March 2022 - Page 2 of 5 - Texas Chalk Talk

Burnet finishes powerlifting season at the state meet

March 21, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #Burnet Bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Powerlifting, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #THSPA0 comment

The Burnet High School powerlifting season concluded during Spring Break. Sophomore Abby Smith returned to the Texas High School Powerlifting Association state meet March 18 where she finished 14th in the 114-pound weight division by lifting a total weight of 265 pounds, which set personal records for each lift: 250 pounds in the squat, 145 pounds on the bench press, and 265 pounds in the deadlift. A total of 16 lifters competed in the weight class. “This is Abby’s second year in a row to get to lift at the…

Baseball Featured High School

Bulldogs earn another come-from-behind district win

March 19, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#baseball, #bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #diamonds, #Eagles, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #salado, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The Burnet High School baseball team found itself in familiar territory March 18 against Salado. The Bulldogs (6-4-1, 3-0 District 19-4A) lost their 5-3 lead headed into the seventh inning when the Eagles (7-5, 2-1) put three runs on the board for a 6-5 advantage. That’s when Burnet went to work. Ralston Vance had the game-tying RBI single. Jesse Bachmayer advanced Vance’s courtesy runner, Colby Zinz, to third on a ground ball. Zinz scored on a pass ball for the 7-6 win. “We’re 2-0 at home (in district play), which…

Baseball Featured High School

‘Gouda’ will play baseball for Coastal Bend College

March 18, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#baseball, #diamonds, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Marble Falls High School senior Jon “Gouda” Zamarippa has committed to play baseball for Coastal Bend College and will sign his National Letter of Intent in a few weeks. It’s the culmination of playing a sport for 14 years. “I wanted to go to a junior college to find somewhere I can play for two years,” he said. “One of my coaches recommended it to me. I went on a trip there, and I loved it.” Most everyone calls Zamarippa “Gouda” thanks to his sibling, Jack. “I was a pretty…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

March 18, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #Burnet Bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #YellowJackets0 comment

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. Watch videos on Highland Lakes sports on Fierro’s YouTube channel by searching for The Broad Podcaster. While most students have been enjoying the beautiful central Texas weather, others have spent time in the sunshine at ball parks. Perhaps the most fascinating team, to me at least, is Burnet High School baseball (5-4-1, 1-0 District 19-4A). The Bulldogs got what I believe was a gut-check win over Georgetown…

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Burnet, MFalls track teams perform well at Salado meet

March 18, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet Bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Burnet and Marble Falls high school track and field athletes competed in the Salado meet March 11 before leaving for Spring Break. In the boys varsity team standings, Burnet finished second with 101 points, while Marble Falls was fifth with 71 points. Burnet was third in the boys junior varsity team standings with 127 points followed by Marble Falls with 101 points. In the girls varsity standings, Burnet finished third with 116 points, while Marble Falls was tied for sixth with 43 points. The Lady Dawgs won the team championship…

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Ashton Torns takes second at indoor national meet

March 17, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#chaparrals, #Chaps, #longjumper, #longjumping, #NewBalanceIndoors, #Texas, #trackandfield, #UIL, #Westlake0 comment

Ashton Torns continues to impress track-and-field insiders and observers, and few are surprised by what they see. The son of former Marble Falls High School cross country and track and field coach Anthony Torns, Ashton recently earned a silver medal at the 2022 New Balance Nationals Indoor meet at The Armory New Balance Track and Field Center in New York with a leap of 24 feet and 3.5 inches on March 13. That s was the first time Ashton Torns had competed at the meet. “It was a very nice…

Baseball Featured High School

Extra innings needed for Cedar Park to beat Marble Falls

March 17, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #CedarPark, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TheBroadPodcaster, #timberwolves, #UIL0 comment

It took two extra innings for the winner to be decided between the Marble Falls High School baseball team and Cedar Park March 16. In the end, a pass ball allowed the Timberwolves (9-4-1, 1-0 District 25-5A) to score the game-winning run in the ninth inning for the 1-0 victory. The Mustangs (4-5, 0-1) had two batters reach base when Jett Zurita and Evan NIckowski were hit by pitches with one out in the ninth inning. But Cedar Park pitcher Quint Mullen forced the next batter to fly out to…

Baseball High School

Bulldogs come from behind to remain unbeaten in district play

March 16, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #Burnet Bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #UIL0 comment

The Burnet High School baseball team was one out away from earning a one-run win against Georgetown Gateway on March 15. But the Gators scored four runs with two outs to take a 4-1 lead into the bottom of the seventh, and Burnet (5-4-1, 2-0 District 19-4A) was down its final three outs. “(My players) were down a little bit,” Burnet head coach Russell Houston said. “You have to stay positive with them. It’s one pitch at a time, one bat at a time. You tell them ‘let’s get the…

Featured Softball

Lady Dawgs erupt for 20 hits for lopsided victory against Jarrell

March 16, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas0 comment

Nothing changed for the Burnet High School softball team as the Lady Dawgs began District 19-4A play March 15. The Lady Dawgs (16-3, 1-0) beat Jarrell 12-4 in a contest where they recorded 20 hits led by senior Savannah Gomez, who went 5 for 5 at the plate for 2 RBIs off two singles and two doubles. Sophomore Camrynn Guthrie had a two-run homer. The Lady Cougars took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning thanks to two walks and “timely hitting,” Burnet head coach Hailey Wooten…

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Cheerleaders to compete at world championship

March 15, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #cheer, #cheerleading, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #worlds0 comment

Hill Country Stars Cheer and Dance is sending its four-person cheer squad to the senior open pom division at the All-Star World Championships at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, on April 21-23. Team members Laramie McIntire, aged 14 of Granite Shoals, Alyssa Tamaseu, aged 20 of Marble Falls, Morgan Burke, aged 17 of Marble Falls, and Haley Booe, aged 24 of Granite Shoals, accepted the invitation from representatives, who saw the quartet compete at Six Flags March 5. The four are taking donations to help pay for the trip. Go…