Hallettsville, Bishop meet again in regional semifinals

David Husmann is ready to do something he hasn't done in eight years.
HALLETTSVILLE - Chris Jones grew up watching Hallettsville play baseball.

WEIMAR - Chris Jones studied for his mound test on Thursday, and aced the exam on Saturday.

SINTON - Refugio advanced to the Class 2A regional quarterfinals as the result of its pitching, hitting and defense.

WEIMAR - Weston Seay expected nothing less than a battle when he stepped to the plate against East Bernard reliever Ty Slanina.

Blake Reeve passed for 1,674 yards and 12 touchdowns during his senior season at Cuero.

Edna will play a football game for the first time since last season's Class 2A, Division I bi-district playoffs.
Matt Wright has been promoted to athletic director and head football coach at Runge.
HALLETTSVILLE - Carson Schindler may be the grizzled veteran of the Hallettsville baseball team, but he still has the enthusiasm of a rookie.

Hunter Perkins was pleased with his senior season at Victoria East, but not completely satisfied.

Texas A&M-Kingsville is headed for its second straight NCAA Division II regional baseball tournament and its first as the host team and top seed.
AUSTIN - Dontrell Lyons caught a glimpse of his closest competitor out of the corner of his eye.

AUSTIN - The glow of silver is in the eye of the beholder.

Victoria East senior ready to jump into state meet

Jimmie Mitchell is returning to the Coastal Bend.
YOAKUM - TreVontae Hights traveled to Austin in March for the Texas Relays.

GOLIAD - Rain fell at the Region IV-2A track and field meet, but it didn't dampen the sunny disposition of the Goliad girls team.

COLUMBUS - Cuero's Justin Kremling knew there was a good possibility he would become the last out of the sixth inning, but it wasn't going to be for a lack of effort.

Pitchers talk a lot about location, but rarely does that refer to where they are sitting in the dugout.

The north wind was whipping into Riverside Stadium, but Chad Kruse didn't want to leave the field.
Victoria East coach Wes Kolle has proof flipping a coin is a 50/50 proposition.

UHV came into the Association of Independent Institutions tournament as the fifth seed.
Trey Robinson is a talented athlete, but he wasn't always the best of students.

UHV swept a three-game series against Fisher College in March, and recently swept a four-game series against LSU-Alexandria.
KINGSVILLE - Ellie Forgason didn't get much sleep, but was wide awake Saturday morning when she arrived at the hotel to rejoin her El Campo teammates.

CUERO - Cuero coach Phillip Schwarz wants his team to take a glass-half-full approach after Thursday night's 6-3 loss to La Grange.

Jonathan Vahalik was looking for a place to play football, and Southwestern University was looking for players to restart its program.

Neither Victoria East nor Victoria West has had success against Calallen in their three-year history.

Ken Wallace led Runge to its first playoff appearance since 1997 and its first winning season since 1999.
Kasey Heitzmann made four trips to the medal stand at Saturday's Districts 29/30-4A area track and field meet in Floresville before joining her Victoria East teammates for a fifth.

Gary Zeinert has coached at Rice Consolidated for the past four seasons.
UHV coach Terry Puhl attended a baby dedication for his granddaughter and missed the start of Sunday's doubleheader.

FLORESVILLE - Calhoun's Connor Holladay has rarely been pushed in the pole vault this season.

Brandon Brinkley doesn't need to watch tape to know when he's doing something wrong.

Zack Hudson is leaving Weimar after two seasons as the school's athletic director and head football coach.
WEIMAR - Shiner and Weimar are steeped in baseball tradition.

Zack Hudson is leaving Weimar after two seasons as the school's athletic director and head football coach.
GIDDINGS - A variety of emotions charged through TreVontae Hights as he leaned against the fence near the finish line of the Buffalo Stadium track.

Koby Bynum knew exactly what he was in store for when he found out he would be the starting pitcher against Calallen.

Ramaya Dean comes from a basketball family.

YOAKUM - Cuero's Clint Davis is well-versed in the rivalry between the Gobblers and Yoakum.

CORPUS CHRISTI - The Calhoun boys came home with a team championship, and a disqualification cost the Victoria East girls a title of their own Thursday at the District 30-4A track and field meet at Calallen's Wildcat Stadium.
El Campo's Cole Hunt and Yoakum's Keith Ratley have been selected to play in the Texas High School Coaches Association All-Star Football Game.
The Glenn Sparkman who arrived at Wharton County Junior College from Ganado bears little resemblance to the pitcher who took the mound a cold, windy Wednesday at Riverside Stadium.
Jonathan Ortega watched from the Victoria East dugout as Donny Davis threw the ceremonial first pitch to Victoria West catcher A.J. Kuester.

Brad Bowden is no stranger to struggling football programs.

Donny Davis hasn't picked up a baseball in a year.

Ninety feet stood between Jacob Rosales and home plate.
