The Jacket volleyball team did not go to Denver, August 25-27, but it did go almost as far — Denver City, which is about a soft serve from New Mexico. You would have thought the coaches and girls were sent to pick up information for Larry McMurtry so he could write a sequel to Lonesome Dove.
It took a while, but the adventure paid off: three wins to conclude the visit on Saturday and a triumph in the consolation bracket of the tournament — and now an impre ...
SMITHVILLE — They saved their best for first. That would be the Llano football Jackets, and that would be the first half. Llano hit the balance beam — with running, passing, and more than a spot of defense — for a 25-0 lead at intermission.
You can tell Mr. Smith, the second half was dulls-Ville, but no reason to dwell on the negative after a 31-15 victory to start the 2016 adventure.
“Thrilled with the win,” said head c ...
Kenzie Johnson, left, sprays shaving cream on the head of LHS theater teacher Caleb Strauss, as teacher Lisa Petty, right, watches during last Friday’s pep rally at the school.
There are several somewhat new phrases in sports I don’t like, but I’m only going to attack one today.
Back in the day I would’ve attacked more, but now I’ve decided...No, I’m going to double my load to two today — the first one being, BACK IN THE DAY! Guess what everybody? “The Old Days” beat you to it by 342 years, and it has six more centuries on its contract.
The main event here involves the walk-off hit, or something else, in baseball.
If Texas A&M still has Myles to go, Myles might get them there, along with a Knight in Shining Armor. My cliché allotment for the summer {autumn, too?} is over.
Defensive end Myles Garrett, with 24 sacks the past two seasons, is considered the best defensive player in the SEC according to Lindy’s Magazine. Sporting News wants to join the conversation and insists, “{Garrett is} sometimes impossible to block.”
Trevor Knight, the former Sooner who fired fou ...
SAN ANTONIO — ”Rudy Davalos...This is Your Life!” Few of you will remember that portion of the
Golden Age of Television in the 1950s, but Rudy Davalos of Horseshoe Bay would have been a magnificent star of one of those episodes.
And, although, on August 15, it wasn’t televised — with the show decades in retirement — a full ballroom at The Stable at Pearl did indeed get to know the man who was presented with the Lamar
H ...
There’s no Llano football on the sports page here, because it’s all in the Sports Preview Special edition very close by. We did want to present a little “teaser.” Coach Craig Slaughter introduced to the “Meet the Jackets” crowd, August 16, his varsity football team, and we learned some of the boys’
nicknames. Here’s a sample:
John “Rocket” Heflin.
Ray “The Franchise” Dixon.
Ben “The Snake” Walling.
Lauren (Parker) Timms decided it was time to go back to school in Llano. The 2009 LHS graduate went to college at Texas Tech and Texas State, coached one year in Junction, was a Jackets’ assistant in 2015-’16, and she’s now head coach of the high school cross country team.
There is the word, experience, on Llano High teams, running through much of this sports preview section, and no squad might have put in the miles — literally — that the cross country bunch has.
And experience is no savior if it has been preceded by under-achievers who have simply blown out more candles recently.
So, is there talent on this squad?
These women are the coaches of schools which have played the Jackets in volleyball this month. Here are their reactions:
Kristen Bigott, Gateway Prep: “Llano is a very good team, obviously.”
Jessica Withrow, Marble Falls: “Scrappy and energetic, fast girls on the back row.”
Gina Lumpkins, Harper: “{Jackets} did a great job, good defense, served well.”
Andrea Hutchins, Comfort: “Balls you didn’t think would come back did; kept the ball in play.”
Heather Wilson, Johnson City:
