HONDO—Find a ballroom, and I’ll introduce all the Jacket dignitaries who were gridiron greats on the final Friday night in October in this South Texas community.
Llano rose from a precarious depth to erase a 21-7 deficit and down Hondo, 3024. That’s maybe the team’s biggest comeback in a couple of decades.
“I’m going to lose all my hair—for different reasons,” said a happy coach, Matt Green, who’s probably 200 victories from a bald head.
It’s an impressive one for Charles Watson, but it won’t come easy. You get the feeling he knows it’s a quest that some will think falls in the range of difficult to impossible.
The Llano resident is 44-years-old. At 50, he will be eligible to play on the Champions Tour—the pro tour for 50and-over.
The Lady Jackets finished the tough grind of the volleyball season, October 24, at Taylor. The Ducks captured the match, three games to two: 25-21, 14-25, 25-23, 2527, and, in the decider, the home team won, 15-11.
Llano concluded district 13-4A play with a 2-10 record, but, as we reported last week, hopes are high for 2018.
For now, some thoughts from head coach John Black on the night in Taylor: “Good, fun, five-game match; always want to win those; girls worked so hard, had to come b ...
The Llano Freshmen and Junior Varsity teams tangled with the Hondo Owls this past Thursday with both teams coming out victorious to up their District records to 2-1, respectively.
The Llano Freshmen traveled to Hondo and controlled the game from start to finish to defeat the Owls 19-6. The Junior Varsity hosted the Owls at Jacket Stadium and dominated the game on both sides of the ball as they recorded the 40-0 shutout.
The Freshmen and J.V.
The Llano Youth Football and Cheer season ended this past Saturday as the Llano third and fourth grade Junior Varsity team battled the undefeated Comfort Bobcats in the Hill Country Youth Football League Championship game in Blanco.
The Jackets entered the game with a fine 6-1 record and the chance to bring a gold ball back to Llano where the last time the Jackets had won the JV trophy was in 2014.
The Llano Jr. High Daubers battled the Hondo Owls in their third District game of the season.
Both 7th Grade teams won at Hondo, while the 8th Grade team fell in a close battle. The Daubers will now face the Bandera Bulldogs this next Thursday in their final district game of the season.
They weren’t running for their lives, but they were running for one of the most memorable triumphs in school history. The Lady Jackets, displaying guts and glory on the twists and turns of a trail in Huntsville, October 23, captured the Region III Cross Country title.
“In the beginning of the season,” head coach Lauren Timms said, “it was a shotin-the-dark; you just push ‘em, you push ‘em like they’re going to be number one, and {they were} receptive to training and mental dis ...
Call it a symphony, not the sweet rumor of a violin, albeit exquisite, but one with all the invigorating sounds like symbols, horns of thunder, plus a piano, whose Jerry Lee Lewis-esque typist instructs the keys with such ferocity you’d think the tips of his fingers couldn’t touch a grape for days.
The Llano Lady Jacket volleyball team of 2017 had more downs than ups, but there were some moments and inspirational effort, and more importantly, good reason to look forward to this season’s successor. Eight girls, who were not only seasoned in ’17, but 10-12 games into the campaign, resembled budding veterans, and they will be on the hardwood next year.
“We were missing key players at times,” said junior Faith Manning, “so we had to learn to work together {with different lineups ...
The Llano Sub-Varsity teams battled with the Wimberley Texans this past Thursday with both teams coming out on the short end of the stick for their first district losses of the season.
The Llano Freshmen hosted the Texans at Jacket Stadium and lost in a nail biter where the Jackets held the lead for most of the game before falling behind late to lose 34-33.
