Seven Lady Cats and Five Wildcats Qualify for Area Meet at District Meet Last Week
At the District 15-5A Track Meet held last week (March 31-April 1), 5 Wildcats and 7 Lady Cats qualified for the Area Track Meet on April 15 at Whitehouse. Athletes and relay teams had\to finish in the top four to qualify at district. Top six finishes scored points. For the Wildcats, who scored 45 points finishing 7th, Alex Flecker qualified with a 4th place finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:06.169. Korderrian “Bull”...
Lady Cats Golfer Mariam Tran is Going to the Regional Tourney as Lady Cats are 4th in District
Lady Cats golfer Mariam Tran had her work cut out for her after day one of the District 15-5A Golf Tournament at Tempest Golf Course in Gladewater last Wednesday (March 31). Battling high winds, Tran shot an 85 and was several strokes behind where she needed to be to qualify for the Regional Tournament. Thursday, Tran fired a 77 on day two for a 162 total to qualify. She was 5th overall in the district tournament. The Regional...
Wildcats Golfer Kip Childress Qualifies for Regional Tourney and Team is Fifth at District
At the two-day District 15-5A Golf Tournament at Tempest Golf Course in Gladewater last Monday and Tuesday (March 29-30), Wildcats’ golfer Kip Childress, an East Texas Baptist University commit, qualified for the Regional Tournament. The Wildcats finished 5th as a team. Childress followed an opening day 71 with a second day 75 for a two day total of 146. Childress finished 3rd overall in the tournament to qualify. The Regional...
Both Varsity and JV Commerce Track Teams Win Quitman Relays
In their last invitational of the year, both the Varsity and JV Commerce Tigers track and field teams won the Quitman Relays. The Varsity boys won the meet, thanks in large part to a great team effort that got the Tigers 162 points in Quitman. In field events, Aidan Crowder took third in long jump and Omarhi Davis got fourth in shot put. Davis did win discuss though, and Richard Jackson took silver in the event. Ty Hoffman got third...
North Hopkins Baseball Team’s Rally Comes Up Short in 5-4 Loss at Miller Grove
The North Hopkins Baseball Team was edged out by Miller Grove on the Road, 5-4 Friday. The Panthers led 3-1 after the top of the fourth but the Hornets scored two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth to go ahead 5-3. The Panthers were able to get one more run in the sixth but that was all. North Hopkins left 12 runners on base. Panthers’ pitcher Dakota Smith deserved a better fate as he threw six innings allowing 5 hits...
Saltillo Softball Falls to Como-Pickton, 10-1
The Saltillo Lady Lions softball team fell behind early and could not recover, losing at Como-Pickton on Friday, Apr. 2 by a score of 10-1. Saltillo put a run on the board to start the game, taking a 1-0 advantage against the home Lady Eagles. But Como-Pickton struck back, and with fierce tenacity, scoring three runs of their own in the bottom of the first to take a 3-1 lead after one frame. The Lady Eagles were not done there,...
Walks and Errors Combine to Do In the Wildcats Baseball Team in an 8-1 Loss to Hallsville
A district baseball summit battle of the top two teams ended poorly for the Wildcats due to walks and errors in an 8-1 loss to Hallsville at Wildcat Park Thursday night (April 1). Wildcats’ pitchers held the Bobcats to just 5 hits but 11 walks and 5 errors made the hits effective. Meanwhile the Wildcats also struggled with the bats collecting only 4 hits and scoring only 1 run. Wildcats pitcher Hayden Hurst took the loss. He...
Two Overtime Goals For Longview Lead to 3-1 Win Over the Wildcats Soccer Team
For about 1:46 the Wildcats Soccer Team looked like they might just pull off an upset of District 15-5A Champ Longview in a Regional Quarterfinal game at Lindale Thursday night (April 1). The Wildcats took a 1-0 lead with just 3:38 left in regulation when Omar Hernandez beat the Lobos goalkeeper to a ball and slipped it past him into the net. Faced with playoff elimination, Longview put their offense into high gear. The intense...
Lady Cats Softball Takes Revenge Game Against Hallsville, 3-0
The Lady Cats softball team took advantage of errors committed by Hallsville to win the rematch against the Lady Cats by a score of 3-0. “We took advantage of scoring opportunities,” Coach Carrillo said adding that he thought his team scored at just about every chance they got. The Lady Cats won off of only five hits against Hallsville, but those hits turned in to three runs over the course of the game. Sulphur Springs...
Busy Wildcats and Lady Cats Game Day Features, Soccer, Baseball, Softball, Track, Golf and Tennis
With Good Friday coming up Friday, all Wildcats and Lady Cats’ sports activity has been pushed into a very busy Thursday (April 1) game day. The Wildcats Soccer Team takes on District 15-5A champion Longview in a Regional Quarterfinal playoff game at Lindale starting at 7 p.m. The two teams met twice in district play and the Lobos squeaked by the Wildcats, 1-0 in each match. The Wildcats have a season record of 17-10-1 after...
