TOM BEAN — The Tomcats have added to their athletic department once again, this time in a newly-created position. The Tom Bean ISD school board approved the hiring of Joe McBride for the parttime role of Executive Director of Athletics.
VAN ALSTYNE — The first-half outcomes in district play by the Lady Panthers can be cut into thirds: two lopsided victories, two lopsided losses and two close contests that ended up being defeats. It put Van Alstyne in fifth place and a repeat performance down the stretch won’t be good enough to get a program that reached the region semifinals last year for the first time since 1998 back into the playoffs.
ERA — Devyn Elvington was 3-for-5, walked, drove in three and scored twice as the first-place Collinsville Lady Pirates outlasted fourthplace Era, 11-8, in 10 innings in District 10-2A action. Shelby Derzapf singled, walked, drove in a run and scored three times, Audrey Miller and Haidyn Bryson each singled and scored twice and Tessa Vannoy drove in a run and scored for Collinsville (11-8, 7-1), which has the district bye on Tuesday and will play at Ector in a non-district match-up.
WHITESBORO — Jacob Smith was 2-for-3 with a triple, walked and scored twice as second-place Whitesboro rallied for 3-2 walk-off victory in eight innings over third-place Paradise in District 10-3A action.
One week after the Texoma Chapter of Ducks Unlimited had an almost certain record breaking springtime Couple’s DU event at Denison’s Loy Lake Park, there’s a lot of smiles still ongoing among local quacker backers.
Softball 10-5A Dist Year Rock Hill 7-0 18-7 The Colony 6-1 11-7 Denison 4-3 15-7 Lovejoy 4-3 9-12 Wylie East 4-3 12-11 Sherman 2-5 6-15 Princeton 1-6 5-11 M. North 0-7 2-16 9-4A Dist Year Aubrey 6-0 16-3 Melissa 4-2 14-6 Celina 4-2 14-6 Sanger 3-3 11-8 Van Alstyne 2-4 13-6 Anna 2-4 6-13 Gainesville 0-6 4-16 10-3A Dist Year Whitesboro 7-0 10-9 Pilot Point 5-2 5-2 Valley View 5-2 14-5 Boyd 4-3 16-8 Ponder 2-4 7-12 S&S 2-5 7-9 Paradise 2-5 10-9 Callisburg 0-6 6-10 11-3A Dist Year Gunter 7-0 13-6 Pottsboro 6-1 16-3 Whitewright 5-2 12-5 Bells 4-3 11-11 Bonham 3-4 14-7 Howe 2-5 4-15 Blue Ridge 1-6 1-6 Leonard 0-7 0-7 10-2A Dist Year Lindsay 5-0 7-7 Collinsville 6-1 10-8 Muenster 3-1 7-10 Era 4-3 4-5 Tioga 2-4 6-11 Alvord 0-5 3-9 x1-Saint Jo 0-6 0-6 15-2A Dist Year x2-Trenton 5-1 14-4 x2-S.
After Charlie and my “fishing not catching trip” last week, I was determined to go again. Honey-dos kept me busy Monday and Tuesday was out of the question as the light breezes had about everything not pinned down flying through the neighborhood.
In years past, it used to be written in this spot that when it comes to spring turkey hunting prospects, there were few better spots in all of the world than Texas and Oklahoma, at least if you liked chasing longbeards, seeing big gobblers strut about, and hearing lots of gobbling.