Season Ticket Sales Continue
Current Wildcats’ football season ticket holders, who have not yet renewed their seats, have until 5 p.m. Tuesday to renew. Season tickets not renewed by the deadline will be available for others. Lots of the current season ticket holders renewed on Monday. Lynette King, who coordinates the season ticket activity, said that about 67% of the current season ticket holders renewed their seats Monday. She said traffic on Tuesday had...
SSHS Team Tennis Set to Travel Next Week
Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez had to content with several players who were unable to show up for the first day of team tennis practice Monday morning. They missed a dual session. It started bright and early Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. with running at the high school track. Later the players in attendance had challenge matches to determine seeding for early matches. The Wildcats play two road matches on Tuesday, August 9. They...
Six Varsity Lady Cats Return for Volleyball this Season
The Lady Cats’ volleyball team opened their fall campaign with two practices Monday. First came early morning conditioning. Later the nearly 40 hopefuls were involved in tryouts as new Head Coach Justin Maness decides who be end up on the varsity, JV and freshmen teams. He says there should be a lof ot competition. Last year’s varsity team was 28-14 and got to the second round of the playoffs. Six of the nine varsity...
Season Tickets Week
One of the biggest weeks for Wildcats’ football fans takes place next week as it’s Season Tickets Week. The cost for a season ticket packet of five home games is $50. The first two days, Monday and Tuesday, will be for current season ticket holders to renew their seats. Tickets not renewed those two days will be available to others. Wednesday is a day for renewing season ticket holders to seek upgrades. Those season...
“Updated” Hopkins County Angels and Ponytails Win First Games in World Series Play
Both the 9 and 10 year old Hopkins County Angels and the 11 and 12 year old Hopkins County Pony Tails won their 9 a.m. Saturday games at the World Series tournament in Alexandria, Louisiana Saturday morning. The Angels defeated North Carolina 5-1. The Pony Tails hammered Georgia 9-1. Both teams play again Sunday. The Angels will play Mississippi at 11 a.m. The Ponytails take on Tennessee at 1 p.m.
Volleyball and Team Tennis to Start
Sports activity for the fall semester at Sulphur Springs High School will begin Monday as the Lady Cats’ volleyball team and the Wildcats’ team tennis squad will have practice. The Lady Cats’ volleyball team will have sessions Monday from 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. and then from 9:45 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. The new Lady Cats volleyball coach is Justin Maness, who was the Head Volleyball Coach at Paris Junior College for...
Softball World Series
Two Hopkins County Dixie softball teams will start World Series play in Alexandria, Louisiana on Saturday. Both the 9 and 10 year old Hopkins County Angels and the 11 and 12 year old Hopkins County Pony Tails won Texas State Championship tournaments and will be playing in Louisiana. The Angels open up against North Carolina Saturday at 9 a.m. The Pony Tails will open against Macon, Georgia also at 9 a.m. Saturday. The Angels...
State Representative Flynn Presents Texas Flag to Wildcats for Florida Trip
A couple of months ago, State Representative Dan Flynn of Van, a former high school football player, dropped by the Sulphur Springs Multipurpose Building to take a look at the facility. He learned that the Wildcats would be playing their second football game of the season on September 2 at EPSN’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. He decided the Wildcats needed a Texas flag to take with them so everyone in Florida...
Bright Star Baseball Begins Online Registration Friday
Online registration for Bright Star Baseball fall season begins Friday, July 29. The fall season will be six weeks beginning September 12th and ending October 17th. October 24th is reserved for any needed make-up game. All who desire to sign on as buddies, sixth grade and older and players ages 5-18 can register online at www.brightstarbaseball.com. Bright Star Baseball is designed for players who have special needs to play the game...
Wildcat Freshmen Football Camp Vital This Year
Wildcats Head Football Coach Greg Owens feels this year’s Freshmen Football Camp is an especially important one this year. The incoming ninth graders will lose one week of practice along with all the returning varsity players even though the freshmen didn’t go through spring football in May. The three-day camp started Tuesday and will wrap up Thursday. Coach Owens says the freshmen will get back three days of the five they...
