When school resumed November 28, I sat down with head coach Craig Slaughter and asked a variety of questions on the 4-7 year that finished with a 22-18 loss to Crystal City in the bi-district round of the playoffs.
The headings in bold were our subjects.
Crystal City
“It was a winnable game; it was a very-even match-up. Would have felt so much better about the season — with what we got accomplished — with an ...
SAN SABA — Llano High has its first 500-win coach — or one of its very few. I’m sort of guessing on that, so if you know of another one, please send me a post.
The Jackets got in a bit late on this one, but we’ll take it. Girls’ head basketball coach, Jerry McSherry, preceded his two victories in San Saba (November 17-18) with 498 wins in a quarter century in various communities in the state.
“All about the kids leading up to this,” McSherry told me, ...
“On fire!” Coach Jerry McSherry said. I guess. A career night for senior Angela Palmares: seven three-pointers and 27 points — personal bests for sure, and the most by any jacket in a long time, as Llano rallied to belt Brady, 50-43, November 21.
No one would have foreseen such numbers at halftime. It was 20-12, Bulldogs, but the Jackets chalked up 18 in the third and 20 in the fourth.
MARBLE FALLS — After more than 1,500 games, and, at 90 points every 32
minutes — his team and the opponent — Coach Jerry English has witnessed somewhere in the unscientific neighborhood of 131,000 points. He needed to make sure his Faith Academy Lady Flames stayed close enough to Lipan and Hamilton, November 17, so that two of those points—.00002 percent - provided him with wins 1199 and 1200.
EARLY — Appropriate location. The early days of the Llano High career of head coach Aaron Nuckles opened here near Brownwood, November 15, as the basketball Jackets were competitive but lost, 49-44, to the Longhorns.
“There are good things to start with,” said Nuckles, but, “a lot to improve on.”
Michael Lockhart doesn’t have much to improve on in the rebounding category: he grabbed 16 boards, a remarkable number in a 32-minute contest.
EARLY — Appropriate location. The early days of the Llano High career of head coach Aaron Nuckles opened here near Brownwood, November 15, as the basketball Jackets were competitive but lost, 49-44, to the Longhorns.
“There are good things to start with,” said Nuckles, but, “a lot to improve on.”
Michael Lockhart doesn’t have much to improve on in the rebounding category: he grabbed 16 boards, a remarkable number in a 32-minute contest.
I think the two-point conversion in college and pro football is a sucker punch. Oh, I know it’s needed in desperate times but terribly overrated and over-used. You’ve read this before? Would you like more on the most recent presidential election? I didn’t think so.
The main advice here to coaches is: forget the dad-gum two until, oh, say, the middle of the third quarter.
The Llano Special Olympians traveled to Highland Lanes and Dart Bowling Alley in Austin to participate in the Area 13 Bowling Competition, November 4-5. Llano was well represented with eight students in every age group.
The athletes trained for 8 weeks for this competition which involved over 1,500 athletes. This year the Yellow Jacket team walked away with one bronze medal for Jaycee Davidson, one silver medal for Mitch Dunn, and an amazing six ...
ROUND ROCK — No medals, but two fine showings by Llano High representatives in the ultimate contest in Texas: the State Championships. Nic George ran his best time ever, and it arrived in the State Cross Country Meet, while Meredith Zyetz — also a sophomore — beat about a third of the 150
entrants, November 12.
Take it one step further: 110,000, the approximate number of students in Class 4A in Texas.
Nic covered three miles ...
