Wildcat Football: Coordinators Review Royse City Game
Wildcats Offensive Coordinator Matt Young on Royse City Game and Open Date
Going into last Thursday (September 20) night’s game at Royse City, Wildcats Offensive Coordinator Matt Young said he found several things to worry about. One was the odd Thursday game instead of the usual Friday date. Then came he weather delay. There was the Bulldogs ball control offense that gave the Wildcats only 8 or 9 possessions during the game and then Coach Young said there was the really good defense of Royse City.
Coach Young said it is good to be 3-0 for the season and 2-0 in district play. Still he said he and his staff keep looking for the perfect game from the Wildcats’ offense. Coach Young said the offensive execution was better against the Bulldogs than in earlier games. He added there were things the Wildcats could still do better. Coach Young said receiver Austin Dodd and quarterback D’Corian Young had good games against Royse City. He said the Wildcats won the turnover battle and Coach Young said the quarterback, running backs and everyone doing their assignment were factors in the lack of turnovers. He said one ball ended up on the ground but the Wildcats got it back.
Coach Young also liked offensive contributions from receivers Landry Tyson and Jase Thompson and from B-back and Bulls quarterback Jermond Bryant-Amos. The Wildcats scored two of their touchdowns on fourth down plays. Coach Young said the offensive coaching staff is using the bye week to clean up some things that might get neglected when a team is preparing for an opponent.
Wildcats Defensive Coordinator Alex Guerra Comments on RC Win and on the Bye Week
The Wildcats’ defense yielded about 200 yards of total offense last Thursday (September 20) in the district win over Royse City. The Bulldogs completed only one pass for a minus three yards. They rushed for about 200 yards. Wildcats Defensive Coordinator Alex Guerra said he was pleased with the defensive play against the pass but he acknowledged that the Bulldogs don’t pass much.
Concerning defense against the run, Coach Guerra said there were moments of good play but also some that featured missed tackles and blown assignments. He said inside linebacker Daniel Moreno had another solid game for the Wildcats. Coach Guerra said Moreno’s hard work was paying off. He said he constantly cautioned the secondary into being lulled to sleep by the Bulldogs. Coach Guerra said the Bulldogs took some shots but were not successful.
He said he was pleased with the play of the Wildcats defensive line. He said Ignacio Guerrero, Jose Rodriguez and Cameron Kaufert all had strong games. Coach Geurra said Evan Rushing also made plays. He said the Wildcats’ tackling was improved in this game. Coach Guerra said his #1 goal was to have improved tackling by the Wildcats.
He said he was happy that the Wildcats’ defense seemed to be heading in the right direction but he added they were still not where they need to be. Coach Guerra said the defense is working to clean up some things during the bye week but he said they were also doing some early work on next opponent Forney. He looks forward to getting some of his injured players back. Several situations really pleased Coach Guerra in last week’s game. One was the stop the defense made in the red zone that made the Bulldogs settle for a field goal. The other arose when defenders had a hard time picking him up before a play. He said safety Austin Dodd stepped in and made the correct call for the defense.
Game Day: Lady Cat Volleyball at Lindale; Team Tennis Match Moved to Wednesday
The Lady Cats’ volleyball team is back in action in district play on this game day Tuesday (September 25). The Lady Cats travel to Lindale to face the Lady Eagles. The Lady Cats are 0-1 in district play after Friday’s 3-1 loss at Royse City in the district opener for both teams. The Lady Eagles are off to a 1-0 start in district play as they won at Mount Pleasant last Friday, 3-0. The Lady Cats have a season record of 24-8 and they are ranked #25 in the Texas Girls Coaches Association Poll this week. Lindale has a 25-8 season record and they are ranked #14 in the TGCA Poll. Freshman and JV matches get underway at 5 p.m. in Lindale on this game day Tuesday. The varsity match is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.
Usually there is also team tennis on Tuesday. Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez said the Wildcats and Mount Pleasant have agreed to play their match on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in Mount Pleasant.
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‘The Write Stuff’ from Young Publishers Class at Thee Treehouse Christian School
After forty years of teaching kindergarten in public classrooms and teaching writing on the college level, Sharon Feldt of Sulphur Springs, Texas came out of retirement to teach again. It has become her dream job because it’s positioned in a most satisfying environment for her creative skills. Back in 2017, Sharon joined the teaching staff at Thee Treehouse, a Christian school for home schooled kids. Her Creative Writing curriculum soon spawned the Young Publishers Class, made up of fourteen Intermediate to Middle-school age students who wanted to take the challenge of writing stories for a book. This summer, the Young Publishers did write the book which is a collection, or anthology, of original stories by the students. The genres of the stories include fiction and non-fiction and vary from actual happenings to mystery to legend to myth. It’s first-edition title is “The Write Stuff Presents Tales from Thee Treehouse”, and it is a 130-page, 14-chapter glimpse of these young published authors and their works of poems, stories and illustrations. Three of the young published authors visited the KSST/Channel 18 studios to be interviewed about their anthology.
The Creative Writing class is among the many classes offered to the 35 home schooled youngsters enrolled, who are already receiving their education basics at home. Other subjects being offered include Digital Storytelling, Art, Spanish, American Sign Language, Peices of the Globe (geography and culture of places around the world), the Young Explorers outdoors class, and S.T.E.A.M. which covers Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Teaching staff includes Debbie Rhodes, Kelli Ebel, Kelly Wallis, Sharon Feldt and Principal Carrie Hurley. The school is open 2-3 days per week and can be attended in addition to homeschool classwork taught at home. You can find out more on Facebook at Thee Treehouse or by calling Ms. Feldt at 832-687-6617.
A Glimpse of Some Fun and Interesting Activities at the Sulphur Springs Sr. Center to Benefit the Community
This week alone, a series of activities which benefit the community was held at the Seniors Center in Sulphur Springs, Texas. This was not exactly a special week, but a snapshot of the kind of good things going on there all the time! A free educational seminar about Medicare benefits, a meeting by a group which uses their knitting skills to benefit persons in need, and a Mini-Walk to raise funds for an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Respite program…plus Bingo, games, fitness and food events….that’s just a bit of what happens on a weekly basis for local Senior Citizens to get involved in!
Debbie Sheley and Ann Woodall with “The Retirement Gals” gave a wonderful and educational program about Medicare,
Medicare Supplements and Advantage Plans. Debbie has been working with Medicare for the past 33 years. She does not do sales… she does solutions. She works hard to give you information and helps you make the right decisions for YOU. Everyone’s situation is different. It isn’t a one shoe fits all. Everyone in attendance went home with a whole pie to enjoy. They will be back at the Senior Citizens Center on Monday, October 15th at 1:00 to talk about the new assistance that seniors with both Medicare and Medicaid can get this year.
The Shawls of Love Group that meets at the Senior Citizens Center
on the 4th Monday of each month has been making Little Christmas Stockings that will be filled with candy and given to some of the Nursing Homes residents in Sulphur Springs .The group could always use some more help making things for Hospice Patients, Nursing Home Residents and Cancer Patients. If you would like to help, call Hillis Bass at (903) 485-8165
Also shown are Sponsors: Stacy Wetzel, Marketer and Janna Davis, Public Relations
with Sulphur Springs Imaging
During each year’s “Walk to Remember” season, Karon Weatherman holds a “mini-walk” at the Seniors Center as a fundraiser for the Terrific Tuesdays program. The Seniors Center walk joins eight others as a precursor to the major “Walk to Remember” set for Thursday October 4 at 6pm in The Gardens of Christus Mother Francis Hospital in Sulphur Springs. Your $20 registration qualifies you to join all the Walks in the series, and will be part of reaching the annual goal of $10,000 earmarked for the 2019 budget for Terrific Tuesdays. Come join local Seniors and help a great cause!
National 4-H Week October 7-13 Proclaimed in Hopkins County
Hopkins County Commissioners Court proclaimed October 7-13, National 4-H Week in the county.
WHEREAS, The Hopkins County Commissioner’s Court is proud to honor the 4-H Youth Development Program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service for 111 years of providing experience-based education to youngsters throughout the Lone Star State; and
WHEREAS, This admirable program, which seeks to provide a learning experience for the whole child, including head, heart, hands, and health, helps young Texans to acquire knowledge, develop life skills, and form attitudes to enable them to become self-directed, productive, and contributing members of our society; and
WHEREAS, Its more than 550,000 urban, suburban, and rural youth participants, ranging in age from eight to nineteen, hail from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds and truly represent a cross-section of the state; and
WHEREAS, The program undoubtedly could not have achieved the success that it has today were it not for the service of its more than 22,000 volunteers, who have given generously of their time, talents, energies, and resources to the youth of Texas; and
WHEREAS, Throughout its proud history, the 4-H program has developed positive role models for countless Texans and through its innovative and inspiring programs, continues to build character and to instill the values that have made our state strong and great; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Hopkins County Commissioner’s Court, hereby designates October 7-13, 2018 as National 4-H Week in Texas and commend the 4-H Youth Development Program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the many men and women who made the program a success.
Failure to Register Social Media Presence Leads to Arrest of Parolee
Recently place on parole for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, Wayne Ray Campbell, 28, of Sulphur Springs, is back in Hopkins County Jail for Sex Offender Duty to Register for Life/Quarterly. Campbell failed to register his social media account and had begun to ask the wrong/inappropriate questions regarding a child in conversations on the account.
Campbell was seeking someone to care for a relative that is in ill health but during a social media conversation with an individual about the position, he began asking questions about that individual’s child, according to Charles Humphreys with the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office. Campbell had failed to register a change of his online identifiers and admitted to the offense during an interview.
In April, 2017, Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputies served an indictment warrant for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child under 14, according to Investigator Humphries. Campbell was arrested at his home on Country Road 3128 in Hopkins County.
At the time of the arrest, Humphries told KSST News that Campbell was arrested after the juvenile made an outcry to her step-father regarding an incident that happened in their home. She stated that Campbell, who was a guest in their home at the time of the incident, had touched her in an inappropriate manner.
Winnsboro Police Report September 17-23, 2018
Winnsboro Police Department reports three arrests, 115 calls for service, 14 citations written and 38 warnings issued during the September 17-23, 2018 period. There were no accidents reported.
Eaul Hayes, 32, of Winnsboro, was arrested September 17th for criminal mischief.
Scotty Wallis, 29, of Winnsboro, was arrested September 18th on City of Winnsboro Municipal Warrants.
Brian Rogers, 59, of Klondike, was arrested September 20th for Driving While License Invalid Enhanced.
Miller Grove Cross Country Runs in A & M Corpus Christi Islander Classic
Give Miller Grove Athletic Director and Cross Country Coach Gary Billingsley credit for some thinking outside the box. With rainy weather all around northeast Texas this past weekend, Coach Billingsley took his Hornets and Lady Hornets’ teams all the way to Corpus Christi for the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islander Classic. He probably was also looking for competition that will serve his teams well later on when the stakes are high.
The Lady Hornets competed against 303 runners in Class A through 4A and they finished 9th out of 36 teams. Jolee Fox was 25th in the race. Cassidy Seaney was 28th. Lauren Bullard was 51st. Alexa Pelerose was 119th. Jorja Bessonett was 136th. Lainy Burnett was 149th. Harli Watson was 173rd.
The Hornets competed in the Gold Division with the best runners in all classifications in Region IV. The Hornets were 18th out of 29 teams. There were 217 total runners. Isaiah Billingley was 16th. Grant Earp was 86th. Lance Davis was 121st. Kobe Robertson was 150th. Matt Brignon was 179th. Lexton Sly was 205th.
Maness Called Friday a Rough Night for Lady Cat Volleyball
Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Justin Maness said the Lady Cats losing their match at Royse City, 3-1 Friday September 21) was definitely not the way they wanted to open district play. He called it a rough night all the way around. Coach Maness said a lot of things didn’t fall the Lady Cats’ way.
He said the Lady Cats should have been able to fight their way through some of it. Coach Maness said he did not want to take anything away from the Lady Bulldogs because they played well. After a 25-19 opening loss, the Lady Cats and Lady Bulldogs then played three 25-23 matches. Set two was a turning point as the Lady Cats led at one point, 23-18. However Royse City scored the final seven points of the match to win, 25-23.
The final two sets were both tied at one point, 23-23. In set three, the Lady Cats scored the last two points to win, 25-23. In set four, the Lady Bulldogs scored the last two points to win it, 25-23 and the match, 3-1. For whatever reason, the Lady Cats received far more calls for double hits and lifts than the Lady Bulldogs did.
Coach Maness admitted that the negative calls knocked the breath out of the Lady Cats in the match. He said his team came in having played 31 matches and in those previous matches, the Lady Cats did not receive so many of those calls in any of the previous matches. Coach Maness said the numerous calls seemed to get into the Lady Cats’ heads.
He said the Lady Cats need to forget about the Friday match and focus now on Lindale. The Lady Cats, ranked #24 in the Texas Girls Coaches Association Poll, play at Lindale, ranked #16, Tuesday (September 25) night in a district match. Coach Maness said last year the Lady Cats opened district play 0-2 before winning ten straight district matches. They ended up as district champs.
Stats for the Royse City match
Kills Autumn Tanton 12 Madi Vickery 8 Abbi Baier 7 Erika VanBenthem 6 Lexi Whisenhunt 5 Sydney Washburn 4
Assists Lexi Whisenhunt 26
Digs Sadie Stroud 22 Maddie Millsap 10 Autumn Tanton 10 Erika VanBenthem 7 Lexi Whisenhunt 6 Taylor McElfresh 5 Abbi Baier 3 Sydney Washburn 3
Block Assists Autumn Tanton 5 Abbi Baier 3 Madi Vickery 3 Sydney Washburn 1
