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Marcus Hanna of Groesbeck aims for the green from a low spot Saturday during the Lions Club Golf Tournament at Battle Lake Golf Course. (Journal photo/David Stone) More ... The game of the year is finally here. No. 1 Texas (8-0) at No. 7 Texas Tech (8-0) in Lubbock at 7:00 p.m. Saturday night should be a barn-burner if both offenses are on their best. It is hard to know when Colt McCoy and Graham Harrell are ever at anything less that their best. Playing a hunch, we predicted for the Journal a 63-59 Tech win in double overtime. More ... Eighth grade White volleyball team lost to Mexia 17-25, 10-25. Shelby Sprague led the team in scoring and showed great hustle in the match. The Red team also lost 17-25, 11-25 despite their best hitting of the season. Tyler Vest had 2 kills, Lauren Kate Waller and Tessa Weishuhn each had 1. Vest and Waller also each recorded a block. More ... The seventh grade Red football Goats lost to Connally last week 38-16. Tony Parker ran hard all night. Sterling Cable completed a 35 yard touchdown pass to Cody Favors. The Goat offense couldn't capitalize on many other possessions. Those who contributed on offense were Cody Sale, Colton Swick, Chris Kelley, Kendric Mack and Jesse Gomez. More ... The Navasota River is down by at least 3 feet. You can still launch in at Ft. Parker river ramp by being careful. You can hit stumps that you never hit before if you don't watch out. In short the river is dangerously low. On the last rain we had Lake Mexia almost filled up, but did not overflow, so the river did not benefit from it. More ... Groesbeck 17, Connally 14 Mexia 49, Lorena 28 LaVega 34, Robinson 14 Athens 20, Fairfield 12 Teague 40, Leon 14 Rosebud-Lott 34, Marlin 14 Franklin 31, Hearne 22 Mart 42, Bremond 7 Westwood 14, Crockett 13 Dawson 33, More ... Gray team defeated Gray 1 25-6. Servers were Selena Sanchez with 4 aces and 3 serves, Caitlyn Harlan had 2 aces and 2 serves, JaQuayla Johnson had 1 ace and 3 serves. Rebecca Schaefer had 3 serves, Abrionia Carter had 1 ace and 1 serve. Staci Nish and Mayra each added one. More ... The Groesbeck Youth Baseball Association will have a meeting to elect officers for the 2008-09 season. The meeting will be held on Thursday, November 6, at 7 p.m. in the Enge Washington Cafeteria. More ... Coach Steve Burrow had mixed emotions as his Groesbeck Goats held off his alma mater, Waco Connally, the school where he also held his first head coaching position, 17-14 at Goat Field last Friday. The win gives Groesbeck a 2-1 record in District 19-3A. The Goats are 3-5 for the year. They catch highly-ranked and district leader LaVega at home Friday at 7:30 p.m. More ... The number seven ranked LaVega Pirates are here in Groesbeck Friday night for a 7:30 p.m. encounter with the Groesbeck Goats. They are 7-1 for the year and 3-0 in District 19-3A They come in loaded with experienced speedy and big players as they try to make it back as far, if not further, in the state playoffs than last year's 13-1 team accomplished. More ... No. 7 Mart blasted #4 Bremond in last week's game of the week 42-7. Four other teams also lost. Those teams were Crockett, Kerens, Caldwell and Meridian. Here are how things played out last week: 1. More ... Groesbeck completed its District 19-3A volleyball schedule on Tuesday with a match at Robinson. They beat both LaVega and Waco Connally in straight sets last week to move to a 29-8 alltime best season record.The two wins left them tied with Mexia for first place in the district with 8-1 records. More ... The Groesbeck HOT Pee Wee Football Association's regular season games came to a close this past Saturday on our home field. Groesbeck will travel to Marlin Saturday November 1st for the first round of playoff games. The Bantam Team, ages 5-7, are coached by James Ellison, Brian Ellison, Cameron Ellison, Terrance Jones, and Scott Wilson. More ... |
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