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INDEXAlvarado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4Burleson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5Centennial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6Cleburne Yellow Jackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8Cleburne Lady Jackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 9Godley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 10Grandview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 12Keene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13Rio Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 14Grandview Zebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 14

Cleburne’s Deion Clark

Cleburne’s Bria McCullough

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ALVARADO — For the first time since the current players were in kindergarten or first grade, the Lady Indians basketball team is preparing for a season that they hope includes a return trip to the postseason.

With three of last year’s starting five back, including leading scorer sophomore Jazlyn Jones and juniors Darcy Pack and Bri-anna Thomas, the Lady Indians are ready to take the next step and not be content with just reaching the playoffs.

“Any time you make the playoffs the goal the next year is to go further,” Head Coach Jenny McKinney said. “These girls got a taste of [playoffs] last year and now they are ready to prove themselves again.”

Aside from the three returning starters, the Lady Indians will be fairly young this season. Positions in which McKinney is looking for players to step up are in the post and off the bench.

“We may lose some games early on, but it will make us better,” McKinney said. “If we are in a tight game in non-district, some of the girls that don’t have any varsity experience will be put into the game so they can learn. I don’t want to get into a district game and not be able to be confident in the situation I’m putting our girls into.

“The earlier they gain experience in pressure situations, the better we are going to be later on.”

— Tommy Brown

Lady Indians aim to balance leadership with inexperience

Photo by Tommy BrownThe Alvarado Lady Indians return three starters, including Jazlyn Jones, left, and Darcy Park, middle, from last year’s playoff team.

ALVARADO — Brandon Castillo, Aaron Downing and a senior-laden Indian team are looking to leave their stamp on an Alvarado boys basketball team that was struggling just four years ago before they arrived on campus.

The Indians are in search of their fourth straight playoff appearance for a program that didn’t have any playoff ap-pearances in the previous seven years.

“It’s not even a question with this group,” Head Coach Michael Siebert said. “These kids expect to get to the play-offs and challenge for a district championship.”

In order to reach their goals, the Indians will have to do it without last year’s district MVP, Xavier Adams, who transferred. Despite the loss of their leading scorer, the In-dians have impressed Seibert with their play over the off-season.

“We are going to win with speed and defense this year,” he said. “We don’t have a lot of size so we have to take advantage of what we do have.

“This group doesn’t have that one kid who can take over a game, but what’s going to be frustrating for other teams is we have four or five kids who could go for 20 on any given night and a couple more who could go for 10. This is definitely a ‘team’ this year. I’m excited to see how good this team can be.”

— Tommy Brown

Photo by Tommy BrownBrandon Castillo and the Alvarado Indians will aim for their fourth straight playoff berth this season.

New-look Indians going for fourth straight playoff appearance

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Elks hope experience plus youth equals more BURLESON — The Burleson football team

went winless in 2012, but has rebounded to po-tentially make the playoffs this season. New Head Coach Alan DuBose is hoping the same fortunes are in store for his Elks on the hardwood.

Burleson went 6-23 and won only one District 8-4A game last year. DuBose takes over head coaching duties from Ted Tomchesson this sea-son.

“He is my mentor and I was here as his as-sistant for 10 years,” DuBose said. “I think that things will look a lot the same. There will be a few subtle differences. I saw what it took to grow the program for a playoff team for two years in a row and the goal is going to be to get back there.”

Burleson returns six lettermen, including start-ers Cody Rekieta and Zach Bonham. Other play-ers to keep an eye on for the Elks include Vincent Spradley, Max Thompson and Preston Paden.

“Rekeita was our most consistent player last year,” DuBose said. “He was the most well-rounded player we had. Bonham will carry some of the load offensively. I project Vincent to start this year. He’ll be a good addition. He should be good at getting to the hole. He’s quick and ag-gressive.”

Paden, a sophomore who is making a big impact for the Elks football team this year, is expected to have the same impact in basketball, DuBose said.

“We brought him up for three games last year,” he said. “His first game up was against Uni-

versity, who was the district champ, and he scored 15 points in his first varsity game last year. ... He’s got that capability. He’s a dynamic player.”

DuBose said the Elks’ strength will come on the defensive side of the floor. Burleson held dis-trict opponents to 44 points per game in 2012, and DuBose said he expects that to continue, if not improve.

“Defense is going to be a carryover from last year and then build on that just because we’ve had an extra year of playing defense the same way,” he said.

Offense will be the issue for the Elks. Du-Bose said scoring at a more consistent rate will be key in having a turnaround season, as will improved free throw shooting.

“We shot 58 percent from the free throw line last year,” he said. “If we would’ve just shot a decent percentage of 70, we would’ve won six more games. That’s how close we were last year. And that’s been a focus, getting to the line and putting them in once we do.

“One way [to improve our offense] is we had a lot of inexperienced sophomores last year. Just their experience now will help with the offense. Another thing is we’re going to run more sets and put our guys in better position to score rather than running freelance. They’ve been playing over the summer and just improv-ing.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by David BeansBurleson’s Zach Bonham (12) is a return-ing starter for the Elks.

BURLESON — The Burleson Lady Elks finished fourth in District 8-4A in 2012 and lost in the first round to Aledo. With a trio of impres-sive sophomores returning for their junior sea-sons, expectations are higher for Burleson this year.

Burleson is led by Lindsay Bryan, Macken-zie Hailey and Madison Landers, who were each all-district and all-county players a year ago.

“Obviously they’re going to be what makes us go,” Coach Rusty East said. “They know what it takes and there’s a great deal riding on them. We need contributions from other kids who are young. But those three definitely make us go.”

Hailey is one of the top juniors in the region and East said she will have a lot on her shoulders this season.

“She shoots it as well as anybody we have and her height [6-foot, 1-inch] makes her more of a threat,” East said. “Her strength and abili-ties have increased since last year. We will de-pend on her with the game on the line. But the

other two are just as important in their own right. Mack is the one who keeps it together.

“Last year, when people would key in on Mack, that leaves Landers open and it’s going in. All three of them need to be firing together to get where we want. I look at them all as equally important. Mackenzie’s role is scoring and doing all the hard work. I think Lyndsay does a good job considering we have some good guards in our league ... and her key is getting the ball up the floor and setting us up.”

While East said he knows what Hailey and Bryan will bring, he said Landers is the wild card.

“When she is locked in and concentrated and when teams have to account for her, it re-ally changes the game,” he said. “We will prob-ably go with how Madison goes. If she’s playing well, we’ll be OK. ... She’s the X-factor. But people can’t focus on one player, they have to focus on all three.”

— A.J. Crisp

Lady Elks look to make a run with trio of key returning players

Photo by David BeansBurleson’s Mackenzie Hailey was an all-district and all-county superlative performer in 2012.

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Spartans to rely on senior leadershipBURLESON — Centennial finished sixth in

District 8-4A last season and the Spartans must find a way this year to replace the school’s all-time leading scorer in Garrett Easterling.

Returning four senior players, including Cur-tis Amos, should make that task easier. Amos was an all-district and all-county performer for the Spartans last year, and Coach Matt Carroll said he expects Amos to have a big senior sea-son.

“He had a monster year last season,” Carroll said. “He’s the school leader in career and sin-gle-season rebounds. He’s just an unbelievable player for us and we look for him to continue that.”

The other three returners are Elijah Carroll, Tanner Nichols and Kevin Tezeno.

“We expect big things out of all of our four seniors,” Carroll said. “Tanner Nichols is going to be one of the best posts in the district and he’s going to be a big scorer for us. Kevin Tezeno is going to be the fastest guy on our team and he’s one of the best athletes in our district. Elijah Car-roll is going to be a big defensive leader for us. He’ll step up and be our leader.

“Replacing Garrett Easterling’s scoring is something we’ll try to produce from numerous sources. That’s going to be big for us.”

Carroll said he feels like the Spartans can be a multidimensional team. They have the ability to run an up-tempo style because of their speed and athleticism with their guards, or they can slow it down and run a methodical offense with their big posts.

“We’re going to be multiple enough that we can play fast if we need to and play slow if we need to,” he said. “We’re retuning two posts and those two guys need to see a lot of touches, and we need to go through our bigs for us to be suc-cessful. But we also have fast guards.

“Defensively, we want to be aggressive and physical. We pride ourselves on our defense. The main thing is that we’re aggressive and physical at all times and if we are, we’ll be successful.”

Carroll said the Spartans don’t look at things on a day-by-day basis or game-by-game basis, but it’s much more refined than that.

“We approach every game the same way and that’s that we’re going to win every single pos-session,” he said. “We try to play every posses-sion as if we were playing for the state champi-onship. If we win every possession, we feel like we’ll be successful in the end. We try not to think about the end results but the process.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by David BeansCentennial’s Curtis Amos, right, was an all-district performer in 2012.

BURLESON — According to some coaches in District 8-4A, the Burleson Centennial Lady Spar-tans are a team on the rise.

Centennial missed the playoffs by a couple of games last season, but they have expectations of earn-ing a playoff berth and even win-ning the district title, Coach Valerie Wootan said.

Cleburne Coach Jamie Calahan and Burleson Coach Rusty East said Centennial is a team to be reckoned with this year.

The Lady Spartans lost two honorable mention all-district players from a season ago, but re-turn four starters — Meagan Ben-son, Madison Thompson, Cassidy Barbare and Brooklyn Garcia.

As a sophomore in 2012, Thompson was a first team all-district performer, and Wootan said she expects a repeat performance from her in her junior campaign.

“We need her to keep doing what she did last year,” Wootan said. “She’s a scrappy player. She

scores a lot off her rebounding just because she works so hard.”

Garcia was a key player last year for Centennial before suffer-

ing an injury and missing most of the season, and Wootan said hav-ing her back will be a big boost.

“Last year, she was injured until

the second half of district play, so she was a little rusty,” Wootan said. “Even with that, though, she made a big difference for us. She’s a big post presence for us. She rebounds well and is a very hard worker. So with her going, that should help Madison out quite a bit.”

Wootan said consistency and good teamwork will be the keys in Centennial making the playoffs for the first time at the Class 4A level.

“I think that more than any-thing with us, it’s going to take us playing together and being consis-tent every night,” she said. “That was the issue we had last year. It took us a while to finally get where we were all playing together. I think those will definitely be keys this year for us. Consistency and working together and using what we have. We definitely have the ability, it’s just a matter of actu-ally taking care of business when it matters.”

— A.J. Crisp

Lady Spartans’ aim is high in 2013

Photo by David BeansAs a sophomore, the Lady Spartans’ Madison Thompson was an all-district player and will be relied upon heavily this season.

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E-mail alleges Burleson mayor ridiculed Tea Party members

Governor approvesChisholm Trail name

Matt Smith/Times-ReviewJoey Z pops off a round in the Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club’s Wild Bunch competition.

Shooting club competitions based on history

By Matt [email protected]

The 28-mile extension of Texas 121 from downtown Fort Worth to Cleburne will be known as Ch-isholm Trail Parkway.

Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill into law on Thursday approving the name.

State Rep. Rob Orr, R -Burleson, introduced the bill late last year.

Original plans called for naming the planned toll road Chisholm Trail Parkway in Johnson County and Southwest Parkway in Tarrant County.

“I’ve heard people say the name [Southwest and Chisholm Trail Parkway] is too long, and it should all be named one or the other,” Orr said last December. “So I thought I’d be proactive and introduce a bill to name it all Chisholm Trail.”

Others had suggested naming the entire stretch Southwest Parkway or after [former Fort Worth Council-man] Chuck Silcox or [former Fort Worth car dealer] Charlie Hillard.

Orr said he had no problems with those suggestions although he still believed Chisholm Trail Parkway to be the best name.

“Those are fine suggestions,” Orr said. “But I think Chisholm Trail fits best given that it plays into the his-tory of Johnson County, Tarrant County and Fort Worth as well.”

State Rep. Mark Shelton, R-Fort Worth, also supported Orr’s sugges-tion.

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Shooting, history and period dress mix with Old West camaraderie the second weekend of each month [rain or shine] at the Ormsby Ranch located off of Farm-to-Market Road 1434 to provide a lot of family fun.

“We don’t do re-enactments out here, that’s a whole other deal,” said Noel “Texas Banker” Mullins, treasurer of the Lone Star Frontier

Shooting Club. “What this is, is people from all walks of life getting together to have more fun than they ought to be able to have.”

LSFSC, formed about 1998, is an affiliated club of the international organization called the Single Action Shooting Society. Both exist to preserve and promote the sport of Cowboy Ac-tion Shooting through regional matches con-ducted by the affiliate clubs, according to the SASS website. SASS also sponsors regional, na-tional and worldwide competitions.

The organization further strives to protect members’ Second Amendment rights, and en-sure safety and consistency in competition.

Cowboy Action Shooting involves several disciplines using an array of firearms. The timed competitions take place on “Old West” style stages. Each competition sets up a specific situa-tion, most based on famous incidents from the old west, or scenes from classic western movies.

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By Steve [email protected]

An e-mail distributed by the Johnson County Tea Party and re-ceived by the Times-Review al-leges that Burleson Mayor Ken Shetter ridiculed Tea Party mem-bers in recent comments made to Burleson High School students.

In the e-mail, Angela Cox, pres-ident of the Johnson County Tea Party, said that she was informed

of the alleged comments made by Shetter, who addressed govern-ment classes on May 6, from a Burleson business owner whose son attends Burleson High School.

“At this speaking engagement, Mayor Shetter informed the class that he is going to build a train sta-tion in Burleson,” Cox said in the e-mail. “The government teacher spoke up and asked Mayor Shetter, ‘How do you plan on paying for this?’ Mayor Shetter’s response,

‘Annexation.’”In response, Shetter said that he

told students about a plan to bring commuter rail to Burleson as part of a region-wide commuter rail plan.

“On the claim that I was going to build a train station, I never say ‘I’m going to build anything.’ I talked about the fact that our popu-lation growth is unsustainable with regards to our transportation infra-structure in the region, and I talked

about that in the context of our growing population, not only in Burleson and Johnson County, but region wide,” Shetter said. “I cer-tainly said nothing even close to alluding to annexation paying for transit. I wouldn’t say that. I don’t think annexation makes a city money, particularly in the first sev-eral years. It costs more to extend services to a newly annexed area than what you generate in revenue. Any time you talk about annexa-

tion, it’s either voluntary annexa-tion because a developer wants to get utilities to their development site or because you’re trying to control growth along a new or ex-isting transportation corridor. These are the reasons generally that we’ve annexed in the time that I’ve been in Burleson, but it has nothing to do with raising reve-nue.”

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Blast from the Past

Grandview computer whiz Grimes selects RiceBy Pete [email protected]

Marty Grimes should feel right at home when he shuffles off to the big city of Houston this summer for his first year of college.

Rice, his educational destina-tion, is about the same size as Grandview, his hometown.

Of course, there are differences that make each location unique.

There’s only one Houston Ship

Channel and one Grandview Zebra.Grimes has noticed the similari-

ties more than the differences.“Rice is in a big place,” he said.

“Grandview is close to one.”None of which explains why a

smalltown boy from North Central Texas made Rice, one of the na-tion’s top academic institutions, his college choice.

“I know a guy who’s going there, Ryan Artecona,” Grimes said. “He was a junior at Grand-

view when I was a freshman. In UIL academics, he went to state in spelling and computer science. He was going to be an architect, but he’s undecided now. So he’s a phi-losophy major at Rice until he de-cides what he wants to do with his major. He’ll be a junior next year.”

Artecona did a good sales job.“He told me how life is down

there, how it’s a really close-knit

Grandview High School senior Marty Grimes, right, will at-tend Rice University this fall on a $27,000 yearly academic scholarship. Grimes scored 2,080 out of a possible 2,400 on the SAT college entrance exam. Also pictured is school secretary Leslie Boser.

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INSIDESPORTSzx The Burleson Elks stayed alive in the Class 4A playoffs with a 15-0 win in Game 3 over Stephenville on Saturday. Page 6

Burleson approves construction for playgroundBy Steve [email protected]

Burleson City Council members during Monday’s meeting approved a $162,250 contract agreement with Fort Worth-based Northstar Con-struction Inc. for construction of im-provements at Burleson Meadows Park.

Burleson Meadows Park, located at the intersection of McAlister Road and Scarlett Sage Parkway, will be the city’s first fully accessible play-ground, said city spokeswoman Sally Ellertson.

“The playground equipment al-

lows children of all abilities to access and use the equipment equally,” Ell-ertson said. “The play surface of the equipment is a mixture of a rubber-ized material and engineered wood fiber to aid in mobility. The play-ground equipment was purchased by separate agreement and is ready to be installed.”

The construction agreement in-cludes a small parking lot of 18 spaces, concrete walk, concrete pad for a future pavilion, landscaping, minimal irrigation, drinking foun-tain, trash cans and benches, Ellert-son said, and the park already in-cludes a restroom.

The park was designed by the city’s parks and recreation depart-ment, and the landscaping near the future pavilion will be provided by the Burleson Garden Club and will include Heritage roses.

The design was reviewed and ap-proved by the city’s parks board as well as by residents who live near and adjacent to the park site.

Burleson Meadows Park was ap-proved as a capital project in the Park Gas Development Capital Proj-ects Fund in fiscal year 2009-10, El-lertson said, and funding for the proj-ect is available in the Park Gas De-velopment Fund.

In other business, the council:zx Approved the final reading of

an ordinance amending the Villages of Wakefield planned development, changing the boundary and rezoning about 57 undeveloped acres.

zx Approved the final reading of an ordinance amending the Burleson West Transit Oriented Development by adding about 57 undeveloped acres.

zx Approved the final reading of amendments to the zoning ordinance including and amending definitions for uses not defined previously or needing clarification.

zx Approved a request from Texas

Midstream Gas Services, LLC for a license agreement and corrections to existing easements for pipelines lo-cated on park property.

zx Approved a final plat for the United Cooperative Services Burle-son addition at 2601 S. I-35W.

zx Approved a commercial site plan for Star Bank at 2520 S.W. Wilshire Blvd.

zx Conducted a public hearing and approved the first reading of a zon-ing change request from agricultural to industrial for United Cooperative Services at 2601 S. I-35W.

By Steve [email protected]

Crowley City Council members on Thursday conducted a public hear-ing and approved an application from Chesapeake Operating, Inc. for a gas well permit at the Rambo 3H site at 1200 E. Main St.

T. Brown, representative for the Oklahoma-based natural gas pro-ducer, said that they would place a 32-foot sound wall around the perim-eter of the pad, wrap the walls around the access opening and use a diesel-electric rig to reduce noise and light levels.

“The neighbors should be a lot more pleased with the diesel-electric rig,” she said.

Residents who live on Mesa Vista Drive, including some who addressed the council last month regarding planned construction of a Walmart store, also expressed their concerns about the proposed well, the fourth at that site.

Maria White told council mem-bers that there was a lot of noise from the last well and that her “bedroom was like daylight” when the drill was operating at night.

She was also concerned that po-lice did not respond when she called about noise during previous drilling operations.

“Calling the police did no good,” she said.

Betty Davis also expressed con-cerns about noise levels, especially

Council approves Chesapeake gas well permit request

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Early voting ends today, election day voting set for Saturdayfrom staff reports

Four of the seven Burleson city council seats are on the ballot. All three incumbents filed for re-elec-tion.

Chip Stephens, the Place 6 in-cumbent, resigned in February but is serving until after Saturday’s election. The winner of the Place 6 race will serve the unexpired term of one year. All others who win the election will serve for two years.

Place 1zx Stuart Gillaspie, 48, is a trans-

portation manager. He is a lifetime resident of the state and Burleson.

Place 3zx Matt Powell, 46, is a land sur-

veyor. He has lived in Texas for more than 9-1/2 years, all of which have been in Burleson.

zx Jerry W. Allen, 62, is a real es-tate investor. He is a 41-year resi-dent of the state and a 22-year resi-dent of Burleson.

zx Brian S. Cameron, 61, is a software engineer. He has been a Texas resident for 32 years and a Burleson resident for just over one year.

Place 5zx Dan McClendon, 58, is em-

ployed as a contractor. He is a life-time resident of Texas and a 33-year resident of Burleson.

zx Leslee Clark Ahrend, 41, is employed as a teacher. She is a life-time resident of Texas and a 19-year

resident of Burleson.

Place 6zx Janine Austin-Quinn, 38, is

employed as a teacher. She is a life-time Texas resident and a seven-year resident of Burleson.

zx Jim Bailey, 77, is a business owner. He has lived in Texas for 53 years and in Burleson for 51 years.

zx Joshua Pickrell, 31, is a six-year resident of Texas. He has lived in Burleson for just over one year. Pickrell is employed in software de-

velopment.zx Larry Pool, 49, is employed in

the insurance industry. He is a 15-year resident of the state and a two-year resident of the city.

Burleson ISD Board of TrusteesPlace 3

zx Trey Schmoker, 39, is presi-dent of a dealership technology firm and has lived in the district for 16 years.

Darlene Moore/Special to the ConnectionThe foot races proved to be a very popular event with the athletes at the 25th annual Spring Track Meet on May 3 at Elk Stadium in Burleson.

Fun and games

The skies were clear and the sun shone brightly as more than 545 special athletes from 19 area school districts took to the field at the 25th annual Spring Track Meet at Burleson High School’s Elk Stadium on May 3.

It was the largest group of athletes to par-ticipate in the athletic competition designed for special athletes and their abilities.

Competition included athletes from all grades, elementary through high school.

The annual competition, which began in

1987, honored one of its most passionate vol-unteers, Mattie Foster, by naming her parade marshal.

Foster was escorted around the track during the opening ceremonies by her three children, Pennie Foster Agan, Tom Foster and Buster Foster. Mattie Foster, a retired BISD em-ployee, has participated in all 25 years of the event.

Events at the meet include foot and wheel-chair races, obstacle races, bowling, football

and baseball toss, basketball, T-ball, rocket toss, soccer and long jump.

The events are manned by volunteers from more than 30 organizations from Burleson High school, the Burleson fire and police de-partments, the Heritage Foundation, the Ki-wanis, Lions, Optimists and Rotary clubs and the Burleson Masonic Lodge.

Support and donations were provided by numerous area merchants and individuals.

— Darlene Moore

Spring Track Meet at BHS finishes up 25th year

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Locals react to news of Osama bin Laden’s deathBy Matt [email protected]

Local residents greeted news of Osama bin Laden’s death on May 1 with a mix of jubilation, trepidation and bitter-sweet. All were quick to praise the efforts of the U.S. military men and women.

Bin Laden, who orchestrated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsyl-vania and Washington D.C., was killed in Pakistan during a U.S. military operation.

“When I heard the news this morning [Monday], I started to call some of the people I served with, one’s a Navy SEAL,

and I wanted him to come down here [Rio Vista American Legion Post] and drink a toast to the SEALs,” Rio Vista resident Rodger Mason said.

Mason served as a medic in the U.S. Army from 1966-75 and in the U.S. Navy from 1978-83.

Mason’s son, Johnnie V. Mason, died in Iraq in 2005 after an improvised explo-sive device detonated near his Humvee.

Mason, 32, graduated from Rio Vista High School and went on to serve in the 101st Airborne Division.

Mason was heading back to his Hum-vee after dismantling a bomb when a se-curity team member noticed a plastic bag

by the roadside, Rodger Mason said shortly after his son’s death.

“Johnnie went to check it out and told them to stay back,” Rodger Mason said. “Apparently it was some kind of remote-controlled explosive device.”

Mason said he still mourns the loss of his son, but takes pride in his efforts in the fight against terrorism.

“I never wished anybody dead, except [bin Laden],” Rodger Mason said. “I didn’t hear the news until [Monday] morning, and I wanted to go out and dance in the road.”

Two other Johnson County residents have died while fighting in the war

against terror. Army Staff Sgt. Bryan A. Burgess, a

Cleburne resident, died along with five other soldiers in Afghanistan in March.

Cleburne resident Jeremy O. Allmon, a member of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cav-alry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood, also died in 2005 when an im-provised explosive device detonated near his tank.

“I’m glad they killed him, and that’s that,” said Nancy Sullivan, grandmother of Allmon. “He deserves it for all those people he killed in the World Trade Cen-


City staff members proposed rental rate changes for the Cleburne Confer-ence Center during an April 26 work-shop session of the Cleburne City Council meeting.

Conference center operations man-ager Jeremy Allen and Cleburne Eco-nomic Development Director Jerry Cash presented the proposed changes.

The center re-opened about a year ago after undergoing substantial reno-vation and expansion. That expansion also included the addition of the Cle-burne Performing Arts Center within the conference center.

Usage of the center has increased dramatically in the past year, Allen said.

Allen proposed adjusting rental fees, increasing some and decreasing others, in hopes of attracting more rent-als, and recouping a larger share of the center’s operating costs.

Allen proposed increasing the full-day rental rate for the exhibit hall from $550 to $700.

The current full-day rental for the exhibit hall is the same rate as the Cross Timbers Room, which is half the size, Allen said. Operations costs for the exhibit hall cost more, and mainte-nance takes twice as long, he said.

Allen said he believes rental rates on the performing arts center are over-priced, and proposed a decrease in those rates.

Demand for the performing arts center, especially during the day, is lower than it should be because of the rates and the availability of other, lower-priced rooms within the confer-ence center.

Allen proposed decreasing the half-day rate from $300 to $200 and the full-day rate from $600 to $400.

Allen also proposed a new rate, for the Bluebonnet dressing room.

Conference center rate changes proposed

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Cleburne High’s Elam switching gears from school to churchElam retiring after 22 yearsBy Pete [email protected]

Many musical aficionados will insist that vocalists are born and not made and will point to songbirds like Beverly Sills, Elvis Presley and Eddie Fisher to prove their point.

Pam Elam never quite agreed.Good thing, since it was her job for 22

years to instruct Cleburne High students in the fine art of carrying a tune.

“I had a lot of students, also adults, come to me and say, ‘I don’t sing,’” Elam said. “I’d tell them, ‘Well, you speak, and

that’s the same instrument.’ Usually, the deal is that they had not learned to listen. They hadn’t been trained.

“I don’t know that there are that many physiological reasons that people can and can’t sing, but learning to do it as an adult is definitely more difficult, because you have prime learning times for each of the developmental stages. A young child will pick [singing] up like it’s another lan-guage.

That’s the part of the brain that’s re-ally active at that learning stage.”

Elam will be teaching people to sing next year, but it won’t be at CHS. She’s retiring after 26 years overall in the school business to become choir director

at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Cleburne.

“St. Mark is part of what enabled me to consider retiring, because I knew I would have to have some sort of supple-mental income,” she said. “I also feel it’s the right time. God steers you the way He wants you to go. I had a great opportunity in Cleburne, and now I’m very excited about the future.”

She said she debated whether to stay or go.

“I could have retired a couple of years ago and didn’t,” Elam said. “This just seemed like the right time to go in a dif-ferent direction. I didn’t want to stay too long. It’s better when the kids say, ‘I can’t

believe you’re leaving’ than ‘I thought you’d never leave.’ There’s a fine line.”

She created an impressive niche for herself in CISD, especially considering she never intended to be a choir teacher.

“I had been an elementary school mu-sic specialist in Houston before we moved here,” she said. “I had planned to remain in that, but there was only one (school) job open here. The choir teacher before me at the junior high had done a lot of fine work. That’s the job I was of-fered.”

It took getting used to, she said.“I immediately started calling every-

one I knew and asking, ‘What all do I

Pete Kendall/JCNRodney Fowler, co-proprietor of HITZ along with Joey Thompson, gives batting tips to son, Tyler Fowler, on Thursday night. The new baseball facility is open from 5-9 p.m. weekdays and by appointment on weekends. It includes batting cages, bullpens and a fielding area.

Winning formula

By Pete [email protected]

Rodney Fowler might have been the best raw baseball talent ever to come through Cle-burne High School.

He could run, hit and throw — as evidenced by his later baseball exploits at Texas Wesleyan and UT-Arlington — and he was dominant on the mound with only two pitches, a fastball and curve.

That was 1983, when he played a major role in the Yellow Jackets’ surge to the 4A regional semifinals.

He can only wonder how good he might

have been with one of the advantages of mod-ern Cleburne today, an indoor baseball training facility called HITZ at the intersection of Colo-rado and Willingham streets.

HITZ is an acronym for Hitting in the Zone. That’s accurate, though the hitting applies to more than baseball. Fowler, co-proprietor Joey Thompson and various instructors are hitting on all cylinders.

“If things like indoor training facilities and batting cages were available when I was com-ing up, I didn’t know about them,” Fowler said. “I basically played whatever sport was in sea-son.”

And starred. He quarterbacked Cleburne to

the semifinals in 1982 and still holds the track school record in the 300 hurdles.

“When it was baseball, we joined teams, had practices, played games and all-stars, and when that was over, it was time to get geared up for football.

“If things like cages or pitching instruction had been available then, they would have given kids an opportunity to hone their abilities and given them a better chance to go on to the col-lege level.”

Times have changed in the last 28 years, he said.

New baseball facility a HITZ with Cleburne youth

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By A.J. [email protected]

CLEBURNE — Under new Coach Ed King, a new era of Cleburne Yellow Jacket basket-ball has arrived.

The Jackets missed the play-offs by one game last season, and with a new coach and seven seniors, the goal is to break into postseason play in 2013.

The majority of last year’s team is back, including Deion Clark, Ryan Kirk, Bre Miller, Marc Murillo and Eli Upchurch, among others. Al Baylor, who suffered an injury in football, is expected to return in late De-cember, King said.

Two players somewhat new to the Jackets this season are Kameron Pickett and Dacion McKoy. Pickett was on the varsity team his freshman and sophomore seasons but didn’t play last year and McKoy was a Jacket his freshman and sopho-more seasons before transferring to Alvarado for his junior year.

“Marc Murillo and Elijah Upchurch, I’m expecting big things from them,” King said. “I’m really expecting big things out of Ryan Kirk. He’s an all-around player. He can put the ball on the floor and he can shoot it. I’m expecting for him to step up and really contribute this year. Deion Clark is another guy. Some of these guys have already come a long way, based on the

film I’ve seen from last year, up until this point.

“Kameron Pickett told me he’s going to come out. That’s one guy they didn’t have last year, and based off what I’m hearing based on his freshman and sophomore years, he’s going to help us.”

Playing under a new head

coach for the second consecu-tive year, King said it may take a while for the Jackets’ offense to gel, but that he expects their defense to be top-notch.

“I’m just hoping to see en-ergy and a toughness from a defensive standpoint early in the season,” King said. “I just want to see energy. I always talk to the guys about playing hard and tak-ing pride in your defense. I want to see those things that we talk about; taking charges, being in help-side position, boxing your man out, protecting the paint, and just playing with relentless pressure. I’m hoping to see those things to start out with.

“Offensively, I don’t know how well we’ll be. We’re com-ing along and progressing. But as far as what we do, there’s so many different parts of the of-fense that we still don’t quite understand. But how well can you defend and guard is what it

all comes down to. I’m hoping to see an edge and toughness de-fensively to start out with.”

King said playing defense is all about effort, and the Jackets will succeed or fail early on in the season based solely on their defense.

“Offense is going to come along as the season goes,” he said. “Hopefully by January, we’ll have the concepts down. But defensive isn’t something you really have to think about, it’s just something you have to do and work at. You can’t control that ball going inside the basket, but you can control how hard you play defensively. We want to be in control of the defensive side of the basketball until the offense starts to click.”

The one thing King said he wants his team to be known for his defense.

“I want us to be known as a relentless, tough-minded, defen-sive team,” he said. “They know that we’re going to get after it. We’re not going to take any plays off defensively. Whether we’re up 20 or down 20, we’re going to play relentlessly to the end.”

King said the players have set a goal of making it to the post-season, and he said he agreed with that expectation of being postseason bound.

“Getting to the playoffs is a goal they’ve set for themselves,” King said. “They were one game out of it last year. They put a goal out that they want to get to the playoffs, so that’s something they’re going to focus on.

“I’m on board with them and their goals. I want to make the playoffs. I think those guys de-serve it, being one game out as juniors, and coming back as se-niors — more mature — I think they deserve it. But it’s not go-ing to be handed to us. We have to go out there and work for it. But it’s going to take one game at a time and how we handle ad-versity when things are not go-ing right.”

Jackets eyeing playoffs under new head coach

Photo by David BeansCleburne Coach Ed King said he expects senior Ryan Kirk to be an all-around player and be a key element in the Jackets’ attack.

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By A.J. [email protected]

CLEBURNE — The Cle-burne Lady Jackets turned things around in a big way last season. After being in the cel-lar of their district for several years, Cleburne rose to No. 2 in District 8-4A. And with the majority of the team returning, the sky is the limit.

Cleburne returns co-MVP all-county players Bria Mc-Cullough and Courtney Jeff-coat, along with Avery Hough, Alli Suitt, Taya Berry, Jasline Chandler and Whitney Morgan from a team that went 11-3 in district play and won 21 games in Coach Jamie Calahan’s third season.

“We’re going to work hard,” Calahan said. “We’re going to play defense like we did last year. The biggest thing is there’s a lot of things we have to get better at. The one thing that our girls are so good about is we win as a team and we lose as a team. There is no selfishness right now. We’re very team-ori-ented. It’s a great group. They get after it and work hard. They understand if we came out on top, we all came out on top, and if we ended up losing a game, it goes to all of us. We’re in it together.

“They’ve been working all spring, summer and fall for this. I’ve been waiting on [the season to start] since we lost to Granbury in the first round of the playoffs, and they have, too. Now it’s upon us and we’ll see where we’re at. We’ve been working hard.”

Along with the seven return-ers, Calahan said he’ll have several options when it comes to newcomers. Calahan said the Cleburne girls’ basketball pro-gram is deep from the varsity level to junior high.

“I have some young ones coming up that are going to contribute, too,” he said. “We’re going to have a pretty

deep team. Our depth is going to be better this year. And our depth was pretty good last year. We’ve got some players coming in and we still have some play-ers in volleyball who are going to be able to play.

“I firmly believe that I have 14 to 16 kids that can play var-sity minutes if I had to, but I can’t carry that many kids on varsity. When you get in those game situations, it starts to re-

veal who some of those players are and that’s when I’ll really be able to hone in on stuff. I have ideas, but they’re just ideas. The girls still have to go prove it. Our JV is going to be good and our freshmen are going to be good. It’s going to be a fun year.”

Throughout the season last year, Calahan said before and after every game that defense and rebounding were key, and

everything else would work it-self out. The Lady Jackets will go with that mantra again, but Calahan said they need to stay out of foul trouble.

“I thought last year we fouled too much,” he said. “I thought that we gave people free free throws because we fouled more than we needed to. We have to work playing defense without fouling. Don’t give them an easy one at the free throw stripe. We’ve got to rebound. If we defend and re-bound, everything else will take care of itself.”

Cleburne made the playoffs last year for the first time in five seasons, but lost to traditional power Granbury in the first round. Calahan said he hopes that playoff experience will lead to a better outcome this year.

“Last year we were out in the first round and it was the first time in a long time we were in the playoffs,” he said. “It was the first basketball playoff game for all of those girls. So that was a learning process for them.”

The Lady Jackets have set several goals on the season, in-cluding upping their season re-cord from a season ago.

“We want to improve on our record,” Calahan said. “That’s one of our goals. We finished second in district and we want to improve on that. But the ul-timate goal is Austin. I’ll never coach a year where that’s not one of our goals because if you never have that goal, you’ll never get there. So that’s our ultimate goal.

“Is it going to be tough to get there? Most definitely. There’s a lot of good teams around here. But if that’s not one of your goals, then as a coach, I don’t know why you do it. We want to play at the Frank Irwin Center. We talk about it. We talk about it in practice, in games, we talk about it. It’s very talked about in our program, and it’ll be talk-ed about as long as I’m here.”

Photo by David BeansCleburne’s Courtney Jeffcoat (23) was the District 8-4A MVP in 2012, and the all-county co-MVP with Bria McCullough.

Lady Jackets ready to reach new heights

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Young Wildcats a year older, betterGODLEY — The Godley Wildcats

barely missed a playoff berth last year, and despite graduating two all-district players, they expect to improve this season.

Godley lost Drew Benge and Trace Brown, and Coach Keith McFarland said new players will have to step up and fill those roles.

“We return everybody else, so all of these kids are a year older and a year stronger,” he said. “It hurts to lose those two, but we have guys com-ing back who are very good.”

Devin Bolden, the runaway Dis-trict 10-2A newcomer of the year last year, will play an integral role for the Wildcats this year.

“He’ll be one of our go-to guys,” McFarland said. “We’re kind of count-ing on him to carry the load. He’ll have the ball in his hands a ton this year. But I’m not going to ask him to do anything he didn’t do last year.

He’s a year older and a year smarter and stronger. We’re expecting big things from him.”

Ian Aguirre, Blake Hickey, Acy McGehee, Turner Hobby, Colin Doug-las and Mark Smith are key returners for Godley as well.

Cory Anderson also returns after missing most of the season last year, and McFarland said his presence will be a big lift due to his athleticism and defense.

“Our expectation is to win district,” McFarland said. “That’s been our goal since I’ve been here. It was our goal last year but we didn’t meet our expec-tations. It’s in our heads that we can win district and then make a playoff run. We’ll be extremely disappointed if we can’t win district. When we talk about goals, we talk about champion-ship goals and hanging a banner.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by Steven HiserAs a sophomore, Godley’s Devin Bolden was a key player for the Wildcats. With the graduation of Drew Benge and Trace Brown, Bolden will have a bigger role.

GODLEY — Godley lost in the regional quarterfinals in 2012, and expectations are always high for the Lady Cats, but replacing two all-region players is key.

Godley lost Maelan Brown and Lyndsie James to graduation, two all-district, all-county and all-region players from a season ago.

“They were both really good players for us for a long time,” Coach Mark Chauveaux said. “It’s a completely different atmosphere with them gone, but I’m not saying that it’s better or worse, it’s just different. We’ve got young kids now with a lot of energy that are really fun to coach. But with Maelan and Lyndise leaving, we lose I guess about two-thirds of our scoring. We’re going to have to find that somewhere.”

Leanna James, Lyndsie’s younger sister, will play an important role in the Lady Cats’ success this year.

“I think she understands that she has to step up and she’s worked really hard this summer and the fall,” Chauveaux said. “She’s really improved a lot over what she was last year. She was a good player last year and she’s even better now. Talent-wise, she’s got the capability of being an all-state type of player. The last two years she’s been the young kid and now she’s going to have to take on a different role and responsibility

and bring the other young kids along.”Youth is the big word surrounding the

Lady Cats.“We’ve got three freshmen [Lindsey Lu-

mus, Makayla Tyler and J.C. Panel] we’re going to expect a lot from,” he said. “They were really good junior high players but ob-viously it’s a different level in high school. I guess my main concern with young kids is are they going to be able to guard anybody? They know how to score and know how to play offensively.”

Along with James, Godley also returns Hannah Stoy, Macy Forsythe and Stacy Huckaby.

The Lady Cats will be a guard-oriented team, similar to last season, so Chauveaux’s main concern entering the season is post de-fense and rebounding.

“We’ve kind of been without height for several years now,” he said. “We’re defi-nitely going to be really guard-oriented. But I don’t think that’s a whole lot different than last year. My concern would be is, are we going to be able to defend someone’s inside game, teams that have a really good post presence?”

Chauveaux said he expects the Lady Cats to be in the mix for another district title.

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by Steven HiserGodley’s Leanna James will carry a larger role after Maelan Brown and Lyndsie James’ graduation.

Lady Cats reload for another deep run

GRANDVIEW — The big-gest challenge facing the Grand-view Zebras in 2013 is replacing three all-district and all-county superlative players.

Ryan Breton, L’Broyeah Jack-son and Stephen Stewart, three of the Zebras’ top players a year ago, graduated, and Coach Todd Jar-rell said replacing their produc-tion will be the biggest storyline of the season.

“Stephen and Ryan played a lot of minutes since their sopho-more years,” Jarrell said. “They were the two guys handling the ball for the last two-and-a-half years. You always worry a little about how you’re going to replace that skill and leadership. ... You’re hoping kids like D.D. Crawford, Tristan Morphew and Tyler Fau-ver, guys that have been watching Ryan and Stephen, have learned what they did.

“We’re going to miss those

guys and we’re going to be an in-experienced team, but it’s going to be exciting to watch who grows into their new role.”

Senior Dominick DiBenedetto is a returning starter and the Ze-bras’ top defender and Crawford returns from an injury that caused

him to miss most of the season last year. Josh Russell is another player Jarrell said he hopes will play a big role in the post this sea-son in Jackson’s absence.

Jarrell said star running back Jordan Martinez may also come out for the basketball team after

nursing an injury last season.Athleticism will be the Ze-

bras’ biggest asset this year, Jar-rell said.

“I believe that we have more athleticism this year than we’ve had in the last 10 years,” he said. “That will allow us to play mul-tiple defenses.”

With the UIL changes, allow-ing four teams to make the play-offs in 2A instead of three, Jarrell said that the battle for the playoffs will be even more competitive.

“I wouldn’t say there’s one favorite to win the district title,” Jarrell said. “If we come together, play great defense and figure it out offensively, we can be right there battling for the district champion-ship. I told our team, ‘Why not us?’ We know we have a steep road to climb, but if we can put it together, we have a good chance.”

— A.J. Crisp

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Photo by Grandview ISDGrandview’s Dominick DiBenedetto (10) was one of the Zebras top defensive players and he’s one of two returning starters.

Zebras must replace 3 all-district superlative

Lady Zebras primed to make some noiseGRANDVIEW — The Grandview Lady

Zebras lost in the first round of the playoffs last season, but bring back all five starters and have lofty goals for 2013.

Coach Steven Montgomery takes over for Kevin Pope as head coach for the Lady Ze-bras. Montgomery has championship experi-ence after winning a state title as an assistant coach at Everman.

“I think that benefits me,” Montgomery said. “Like Coach Pope last year, we try to play our girls at that same championship lev-el. We’re going to play and coach you at that tempo and speed. ... Pope had four years of the best seasons in school history. There’s no reason to make wholesale changes. But there will be subtle changes, like mixing up defense some.”

Not only do the Lady Zebras return five starters, but they bring back eight lettermen overall, so chemistry and familiarity should be a strength.

“These girls have played together for a while,” Montgomery said. “About eight of the 10 to 12 players already have varsity ex-perience and that’s a big plus. They’ve played with each other enough and understand where they’re going to be. There’s a lot of eye con-tact stuff, which is something you don’t have

to teach them to do.”Kennedy Jentsch, Riley Schindler and

Jade Rochelle were each all-district selections a season ago.

“It’s a big benefit having those three back,” Montgomery said. “I know that if I was playing against us and scouting us, that would be who I look at first to try to see if the other ones can beat you. But the great thing is, with this group of girls, anybody can have a good night to help us win. That’s one thing that’s a plus.

“Our motto is ‘FIST: five individuals standing together.’ Our leaders have to take that leadership role because they’ve been there. They’ve been to the playoffs and they know what it takes to get there.”

Grandview came in third place last sea-son, and Montgomery said he expects District 10-2A to be a tough battle again, but believes they can be district champs.

“My expectations are that I want to win the district,” he said. “I think we have the tal-ent to do that. I think we can make a deep run in the playoffs. If I told you I didn’t want to win a state title, I wouldn’t be a very good coach because that’s what we all strive for.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by Grandview ISDGrandview’s Riley Schindler is one of five returning starters for the Lady Zebras.

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JOSHUA — The Joshua Owls endured a for-getful season last year, finishing 1-28. But being under Coach Jeff Hudak for a second season and returning six lettermen should lead to more vic-tories for the Owls in 2013.

“I think this being my second year is going to be big,” Hudak said. “I think that now that they know what I’m expecting. We’ve already seen great improvement from last year. Our first day of practice was a lot better than the year before. They’re more comfortable and they know my ex-pectations. I’m hoping we’re going to continue to improve on how we finished the season last year. We’re looking for big improvements and hope-fully that will lead to wins and district wins and the ultimate destination of going to the playoffs.”

Joshua returns last year’s District 8-4A new-comer of the year in Junior Loya, along with Casey Anthony, James Woodley and Garrett Hoffman as the key players from a season ago.

“We’re playing a lot harder and we’re play-ing as a team, and that’s the big thing,” Hudak said. “We understand it’s not about one guy or two guys, you’ve got to work together. ”

Hudak said Loya will be difficult for a lot of teams to guard, and his outside shooting threat will get more open looks for his teammates.

Having Anthony at 100 percent this year will be important for the Owls.

“He had lung surgery last year, so he wasn’t fully healthy until the season was over,” Hudak said. “I saw the Casey that I expected to see in

summer league. He’s our best all-around player and he facilitates very well for the other guys and gets guys in the right spots. He’s really taken over a leadership role, which is big because that’s what we need is someone to step up and be a leader. I’m really excited to see him be healthy and play a full season.”

Hudak said Joshua’s most improved player is Hoffman, the Owls’ quarterback on the football team. Hudak said he brings toughness, attitude and athleticism.

“If he has a big guy on him, he can take it to the hole,” Hudak said. “If the defense sags off him, he can knock in a 3. He gives us another di-mension. Defensively, we need his presence with his jumping ability; he can block shots.”

Woodley, another three-point threat, will play a big role in offense this year, Hudak said.

“He looked good in the fall,” Hudak said. “Against Aledo, he had about eight 3’s and scored 30 points. He’s got the ability to go off and I think that’s a by-product of having Junior on the floor. When they’re both out there, it’s go-ing to be easy for me to coach.”

Hudak said the Owls’ strengths this season will be shooting and team defense, and the key to the season is simply learning how to win.

“We’ve got to get a win to learn how to win,” he said. “And they can win; it’s all a mindset right now.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by David BeansJoshua Coach Jeff Hudak said Garrett Hoff-man is the Owls’ most improved player.

Owls eager to erase painful 2012 season

JOSHUA — The Joshua Lady Owls will have a new commander-in-chief this season as Rosa-lind Lawrence takes over head coaching duties.

Joshua missed the playoffs last season with a 4-10 record in District 8-4A play and the Lady Owls return three starters in Hailey Calfee, Chel-sie Lail and Kalie Schuman.

“They’re our leaders,” Lawrence said. “We’re going to rely on them to score and to lead our team and be good role models. These kids are ready to have success. They’ve been putting in the hard work. A lot of them have been on varsity since their freshman year. ... I expect those three to be our leading scorers, leading rebounders and be the leaders on defense. And they seem to want to do those things.”

Calfee averaged 11.2 points per game on 43 percent shooting last season while Shelby Mankins hauled in 7.4 rebounds per game.

Lawrence, who graduated from Cleburne High School, said her first year at Joshua has gone well.

“I’m so proud to be an Owl and to be a part of this school district,” she said. “The kids are very

receptive to what’s going on and they’re open minded. They’re taking the info I give them and processing it and trying to become better basket-ball players every day. We got things rocking and rolling and we’re just trying to make it happen.”

Despite the Lady Owls’ struggles a season ago, Lawrence said a lot of those losses came in close games and they can turn things around this season.

“They lost a lot of close games last year,” she said. “A lot of that boils down to making practice more of a game situation. I want to make more game-like situations so that they can be bet-ter prepared for when they go into a game. The more preparation you have, the better you will perform.”

Lawrence, who experienced playoff success playing for Cleburne, said she wants her players at Joshua to experience the same thing.

“I want them to achieve greatness and feel what it’s like part to be of a winning tradition,” she said.

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by Steven HiserJoshua’s Chelsie Lail is one of three return-ing starters that new Coach Rosalind Law-rence said will be the leaders of the team.

New coach brings winning attitude to Lady Owls program

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KEENE — The Keene Chargers are coming off a disappointing 2012 season in which they won only two district games.

Coach Jason Hill is hoping an expe-rienced and deep group will lead to a big turnaround season in 2013.

The Chargers return nearly the entire varsity roster from a season ago and will move up several key newcomers.

Senior J.J. Alvarez, senior Chris Enos, junior Ricky Hadley, senior Lanshi Hitch-field and sophomore P.J. Webber headline the key returning players for Keene. Hill said he had 17 players working out for the varsity team during the first week of prac-tice, all vying for a varsity spot.

“I would say one of our biggest strengths is our depth, especially at the 2A level,” Hill said. “Usually 2A teams can go about seven kids deep if they’re good. I re-ally have about 15 guys who can produce for me. Having our depth and having quite a few guys back from last year is big. Even though we weren’t successful last year, just having a year under their belt and them get-ting experience is going to pay dividends this year.”

Hill said the Chargers’ offense won’t feature one or two prominent scorers, but Keene will be balanced.

“We’re going to be really balanced,” he said. “I don’t think I’ll have anyone average more than 10 points per game. It’s going to be spread out. Five or six guys can give me 10 points per night. I want to balance our offense. We have ability to score inside, shoot it outside and drive it. We’re pretty versatile and pretty deep.”

Keene’s biggest weakness last year was a lack of experience, but Hill said that should be a strength this year. The big ques-tion mark this year is finding a go-to guy in crunch time.

“We can spread it around, but some-times at the end of a game, you need one guy to get you a bucket,” Hill said. “I don’t know who that guy is yet. We need to fig-ure out who our go-to guy is. It might be game-to-game depending on who has the hot hand.”

Hill said his expectations for this season are to be more competitive in district, and a yearly expectation for Keene is to win 20 games.

“We have the ability to compete for a district championship,” he said. “That’s something we talk about as far as our goals. And we want a deep playoff run.”

— A.J. CrispPhoto by A.J. Crisp

Keene’s Ryan Hadley goes up for two points in the Chargers’ practice.

Depth and balance are strong suits for Chargers

KEENE — The Keene Lady Chargers return every varsity player from last season and Coach Michelle Connelly said she expects this to be her deep-est team ever.

Connelly, who is also the Lady Chargers head volleyball coach, said the transition from volleyball to basketball is tough because not only is she the head coach for both teams, but the same girls who play basketball also play volleyball. Connelly said they have to learn on the fly and sometimes it takes a while for things to start click-ing on the hardwood.

Junior Zayda Gonzalez will again be the go-to player for Keene after an all-district and all-county season last year, but the key for the Lady Chargers’ success this season will be in who steps up along side her.

“It’s hard for her some-times because everyone double and triple teams her,” Con-nelly said. “I’m really hoping Peyton and Mallory Stephens help open things up for Zayda. We’re going to have to distrib-

ute the ball a little more evenly to keep defenses honest.”

Along with Gonzalez and the Stephens sisters, Connelly said Chelsea Wilson, Eboni Smith and Jenna Bulles will be key players for the Lady Char-

gers.“Depth is something we’ve

never had,” she said. “We’ve always had really small num-bers. We’re going to use that to our advantage by rotating play-ers in and out and keeping it up tempo.”

For a team that has experi-enced its fair share of struggles, Connelly said becoming used to winning and getting over the mental hurdle will be impor-tant.

“We were so close in volley-ball this year,” she said. “We were losing games, 26-24, 25-23, all season, so if we can get over that mental hurdle, we’ll be right there. I think skill-wise, we’ll be right up there. We’ll be more on par, talent-wise, with the rest of the district.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by A.J. CrispThe Lady Chargers will be led by, from left, Jenna Bulles, Zayda Gonzalez, Chelsea Wilson and Navimayr Lopez.

Talent pool deeper for Lady Chargers in 2013

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Eagles hopeful 2013 ends with playoff berthRIO VISTA — Rio Vista lost three key

players in Joseph Chavez, Ryan Jimison and Kyle Leonhardt from last season, but Coach Ryan Cavazos said he expects oth-ers to fill the void left by those three play-ers.

The Eagles went 5-7 in District 10-2A play in 2012. Rio Vista returns five letter-men — James Angeley, Tyler Crowe, Aus-tin Hodshire, Dylan Nelson and Kolton Williams.

Crowe averaged 11.5 points per game while Angeley put up 9.7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game last season.

“I think the scoring is going to be done by committee this year,” Cavazos said. “Hopefully everyone will step up this year and we’ll get production out of new guys.

“James started every game his sopho-more and junior year so I expect a lot out of him. He’s a do-it-all player. Tyler is another one I expect a lot out of. He’s my outside threat, a real good shooter. He should bring a lot of shooting to the table and he’s improved defensively. And then I’m hoping to get some good point guard play out of Kolton.”

Cavazos, who enters his fourth season, said he expects this year’s team to be a lit-tle quicker overall than last year, and that should help improve their defense.

“Like always, we’re going to play pressure defense and hopefully cause turn-overs and turn that into quick offense,” Cavazos said. “I think our weakness at the beginning is going to be lack of varsity ex-perience, but I expect the kids moving up to varsity to respond well. Some of them have varsity experience in football. I think the awe factor will be gone, it’s just a mat-ter of stepping in and making plays.”

The postseason is the goal for Cavazos and his Eagles.

“Expectations is always making play-offs,” he said. “If you’re not playing to get in the playoffs, why get on the floor? We’ve got to get out and play harder. I think the key is going to be playing more sound on defense. And then on offense, eliminating our turnovers. We play kind of fast, but we’ve got to limit the turnovers especially in the big spots.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by A.J. CrispIn 2013, the Rio Vista Eagles will be led by, from left, Bai-ley Rios, James Angeley and Tyler Crowe.

RIO VISTA — The Rio Vista Lady Eagles struggled in the 2012 season, winning only one district game. Coach Sherri Nichols takes over head coaching duties and has three returning starters.

Seniors Haley Hennis, Tristen Lynn and Alex Nichols will be the core of the 2013 Lady Eagles.

“I’m going to have to depend on them to keep this team togehter,” Nichols said. “Haley is my leader on the floor. She’s going to do a lot and she’s going to keep everybody bal-anced and talking. She’s going to be the one who takes charge and makes sure everyone’s doing their job.

“Alex is my ball handler. She’s going to control the tempo of the of-fense and know when to push the ball and when to slow it down. Tristen is down in the post. She’s not extremely big but she works hard down there.”

Nichols said the Lady Eagles’ calling card this season will be their effort and willingness to work hard.

“They’re a good group of girls,” she said. “They’re going to work hard

for me. They’re all coachable. We’re working every day on fundamentals and improving our skills. They’re a coachable group and they’re going to try hard. They’ll do whatever it takes to get the job done.”

Lack of size will be a weakness and something Rio Vista will have to overcome.

“We’re going to have to make our-selves big,” Nichols said. “We’re go-ing to have to work offensively. We need to be more of an offensive threat this year. We need more players look-ing to score instead of looking to pass. On defense, were going to have to be that hustle team who never quits and goes hard all the time. We need to force teams into mistakes so we can get easy points.

“We’re going to be more dis-ciplined and more fundamentally strong. We won’t quit this year and we won’t accept defeat. We’re going to go hard and leave everything on the floor.”

— A.J. Crisp

Photo by A.J. CrispRio Vista Seniors Tristen Lynn, Alex Nichols and Haley Hennis will be Coach Sherri Nichols’ leaders in 2013.

‘Hard working’ Lady Eagles look for turnaround season

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Burleson ElksDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 12 @ Weatherford 7:30 p.m.Nov. 19 @ Saginaw 6 p.m.Nov. 26 @ Boswell 10:30 a.m.Nov. 30 @ Ferris 2:30 p.m.Dec. 3 Arlington 7:30 p.m.Dec. 10 Paschal 7:30 p.m.Dec. 12-14 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 17 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Castleberry Tourney TBAJan. 3 Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 7 Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 11 @ Centennial* 6:30 p.m.

*denotes District 8-4A play

Alvarado IndiansDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 12 South Hills 8 p.m.Nov. 16 @ North Forney 1 p.m.Nov. 19 Faith Family 8 p.m.Nov. 22 @ Crandall 8 p.m.Nov. 25 Joshua 3 p.m.Dec. 3 Ferris 8 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Lake Worth Tourney TBADec. 12-14 Decatur Tourney TBADec. 17 Rio Vista 8 p.m.Dec. 20 @ La Vega 8 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Whataburger Tourney TBAJan. 3 @ Kennedale 8 p.m.Jan. 6 Bridgeport 8 p.m.Jan. 10 Hillsboro* 7:30 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Stephenville* 7:30 p.m.Jan. 17 Glen Rose* 7:30 p.m.Jan. 24 Venus* 7:30 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Hillsboro* 7:30 p.m.Jan. 31 Stephenville* 7:30 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Glen Rose* 7:30 p.m.Feb. 11 @ Venus* 7:30 p.m.


Centennial SpartansDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 12 @ FW Poly 7:30 p.m.Nov. 15 Eastern Hills 8 p.m.Nov. 19 South Hills 7:30 p.m.Nov. 21-23 New Caney Tourney TBANov. 26 Country Day 2 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Weatherford Tourney TBADec. 10 @ Arlington 6:30 p.m.Dec. 17 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 27-28 Aledo Tourney TBAJan. 3 @ Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 7 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 11 Burleson* 6:30 p.m.


Godley WildcatsDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 19 Palmer 8 p.m.Nov. 22 @ Bridgeport 8 p.m.Nov. 25 @ FW Poly 8 p.m.Nov. 26 Clyde 8 p.m.Dec. 3 Millsap 8 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Jacksboro Tourney TBADec. 10 Springtown 8 p.m.Dec. 13 @ Graham 7:30 p.m.Dec. 17 @ Boyd 8 p.m.Dec. 20 Keene* 8 p.m.Dec. 27-28 Godley Christmas Tourney TBAJan. 3 @ Whitney* 8 p.m.Jan. 7 Maypearl* 8 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Rio Vista* 8 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Grandview* 8 p.m.Jan. 17 Tolar* 8 p.m.Jan. 21 @ Keene* 8 p.m.Jan. 28 Whitney* 8 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Maypearl* 8 p.m.Feb. 4 Rio Vista* 8 p.m.Feb. 7 Grandview* 8 p.m.Feb. 11 @ Tolar* 8 p.m.


Cleburne JacketsDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 11 @ Waxahachie 7:30 p.m.Nov. 15 Brewer 7:30 p.m.Nov. 19 @ Corsicana 7 p.m.Nov. 25 Stephenville 7 p.m.Nov. 30 @ Dallas Pinkston 6 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Whitney Tourney TBADec. 10 Arlington Heights 7:30 p.m.Dec. 12-14 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 17 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 28 @ Granbury 7 p.m.Jan. 3 @ Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 7 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 11 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.


Grandview ZebrasDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 16 @ Clifton 2 p.m.Nov. 18 @ Rappaport 7 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Italy Tournament TBANov. 25 Poolville 7 p.m.Dec. 3 Clifton 7 p.m.Dec. 5-7 West Tourney TBADec. 10 Joshua 7 p.m.Dec. 14 Marble Falls Faith 2 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Maypearl* 8 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Godley Tourney TBADec. 31 Rio Vista* 8 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Tolar* 8 p.m.Jan. 10 Keene* 8 p.m.Jan. 14 Godley* 8 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Whitney* 8 p.m.Jan. 21 Maypearl* 8 p.m.Jan. 24 @ RIo Vista* 8 p.m.Jan. 31 Tolar* 8 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Keene* 8 p.m.Feb. 7 @ Godley* 8 p.m.Feb. 11 Whitney* 8 p.m.


Keene ChargersDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 12 @ Peaster 6:30 p.m.Nov. 15 A+ Academy 7 p.m.Nov. 19 Oak Cliff Life 7 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Keen Tourney TBANov. 26 @ Venus 6:15 p.m.Dec. 3 @ Lipan 8 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Lipan Tourney TBADec. 10 @ Palmer 6:15 p.m.Dec. 12-14 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 20 @ Godley* 8 p.m.Dec. 31 Whitney* 3:30 p.m.Jan. 3 @ Maypearl* 3:30 p.m.Jan. 7 Rio Vista* 8 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Grandview* 8 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Tolar* 8 p.m.Jan. 21 Godley* 8 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Whitney* 8 p.m.Jan. 28 Maypearl* 8 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Rio Vista* 8 p.m.Feb. 4 Grandview* 8 p.m.Feb. 7 Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Feb. 11 Blum 6 p.m.


Joshua OwlsDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 12 Mineral Wells 8 p.m.Nov. 15 South Hills 8 p.m.Nov. 19 Peaster 8 p.m.Nov. 22 Itasca 6:30 p.m.Nov. 25 @ Alvarado 3 p.m.Nov. 26 @ Dallas Molina 7:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Boswell Tourney TBADec. 10 @ Grandview 7:30 p.m.Dec. 12-14 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 17 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Kennedale Tourney TBAJan. 3 Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 7 @ Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 11 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.


Rio Vista EaglesDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 19 Troy 7:30 p.m.Nov. 22 Glen Rose 7:30 p.m.Nov. 25 Crawford 6:15 p.m.Nov. 26 Blooming Grove 7:30 p.m.Dec. 3 @ Blum 7:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Santo Tourney TBADec. 10 @ Italy 6:30 p.m.Dec. 12-14 Hamilton Tourney TBADec. 17 @ Alvarado 7 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Lake Co. Tourney TBADec. 31 @ Grandview* 8 p.m.Jan. 3 Tolar* 8 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Keene* 8 p.m.Jan. 10 Godley* 8 p.m.Jan. 14 Whitney* 8 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Maypearl* 8 p.m.Jan. 24 Grandview* 8 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Tolar 8 p.m.Jan. 31 Keene* 8 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Godley* 8 p.m.Feb. 7 @ Whitney* 8 p.m.Feb. 11 Maypearl* 8 p.m.


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Burleson Lady ElksDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 12 Dallas Life 6:30 p.m.Nov. 19 Mansfield Legacy 7 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Brewer Tourney TBANov. 25-26 Lake Co. Tourney TBANov. 30 @ Grand Prairie 7:30 p.m.Dec. 3 @ Argyle 6:30 p.m.Dec. 6 @ Keller Fossill Ridge 6:30 p.m.Dec. 10 @ Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 13 Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 17 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 28 Denton 1:30 p.m.Jan. 3 @ Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 @ University* 6:30 p.m.


Alvarado Lady IndiansDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 6 @ Paschal 7:30 p.m.Nov. 12 Corsicana 6:15 p.m.Nov. 15 West 6 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Castleberry Tourney TBANov. 25 @ Waco Connally 6:30 p.m.Nov. 26 @ Red Oak Life 6:30 p.m.Dec. 3 Lake Worth 6:15 p.m.Dec. 5-7 West Tourney TBADec. 10 Ferris 7:30 p.m.Dec. 14 Castleberry 7:30 p.m.Dec. 17 @ Diamond Hill 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Itasca 7:30 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Nolan Tourney TBAJan. 3 Northside 12:30 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Venus* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 Hillsboro* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Stephenville* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 Glen Rose* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 Venus* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Hillsboro* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 Stephenville* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Glen Rose* 6:30 p.m.


Centennial Lady SpartansDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 5 OD Wyatt 7:30 p.m.Nov. 8 @ Keller 7 p.m.Nov. 14-16 Centennial Tourney TBANov. 19 Carrollton Ranchview 6:30 p.m.Nov. 26 @ Grandview 6:30 p.m.Dec. 3 Paschal 6:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 10 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 13 @ Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 17 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 26-28 College Station Tourney TBAJan. 3 Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 Everman* 6:30 p.m.


Godley Lady CatsDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 11 Alvord 6:15 p.m.Nov. 15 @ Decatur TBANov. 19 Mineral Wells 6:30 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Tulia Tourney TBANov. 25 Kennedale 6:30 p.m.Nov. 26 @ Comanche 4:30 p.m.Dec. 3 @ Strawn 6:15 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 10 Carrolton Ranchview 6:30 p.m.Dec. 13 Grandview* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 17 @ Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 20 Keene* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 27-28 Lampasas Tourney TBAJan. 3 @ Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 7 Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Rio Vista* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Grandview* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 17 Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 21 @ Keene* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 28 Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Feb. 4 Rio Vista* 6:15 p.m.


Cleburne Lady JacketsDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 4 @ Arl. Sam Houston 7:30 p.m.Nov. 11 @ Waco Midway 7 p.m.Nov. 18 FW Southwest 6:30 p.m.Nov. 26 @ Midlothian 7:30 p.m.Nov. 29-30 Fantasy of Lights Tourney TBADec. 3 @ Nolan Catholic 6:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Ennis Tourney TBADec. 10 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 13 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 17 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 26-28 College Station Tourney TBAJan. 3 Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Joshua* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.


Grandview Lady ZebrasDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 9 Glen Rose 2 p.m.Nov. 12 @ West 6:15 p.m.Nov. 15 @ Peaster 6:15 p.m.Nov. 19 @ Hillsboro 6:15 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Teague Tourney TBANov. 26 Centennial 6:30 p.m.Nov. 30 Hillsboro 3 p.m.Dec. 3 Joshua 5:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 West Kulachi Tourney TBADec. 13 @ Godley* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 17 Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 26-28 College Station Tourney TBADec. 31 Rio Vista* 2 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 10 Keene8 6:15 p.m.Jan. 14 Godley* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 21 Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Rio Vista* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 31 Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Keene* 6:15 p.m.


Keene Lady ChargersDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 5 Boyd 6:30 p.m.Nov. 7-9 Colleyville Heritage Tourney TBANov. 12 @ Bosqueville 6:30 p.m.Nov. 15 Red Oak 5:30 p.m.Nov. 19 Palmer 5:30 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Keene Tourney TBANov. 26 @ Peaser 4:30 p.m.Dec. 3 @ Lipan 6:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Lipan Tourney TBADec. 13 Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Godley* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 31 Whitney* 2 p.m.Jan. 3 @ Maypearl* 2 p.m.Jan. 7 Rio Vista* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Grandview* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 17 @ Country Day 6 p.m.Jan. 21 Godley* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 24 @ Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 28 Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Rio Vista* 6:15 p.m.Feb. 4 Grandview* 6:15 p.m.


Joshua Lady OwlsDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 5 @ Weatherford 7:30 p.m.Nov. 8 Birdville 6 p.m.Nov. 15 Venus 6:30 p.m.Nov. 19 @ Arlington Martin 6:30 p.m.Nov. 21-23 Brewer Tourney TBADec. 3 @ Grandviewy 5:30 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 10 Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 13 @ Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 17 Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 20 @ Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Dec. 26-28 Boswell Tourney TBAJan. 3 @ Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 7 Everman* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 10 @ Waco* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 14 @ Burleson* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 17 Crowley* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 @ Waco University* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 24 Cleburne* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 28 Centennial* 6:30 p.m.Jan. 31 @ Everman* 6:30 p.m.Feb. 4 Waco* 6:30 p.m.


Rio Vista Lady EaglesDATE OPPONENT TIMENov. 5 Aquilla 6:15 p.m.Nov. 8 @ Hillsboro 5 p.m.Nov. 12 @ Meridian 6:15 p.m.Nov. 14-16 Hamilton Tourney TBANov. 19 Glen Rose 6:15 p.m.Nov. 22 Hamilton 6:15 p.m.Nov. 26 Blooming Grove 6:15 p.m.Dec. 3 Italy 6:15 p.m.Dec. 5-7 Glen Rose Tourney TBADec. 10 @ Hubbard 6:15 p.m.Dec. 13 @ Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 17 Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Dec. 31 @ Grandview* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 3 Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 7 @ Keene* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 10 Godley* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 14 Whitney* 6:15 p.m.Jan .17 @ Maypearl* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 24 Grandview* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 28 @ Tolar* 6:15 p.m.Jan. 31 Keene* 6:15 p.m.Feb. 4 @ Godley* 6:15 p.m.


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