North Hopkins Baseball Gets No-Hitter and Breaks Open Tight Game Late Against Excell
North Hopkins pitcher Wyatt Wharton tossed a no-hitter and the Panthers scored eight late runs to defeat Excell, 10-1 Friday (April 12) at North Hopkins. Wharton got the pitching win going seven innings allowing no hits and just one run while striking out 16 and walking five. The Panthers got 11 hits and committed no errors. The Panthers went up 1-0 in the bottom of the first on a Caleb Wyatt sacrifice fly. Wyatt was 1 for 2 with a...
Two Wildcats Football Players and Lady Cats Track Athlete Sign With Colleges
Sulphur Springs Wildcats DQ Pitts and Jermond Bryant-Amos signed with RPA College in Arlington, and SSHS Lady Cat Abbi Beggs signed with Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, Indiana. DQ Pitts and Jermond Bryant-Amos signed with RPA College in Arlington. RPA is next door to UT-Arlington. It’s a prep school that plays a JUCO schedule and focuses athletes on their studies. Players that attend will have all of their college eligibility left...
Local Football Legend Forrest Gregg Passed Away Early Friday
Football legend Forrest Gregg died Friday at his Colorado home at age 85. Forrest Gregg, a true local football legend, passed away Friday at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 85. Gregg was originally from Birthright and he played high school football at Sulphur Springs High School. He played in college at SMU. Gregg spent 15 years in the National Football League as an offensive lineman, almost all of it with the Green Bay Packers....
Saltillo Softball Team Drops Game to Solid Sulphur Bluff Team Thursday
Sulphur Bluff has a reputation for playing good softball and they showed it in a 12-4 win over the Saltillo Lady Lions Thursday. Saltillo scored four runs in the top of the second inning to take a brief 4-3 lead. The Lady Bears scored the last nine runs in the game Chandler Bain took the pitching loss for Saltillo. She had five strikeouts and three walks. For Saltillo, Bain was 1 for 3 wih a double. Raegan Speir was 3 for 4 with three...
Home Baseball and Softball on Friday Game Day
There is home baseball and softball on this game day Friday (April 12). The Wildcats’ baseball team hopes to begin a winning streak that will land them in the playoffs. The Lady Cats are trying to hold on to first place and win a second straight district championship. The Wildcats finish off their three game district series with Greenville at Wildcat Park. There is a lot at stake Friday night. Both teams have won once so far....
LADY CATS SOFTBALL USING WAKE UP CALL TO RACK UP DISTRICT WINS
Lady Cats Softball Coach David Carrillo said his team’s 3-1 loss to Mount Pleasant served as a wake up call for his team. Since the March 29 loss, the Lady Cats have won three straight games with double digit hits in each game. The Lady Cats used 14 hits Tuesday night to defeat Greenville, 11-3 in Greenville. Coach Carrillo said his team hit the ball much better than they did in the Greenville game on March 22 at Lady Cat Park,...
WILDCATS BASEBALL COACH CALLS GREENVILLE LOSS MOST DISAPPOINTING OF THE YEAR
Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack said his Wildcats have had some disappointing losses this season but he said Tuesday (April 9) night’s 10-9 loss at Greenville was the most disappointing. He said the Wildcats finally got the bats going. The Wildcats had 12 hits and they scored nine runs. The Wildcats led Greenville, 9-5 going into the bottom of the seventh. The Lions scored four times to send the game into extra innings...
Saltillo Lady Lions’ Softball Team Takes Hard Fought loss at Detroit Tuesday
In a game that went back and forth, the Saltillo Lady Lions’ softball team dropped a hard fought game to Detroit, 11-9 in Detroit Tuesday (April 9). Detroit led 1-0 after two innings. Saltillo tied it at 1-1 in the third but Detroit went up 5-1 in the bottom of the third. The Lady Lions scored three runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth to go up 6-5. Detroit had a four run bottom of the fifth to go back ahead 9-6....
North Hopkins Gets Another Lopsided Win Over Miller Grove, 19-0 on Tuesday
Talk about a great start. The North Hopkins Panthers scored 15 runs in the bottom of the first to lead the Hornets, 15-0 after one inning on their way to a 19-0 win Tuesday (April 9). The Panthers added three runs in the second and one more run in the third. The Panthers had 15 hits. Meanwhile Panthers’ pitchers Caleb Wyatt and Wyatt Wharton combined to throw a one-hit shutout in a game that only went 3 ½ innings. Wyatt got the...
Wildcats Baseball Team Loses Wild Extra Inning Game at Greenville, 10-9
After the Wildcats’ baseball team stranded a runner at third base in the top of the eighth inning, Greenville got a clutch single in the bottom of the eighth to score the winning run in a wild, 10-9 game at Greenville Tuesday night (April 9). The Lions’ Brayden Hudspeth drove home the winning run capping a 4 for 5 performance at the plate. The Lions also trailed 9-5 going into the bottom of the seventh but scored four runs...
