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Mustangs earning close wins says plenty about the team

March 5, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #Burnet Bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls0 comment

The Marble Falls High School baseball team has a 2-1 record in the Hill Country Classic tournament going into the final day of the event on Saturday, March 5, while the Burnet Bulldogs are 1-2. The Bulldogs welcome TMI at 10:30 a.m. at Bulldog Diamonds, 1000 The Green Mile, while Marble Falls travels to play Fredericksburg at 11:30 a.m. at Yellow Jacket Field on the Llano High School campus, 2509 Texas 16 in Llano. The Mustangs began the tournament with a 3-2 win against Johnson City on March 3 and…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

March 2, 2022April 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetBulldogs, #Eagles, #girls hoops, #Llano, #LlanoJackets, #MarbleFalls, #SFJCS, #Texas, #Texas girls hoops, #UIL0 comment

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. The Burnet Lady Dawgs athletics program is moving from very good to great. Just look at the success. The basketball team joined the volleyball team in qualifying for the Class 4A Region III tournament, known to many as the Houston region. That is a tough road, indeed, to get to the state tournament. Credit volleyball head coach Crystal Shipley and her team for setting the bar for…

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Bowlsby: What would help the Big 12? A better Texas

May 11, 2017 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby made a visit to the central Texas earlier this week. He announced he was meeting with new Texas head football coach Tom Herman and then eating lunch with former University of Texas President Bill Powers. He credits Powers, former Athletics Director Deloss Dodds, and several Oklahoma administrators for wooing him away from Stanford as the athletics director to take over the Big 12 as commissioner five years ago. “I’m going to thank (Powers) and not thank him,” Bowlsby joked. Since he became commissioner, the…

Astros find starting pitcher, avoid series sweep

July 28, 2016 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

A 4-1 win over the Yankees to avoid a series sweep July 27 is simply what the Astros needed. And it wasn’t about dodging a three-game skid; it was about reaffirming what Astros fans believe — they have a team that’s worth following and has the ingredients to get into the playoffs. Reid and his dad Nolan Ryan have been building this organization from the ground up. When Reid Ryan took over as the president of business operations in May 2013, people in Major League Baseball said the Astros needed…