BLANCO — A strong young man and a lithe young lady were double gold medalists for the Jackets, as the Track & Field season debuted February 23 with the Panther Relays.
Ray Dixon wasn’t in midseason form — he was approaching Mike Myers Stadium form, with a throw of 53 feet, four inches in the shot put and a 166-11 heave of the discus.
FREDERICKSBURG — A good time was NOT had by all. There was No Joy in Mudville one afternoon and none for the Jackets, February 23-25, at the 30th annual EberleBoeck tournament on the Billies diamond.
“We’re taking good swings but nothing to show for it,” said an understandably, frustrated head coach, Stephen Campbell.
FREDERICKSBURG — You would think when Llano loses five out of six games — three, badly — there wouldn’t be much good to find on the Billies’ softball diamond, February 23-25. Maybe not in the box scores, but in the resilience of the players, the determination of some reserves, in the patience of the head coach, and even in the hallways of Llano High.
“Girls were showing so much grit and fight,” said Bobby Williams.
There was — or still is — a grand ol’ baseball demand: “Hit ‘em where they ain’t.” Not much use in English class, but you get the point, and the Llano softball Jackets, February 17, followed the advice by collecting 18 hits in four innings and fed the Comfort Deer an 18-6 setback.
“Hit the ball extremely well,” said head coach Bobby Williams.
CANYON LAKE — Opening Night isn’t always special, but it certainly is when you are victorious. The baseball Jackets combined superb hitting with possibly better pitching and humbled the Hawks, 10-1, on a chilly evening which wrapped up Presidents’ Day.
“Always good, coming out scoring early, picking up a crooked number,” said head coach Stephen Campbell.
SAN MARCOS — The man has spent so much time at Final Fours you’d think he helped install peach baskets for Dr. Naismith.
We catch up with Jerry English from time to time as the Kingsland resident is inducted into a Hall of Fame, reaches a “by-the-hundred” milestone — 1,227 coaching wins — or prepares for another weekend-quest for a state basketball championship.
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Not enough sugar in a Mt. Everest-sized Hershey Bar to sweeten the Llano boys’ basketball season: one win and a second consecutive winless district campaign.
This was the first year for Aaron Nuckles, a stranger to so many negative outcomes — he won a hundred games in five years at Lometa.
He sat down with me to deliver these thoughts on 2016-17 and the future.
“It was a painful trip overall; I know I am a better coach now than I was three months ago — because I’ve had to teach myself ...
BRADY—One of the best regular seasons in a sport in school history has concluded for Llano High, which must stand for “Power” in powerlifting. The Jacket boys, after two excellent thirds in team competition the first half of the campaign, finished with back-to-back gold medals in San Saba, February 2, and in Brady, February 9.
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Only a few games into this basketball season, Llano’s Jerry McSherry claimed his 500th win as a coach. When the Lady Jackets’ season was coming to a close, February 7, at Taylor, he picked up the second ejection of his quarter-century career.
The incident didn’t include any fist-swinging, just a typical coach-referee disagreement where the ref had the only ballot.
“I didn’t feel like he made very good calls,” McSherry told me.
Softball’s Lady Jackets could not get that initial win on the new diamond in 2016, so they decided this season it would be, well, the first priority, and on a sometimes rainy opening night, Llano claimed a Valentine’s Day gift a few hours early by smashing Mason, 12-0, in a four-and-a-half inning, runrule contest.
Bobby Williams addressed his squad shortly after the game ended: “There can be no other Jackets’ team which can win the first game on this field.”
Words for the ages.
