Sports

Congrats to Coach Jason Marek for being selected by the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association as the winner of the Assistant Baseball Coach of the Year award! He started his coaching career in 1992 and has been a coach for fifteen years. Holding titles to twelve district championships, his overall record is 259-79-1.

Calling all hill country towns! ! !

The Panthers’ season ended last weekend in Brownwood with them losing to Grape Creek in a two out of three series. The first game was played in Fredericksburg on Thursday, May 15.

A signature program of the Kayak Anglers Society of America (501c3), the High School Kayak Fishing Series (HSKFS) has been specifically created to introduce high school students to the sport of competitive fishing, to increase their knowledge of the outdoors, and to help foster a strong conservation ethic in each student angler. High school club/teams are broken down into districts and regions within their home state, and initially compete against schools in their district in four fall and three spring tournaments.

I would like to introduce the Spring Branch Tennis Center to our community. This is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make tennis more accessible to our community.

Our family Little League story begins with “Big Jim the Arm” Armsberg (aka Papa). Jim, a South Dakota farm boy who learned to be a flame throwing pitcher by throwing rocks at rabbits, moved to Wenatchee, Washington, in 1953. This was the first year Wenatchee ever had organized Little League baseball.

Blanco beat Coahoma 5-3 and 11-3 to advance to the Regional Quarterfinals. Senior Ross McCormick started for the Panthers in game one and went seven strong innings striking out eight and scattering six hits to pick up his seventh victory of the year.

On Thursday, May 8, the Blanco Panther All Sports Banquet was held at the Blanco High School. Jay Top with SASports opened the ceremony.

Texas is proud to host the US OPEN NATIONAL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT, an ASA sanctioned event for girls 12u, 14u, 16u and 18u fastpitch softball teams on July 18-20, 2008 at the Ford Fields softball complex in Beaumont, Texas. Call 979-258-0750, e-mail txsoftballmag@aol. com or sign up on eteamz.

The Panthers traveled to Brady to hook up with District 5 AA Champions Hawley Bearcats for a warm-up game last Friday night. Ross McCormick got the nod and went five innings, scattering three hits and striking out six to improve his record to 6-3 on the year.