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BELTON — Kylie Blomquist believes everything happens for a reason.
SALADO — Salado dominated on both sides of the ball, controlling the line of scrimmage from start to finish in a 57-0 blitzing of Mexia on Friday at Eagle Stadium.
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BELTON — Kylie Blomquist believes everything happens for a reason.
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BELTON — A conversation with Lake Belton head coach Brian Cope rarely will lack a reference to the 212th degree, a mantra of extra effort he instilled into the program in its infancy.
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LAMPASAS — After two consecutive years of consistent success, the Lampasas Badgers are off to an inauspicious start to 2021, dropping to 1-3 after a 47-7 drubbing at the hands of the China Spring Cougars on Friday evening.
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District 12-6A teams concluded their nondistrict schedules last week, and four programs collected victories before the break.
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Led by a sweep of the girls matches, the Lampasas tennis team earned a 13-6 win over Glen Rose on Sept. 14 in Lampasas.
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TEMPLE — Temple had its share of leads and clawed back at times when it didn’t, but Ellison had the final say in the most meaningful moments of Tuesday night’s District 12-6A match at Wildcat Gym.
BELTON —The Belton Lady Tigers weren’t always in sync on Tuesday night against the 2020 District 12-6A volleyball champs.
AUSTIN — Copperas Cove needed more time Friday night. More time to find its rhythm, more time to make adjustments and more time to keep the plays rolling. The Bulldawgs imposed their will in the second half by shutting down the Austin Bowie offense and scoring 21 unanswered points, but in th…
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HEWITT — Harker Heights rode an explosive offense and an opportunistic defense to a 3-0 start with one week off to prepare for district play. The Knights rolled past the Round Rock McNeil Mavericks 64-28 Friday at Panther Stadium on the campus of Midway High School.
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KERRVILLE — A last-minute location change forced the Tivy Antlers to play a road game at their home stadium Friday night.
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Freshman Luke Anderson finished second and was one of five Salado runners to place in the top 14 as the Eagles won the 1A-4A boys division of the Pflugerville ISD Invitational on Friday.
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Harker Heights reached District 12-6A’s pinnacle last year. Now, the Lady Knights must remain there.
For the first time this season, Belton senior Zach Dennison was passed. His team, however, was not.
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A "substantial water main break" at Leo Buckley Stadium in Killeen has caused the Harker Heights football game against Round Rock McNeil to be canceled Thursday evening.
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Two weeks into the season, and only two area teams remain undefeated.
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The gaps are closing.
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COPPERAS COVE — The Copperas Cove Bulldawgs showed life in the third quarter Friday evening as they fought hard to chip into a 16-point deficit against the Georgetown Eagles.
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BELTON — Round Rock used a dominant rushing attack for the second week in a row, getting 152 yards from senior Trayvian McCoy-Gay and three rushing scores from quarterback Mason Cochran as the Dragons coasted to a 35-0 win over Belton in the Tigers’ home opener Friday at Tiger Field.
FORT WORTH — Opened in 1939, Fort Worth’s Farrington Field has hosted its fair share of historic teams and games, including an NFL preseason game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos in 1968.
GRANDVIEW — The Salado Eagles looked poised to leave Grandview on Friday night with atonement for their 21-7 loss to the Zebras in 2020. The Zebras, however, had other ideas and escaped with a 32-28 victory.
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AUSTIN — Despite excellent play on defense and outstanding offense from senior running back Khamari McClain, junior wide receiver Bobby Williams and Dantrell Sterling, Ellison couldn’t overcome a two-touchdown halftime deficit and fell to Austin Vandegrift 31-14 on Friday at Monroe Stadium.
Outside hitter Lainey Taylor's 12 kills helped the Salado volleyball team get a home sweep of Killeen on Friday in Salado.
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PFLUGERVILLE — Killeen came alive when it had to.
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It was a stellar start to the season.
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PFLUGERVILLE — Harker Heights running back Re’Shaun Sanford cut through the Pflugerville Weiss defense Friday evening, accounting for 280 total yards and three touchdowns.
GEORGETOWN — It took a quarter for Belton and Georgetown to find their offensive footing Friday night in the season opener. But once they did, each team proved almost equally difficult to stop.
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FLORENCE — The Johnson City LBJ Eagles stopped Florence’s two-point try with no time remaining and beat the Buffaloes 14-13 in the teams’ season opener Friday at Stampede Stadium.
BELTON — Not only was Lake Belton’s first game against an established varsity program one to be recorded for posterity. It also was a victory to be relished while moving forward this season.
BELTON — Salado spoiled Stephen Hermesmeyer’s debut as Troy head coach, rolling to a 62-0 season-opening victory at Mary Hardin-Baylor’s Crusader Stadium on Friday night.
Belton delivered a one-sided showing at its season-opening home meet.
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ROUND ROCK — Neil Searcy feels Killeen was playing against two teams.
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AUSTIN – A lightning proximity warning sent fans and players into the locker rooms and back to their vehicles with 46 seconds remaining in the second quarter of a game between the Copperas Cove Bulldawgs and Round Rock Stony Point Tigers on Thursday evening.
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It is an extremely unusual situation, and Neil Searcy is embracing it.
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COPPERAS COVE — The game may not have been official or played for score, but don’t tell the 200 or so Lady Dawg faithful who watched the varsity team scrimmage a team of 11 former volleyball players Friday evening.
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Steffin McCarter didn’t get to jump for a medal, coming up three spots short (and less than 1½ inches) of reaching the long jump finals on Saturday at the Tokyo Games.
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One month ago, he was shoved into the spotlight.
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Statements were made at every level.
Alyson Bishoff understands it will not be easy.
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Jamyron Keller is one of a kind.
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EUGENE, Ore. — Sydney McLaughlin looked to her left and saw the numbers “51.90.” Her first thought: “Oh my gosh!”
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COPPERAS COVE — If you were to eat at Raising Cane’s in Copperas Cove and walk down the hall on the west side of the restaurant, you will find a display that pays homage to some of Copperas Cove’s athletes that have seen success in the professional ranks.
Killeen High graduate T’Mond Johnson is hoping to shot put his way into next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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Dominique Zeigler could not help but think back.
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BELTON — Russel Cochran was given one final opportunity to take the mound, and he capitalized.
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BELTON — After playing without spectators at last year’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes Super Centex Victory Bowl softball game, Friday night’s fans — especially those of Academy’s Molly VandenBout — had plenty to cheer during the sixth annual game that allowed 30 seniors from 25 Central T…
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