The Llano Youth Football and Cheer teams concluded the regular season in Brady this past weekend. Both teams ended the regular season with victories with the Junior Varsity now set to take on the Blanco Panthers in the first round of the playoffs while the Varsity will play the Comfort Bobcats in a Bowl Game.
Both games will be held this Saturday in Llano at Jacket Stadium with the JV playing at 10:30 a.m.
It was a Game for the Ages—the Dark Ages. A high school team called the Jackets—wonderful boys and the pride of wonderful moms and dads—dominated a stat in the box score they might relinquish if they had to tuck in their shirts for 20 minutes.
They say you cannot win if you turn the ball over five times—Rockne said it, by golly, and so did Lombardi, I think, or he should have— and visiting Eastside from the metropolis of Austin, made that mistake—or five mistakes.
An ant hill ...
SALADO—The volleyball Jackets played an excellent first game here, October 3, but suffered a two-point loss. Heckling by some Eagles’ students was a bother in Game 2, and Llano was beaten badly, and Game 3 was in-between, and Salado claimed the sweep.
“First game we played really well,” said head coach John Black.
LAMPASAS—A superb pre-district meet, October 6, for Llano High’s cross country leaders. They will return to the Badger campus, Friday the 13th, for the 19-4A contest—the opening round of postseason in the world of cross country.
Anna Casey and Meagan Riley ran as a pair once more against Class 5As and 6As and finished 11th and 12th, separated by half a second.
Members of the Llano High School Hall of Fame's Class of 2017 were inducted on Friday night prior to the homecoming football game against Austin Eastside.
The Llano Sub-Varsity games consisted of only one game this past week as Austin Eastside did not have a Freshman or Junior Varsity team.
Because of this, the Llano JV suited up with the Varsity this week while the Llano Freshmen tangled with the Johnson City Eagles Junior Varsity. The game with Johnson City was a nail biter until the final play, but the Jackets came up just short as they lost 14-13 for their first loss of the season.
Both teams now turn their attention to District play as ...
The Llano Jr. High Daubers hosted the Johnson City Eagles with both the 7th Grade and 8th Grade playing combined A and B team games.
The 7th Grade Daubers jumped on the Eagles early and often and shutout the visitors by the score of 47-0. The Llano 8th Graders held the lead for much of the game, but just couldn’t hold off the Eagles in the end as they suffered a 22-12 defeat.
Both teams now start district play this week as they battle the Navarro Panthers.
The Llano Youth Football and Cheer teams went separate directions this past Saturday as the JV 3rd and 4th Graders headed to the Austin area to take on Cedar Park while the Varsity 5th and 6th Graders stayed in the Hill Country as they traveled to Mason to take on the Punchers.
Both teams now travel to Brady this Saturday to take on the Bulldogs in their final regular season game before the playoffs.
BURNET—The Bulldogs win again, but in a game with a strange personality and unusual subplots, a couple of things should be remembered about Llano’s 31-21 loss: Until there were seven seconds remaining in the first half, the contest was scoreless. The 10-point defeat was the Jackets’ second best effort in a 13-game losing streak against a school with twice the text books Llano has.
“Defense was outstanding,” head coach Matt Green said, but he added, “Wish the offense could have b ...
Number One is usually no big deal for teams like Alabama, Duke, and Lake Travis, but it means plenty to the Llano High volleyball team, which won its first district match on the last Friday night of September. The Jackets swept Taylor, 25-14, 2521, and 25-23.
“Offense had a much better flow and continuity to it,” said head coach, John Black.
