Eagles first scrimmage is on the road

MILANO - The Milano Eagles will test their wings in a scrimmage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 against the Owls of Anderson-Shiro. Coach Chad Lagrone’s, picked fourth by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football in District 13-2A (Div.

Thorndale aims to run the ball

THORNDALE—The Thorndale Bulldogs played in their first scrimmage on Friday, Aug. 17, against the Centerville Tigers at Bulldog Stadium. “We have some holes to fill from graduation,” said Coach Scott Hawkins, “but the kids work hard.

Game Warden Field Notes: Easy trail to follow

Usually, game wardens have few clues to go on when they discover deer remains dumped alongside a road. A recently wrapped up investigation in Live Oak County gave them an easy trail to follow. Last September, wardens were made aware of several deer carcasses and other items dumped in a bar ditch.

Let them eat cake!

Hundreds of Tiger fans filled the bleachers at Rockdale High School Gymnasium for more than two hours on Monday night to greet this year’s athletic teams at the annual Meet the Tigers cake auction and social hosted by the Rockdale Tigers Athletic Booster Club.

Lady Tigers adjusting to competition

VOLLEYBALL ROUNDUP The Lady Tigers went 8-2 after their first batch of non-district volleyball matches in tournament and cross county rival play this past weekend. Rockdale High School finished first with the most wins in the silver bracket of the Florence Volleyball Tournament, Aug. 9-11.

Local track stars compete in state meet, Junior Olympics

Rockdale track stars made a good showing in their first year at the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation State Track Meet in College Station, and the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics in Des Moines, Iowa.

Lexington summer select player to play in all-state tournament

A Lexington 11 and under baseball player won honors, while playing on a summer select baseball team in Houston at the beginning of August.

Big city living with small town prices

About a month ago, I was at Whole Foods on South Lamar in Austin eating two slices of pizza that were in the same price range as a large one-topping from a pizza place in Rockdale, when I received a message from Ken Cooke asking that I call him as soon as I was able to.

Area netters scrimmaging, get ready for tourney play

The Rockdale Lady Tigers held their first scrimmage at home early Saturday, sharing the gym with fellow Milam county schools Milano and Thorndale, and Rogers in Bell County. Rockdale had 34 girls show up to the first day of practices.

Grinding it out

TERRIBLE TWOS: Two-a-days begin in Milam County Rockdale High School football players got back to the grind this week, opening two-a-day workouts on Monday with 80 players, according to Coach Jeff Miller. Last year, the Tigers had 107 players on the first day.