THORNDALE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

The Thorndale Bulldogs basketball season came to a close last week in the regional semi-final loss against Port Aransas, 48-44. The Bulldogs were back-to-back district champions, finishing undefeated (12-0) in district competition. Overall they ended the season at 25-7.

ROCKDALE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Rockdale Lady Tiger Trinity Hurd was named Defensive Player of the Year for Disrict 19-3A. Tanisha McBride, Jazalle Dunn and Kyndal Selgelid were made Second Team All-District selections. Senior T’Niyah Miles and sophomore Jeremiah Butler were named All-District honorable mention in District 19-3A.

ROCKDALE HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS

Rockdale hosted an invitational tennis tournament at Veteran’s Park last week. The results were good under former Tiger and first year head tennis Coach Adrian Salcedo. BOYS— Alvan Liu placed first in singles action. In boys’ doubles, Pratham Patel and Jason Ponnaiya placed third.

ROCKDALE SOCCER

The Lady Tiger soccer team is poised to potentially make the postseason with only five more games to go in the regular season. Rockdale is currently in fourth place. In recent action, they split games against Manor New Tech and Salado.

ROCKDALE BASEBALL/SOFTBALL

Last week’s cold weather did not help former Rockdale Tiger and current head baseball Coach Austin Caffey get his Big Blue Machine tuned up for the 2025 baseball season.

Area champs...and still going

The victory bus is still rolling and it has nothing but Thorndale Bulldogs on it. Thorndale beat Ganado recently in the bi-district round of postseason play, winning 86-44. The Bulldogs then took on West Hardin in the area playoff game and brought home another win, 41-33.

MILANO HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

The Milano Eagles had a great year on the hard court, advancing to the postseason. The Eagles were bi-dist r ict champions af ter defeating Shiner, 62-52. Milano then faced off against powerhouse Mumford in the area round of the playoffs last week and unfortunately came up short, 67-32.

THORNDALE HIGH SCHOOL POWERLIFTING

REGIONAL POWERLIFTING— Congratulations to all of the Thorndale Lady Dog student athletes that competed in the recent regional powerlifting event at Dublin High School. Jordyn Stutts (center) earned the opportunity to move onto the state competition.

MILANO POWERLIFTING

Milano Lady Eagles powerlifters Kate Silvey and Kira Cooper placed third and fourth, respectively, at the regional meet last week.

ROCKDALE BASEBALL/SOFTBALL

The Blue & Gold baseball team faced off against Mumford last week and came away looking very good with 21-4 victory. Former Tiger and current head baseball Coach Austin Caffey said, “While the score looks good against Mumford it does not tell the whole story. Mumford substituted a lot of JV players.