SAN ANTONIO—The score was lopsided, and the better team won and may beat a few more folks in the next couple of weeks, but the emotional and dignified farewell comments by the Llano High seniors showed how this sport can transcend its tough character on the gridiron. Please check that out in a companion story.
“{We} knew they were extremely good,” acknowledged head coach Craig Slaughter, discussing Sinton, the last foe for 2015.
The Lady Jackets have concluded the pre-Thanksgiving schedule with four losses in four games. Three were not too close, but the defeat to visiting Harper, November 17, was painful because the Longhorns, who won 49-44, were never in front till the fourth quarter.
“We don’t know how to play with a lead,” lamented head coach Joe Downey.
CANYON LAKE—Already there’s improvement and a fire upon which to build. The Llano basketball boys made one impressive comeback and stayed close for a while but dropped a 59-40 decision to the Hawks, November 23. It was the last athletic contest for the school before December 1.
“Played well in spurts,” said first-year head coach, Blake Sieck.
Although we all appreciate the rain, its timing was bad, interfering with the end of the Blanco Youth Soccer Association's season: games for the last two weekends of play were rained out. Some of the rained out games were made up, with the last game of the season, between the two U12 teams made up of kids from Banco, being played Saturday afternoon the 8th.
Despite losing a couple of games to the much-needed rain, kids from ages 4 to 12 played on between 10 and 14 games this season, in Blanco, ...
BANDERA—It was a fast and furious first quarter. The Jackets had a couple of trick plays and gained command.
It was one after another—literally—and Llano owned an 8-0 advantage. The Friday the 13th bi-district contest was 17 seconds old. 47 minutes and 43 seconds later, the Jackets held aloft a gold football after a convincing 42-26 victory over Crystal City, the school’s first gridiron playoff win since 2008.
“We thought we had a big shot at that play,” a beaming head coach Craig S ...
With the list needing maybe a third of a page, he’s one of the greatest football players to emerge from Llano High and the Hill Country.
The prosecution’s case won’t take long: Ken Gray was selected to play in seven Pro Bowls in the National Football League, 1958-’70. Injury limited his participation to six.
We won’t pursue a case—now—that he deserves to be in the NFL Hall of Fame, but he has been elected to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame; he’ll be inducted in February.
“It’s ...
BANDERA--The Llano High Jackets scored eight points in the first 17 seconds of the game, Friday night, and went on to beat Crystal City, 42-26, in the bi-district round of the Class 4A, Division II football playoffs.
Llano, which led 29-20 at half, never trailed.
The Jackets (4-7) will meet unbeaten Sinton in the area round, Friday, Nov.
This month, Llano Christian Academy announced the beginning of a campaign to raise funds for their new eight million dollar campus. The building project and capital campaign, which is being called Putting Down Roots, is a big step for the school and its students.
The new eight acre campus, which will be located on W.
You can tell the landscape looks like diamonds now and will soon be back-to-back jewels behind the buildings at Llano High School. They are the new softball and baseball fields, creating an on-campus look for the first time.
“Love going out every day and seeing the changes,” said softball head coach Bobby Williams.
The first piece of evidence that this project was en route to reality (for me) was when you saw what appeared to be the beginning of the outfield fences.
This is what reporters do when they can’t fill a page or two about one story. It’s a montage of (superficial) brilliance, which makes this lead paragraph a perfect introduction.
Never give up
Remember Salado’s visit to Llano, October 2? The Eagles had a 24-14 lead in an effort to break a 19-game losing streak.
