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Smoking for Jesus sports department shifts leagues

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #Eagles, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #smokingforjesus, #TAOIAO, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

The Smoking for Jesus Minstry School’s athletics department has changed high school leagues. The private school moved to the Texas Association of Independent Athletic Organizations, which happened after the basketball season ended. The department was previously a member of the Texas Christian Athletic League where the Eagles had tremendous success. The football team reached the league’s six-man state championship game in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and won back-to-back titles in 2020 and 2021. The basketball team won the state title of the 2021-22 season. But success wasn’t enough to keep…

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Marble Falls Middle School soccer finishes undefeated season

May 18, 2022May 19, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The Marble Falls Middle School boys soccer team ended its season with an 8-0 rout of Liberty Hill Santa Rita May 17 to go unbeaten during the 2022 season for a 6-0 record. The Mustangs were dominant in their contests where they gave up only two goals all season while averaging more than two a match. “Both are obviously very notable,” coach Aaron Jimenez said. “But to be able to produce goals at that age is impressive.” About 35 seventh- and eighth-graders came out for middle school soccer. The undefeated…

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Burnet football wants to do more than get stronger and faster

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #championsweek, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

The Burnet High School football team is participating in champions week, and no one is more pumped than the Bulldogs themselves. That’s apparent by the way they attack every challenge and how they share their enthusiasm, cheer each other on, and uplift one another while doing some drills that are part of linemen challenges. Still, the Bulldogs are displaying the reason why head coach Bryan Wood created challenge week. And it wasn’t so much to get the players faster and stronger, which are the added bonuses. “We’re creating accountability,” he…

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Voluntary lifting sessions paying off for the Marble Falls Stangs

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The Marble Falls High School football players aren’t basking in the Texas sun. Instead, they are putting in the work in the weight room and baking on the artificial turf at Mustang Stadium during competition drills days before the 2021-22 academic year ends. The Mustangs are doing more than embracing preparation in the offseason; they’re showing up in herds with the mindset that no individual will be outworked by anyone. And that has their coaches enthusiastic. That is especially apparent in the number who are showing up before and after…

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Several Burnet baseball players named to all-district teams

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The Burnet High School baseball team’s outstanding 2022 season was applauded by the other District 19-4A coaches when the all-district list was released May 16. Four Bulldogs were named first team all-district. They are third baseman Dash Denton, catcher Tanner O’Hair, utility player Ralston Vance, and pitcher Clayton Zinz. All three Burnet outfielders were named to the second team: Jackson Crawford, Will Johnson and Trenton Park. Pitcher Kurt Kassner was named honorable mention. “I think we’re very well represented,” head coach Russell Houston said. “I would have liked to have…

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Frazier is first Smoking for Jesus athlete to play a college sport

May 16, 2022May 17, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #Eagles, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #midwayuniversity, #smokingforjesus, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

A first happened for the Smoking for Jesus Ministry Christian School May 14. The Eagles have a college student-athlete now that Charles Frazier, Jr. signed his National Letter of Intent to Midway University in Midway, Ky. Midway University is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and will be fielding a football team for the first time in its history in 2022. “After watching my film, they wanted to get me over there,” he said. “I really understood I needed to go to this school. Even before high…

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Marble Falls’ Segovia finishes ninth at the Class 5A state meet

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Marble Falls senior pole vaulter Django Segovia wrapped up his season with a ninth-place finish at the Class 5A state meet May 13. Segovia missed clearing 15 feet and cleared 14-6 on his third attempt and 14-0 on his first try while competing at Mike Myers Stadium on the University of Texas at Austin campus. Segovia experienced plenty of firsts during the meet. It was his first time to vault in that stadium. The pole vault pit is right next to stands, making it the first time Segovia was that…

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Marble Falls Faith Academy’s Mottle signs to play college baseball

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #etbu, #Flames, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #marblefallsfaith, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Faith Academy of Marble Falls senior Justin Mottle proved that he was right on time in signing his National Letter of Intent May 12 to play baseball for East Texas Baptist University, which is a member of the American Southwest Conference. Mottle will play in the outfield. But it wasn’t until about two months ago that he decided he wanted to play college baseball even though Faith Academy head coach Zakk Revelle and Austin Boom and Revolution Baseball coach Buck Turnidge, Mottle’s select team, told the player he had the…

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Burnet’s Bennett captures state silver medal in the mile

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

One second separated Burnet junior middle-distance runner Hudson Bennett and Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis sophomore Angel Sanchez in the 1,600 meters of the Class 4A state meet of the University Interscholastic League May 12. Sanchez, who lost to Bennett by almost two seconds in the 3,200 meters at the state meet the morning of May 12, wouldn’t be denied a second time. He won gold in 4 minutes 18.86 seconds, while Bennett finished in 4:19.83. The Bulldog congratulated Sanchez on running a terrific race. “I knew Angel was going to…

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Llano’s Burnett wins silver at the Class 3A state meet

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyJackets, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Llano sophomore Gwyn Burnett is leaving the Class 3A state meet of the University Interscholastic League with a medal. The Lady Jacket clocked 44.54 seconds in the 300-meter hurdles for the silver medal. Last year at the state meet, she finished fourth in 44.50 seconds. “I’m super excited,” she said. “When I crossed the finish line, I wanted to start to cry. That was my goal was to go get on the podium.” Goliad sophomore Kyla Hill took the gold in 43.73 seconds and New Waverly sophomore Brooke Munoz was…