Basketball and soccer are happening on this Tuesday (December 17) game day.
The Wildcats Basketball Team faces one of their biggest challenges of the season as Denton Guyer will be at the main gym at Sulphur Springs High School Tuesday taking on the Wildcats. There will be a freshman game at 5 p.m. A JV contest will follow at around 6:15 p.m. The varsity game is expected to get underway at around 7:30 p.m. Guyer is ranked #5 in Class 6A. The Guyer Wildcats have a 10-2 season record. The Sulphur Springs Wildcats, ranked #17 in Class 5A, have a season record of 11-4. Wildcats Coach Clark Cipoletta said Guyer has several very tall players that will make the Wildcats appear to be small. KSST Radio will have the Denton Guyer and Wildcats game for you Tuesday night featuring live streaming video and audio. The game will also be videotaped for replay later on Channel 18 on Suddenlink Cable and will also be posted to YouTube after the game.
Meanwhile the Wildcats and Lady Cats’ soccer teams will both have their second scrimmage of the season and both will be playing Paris. The Wildcats take on Paris at Gerald Prim Stadium. The Wildcats JV takes on Paris at 5:30 p.m. The Wildcats varsity plays Paris at 7:15 p.m. Paris is preseason ranked #6 in Class 4A.
The Lady Cats Soccer Team will be traveling to Paris. They too will have a JV scrimmage at 5:30 p.m. The Lady Cats varsity takes on Paris at around 7:15 p.m. The Paris Lady Wildcats are also preseason ranked in Class 4A. Lady Cats Soccer Coach Javier Aguayo expects Paris to present more of a challenge that Kilgore, who the Lady Cats scrimmaged last Thursday at The Prim. Coach Aguayo says Paris went four rounds into the playoffs last year. He says one of the Paris’ players is so good that the Lady Cats will have to know where she is at all times. Last Thursday the Lady Cats battled to a 2-2 tie with Kilgore before falling in penalty kicks. Coach Aguayo says his team must improve its’ passing. He says a couple of mistakes led to goals by Kilgore last week Still he says the Lady Cats are getting better adding that they have come a long way since last season.
