Wildcat Student-Athletes Pursue Financial Assistance for EDGE Through Wildcat Lawns
Wildcats Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Owens says Wildcat Lawns is back in business. The student athlete lawn service began several years ago to help the athletes defray the cost of a trip to Orlando, Florida. Now the student athletes are needing financial assistance to pay for this summer’s Edge conditioning program that has partnered with Michael Johnson Performance. The Edge will cost $200 per athlete this...
Wildcats Spring Football Begins April 30th
For the third straight spring, the Wildcats’ football team will have spring football practice. It is scheduled to get underway on Monday, April 30. It will run Monday through Friday. The Spring Game, which marks the end of spring football practice, is tentatively scheduled for Friday, May 18. Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens said he is still working to finalize the spring football schedule. By having spring football, the...
Coaches for Wildcat, Lady Cats Review Wins Look to Next Game
Coach Hammack on Marshall Win Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack said he can appreciate a well pitched game. In fact he said there were two well-pitched games in the Wildcats 1-0 victory over Marshall at Wildcat Park Tuesday night (April 10). Each team managed only two hits. Coach Hammack said the Wildcats pitcher Ryan Humphries and the Mavericks pitcher Trevor Clark both mixed their pitches pretty well. He added our guy was just...
Lady Lions Lose Close One to North Hopkins
The Saltillo Lady Lions’ softball team lost a close one Tuesday (April 10), 4-2 to North Hopkins. The Lady Panthers jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. The Lady Lions cut the deficit to 2-1 with a run in the top of the third inning. North Hopkins got two more runs in the bottom of the fourth to go up, 4-1. Saltillo added a run in the top of the seventh but that’s all they could get in the 4-2 loss....
North Hopkins Baseball Senior Night
By Faith Wheeler and Amy Sprague The North Hopkins Panthers had their baseball senior night on Tuesday April 10th, in honor of their only graduating player, Chase Williams. Senior night followed the Varsity Baseball game against Fruitvale in which North Hopkins won 9-1. Williams has played North Hopkins baseball all four years of high school and is one of the star athletes at North Hopkins. Williams was escorted by his parents Charlie...
Williams Struck Out 14 in Panther 9-1 Win
The North Hopkins’ baseball team got good pitching and they used two big innings late to pull away from Fruitvale for a 9-1 win at home Tuesday. Panther pitcher Chase Williams got the win allowing only 3 hits and one earned run in seven innings. Williams struck out 14 Fruitvale batters and he issued only one walk. The Panthers outhit Fruitvale six to three. North Hopkins scored two runs in the bottom of the first. The game...
Solid Pitching and Two Big Innings Provide 7-1 Margin in Lady Cat Win
The Lady Cats’ softball team used two big innings and the solid pitching of Bailey Haggerty to defeat Marshall, 7-1 at Lady Cat Park Tuesday evening. The Lady Cats broke a scoreless tie with a three-run fourth inning and then added four more runs in the bottom of the sixth to increase their lead to 7-1. The Lady Cats had ten hits. Haggerty allowed only one earned run and three hits over seven innings while striking out 7 and...
Wildcats Edge By Marshall
Wildcats’ pitching ace Ryan Humphries threw a complete game two-hit shutout as the Wildcats edged by Marshall, 1-0 in a pitchers’ duel Tuesday night at Wildcat Park. Humphries threw 93 pitches over seven innings and struck out nine and walked only one. The Wildcats scored the only run Humphries would need in the bottom of the third inning when the Wildcats got both of their only hits. Gavin Millsap led off with a single....
Lady Cats: 14 Hits, 16 Runs in Victory over Pine Tree; Host Marshall Friday
Lady Cats Softball Coach David Carrillo found a lot to like in the Lady Cats 16-1 victory at Pine Tree Monday. The game was rained out Friday and had to be played from the beginning Monday. Coach Carrillo decided to rest his ace pitcher Bailey Haggerty Monday and he called on Tessa Holt. Holt answered by throwing a two hitter allowing only one earned run and no walks. Coach Carrillo said Holt did an outstanding job. He said when he...
Wildcat Baseball in Second Place in District
Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack couldn’t have written a script any better than what took place at Pine Tree Monday afternoon as the Wildcats and Pirates finished up a game they started Friday that was postponed due to rain. The Wildcats came in leading 7-4 starting in the top of the fifth inning. First the Wildcats put men on immediately and ended up scoring an additional run to go up 8-4. Jaxon Chaney pitched the final...
