen returning starters.
Experience populates both sides of the ball this season at Salado, whether it’s returning starters or role players from a year ago ready to shoulder expanded responsibilities.
Jake Strohman aced the 16th hole Sunday at Stonetree Golf Club. Strohman used a 56-degree wedge for the 90-yard shot. Felix Galvez, Larry Holly and Thomas Lowrimore witnessed the shot.
TEMPLE — With every new match, the first-year Lake Belton Broncos are improving, building team chemistry and gaining confidence. And that’s all coach Liz Ramsey asks of her volleyball squad full of sophomores and freshmen.
LITTLE RIVER-ACADEMY — Ellie Erwin described The Hive as a venue ripe with enthusiasm and a comfortable setting for her and the rest of the Academy Lady Bees. Perhaps that’s why the hosts appeared composed Tuesday night and didn’t budge much while locked in a tightly contested non-district m…
The Salado volleyball team earned a pair of sweeps in a Friday dual match at home with Little River-Academy and Lampasas and improved to 3-0 on the season.
SALADO — As to be expected with the first volleyball match of a season, the Salado Lady Eagles came out a little bit nervous, with back-to-back hitting errors on offense to fall into a quick hole against the Florence Lady Buffaloes.
Nina Cobb, Killeen resident and mother of NFL free agent and Ellison High School graduate David Cobb, was named parliamentarian of the Professional Football Players Mothers Association (PFPMA) last month, serving her second term.
The coronavirus has temporarily changed the landscape of athletics across the country, and it nearly prevented a Copperas Cove High School girl’s soccer player from continuing her playing career into the college level.
For the second consecutive year, and third time overall, the efforts of the Copperas Cove Lady Bulldawgs volleyball team off the court have been recognized.
AUSTIN — Texas will play high school football this fall, but some of it will be delayed, attendance will be limited and masks will be required as the state fights a surge in new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
High school strength and conditioning camps resumed around the area Monday with a significant change: All athletes and coaches wore masks in accordance with a UIL guideline released last week requiring the wearing of face coverings.
A medicine ball is sanitized before its next use during Monday's strength and conditioning workout at Ellison High School.
Ellison athletes work on their legs (foreground) and arms (background with medicine balls) during Monday's strength and conditioning workout at Ellison High School.
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