Lady Trojans Lose District Opener at Rivercrest
The Cumby Lady Trojans’ softball team lost their district opener at Rivercrest, 10-0 Tuesday. The game was scoreless through three innings before Rivercrest scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and six more in the fifth. The game was called after five innings. Lady Trojan Tori Mobley got the pitching loss going all five innings and striking out 8. The Lady Trojans leading hitters were Madison Simmons and Rainie...
Lady Trojans Fall to 1-1 in District Following Loss to Bland
The Cumby Lady Trojans fell to 1-1 in district play Wednesday to the visiting Bland Lady Tigers 4-15. Carly Talley pitched for the Lady Trojans giving up 4 walks but striking out 6. The Lady Trojans struggled defensively with 5 errors. Sydney Spillers made great defensive plays at short stop as did Martina Gonzalez in right field. Offensively, Alyssa Morgan went 2 for 3 with a 2 RBI single and an RBI double, and defensively caught two...
Trojans Win Thriller; Five Bears, One Lady Bears qualify for Regional Track; Lady Bears Defeat Como Pickton
In Hopkins County sports news, the Cumby Trojans won a thrilling baseball game at Sulphur Bluff last Friday. The Bears actually led 5-4 after five innings and 8-7 after six. The Trojans then scored four big runs in the top of the seventh to take an 11-8 lead. Sulphur Bluff got one run in the bottom of the seventh but came up short 11-9. The Bears actually outhit the Trojans 12 to 11. Cumby’s Elmer Rodriguez pitched the last two...
Hail, Heavy Rain as Severe Thunderstorm Moved Through Hopkins County Monday During 5 o’clock Hour
Monday’s five o’clock hour was somewhat intense in Hopkins County as a severe thunderstorm passed through Cumby at 4:40 p.m., Sulphur Springs at 5:10 p.m. and Como at 5:45 p.m. The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning that turned into a tornado warning for Hopkins, northern Rains, and Southeastern Hunt counties. At 4:40 a severe thunderstorm was located near Campbell moving east at 40 mph. The storm...
Cover Girl Contestants
The reigning 2013-2014 Cover Girl, Sarah Weatheread, a Senior at North Hopkins High School, is the daughter of John and Melissa Weatheread. She is a member of the Lady Panthers volleyball and softball teams. She is a member of the Hopkins County 4-H, BETA Club and participates in UIL.She attends church at the First Assembly of God in Cooper. After completing high school, Sarah plans to get her teaching degree at Texas...
COBWEBS AND GOLIATH GROUPERS AUGUST 7th, 2014 # 1343
The storm that came through Wednesday, July 24, did quite a bit of damage but did bring us over an inch of rain at Charleston. Electricity was off over much of the county for a few hours and some families almost panicked without their television programs. Two or three told me they had to resort to old time sitting by lanterns and just talking. At Brad Richey’s house west of Charleston talk drifted to spiders and spider webs. Brad...
