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Written by Kmoo News
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:52 |
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The Mineola Lady Jackets fell Tuesday in a must-win game with Canton, ending their chances of a play-off berth.
The Lady Jackets led early in the game in Mineola, leading Canton in the third inning.
However, the Eaglettes came back strong and took the lead, ending the game in the top of the seventh with a final score of 8-6. |
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Written by Robert Trammell
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Friday, 10 April 2009 13:01 |
| DATE |
TEAMS |
PLACE |
TIME |
| 8/27 |
Grand Saline vs Van |
VAN |
7:30 PM |
| 8/28 |
Harmony vs Edgewood |
EDGEWOOD |
7:30 PM |
| 9/4 |
Quitman vs Mineola |
MINEOLA |
7:30 PM |
| 9/11 |
Mineola vs Grand Saline |
GRAND SALINE |
7:30 PM |
| 9/18 |
Lindale* vs Paris**** |
LINDALE |
7:30 PM |
| 9/25 |
Winnsboro vs Grand Saline |
GRAND SALINE |
7:30 PM |
| 10/2 |
Alba Golden vs Quitman **** |
QUITMAN |
7:30 PM |
| 10/9 |
Canton vs Wills Point |
WILLS POINT |
7:30 PM |
| 10/16 |
Farmersville vs Rains**** |
RAINS |
7:30 PM |
| 10/23 |
Van vs Wills Point |
WILLS POINT |
7:30 PM |
| 10/30 |
Canton vs Van |
VAN |
7:30 PM |
| 11/6 |
Wills Point vs Mineola |
MINEOLA |
7:30 PM |
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**** Homecoming |
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Written by Robert Trammell
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Thursday, 05 February 2009 12:19 |
MEDIA POLL PREDICTS NEW CHAMPION FOR '09
NASCAR's annual pre-season media poll has Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards finishing in the top two spots of the Sprint Cup Series standings again, but with the order reversed from 2008. The poll has Edwards ending Johnson's three-year reign. Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. complete the top five.
WIMMER TO DRIVE FOR KEY MOTORSPORTS
Key Motorsports has tapped Scott Wimmer to drive its Chevrolet for the first three races of the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series ... in Daytona, California and Las Vegas. There'll also be a car number change, from 31 to 40. The team is planning to compete full-time this season, but Wimmer's status is uncertain beyond Vegas. He formerly drove for Richard Childress Racing's Nationwide Series team and had one win last year, at Nashville Superspeedway in March.
McDOWELL LANDS NATIONWIDE SERIES RIDE
JTG Daugherty Racing in the Nationwide Series has announced that Michael McDowell will replace Kelly Bires in the team's Number-47 entry, starting in the February 14th season opener and extending at least through the first half of the schedule. Veteran crew chief Gene Nead will direct the team. Bires, who finished thirteenth in last year's driver standings, still is under contract and the team is actively pursuing sponsorship on his behalf.
BELL JOINS BENSON AT RED HORSE RACING
T.J. Bell has filled the seat vacated by David Starr at Red Horse Racing and will team up with 2008 champion Johnny Benson in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series that opens February 13th at Daytona.
IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE
February 5th, 1950
Harold Kite, a former Army tank driver who began racing on short tracks after World War two, won the forty-eight-lap, two-hundred-mile NASCAR Grand National Series race on the Daytona beach and road course. Kite, in a 1949 Lincoln, passed Red Byron for the lead with 24 laps to go and beat Byron to the finish line by 53 seconds. An estimated crowd of 9,500 watched Kite score his first victory in his very first career start in the Grand National Series, precursor of today's Sprint Cup Series. |
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Written by Robert Trammell
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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 09:45 |
GIRLS:
District 14-4A
Whitehouse 47, Lindale 24
District 20-3A
No. 13 Brownsboro 45, Palestine 22
District 14-3A
Van 57, Wills Point 38
District 18-2A
Harmony 48, Union Gorve 34
District 14-2A
Edgewood 43, Rice 31
District 20-1A Division 1
Hawkins 47, Waskom 43
District 18-1A Division 1
No. 8 Martins Mill 59, Fruitvale 26
BOYS:
District 14-4A
Whitehouse 63, Lindale 42
District 20-3A
Brownsboro 68, Palestine 40
District 14-3A
Canton 39, Mineola 34
District 14-2A
No. 6 Edgewood 73, Rice 26
District 20-1A Division 1
Hawkins 64, Waskom 52
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Written by Robert Trammell
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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 09:32 |
The Union Grove Lady Lions made the trip to Harmony last night to try and clip the wings of the Lady Eagles and knock them out of first place in district 18-2A. Early on, it appeared as if the Lady Lions would have that opportunity. At the end of the first quarter, Harmony lead 13-8. Chelsea Roberts scored 6 of the 13 points scored by the Lady Eagles in the first eight minutes of the game. From the start of the second quarter, it was all Lady Eagles. Roberts added 5 more points in the second quarter on her way to 11 first half points for the Lady Eagles. Harmony held the Lady Lions to only 14 first half points and the Lady Eagles led, 23-14 at the half. The third quarter was a little different than the first two in that the Lady Lions out scored the Lady Eagles 10-8. Most of the Lady Lions points came from the free throw line in the third quarter as they went, 6 of 8 from the line. At the end of three quarters, the score was Harmony 31, Union Grove 24. As the fourth quarter got started, both Chelsea Roberts and Amber Wilburn took over for the Lady Eagles. Roberts scored 8 of her game high 20 points in the fourth quarter, and Wilburn added 6 of her 11 points in the fourth quarter. Together, Roberts and Wilburn out scored the Lady Lions 14-10 in the final 8 minutes. Off the bench, Emma Bukosbe added 9 points as the Lady Eagles defeated the Lady Lions, 48-34 to keep at least a share of first place in district 18-2A.
Game two of our double header started off as a close battle. Harmony would jump out to a 5 point lead, and the Lions would come back to tie the game up. At the end of the first quarter, the eagles held a slim three point lead at 10-7. The second quarter started out like the first quarter until the six and a half mark. That is when the Harmony Eagles went on a 17-0 run to finish out the quarter as they took a 33-16 lead into the halftime locker room. Jon Ledbetter scored 8 of his game high 16 points in the first half. Ryan Rendon added 14 points in the first half, all in the second quarter. The third quarter was a lot like the second quarter as the Eagles out scored the Lions 21-16. The Eagles hit 4 three pointers by four different players in that third quarter. In the final 8 minutes, the Lions made a slight comeback, outscoring the Eagles, 18-10, but it was to little to late as the Harmony Eagles defeated the Union Grove Lions, 64-49. Up next for both the Lady Eagles and Eagles will be a road trip to Winona Friday evening. |
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Written by Robert Trammell
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Monday, 02 February 2009 10:53 |
THIS IS THEIR FIRST MORNING DRIVER OF THE YEAR... WHILE THEY WERE AWAY...
Ray Evernham went from team owner to track owner, purchasing East Lincoln Speedway in Stanley, North Carolina ... a three-eighths-mile clay oval near Charlotte.
Jimmie Johnson was in New York City the first week of December to collect the spoils of his third straight Cup Series championship and received a surprise visit while on stage from the only other driver in NASCAR history to win three in a row ... Cale Yarborough.
2008 Craftsman Truck Series championship Johnny Benson got a new ride. He left Bill Davis Racing and is now behind the wheel of the Number-1 entry at Red Horse Racing.
Mike Skinner, who was Benson's teammate at BDR, joined Randy Moss Motorsports and will be part of a two-truck team with rookie Tayler Malsam.
The entire series has a new sponsor this year. It's now the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, with the new season opening February 13 in Daytona.
2000 Cup Series champion Bobby Labonte was released from Petty Enterprises and joined Hall of Fame Racing to drive the Number-96 Ford ... which used to be the Number-96 Toyota.
"Merger Mania" hit the Sprint Cup Series with the following blends now available on the 2009 menu: Dale Earnhardt, Incorporated with Chip Ganassi Racing; Gillett Evernham Motorsports and Petty Enterprises; and Hall of Fame Racing with Yates Racing.
And 1988 Cup Series champion Bill Elliott is back with the Wood Brothers in 2009 for a nine-race schedule that'll kick off in Daytona.
TRACK FACT
The traditional opening race of NASCAR speed Weeks at Daytona International Speedway, the Budweiser Shootout non-points special event, will be run Saturday night. The race used to be for pole winners from the previous season and drivers who had won the race before. A format change now has each of the four auto manufacturers entering their top six teams based on car owner points from last season, along with one "Wild Card" driver for each make ... bringing the size of this year's field to twenty-eight cars.
JOHNSON CHASING HISTORY
In 2008, Jimmie Johnson became just the second driver in NASCAR's sixty-year history to win three consecutive Cup Series championships. Cale Yarborough was the first, from 1976 to 1978. Johnson's Number-48 Hendrick Motorsports team will be after its fourth straight in 2009. How did Yarborough fare in his quest for a fourth straight crown in 1979? He won two of the first eleven races that season. But Richard Petty won the season opening Daytona 500 and tacked on four more wins to claim the last of his seven career Cup Series titles. Yarborough placed fourth in the final standings. |
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Locker Room 
It was hot, but that didn't stop nearly 60 students, dressed in blue from getting down to business this morning in Quitman.