Sports

Tigers baseball eliminated from playoff contention

News Staff

Thu, 04/27/2023 - 00:00

The Blue and Gold had a rough week against two tough opponents. TROY— On April 18, the Tigers traveled to Troy to take on the district- leading Trojans and lost 11-0 in 5 innings. Junior shortstop Mario Casarez, went for 2 for 2 at the plate. ROGERS— On Friday, Rockdale lost at home to Rogers, 10-1.

Rockdale’s Stevens, Hicks take first place to advance to regionals

News Staff

Thu, 04/27/2023 - 00:00

FAIRFIELD—Rockdale senior Devon Hicks and freshman De’Andre Stephens improved on their winning heights from the district meet to finish first in their events at the area meet in Fairfield on Friday. “Devon and Dre have decent shot to get to state,” said Coach Chr is Van Cleave.

SPORTS BRIEFS

News Staff

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 00:00

Powerlifters receive state academic honors Rockdale High School’s Kevin Liu and Tatiana Olivares were recognized as Academic All-State Athletes in powerlifting. They both placed at the Elite level, which is the highest academic honor awarded.

Tiger baseball back on winning track

News Staff

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 00:00

The Rockdale Tigers baseball team improved their record to 13-10 and 5-5 in the extremely tough District 19-3A.

Bartsch-Castillo duo places third in region

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Thu, 04/20/2023 - 00:00

COLLEGE STATION— Rockdale g i rl s’ tennis dynamic duo of Julie Bartsch and Yolianna Castillo finished third in the region last week. The girls started the tournament hot with wins over Kerrville and Malakoff to advance to the semi-finals, where they lost to Groesbeck.

Thorndale has record setting days in track

News Staff

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 00:00

HOLLAND—Jack Herzog broke a Thorndale High School pole vault record (set back in 1996) at the Lexington Eagle Relays in late March with a vault of 14’7”.

Rockdale boys’ track team places second in district

News Staff

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 00:00

The Rockdale varsity boys’ track team put on another strong performance in the District 19-AAA Championships last week at Tiger Stadium. Overall, RHS has 11 athletes that qualified for the area meet in Fairfield this week—10 on the boys’ team and one on the girls’.

Longtime Thorndale girls’ basketball coach stepping down

News Staff

Thu, 04/13/2023 - 00:00

After 24 years as head basketball coach for the Lady Bulldogs, Coach Bradley Dickerson is stepping off the court. Dickerson was born into educ at ion and coachi ng—his father, and biggest inf luence, Gordon, was also a coach and many other family members have been teachers.

Impressive performances turned in by JV athletes

News Staff

Thu, 04/13/2023 - 00:00

LEXINGTON—At the Lexington Eagle Relays on March 30, Rockdale High School had a few standout junior varsity performances.

Tigers baseballers fall to Academy, 6-0

News Staff

Thu, 04/13/2023 - 00:00

The Rockdale High School boys’ varsity baseball team held tough for a while at home against Little River-Academy last Tuesday night. Despite giving up a leadoff home run, the Tigers kept the Bumblebees in check through the first four innings.