‘Meet the Tigers’; taking a look at the Daingerfield dynasty

BLEEDING BLUE AND GOLD The annual Meet the Tigers event took place last Saturday night in the gym at Rockdale High School. (See photos at right.

Tigers to host Rogers in scrimmage Friday

The Rockdale Tigers have a scrimmage scheduled against Rogers Friday here at home. Start time is 6 p.m. for JV and 7 p.m. for varsity. They will then travel to Salado on Thursday, Aug. 22, for another scrimmage, with start times at 6 p.m. for JV and 7 p.m. for varsity.

Lady Tigers to play in Navasota tourney

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Rockdale Lady Tigers will be playing in the Navasota Tournament. Let’s go Lady Tigers!

MEET THE TIGERS

Rockdale athletic director and head coach Hunter Hamrick Rockdale High School principal Wendy Mahan  

Tigers begin two-a-day practices

Monday marked the beginning of a long high school football season as Tiger two-a-days got under way. Rockdale Athletic Director/Head Coach Hunter Hamrick and staff began putting the Tigers through their paces Monday morning at Tiger Stadium.  

RHS sports building community, ramping up for season to begin

Ithink it’s pretty cool that the Rockdale Athletic Director/Head Football Coach Hunter Hamrick and his wife Morgan had the athletic department staff a nd t heir families out to their house recently for a back to school party.

SPORTS BRIEFS

Rockdale Tiger fans three years to fifth grade can be Bleacher Creatures. For $25 they get a t-shirt, entry into varsity home games and they get to run onto the field during pregame activities through the tunnel with the actual Tigers. Sign up online via the Rockdale Tiger Booster Club.

Rockdale’s Mitchell wins Last Cowboy Standing competition

Rockdale native Ezekiel Mitchell recently won the Camping World PBR Last Cowboy Standing event in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After two nights of intense competition, the 27-year-old Austin Gamblers’ athlete went 3-for-5, out-dueling reigning PBR World Champion Cassio Dias of Sao F. de Sales, Brazil.

Your sports fun facts of the week

BLEEDING BLUE AND GOLD Did you know there are 333.3 million people in the United States? Did you also know 50 million of them participate in the sport of running? That's about 15% of our population. Running is the most popular and most participated in sport in America.

STATE COMPETITION

Rockdale’s Wake Swim Club sent two boys’ relay teams to the state competition in Brownsville last week. The Boys 11-12 team (top photo) finished fourth. It was made up of Stratton Masek, Milam Giles, Wyatt Glass and Hudson Bexley. The Boys 9-10 team (bottom photo) placed third.