AUSTIN—I am so out of breath writing about Anna Casey’s Double Duels in the Sun in the State Track & Field Championships. I mean, the freshman girl can move, especially in the 800-and-1600-meter races.
She had been winning all year, so I asked her a week ago if strategy might change facing the best: “I still go out and run the way I want.”
It is so rare I am invited to join the Page One Club, but since sports is my beat, and Casey won a remarkable two gold medals, May 12, the guys ...
BURNET—Question: Can you believe some of the football boys went on a trip to the East Coast and MISSED a night of 7-on-7? Shocking.
“Nine varsity guys are not here,” according to head coach Matt Green. Some had other reasons besides travel for needing a doctor’s excuse next week.
The Jackets did fine in a pair of the all-passing, can’t-rush-the-quarterback, touch-not-tackle
games, against the Bulldogs.
AUSTIN—Ray Dixon is a winner. A gold medalist on and off the track. It was written once during the 2017 season: “The man never met a throw he liked.” But, he became an absolute gentleman—in the face of vanishing success—on high school athletics’ most demanding stage.
He was representing his school and town, his coaches and friends and family, at the State Track Championships, May 11-12, and, from somewhere—don’t ask me where—he rejected a sometimes foul mood and presence, ...
From the Class 4A population in Texas of 200 schools or so—800 students per campus or so—160,000 total—80,000, girls—or so, and each event in the Track & Field Championships, May 11-12, will total nine—JUST nine, not “or so.”
Llano High is sending two girls, who will compete in three races. Anna Casey will be at the starting lines of the 800-and-1600-meter contests.
Meagan Riley will be against Anna and seven others in the 16, and she will also run the meet’s longest dista ...
His career has not come down to this—but up to this: the State Championships. The ultimate unofficial guess: 15-20,000 throws precede the final 12, May 11-12, at Mike Myers Stadium in Austin.
Ray Dixon will be in the discus and shot put rings. He was third in the shot in Class 4A a year ago, fourth with the disc.
The second-time around?
The future doesn’t begin for Llano High athletes in high school. It starts, for some, in elementary school and adds adrenaline in junior high. That’s where our story resides, because 7th grade coach, Sylvia Arms, has been named Junior High Coach of the Year, Class 4A, in Texas, by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches.
“Coach Arms is an outstanding teacher/coach,” declared middle school Athletic Coordinator, Russell Rabb.
HUNTSVILLE—The Final Chapter. The time is now. When you are as good as Ray Dixon is, that simply means the challenges never vanish. One level attained, one more to go, and then another.
He is a two-time Region III champion in the shot put after throwing 52 feet, 11 inches, April 28, in the shadow of Sam Houston State’s Bowers Stadium.
Two months ago Ray Dixon opened this projected sensational throwing campaign by fouling on his first attempt with the shot put in Comfort. He has won consistently since, but there had not been that special moment, truly a Special Delivery, to immortalize his career at Llano High.
Until April 18 in this community near Bastrop.
GIDDINGS—Anna Casey, the freshman who has now won 13 races in 2018, collected two of those, April 18, in the Area—or second—round of postseason on the track.
Meagan Riley was better than all right posting a sizzling personal record at this stadium that houses the Buffaloes—one of the best football programs in Texas.
Meredith Zyetz and Nic George also produced efforts which qualify them for the Region III Meet in Huntsville, April 27-28.
Anna said she “felt really weak,” beca ...
LIBERTY HILL—The third time followed its triplet brothers, and, instead of being the charm, it was the third one-run loss of the season for the baseball Jackets, the second to the Panthers. The home team offered the last rally and won 7-6 on another—what else is new?—cool April 17 night for baseball.
“Low dominated them,” said head coach Todd Doucet, referring to Justin Low.
