Twelve schools from the Athlete’s Connection’s coverage area are among the 96 teams participating in the 12th Annual Fox Sports Southwest State Championship, July 9-11 at the Penberthy Intramural Fields at Texas A&M, tou...
Not that anyone was star-struck Wednesday, but it was equally fun for the 26 junior golfers and 51 adults participating in the Jerry Koppel Memorial Tournament to play together.
“It’s a lot different than playing with three girls my age. You get to see the game from a different point of view,” said event winner Katelyn McDougal, a senior-to-be at Lamar Consolidated. “It’s more laid-ba...
This is the fifth story in a series previewing local 7-on-7 teams before the state tournament July 10-11 in College Station.
Almost a year later, the Stratford 7-on-7 team still had a problem with the means to last year’s end.
The Spartans went 2-2 in the 2008 state tournament, but it stuck in their craw that they had not earned their berth. Rather, they were selected as an alternate after financial troubles forced Hastings to withdraw.
Now that the high school baseball season is over, players are scattered around the city participating in various leagues.
But the Gold Glove league is unique because the teams consists of the players returning to their varsity squad the next year and Junior Varsity hopefuls looking to fine-tune their skills to make the squad.
As a brief get-together to honor Memorial High School’s college baseball signings wrapped up Tuesday afternoon, one parent wondered if the Mustangs would ever see a class like this again.
With seven signees from a team that won an undefeated District 18-5A championship and was ranked as high as No. 2 in the state, maybe they won’t.
With the final two signings in the book, six of the seven college-bound players and their families gathered Tuesday at the high ...
Taylor Mullings shot 3-under par 69 Tuesday to win the championship of the Texas Junior Golf Tour's Meadowbrook Farms Shark Shootout at Meadowbrook Farms Golf Club.
Mullings, a Dulles graduate, finished at 1-under 143, two shots ahead of Cinco Ranch product Scott Newell.
Cypress Falls graduate Jack Swanson and Katy Taylor grad Kevin Vanden Heuvel finished tied for third at 2-over 146, but Swanson defeated Vanden Heuvel, an Arkansas commit, in a playoff.
Downhill putts usually are no one’s friend, especially not on a golf course with as much elevation as Wildcat Golf Club.
But once Luke Sheehan made a 40-footer of that sort Tuesday afternoon, he had a feeling no one would catch him.
Sheehan shot 3-over par 75 Monday but shaved seven strokes from that score Tuesday, finishing at 1-under par 143 to win the Boys 13-15 division of the two-day Houston Junior Golf Performance Series event at Wildcat.
Only six of the 47 players participating in Monday’s Southern Texas PGA Junior Tour event at The Club at Falcon Point broke 40 in any nine-hole stretch.
Only one of them shot better than 40 on both the front and back nines, and he thought he should have been under par.
Michael Fasci, an Edinburg High School sophomore living in the Cypress area for the summer, took off after the turn Monday, holing out from 100 yards for an eagle at the par-5 No. 12 to finish at 3-over p...
This is the third story in a series previewing local 7-on-7 teams before the state tournament July 10-11 in College Station.
The Dulles 7-on-7 team set three goals for itself at the beginning of its quest for the state tournament:
* Improve on the heels of a 2-6 season.
“It’s simple but we knew that’s what we had to do,” 7-on-7 coach Rick Lathrop said. “We didn’t make enough plays at the right time (in the 2008 regular season), and we nee...
It wasn’t too long ago that soccer wasn’t played in every high school.
Now it’s rampant across the Texas landscape and new sports such as lacrosse, rugby and water polo have emerged.
While water polo was introduced to Strake Jesuit in 1984, it was only four years ago that the Crusaders had their first pool built. Now they can host their own matches while legitimizing themselves as a water polo contender.
And we thought we’d seen it all after Hurricane Ike.
It would have taken a big deal to supplant the storm as the Athlete’s Connection’s top area sports story of the year, and at the end of April, that big deal showed up.
In an unprecedented move, the University Interscholastic League on April 30 suspended all interscholastic competition until May 11 because of the outbreak of the H1N1 flu, then popularly known as the swine flu, in Texas.
This is the second story in a series previewing local 7-on-7 teams before the state tournament July 10-11 in College Station.
Qualifying for the state tournament early gave the Cy-Fair 7-on-7 team a chance to breathe deep and test its depth.
The Bobcats, who are making their 10th consecutive appearance at state, have participated in three state qualifying tournaments since clinching their berth and given virtually everyone on the roster considerable playing time.
The new school year was barely underway when Houston got a memorable if not rare jolt from the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Ike slammed into the southeast Texas coastline shortly after 2 a.m. Sept. 13, ripping through the Galveston-Houston area before exiting into the Midwest and Northeast as the third-costliest hurricane in United States history.
Ike made landfall with sustained wings of more than 110 mph, making landfall first at Galveston, then again near Ba... Read More >>
This is the first story in a series previewing local 7-on-7 teams before the state tournament July 10-11 in College Station.
Langham Creek’s 7-on-7 team qualified for the state tournament at the first possible opportunity, which coach Kurt Juergens half-jokingly called “too early.”
But he admitted that it’s better to have the spot clinched than to be faced with elimination, as the Lobos were at last year’s tournament after going winless...
Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada taught the fundamentals of baseball to more than 50 Houston-area youths from low-income families on Wednesday morning at the Lutheran High North Community Center.
“It’s great (teaching baseball),” Tejada said. “I love to do this stuff (baseball clinics) in my country (The Dominican Republic) and to do it here is really special for me. This is the stuff I always try to do and community service is the f...
Rachel Fox, who guided Fort Bend Baptist to the TAPPS Class 4A softball state championship, recently was named the 2008-09 Gatorade Texas Softball Player of the Year.
A three-time TAPPS Class 4A First Team All-State selection, Fox, a 5-foot-4 junior, finished the year with a 27-3 record and a 0.12 earned run average. She struck out 352 batters and walked just eight, allowing 60 hits in 179.2 innings. Fox held opponents to a .098 batting average, recording four no-hitters ...
It was a long bus ride home for the Katy football team the night of Sept. 5, 2008.
After a 47-0 loss to The Woodlands, not many people thought that the Tigers would find a way to repeat as state champions.
Three-and-a-half months later, they got the last laugh — as usual.
Katy rebounded from an 0-2 start to the season and repeated as 5A Division II champions by beating Wylie 17-3 at Reliant Stadium on Dec. ... Read More >>
And if he, an incoming sophomore at Memorial, had to fight off that impulse, he felt there was a good chance that those several years younger were going through the same emotions.
So he started a camp — not for any particular sport, but instead simply for something to do.
“I knew that if you start a business, it looks good for college (applications), but it was really just a way for me to do som...
More than 60 student-athletes turned out at Klein High School on Tuesday morning as part of an initiative to keep active and fit throughout the summer.
The conditioning camp had boys and girls from ninth- to 12th-grade representing all sports.
“What we have is our summer strength and conditioning camp,” said Kent Hazen, Klein’s freshman football coach who is running the camp. “We have all athletes who are going to be at Klein High School next year. We have inco...
Coming off a 15-year Major League Baseball career, Woody Williams didn’t get into coaching simply for something to do.
It was a way to stay in the game — and spend more time around his four children.
“It’s an opportunity to spend four more years with my son (Caden) and another two years with my daughter (Hannah) and see what their lives are all about,” Williams said. “I’m trying to make up for lost time, being away so much (during his...
The Hightower football team fell a bad fourth quarter short of the state semifinals in 2007.
In 2008, largely the same cast of Hurricanes came that close to a state championship.
A suffocating defense and an explosive offense led by Miami-bound quarterback A.J. Highsmith guided Hightower to a 13-0 start and berth in the 5A-Division I state championship game, in which Allen scored 14 fourth-quarter p... Read More >>
