Sports

Football registration underway for Lake Arthur’s youth athletes

Football season is just around the corner on the high school, college and pro levels and that means the young aspiring pigskin players of Lake Arthur are gearing up to

The Year That Was

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The year 2017 was truly a year of dreams coming true for me. As the football season began at Welsh High, it was with the same expectations for me. I

Braves’ Acuna leads off each half of doubleheader with homer

ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuna Jr. pulled off one of the rarest feats in baseball history, hitting leadoff homers in both games of a doubleheader to send the first-place Atlanta

Local Gridiron Squads preparE for preseason action

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All five local high school football teams will kick-off preseason action this week by participating in their annual controlled scrimmages on either Thursday or Friday evenings. These scrimmages will serve

Oregon puts Tigers through first scrimmage on Saturday

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BATON ROUGE – The defense held the upper-hand in LSU’s first preseason game of training camp here Saturday as head coach Ed Orgeron put the Tigers through approximately 100 snaps

Plethora of skilled players lead Tigers

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LAKE ARTHUR - Expectations are high over in Tiger Country following a 2017 year where Mark Deshotel’s club advanced to the Regional Round of the Class 2A Playoffs with an upset win over Mangham on the road. With arguably one of the best set of skill players on offense that Deshotel has had in his time at the school, the question marks will need to be answered up front on the offensive line. Though aggressive and talented, that Tiger offensive front may need a few games to settle into the ground-and-pound style of Lake Arthur football.

A RETURN TO DOMINANCE

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IOTA - Back to prominence is where the 2017 Iota High School Football Team found themselves after suffering through an untraditional down period over the past several years. Not only making a return to the playoffs last season, but advancing to the Regional Round before losing to eventual 3A state semi-finalist Kaplan reignited a prideful fanbase in Bulldog Country that was awaiting success once enjoyed long in the past. Head Coach Josh Andrus has pumped life, and numbers, back into the once dominant Bulldog football tradition and 2018 seems to be even more of the same.

A New Look in Elton

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ELTON - The theme should be a recurring one for Elton Indian fans for much of the preseason football campaign- “Change is a Coming.” Its not just the fact that

White’s bomb lifts Astros over Giants 2-1

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Houston Astros aren’t putting up big numbers with their injury-depleted lineup. But the World Series champions are making up for that with a couple of

GEARING FOR A FOLLOW-UP

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WELSH - Coming off a magical 2017 Class 2A State Championship run in which the Welsh Greyhounds finished 14-1 and claimed the school’s first gridiron title, the Hounds and Head