Cumby Trojans Football Coach Tom Dracos Leaving To Coach At Cuero
Cumby Football Coach Tom Dracos is leaving to become the Assistant Athletic Director and Offensive Coordinator at Cuero. Coach Dracos Coach Dracos has been at Cumby since 2013. The Trojans were 8-4 last year and made it to the Area game in the playoffs. Coach Dracos will be working for Coach Jack Alvarez, former coach at Ennis, where he won at state championship after getting by the Wildcats earlier in the playoffs. Coach Alvarez was...
Game Day To Include Baseball, Softball And Track, Weather Permitting
Baseball, softball and track are scheduled on this Thursday, March 12, game day, weather permitting. The Wildcats Baseball Team is playing in its last tournament of the season. They are in the Reich Builders Classic in Hallsville. The Wildcats will be playing a pair of games back to back on this game day Thursday. The Wildcats play Brownsboro at 3:45 p.m. Then they take on Lovejoy at 6 p.m. The Wildcats enter the six-team tournament...
Wildcats Tennis Team Gets Some Good Results at Pleasant Grove and Sulphur Springs Tournaments
Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez liked what he saw from several of his players at recent tournaments at Pleasant Grove (March 6) and at Sulphur Springs (February 28). At Pleasant Grove, with great weather, Coach Martinez said a girls’ doubles team of Mykylie Meador and Trynity Luckett, both freshmen, got third place. He said both players have been progressing all season. Coach Martinez said his #2 boys’ doubles team of...
Wildcats Rally Late to Win District Opener Over Royse City, 6-5 At Home
Trailing 5-3 going into the bottom of the sixth inning, the Wildcats rallied with three big runs to take the lead in a 6-5 win over Royse City in the district opener for both teams at Wildcat Park Tuesday night, March 10. A Bulldog error in the inning led to two runs scoring. The Wildcats scored the game’s first run in the bottom of the first inning. Royse City tied it at 1-1 in the top of the third. The Wildcats then went up...
Lady Cats Softball Team Loses Close One At Sherman, 3-2 Tuesday Evening
The Lady Cats Softball Team just could not come up with the big hit they needed in a 3-2 loss at Sherman Tuesday evening, March 10, in a non-district game. Meanwhile, Sherman jumped out to a 3-0 lead scoring 1 unearned run in the bottom of the second and 2 more in the bottom of the fourth. The Lady Cats chipped away with single runs in the top of the sixth and top of the seventh but came up one run short. The Lady Cats outhit Sherman,...
Wildcats Soccer Team Ekes By Texas High 3-2 In Overtime On The Road
For the most part, the Wildcats Soccer Team has found a way to win close games this season. For the third time in 9 district games, the Wildcats defeated an opponent in overtime. It happened for the third time Tuesday night in Texarkana as the Wildcats topped Texas High, 3-2. Both of the Wildcats’ wins over the Tigers have been by a single goal in overtime. Wildcats Coach Alexi Upton noted the Wildcats manage to get a win...
Local Youth Reportedly Killed In Oklahoma ATV Crash
A local youth was reported Tuesday to have been killed in an all terrain vehicle crash in Oklahoma during spring break. The Way Bible Church Pastor Joel Tiemeyer reported Sam Kopal’s death Tuesday, asking for prayers for the Sulphur Springs student’s parents and sister, Chad and Cristie Kopal and their daughter Chloe. Facebook post from The Way Bible Church asking for prayer for the Kopal family in their time of grief....
The Lady Cats Soccer Team Drops Game to Texas High In Overtime On Emotional Night
Senior Night is always an emotional night and add to that the heartbreaking news of the death of a schoolmate during Spring Break meant the Lady Cats were carrying some heavy baggage into their district contest against Texas High Tuesday night, March 10, at Gerald Prim Stadium. After a scoreless regulation, the Lady Tigers scored twice during the first half of overtime and then held on during the second half to take a 2-0 win. The...
Saltillo and Sulphur Bluff Are Represented on District 24-A All-District Basketball Team
The District Champion Saltillo Lady Lions earned two superlatives and had nine players chosen on the District 24-A All-District Basketball Team selected by the district’s coaches. Lady Lions Chandler Bain and Anna Reeder were named co-MVPs. Senior Jocelyn Ochoa was chosen as the district’s Offensive MVP. Lady Lions selected First Team All-District were Brittney Peeples and Maddy Smith. Lady Lions making the Second Team...
Soccer, Baseball and Softball Are on the Schedule For Tuesday Game Day
District Wildcats’ baseball, district Wildcats and Lady Cats’ soccer and Lady Cats’ non-district softball are all on this Tuesday (March 10) game day. Because of District 15-5A baseball teams playing three rounds of district play, the district season has to begin before all the tournaments are done. That means before the Wildcats play their third and last tournament this year at Hallsville starting Thursday, they...
