Sports

AREA CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

Milano High School/ Junior High at Caldwell Varsity Boys 26. Andy Gutierrez 20:30 JV Girls 13. Mollie Ybarra 15:10 JH Boys 1. Kadence Koenig 12:24 8. Itzel Corillo 14:12 17. Mallory Milla 15:17 63. McKenzie Mathews 18:09 JH Girls 21. Wyatt Koenig 13:20 66. Jude Penick 16:00 67.

GAME STATS

RHS 44, LHS 36 HPB RHS 8 First Downs 23 70 Rushing 232 3-20 Passing 10-14 32 Passing yards 294 102 Total yards 526 1-1 Fumbles 0-0 6-36.8 Punts-average 1-2 5-40 Penalities 4-20 Score by quarters HPB 0 7 0 0 — 7 RHS 32 20 14 0 — 66 Scoring summary First quarter ROCKDALE-Cam’Ron Valdez 1 run (Ross...

SPORTS BRIEFS

Tiger boys XC finish fifth in McGregor Rockdale’s boys cross country team placed fifth in McGregor with junior Albert Silva and sophomore Seth Davis both runnning the race in 19:08.4. Silva was 22nd beating Davis, who was 23rd out of 120 runners. Other Tigers running were: 32.

Tigers come out fast, strong for third win

In an explosive, highly-energized first half, Cam’Ron Valdez and Kesean Raven accumulated more than 300 yards worth of touchdowns during the Tigers 45-13 win in Lexington on Friday. “We started fast on offense,” said Jeff Miller, Rockdale High School football coach and athletic director.

Eagles block Lady Tigers

In their first District 19-3A contest, the Lady Tigers came up short to neighbor Lexington in a 21-25, 22-25, 22-25 match at the RHS gymnasium on Friday. “I’m proud of the fight we had,” said Kelsey Hudson, Rockdale volleyball coach.

Piece of history returns home

More than 15 years ago, thieves stole Hank Lay-well’s football state championship ring out of his car while he was in Hillsboro.

Eagles fall to Bremond 44-6

Milano fell to 0-3 for the season on Friday night to another top-ranked team after falling victim to undefeated Bremond and their dual-threat offense that had 217 passing yards and 228 yards on the ground.

THS comes out on top against Thrall in tense rivalry match

In their second straight match against a ranked opponent, Thorndale defeated Thrall for the second time this season in four sets 25-21, 18-25, 25-16, 25-23. “Thrall is always a hard game to win,” said Angel Raines, Lady Bulldog head volleyball coach.

During halftime

Photo by Teresa Ging of the Bulldogs’ 69-0 win over Axtell this past Friday night, Thorndale High School named Jacob Barron as homecoming king and Allison Albert as the queen. Both seniors won their crowns over four of their respective classmates