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.
Kyle Cooper has been in Llano for just over a year, but he may have garnered a first on the first — February 1. The Llano High safety, on National Signing Day, agreed to accept a football scholarship at Hastings College in Nebraska.
“They liked me, and I liked them,” said Kyle, who appeared in the high school library wearing a Hastings hoody.
MASON — An exceptional couple of scrimmages for the Llano High softball team, February 3-4, at
Fredericksburg and in Mason.
“Girls are working extremely hard in practice,” said head coach Bobby Williams. “Everyone’s contributing all over the field.”
And especially at the plate: 17 hits in a 12-8 win at Fred, and “only” nine hits, but, uh, 18 runs, on a cold Saturday morning in Mason.
A long game was a good one for the Llano baseball Jackets, as they opened scrimmage play on an appropriate night, February 6. On that day in 1895, George Herman “Babe” Ruth was born.
Neither the guests from Canyon Lake nor the Jackets homered on this pleasant evening, but Llano prevailed, 9-4.
“Saw really good things,” said head coach Stephen Campbell, “that hopefully we can build on.”
Drew Baker ripped a double to open the bottom of the ...
SAN SABA — The Llano High powerlifting season had two fine meets in Lampasas and Burnet but eclipsed those shows with a near-perfect day and night in the Armadillos’ gymnasium. The boys,
third twice in team totals in January, obliterated the field on Groundhog Day: 42 points to the runner-up Badgers’ 22. They would indeed need six weeks of winter to reach the Jackets’ level of strength.
“Really proud of ‘em,” said he ...
TWO FOR ONE — SENIOR NIGHT, L-R: Jaden Napolez, Cory Dyess, Katie McDonough, Chancey Lange, Bridget Hammes, Lexi Lucas, Erin Franklin, Kaymon Lange, Kris Watson, and Brice Triplett. A tough week for the Jacket teams: each lost to Burnet and Liberty Hill.
The Jacket boys came within four seconds, January 27, of getting their first district win, but a field goal by Leander Glenn’s Sam Martin caused the celebration to be postponed. The Grizzlies won, 50-49.
“One stop away,” said a calm but disappointed head coach, Aaron Nuckles. “I kept telling the kids that,” but, “we never got it.”
What Llano did get was a heck of a team effort, several gutty performances, and a ...
A real easy night, one with a bunch of LOL moments, turned into AA moments — anxiety attacks -- as the Llano basketball girls almost squandered a 24-6 halftime lead and a 31-16 third-quarter advantage, January 27, against visiting Leander Glenn.
If this sounds familiar, you are right, and you only have to read half the advertisements in this The Llano News edition.
The Jackets, up big and then down big enough, beat Lampasas three nights before& ...
BURNET — Sometimes things don’t go too well for Llano’s athletic teams when they land in Burnet, but they certainly did, January 26, in the Bulldogs Powerlifting Meet.
Dakoda Trull, one of the strongest Jackets in school history, posted a squat lift of 635 pounds, not an LHS record, but I doubt when the spine was designed a few decades ago, its limit was probably not in the 6-3-5 area code.
Trull, a junior, added a ...
LAMPASAS—They were remarkably similar: brilliant at times, a score of F in their
worst moments, but when two games had been concluded — January 24 and 27 — the Lady
Jackets had carved out two wins in a 72-hour span, a first in district play this season.
The opener came on the Badgers’ floor.
