Dickerson one away from 500

For the third straight season, the Thorndale Lady Bulldog basketball team ended the regular season with a district title after taking down Milam County foe Milano 70-29 on Tuesday evening at the THS Gymnasium.

MHS teams fall in Thorndale

Milano’s Lady Eagle basketball team wrapped up district play on Tuesday night with a 70-29 loss to first place Thorndale on Tuesday night. Leading scorers for MHS were sophomore McKenna Robertson with 12 points and Kristian Taylor had nine. Kaitlyn Telg scored five and Bethanie Compton had three.

RJH BASKETBALL

RJH Girls Results Feb. 6 vs. Franklin RJH 8A 26, Franklin 17 Franklin 5 7 0 5—17 RJH 7 9 8 2—26 Points: RJH–Ciara Miles 13, Chloe Buegeler 7, Hailey Webb 4, Halle Jimenez 2. Top Defenders: Miles, Webb, Buegeler and Madalynne Brinkmann.

Freshmen phenoms 8-2 in district

Through ten district games, Rockdale’s ninth grade team has kept the crowd at the old RHS Gymnasium entertained.

LITTLE DRIBBLERS

Rockdale Junior High sixth grader Kaylor Eschberger (left) and elementary student Makenzi Valdivia, pictured playing in Rockdale Little Dribblers games at the RHS gym on Saturday.

New district, new schedule for Rockdale football

All across the state of Texas, high school football coaches, players, fans and reporters reacted to the University Interscholastic League’s 2020-2022 realignment, including Rockdale’s head coach and athletic director Jeff Miller.

RHS falls out of postseason hunt

In a physical game with Troy, the Lady Tigers fell 56-40 on Tuesday evening at the RHS Gymnasium. “We had trouble putting four quarters together.” said coach Meredith Caffey. Early, the two were close with the Blue-and-Gold trailing only 31-26 at halftime.

Raven named football MVP at Fall banquet

Rockdale High School held their annual fall banquet at the RJH Commons on Wednesday evening where junior Kesean Raven was named the most valuable for the 2019 Rockdale Tiger football team. “This is a guy that never comes off the field for us.” said RHS head coach and athletic director Jeff Miller.

Tigers lose 64-55 to Troy

Rockdale’s boys got their third straight loss with a 64-55 final against Troy on Tuesday night at home. “The ball movement wasn’t really there,” said coach Marcus McNeil. “We had one person touch the ball before getting a shot up.”

Gold outshines blue in opener

Jessica Flores’s first hit of the season was also a game winner when she hit a single to bring in Allyson Whited to give Rock-dale JV a 7-6 win over the varsity on Friday night at Lady Tiger Field. Winning pitcher Brande Breithaupt was on the mound for all seven innings with one strikeout.