COMFORT—Anna Casey—who it appears—will never be caught destroying a good poem by striking out, on the first day of March, claimed her third gold medal in eight days with a near-school record in the 800-meter run. The freshman’s personal-best time was two minutes, 16.2 seconds, about a half tick off the Llano High mark.
Her main concern was mighty Bandera.
COMFORT—When Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations I doubt he had a shot put or a discus thrower in mind. However, that’s Ray Dixon—a man whose expectations
are as big as Dickens’ books are, and they should be.
“Not a great day,” he told me. Second in the shot and gold medalist with the disc sound pretty good, but Dixon’s priorities are his own.
JOHNSON CITY—She had played two terrific games in a span of a few hours, both in the batters’ box and in the circle. When she legged out a single in the fifth inning against the host Eagles, she had been on base in her six plate appearances for the doubleheader, and she would win twice with her pitching on a dismal, rainy night, March 3.
Nothing was as dismal as what happened to Lauren Young in the fifth and final inning around 9 p.m.
TEMPLE—Courtney Reina, a gutty battler in numerous sports, produced one of the most important “last chance” performances of her athletic career, and the effort has earned her a place in the State Championships of Powerlifting.
In the Region II, Division II classification—essentially Class 4A—Reina had arrived at deadlift, the third and final challenge in this sport.
If you’re not big on 2-1 or 3-2 baseball games, you would have loved several games the Jackets played between February 27 and March 3.
The HCC
Llano saved its best for (first and) last in its own tournament, the Hill Country Classic.
On the first day of March, the Jackets belted Ingram, 16-0.
A silver lining for a fine foursome and its coach. Llano’s girls’ golf team was second
in a 36-hole tournament in San Antonio, March 2-3. L-R: Taryn Morris, Kenzie
White, Coach Mike McIntosh, Leyah Wilson, and Jordan Reed. White was the individual
champion of the event, shooting an 84 and 87.
SAN ANGELO—First of all, this is not a primer on rugby; it is a profile of how a Llano High graduate (Class of 2016) is doing in a sport most
Americans are familiar with from seeing it a few times on TV. I will tell you the players do not wear helmets in this collision activity because “your head is not used as a weapon,” according to a teammate of Luke Snitkin.
Luke was a tight end for the Jackets and was a senior on the 2015 team, the last one to win a playoff game for the school. ...
BLANCO—I guess as beginnings go it was okay. You know, first time whirl or something like that. To be honest here, and shouldn’t we be honest everywhere, it wasn’t her first time in varsity competition, but it was her first time on a varsity track. Anna Casey, an eighth grader under a year ago, “is a true machine,” according to Lady Jackets’ head coach, Amy Withrow.
She won two races and was second (gee, what happened?) in a third at the Blanco Relays, February 22, to lead a fin ...
LAGO VISTA—Compare it to four home runs in a game. A 59 in golf. Picking up the 7-10 split. 800. A magic number in squat in the world of Powerlifting. Magical enough that only one person out of, oh, a million high school students in Texas has pulled it out of a hat.
LAGO VISTA—While Dakoda Trull earned an accolade or two in the Vikings’ Powerlifting Meet, February 15, there were three other boys and two girls who won gold medals, and they played major roles in the boys’ team capturing the overall championship, while the Lady Jackets won silver in the 13-school enrollment.
“Winning?
