Weather Impacting Some Friday Sports Contests
With potential storms in the forecast, all games on this game day Friday (April 9) should be considered weather permitting and the threat of bad weather has already led to changes. Both the Wildcats Baseball Team and Lady Cats Softball Team are taking on Mount Pleasant in big district games. The Wildcats meet the Tigers at Wildcat Park. Due to weather worries. The JV game has been canceled. The varsity game has been moved to 4 p.m....
Lady Cats Softball Keeps Rolling, Beating Mt. Pleasant 4-1
The Lady Cats softball team took advantage of a few scoring opportunities throughout the game to win at Mt. Pleasant on Friday, Apr. 9 by a score of 4-1. Coach David Carrillo and his squad were held scoreless through three innings. The only hit that was allowed through three were hits by Parris Pickett in the second and Nylah Lindley in the third. Neither hits turned in to runs. It was not until the fourth inning that the Lady Cats...
Wildcats Baseball Team Falls Out of Second Place Tie With 8-3 Loss at Longview
The Wildcats Baseball Team struggled on the mound and in the batters box in an 8-3 loss at Longview Tuesday night. Longview used two big innings to win the game. The Lobos scored 5 runs in the bottom of the second and 3 more runs in the bottom of the fourth. The Wildcats managed a pair of runs in the top of the fourth and 1 more in the top of the fifth. The Lobos outhit the Wildcats, 10-3. Kaden Wallace was the starting pitcher and he...
Wildcats Tennis Team Gets Ready For District With Wills Point and Tyler Tournaments
Soon District 15-5A interests will gather together to determine all important seedling for next week’s District Tennis Tournament in Texarkana. It takes place next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 13-14. To get ready for district opponents, the Wildcats played in a Wills Point tournament last Thursday (April 1) and in a Tyler tournament Monday. Wildcats senior Harleigh Stegient broke her wrist when she fell in a singles’ match...
Wildcats Golfer Kip Childress Qualifies for Regional Tourney and Team is Fifth at District
At the two-day District 15-5A Golf Tournament at Tempest Golf Course in Gladewater last Monday and Tuesday (March 29-30), Wildcats’ golfer Kip Childress, an East Texas Baptist University commit, qualified for the Regional Tournament. The Wildcats finished 5th as a team. Childress followed an opening day 71 with a second day 75 for a two day total of 146. Childress finished 3rd overall in the tournament to qualify. The Regional...
Walks and Errors Combine to Do In the Wildcats Baseball Team in an 8-1 Loss to Hallsville
A district baseball summit battle of the top two teams ended poorly for the Wildcats due to walks and errors in an 8-1 loss to Hallsville at Wildcat Park Thursday night (April 1). Wildcats’ pitchers held the Bobcats to just 5 hits but 11 walks and 5 errors made the hits effective. Meanwhile the Wildcats also struggled with the bats collecting only 4 hits and scoring only 1 run. Wildcats pitcher Hayden Hurst took the loss. He...
Lady Cats Softball Takes Revenge Game Against Hallsville, 3-0
The Lady Cats softball team took advantage of errors committed by Hallsville to win the rematch against the Lady Cats by a score of 3-0. “We took advantage of scoring opportunities,” Coach Carrillo said adding that he thought his team scored at just about every chance they got. The Lady Cats won off of only five hits against Hallsville, but those hits turned in to three runs over the course of the game. Sulphur Springs...
Wildcats Soccer Team Gets Two Overtime Goals to Defeat Red Oak in Area Playoff
The Wildcats Soccer Team scored two early clutch overtime goals and then turned things over to their defense as the Wildcats defeated Red Oak in an Area contest, 4-2 Tuesday night (March 30) at Hanby Stadium in Mesquite. The Wildcats seemed have more energy in overtime and began to put pressure on the Hawks’ defense and goalkeeper. First Edgar Salazar ended up one on one with the keeper and scored a goal at 5:53 in the first...
Wildcats Tennis Team Has Some Success at Pleasant Grove Tourney Last Friday
The Wildcats Tennis Team played their sixth tournament of the semester last Friday (March 26) at Pleasant Grove. The Wildcats are playing to earn the highest seed they can get for the District Tournament coming up April 13-14 in Texarkana. Wildcats Coach Tony Martinez said his girls’ doubles team of Mykylie Meador and Jeauxleigh Cantu got all the way to a semifinal match Friday before losing to a Lindale team. Coach Martinez...
Wildcats Soccer Area Playoff Among Game Day Events on Tuesday
When the Wildcats Soccer Team pulled a bi-district upset over Whitehouse, 2-1 last Friday (March 26) in Whitehouse, Coach Alexi Upton’s Wildcats did something that a Wildcats’ soccer team had not done for 7 years. They won a bi-district game. Back in 2014, the Andy Holt-coached Wildcats won a bi-district contest over Carrollton Newman Smith. Now the present day Wildcats have an Area contest with Red Oak Tuesday at 6 p.m....
