Owens Calls New Alignment for SSHS Sports Exciting
“We are excited about the new places and new faces,” said SSHS Athletic Director and Football Head Coach Gregg Owens as the new district alignments were announced Thursday morning. Owens said, “It will be a new challenge with new teams, but the biggest challenge [for football] will be the nine (9) team district.” He said a team must win a lot of games to get in the playoffs. “It’s really exciting because it’s different,” he said....
Wildcat Soccer Defeats Pflugerville Weiss 4-2
The Wildcats’ soccer team won their last game in the 2018 Longhorn Challenge High School Soccer Showcase Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats topped Pflugerville Weiss, 4-2. Johnathan Alvarez scored two goals for the Wildcats. Assists were made by Julio Robles and Alexis Escobedo. Omar Hernandez and Miguel Rubio also put the ball in the net. Assists on both of these goals went to Alex “Orange” Diosdado. The Wildcats are now 3-5 for...
SSHS Hosts Powerlifting Meet Saturday
This year’s Sulphur Springs Powerlifting Meet at the Multipurpose Building Saturday (January 13) could be a huge one. Wildcats Powerlifting Coach Casey Jeter said there might be as many as 500 lifters competing including 100 to 150 girls. Coach Jeter said that would make this meet the largest in the state except for the state meet. Weigh in begins at 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The first lifters should get started at 9...
Coach Talk: Wildcat, Lady Cat Soccer
Wiggins on Forney Tourney Wildcats Soccer Coach Nicky Wiggins said normally in the past when the Wildcats went to the Forney tournament, they hoped to split their games due to the tough competition there. The Wildcats came close to that last week winning two games and losing three. Two good Class 5A teams played well against the Wildcats Thursday and they lost to West Mesquite and Forney. Coach Wiggins said his team studied tapes of...
Game Day: Wildcat and Lady Cat Soccer in Tournaments
Both the Wildcats and Lady Cats’ soccer teams begin the regular season Thursday (January 4) in separate tournaments. The Wildcats are competing in a three day Forney tournament. The Wildcats played West MesquiteThursday morning. A match against Forney started at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Both West Mesquite and Forney are teams the Wildcats could possibly face in bi-district playoff action. Friday the Wildcats will play Royse...
Wildcat, Lady Cat Soccer Update
Wildcats Soccer Wildcats Soccer Coach Nicky Wiggins, in his second year as head coach, and four of his senior players were guests on KSST Radio and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday Morning Coaches Show this past Saturday (December 30). Coach Wiggins commented on the team’s scrimmages and he discussed the team’s season opening tournament at Forney that gets underway Thursday. The Wildcats defeated Royse City, 1-0 in...
Game Day Scrimmages: Wildcat, Lady Cat Soccer
Both the Wildcats and Lady Cats’ soccer teams play their second scrimmage of the season on this Friday (December 29) game day. The Wildcats were in Kilgore. They had a JV match there Friday morning and the varsity got underway at 12:30 p.m. Thursday evening (December 28) the Wildcats JV and Varsity scrimmaged Royse City at a chilly Gerald Prim Stadium. The Wildcats will conclude the scrimmage portion of their schedule with their...
Humphries in 2017 Elite Prospect Scouting All-American Game New Year’s Eve
Wildcats senior quarterback Ryan Humphries is participating in the 2017 Elite Prospect Scouting All-American Game being played at AT&T Stadium New Year’s Eve in Arlington beginning at 7 p.m. The game pits players from Texas against Louisiana. Players are checking in Thursday(December 28) and are picking up uniforms.Practices are set for Friday and Saturday at noon at Pioneer Heritage Middle School in Frisco. A meet and...
Game Day: Soccer Scrimmages Set for Prim Thursday
Today (December 28) is a good day to get a preview of Wildcats and Lady Cats’ soccer teams on this Thursday game day. Both teams’ varsities and JVs are playing in scrimmages at Gerald Prim Stadium. The Lady Cats JV, coached by Ross Hicks, got their scrimmage underway against Paris at 1 p.m. Thursday. The Lady Cats’ varsity, coached by Joel Bailey, have a match against Paris that will follow at 2:30 p.m. It’s...
Wildcat Soccer Begins Practice
The Wildcats’ soccer team has their first day of practice Monday (November 27). Wildcats Soccer Coach Nicky Wiggins is in his second year as head coach and he says he is looking forward to the first workout. He says 28 players are hoping to make the varsity and 30 are trying out for the JV. Coach Wiggins says he expects to have 23 or 24 players on varsity. He says about half of those are returners and half are new to varsity....
