Miller Grove Remains Unbeaten
In Hopkins County basketball, the Miller Grove Hornets remained unbeaten in district play as Kobe Robertson hit a game winning basket at the buzzer to give the Hornets a 45-43 win over Saltillo Friday night (February 2). The Hornets trailed at the half 24-18 but rallied in the second half to win. For the Hornets, Luke Brignon scored 14, Andjelo Alcox 12, Treyton Andree 11, Robertson 6 and Albert Serrano 2. For the Lions, Trevor Moore had 19, Walker McGill 9, Matthew Gurley 7, Chris Boekhorst 4 and Levi Hoover and Lyle Bench had 2 points each. Miller Grove is 6-0 in district play and 20-13 for the season. Saltillo is 4-2 in district play and 18-15 for the season. Miller Grove plays Sulphur Bluff Tuesday night (February 6).
In girls play, the Saltillo Lady Lions defeated Miller Grove, 60-32 Friday night (February 2). Madison Simmons had 28 points. Jocelyn Ochoa had 12, Tori Mobley and Maddy Smith 6 points apiece, Shelby Matlock and Chandler Bain 3 points each and Jordan Sustaire 2 points. The Lady Lions are 7-0 in district play and 16-15 for the season. The Saltillo Lions and Lady Lions play at Roxton Tuesday evening (February 6).
One more note: in boys play, the North Hopkins Panthers defeated the Cumby Trojans, 43-30 Friday (February 2).
Soccer Game Day Moved to Wednesday
The weather proved to be the ultimate winner on this Tuesday soccer game day (February 6).
The scheduled Wildcats’ match at Marshall has been postponed due to weather concerns. Wildcats Soccer Coach Nicky Wiggins put out that news just before noon Tuesday. He said the game has been rescheduled as a varsity only game Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. in Marshall. The Wildcats will come into the district contest with an 0-1 record after their 3-0 loss at home to Pine Tree Friday night. The Mavericks are 1-0 in district play after a win over Texas High Friday.
Lady Cats Soccer Coach Joel Bailey also said the scheduled Lady Cats home match at Gerald Prim Stadium against Marshall has also been postponed due to weather concerns. That match has also been rescheduled for Wednesday at 6 p.m. in a varsity only game. The Lady Cats are 1-0 in district play after a 1-0 win at Pine Tree Friday. The Lady Mavs, 0-1 in district play, lost 10-0 at home last Friday to Texas High.
Game Day: Wildcat, Lady Cat Basketball Face Mt Pleasant
On this big Tuesday basketball game day (February 6), it’s Sulphur Springs versus rival Mount Pleasant with huge playoff implications.
The #14 ranked Wildcats‘ basketball team is at home as the Mount Pleasant Tigers come to town. Both teams are tied in the loss column with just one district loss. The Tigers have 9 district wins and the Wildcats 8. The Wildcats won at Mount Pleasant, 57-54 back on January 12. The Wildcats took a loss at Texas High, 76-67 on January 30. On Tuesday game day, there will be a freshman game at 5 p.m. followed by a JV game at 6:15 p.m. and the varsity game at 7:30 p.m. The Wildcats are 25-4 for the season. Mount Pleasant is 24-5 overall. Expect a packed house. We will bring you all the action of Wildcats and Mount Pleasant basketball live from Wildcats Gym beginning at 7:30 p.m. We will also videotape the game for replay at a later time on Channel 18 on Suddenlink Cable.
Meanwhile the #14 ranked Lady Cats‘ basketball game travels to Mount Pleasant for their final scheduled district game. The Lady Cats and Texas High are tied in the loss column with just one district loss apiece. The teams can finish no worse than second place. The Lady Cats defeated Mount Pleasant in Wildcats Gym, 68-33 back on January 12. Last year, the Lady Cats eked out a win at Mount Pleasant, 43-41. The Lady Cats are 10-1 in district play and 24-4 for the season. Texas High completes district play at Greenville. They are also 10-1 in district play. If the two teams, tie for first place, they will have a game to determine the district champ and the district’s #1 playoff seed Friday evening at Paris.
Lady Cat Soccer Rescheduled to Wednesday 6PM, KSST Will Broadcast Live.
Lady Cats Soccer v.s. Marshall was rescheduled to Wednesday February 7th, 2018. KSST will broadcast the game live, stating at 6pm.
Texas A & M-Commerce: President Search Committee Named
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp announced Monday, February 5, that a 13-member committee has been created to conduct a national search for the next President of Texas A&M University-Commerce.
The committee includes two members of The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents and representation from the faculty, students and administrators at A&M-Commerce, as well as several community leaders from the region.
The search committee will screen and interview candidates over the next several weeks and is charged with recommending no fewer than three finalists to the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
In January, outgoing A&M-Commerce President Ray Keck announced his intention to step down by August 31, 2018. The regents hope to have a finalist selected to succeed President Keck in time to ensure a seamless transition.
“Selecting the next president of A&M-Commerce is not only critical for the future of the institution, but also for the well-being of the community and region,” said Chancellor Sharp. “I want to thank these individuals for volunteering their time for this important task.”
The members of the search committee are:
Bill Mahomes (Chair)
Regent
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents
Tim Leach
Regent
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents
Chuck Arize
Regents Professor of Business Administration
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Julia Ballenger
Professor of Educational Leadership
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Alicia Currin
Vice President for Business and Administration
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Jeremy Gamez
Staff Council President
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Andrea Graham
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Texas A&M University-Commerce
LaVelle Hendricks
Associate Professor of Counseling
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Chad King
Faculty Senate President
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Senator Ted Lyon
Attorney
Ted B. Lyon & Associates
Josh Skinner (Ex Officio)
Student Body President
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Graham Sweeney
Superintendent
Boles Independent School District
Ken Threlkeld
Chairman Emeritus
Threlkeld & Company Insurance
Assisting the search committee will be James Hallmark, Texas A&M System Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, and Laurie Wilder and Porsha Williams, consultants with Parker Executive Search, an Atlanta-based search firm.
Lady Cats Golf Opened Season Monday
Mariam Tran
The Lady Cats’ golf team opened their season Monday (February 5) in very cold weather at a Spring Hill sponsored tournament at Woodhollow Golf Course in Longview. Lady Cats Golf Coach Whitney Spigener said the temperature was in the mid-30’s when the Lady Cats teed off at 8:30 a.m. Monday. Coach Spigener said the Lady Cats shot 434, which was good for ninth place out of fourteen teams.
The Lady Cats were led by freshman Mariam Tran who shot 94, good for twelfth place in the tournament. There were 84 participants in the tournament. Sophomore Alyssa Underwood shot 109. Senior Emma Lane had a score of 114. Sophomore Addison White shot 117.
Coach Spigener said the Lady Cats will play next at Emerald Bay in Bullard on February 14. He said she is praying for better weather in the coming weeks.
Yantis FFA Chapter Plans to Attend Two More Major Livestock Shows
from report by FFA Advisor Tonya Rabenaldt
Nine Yantis FFA students competed in the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo during January 2018. Three took cattle to the Dairy Show, three showed in the Beef Heifer Show and three students participated in the Scholarship Calf Scramble. Brooke Barrett placed second with her dairy heifer.
Next, the Yantis FFA Dairy team will travel to the San Antonio show this week. Team members are Brooke Barrett, Maggie Hooker and Maddie Hooker. The Beef Heifer team will travel to the Houston Livestock Show in March and four chapter members have signed up for the Calf Scramble.
The Yantis FFA Chapter will attend the Area 6 Convention to be held in Sulphur Springs on February 26, and will enter their show animals to the Wood County Livestock Show during April.
Fort Worth’s National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Museum Inducts Reba McEntire
by Enola Gay
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, located in the cultural district of Fort Worth near the Will Rogers Coliseum, has had my heart ever since Grand Opening Day on June 7, 2002 when I covered the day’s celebration for KSST with a portable cassette recorder. Actually the Hall of Fame has been in existence since 1975 but the museum showplace was new. This January during the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, I returned to the mecca honoring women of the American West who have displayed extraordinary courage and pioneering fortitude. To date, the 228 inductees include pioneers, artists, writers, entertainers, humanitarians, business women, educators, ranchers and rodeo cowgirls including: Sacagawea, principal guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition; painter Georgia O’Keeffe; potter Maria Martinez; writer Laura Ingalls Wilder; sharpshooter Annie Oakley; Enid Justin, who created the multi-million dollar Nocona Boot Company; Hollywood icon Dale Evans and U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Among the newest inductees are Reba McEntire and her mother Jacqueline Smith McEntire.
You may remember that Reba was first brought into the spotlight by Western entertainer Red Steagall when he heard her sing the National Anthem at the 1974 National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City. (Tune in for Red Steagall’s “Cowboy Corner” Radio Show each Saturday at 6am on KSST) Red took her to Nashville where she signed with Mercury then later with MCA Records, producing twenty-nine studio albums which have gone “gold” or “multi-platinum” in record sales. In the 1990’s Reba turned to movies and in 2001 to the Broadway stage where she starred in “Annie Get Your Gun” about the life and love of Annie Oakley. .After two successful TV series, Reba will be seen in 2018 as a female Colonel Sanders for KFC and reportedly in a new dramatic TV series called “Red Blooded”.
Gown worn by Reba on display, from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ showing some of the medals bestowed upon Annie Oakley by cities and dignitaries during her world travels as a sharpshooter.
Now, as for Reba’s mom Jacqueline, her first brush with fame came when she led her fellow classmates and teachers in “The Star Spangled Banner”. Although she dreamed of a singing career, she earned her teaching certificate from the state of Oklahoma and began riding her horse every morning to the Tipperary School to teach grades one through eight. In 1950, she married future three-time world champion steer roper and ProRodeo Hall of Fame member Clark McEntire. and they had four children; Alice, Pake, Reba and Susie . Jackie put her career on hold to help build the family ranch, working alongside the men and on horseback, cooking supper for everyone, taking care of the kids and hauling them to and from school and rodeos, football, basketball, 4-H, FFA and FHA . She returned to education in 1962 at Kiowa ISD and continued an essential role in her husband’s rodeo career as well as her children’s burgeoning musical careers.
Jacqueline Smith McEntire
When you find yourself in Fort Worth, plan to find your way to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and remember the cowgirl slogan”Always Saddle Your Own Horse” because it will take you a long way down the trail as you explore new frontiers!
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, 1720 Gendy Street, Fort Worth
TxDOT Attentive But No Promises Made at County Work Session
No promises were made by the Texas Department of Transportation during a Monday afternoon work session with Hopkins County Commissioners but they were attentive to the presentations made by those attending the session, including State Representative District 2, Dan Flynn. The focus of the meeting was traffic issues on State Highway 19 North between Birthright and Mahoney Road and State Highway 11W, according to Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom.
Newsom told KSST News that most of the time in the work session focused on the highway concerns even those other items were also discussed Monday afternoon including the New Law Enforcement Center and a Fire Department grant.
During the discussion with TxDOT, the four commissioners, the judge, Sheriff Lewis Tatum, representatives of the Department of Public Safety (DPS), Representative Flynn, and a county resident shared their concerns and opinions regarding the needs along the two roadways discussed. Regarding Highway 19, the number and serious nature of accidents that have occurred on Highway 19 has spurred outgoing Commissioner Precinct 4 Danny Evans to continually seek answers to the problem during his long term service to the county.
Evans has also been concerned about the conclusion of work on State Highway 11W. A resident along the roadway told TxDOT there is a need to raise the speed limit to 60 mph and not to 70 when the construction on the roadway has concluded. The rework of State Highway 11 began as a deterrent to the number of accidents that were occurring on that highway. Many of the accidents had involved students from the Sulphur Springs area commuting to the University located in Commerce.
Hopkins County Commissioners will use their equipment from various precincts to haul the dirt needed in construction of the new Law Enforcement Center Courtroom that will be built at the county jail. Commissioners discussed the design of the courtroom facility and the start of dirt work Monday afternoon. The dirt work is set to begin this week or early next week, weather permitting.
Chief Andy Endsley told commissioners that he will be seeking grants to fund new air packs for the County Fire Department. The air packs used by firefighters are replaced periodically due to continual need to update the equipment.
Winnsboro Police Report January 29-February 4, 2018
Winnsboro Police made two arrests, investigated one accident, responded to 145 calls for service, issued 42 citations and wrote 53 warnings during the January 29-February 4, 2018 report period.
Breanna Liedtke, 20, of Saltillo, was arrested on two Hopkins County warrants on January 29th.
Tracy Gardner, 46, of Winnsboro was arrested on a Franklin County warrant on January 31st.
A vehicle traveling north on Main Street turned left onto West Pine Street. Failure to control speed led to a confrontation with with utility pole affecting the front center of the auto. A wrecker removed the vehicle from the scene.
