Wildcat Baseball Coach Comments on Season
Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack Wants His Team to Get Up Off the Mat After Tuesday (March 26) night’s 11-3 loss to Royse City, Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack told his team a story he had heard about famous boxer Muhammad Ali. He told them that once when Ali had been knocked down unto the mat, he looked around and thought, the champion doesn’t need to be down on the mat. So he got up and continued to fight....
Sulphur Springs FFA Teams Compete At Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
Sulphur Springs FFA Show Teams entered their show projects in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The Sulphur Springs High School FFA show teams have had a busy month, competing in multiple events at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Beef Heifer Show team competed at the Houston Show March 5-9. Breanna Sells, Hayden Daniel, Jodie Tippit, Sydney Swatsell, Elida Miller, Cash Vititow and Savannah Allen all competed with their show...
Tira News for March 26, 2019
By Jan Vaughn Joyce Dodd reports, “Our food angels, along with Martha Payton’s brother, Von Honzel, and the Tira preacher and his wife, Clyde and Victoria Bostick, brought several large bags of groceries to our pantry today.” We always appreciate the contributions. Also, I want to express appreciation to Georgia Smith, Yvonne Weir and Joyce Dodd for putting the food on the shelves, and to everyone who helps with the pantry each...
KSST is Giving Away Texas Rangers Baseball Tickets! – March 31st, 2019
KSST is giving away eight tickets (4 tickets to 2 lucky winners) to the Sunday, March 31st, 2019 Texas Ranger Game. The Rangers will be facing the Chicago Cubs.
Saltillo Lady Lions Have Huge Win
Saltillo Lady Lions Softball 19, Yantis 9 Lady Lions Win Second Game of Season The Saltillo Lady Lions’ softball team scored runs in every inning to defeat Yantis, 19-9 on Tuesday (March 26). The Lady Lions jumped out to a 9-0 lead. Yantis rallied back to within two runs trailing only 9-7. Both teams scored two runs in the third inning and Saltillo led 11-9 after three. The Lady Lions put the game away with eight unanswered runs...
City-Wide Clean Up Announced For April 8-13
Sulphur Springs residents will have an opportunity next month to get rid of unwanted most household items during the city’s annual City-Wide Clean Up. marc maxwell The clean up will be conducted 1/4-mile east of Flowserve from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, April 8 through Saturday, April 13. “About half the time, people bring tree limbs and brush, sofas, things of that nature. Unfortunately, if we don’t do this, things might...
North Hopkins Baseball Has Near No-Hitter
North Hopkins Baseball 10, Fruitvale 0 North Hopkins Just Misses Out on No-Hitter in 10-0 Win North Hopkins’ baseball pitcher Caleb Wyatt lost his no-hitter in the game’s last inning as the Panthers defeated Fruitvale soundly, 10-0 Tuesday. Wyatt threw a six inning one-hit shutout striking out 12. Meanwhile the North Hopkins batters got 8 hits and committed no errors. Brycen Gillespie got North Hopkins started with a...
Wildcat Baseball Suffers Tough Loss
Wildcats Have an Evening to Forget at Wildcat Park The Wildcats’ baseball team had a very tough night at home Tuesday night (March 26) as the Royse City Bulldogs left town with a lopsided, 11-3 win. The Bulldogs pounded out 18 hits while the Wildcats could only get 5. Still for most of the night, the Wildcats kept hanging around. Going into the top of the seventh inning, the Wildcats only trailed, 5-3. Royse City removed all the...
County Firefighters Respond To Second Structure Fire In 2 Days
County firefighters’ quick response to a FM 1567 building fire Tuesday afternoon limited the amount of damage sustained by the blaze. The cause of the fire was still under investigation Wednesday morning, but nothing suspicious had been identified in connection with the blaze, according to Hopkins County Fire Chief Andy Endsley. “The guys got a quick knock down on it. There was not a lot of heavy fire damage. It was more smoke...
