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Marble Falls golf coach resigns, interviews are starting

August 3, 2023August 3, 2023 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #golf, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #links, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: The 2022-23 Marble Falls boys golf team under the direction of Rick Blackington (right) had a banner year that makes this a great job for the next coach. File photo The Marble Falls High School golf program is in search of a new head coach after Rick Blackington resigned last week to pursue another career. Assistant athletic director John Berkman said Marble Falls Independent School District has posted the job opening and is accepting applications with interviews starting soon. “We want to move quickly because of the timing,” he…

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Former players raise money for Burnet County resident Jerry Watson scholarship

July 29, 2023July 31, 2023 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #GoGetEmMustangs, #golf, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #JerryWatson, #links, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The kids who played for Jerry Watson — who are all grown up with careers and some with families of their own — gathered to honor a man whose influence continues to impact them today. Sixty golfers converged at Hidden Falls Golf Club July 22 to play in The Inaugural Jerry Watson Meadowlakes Classic, choosing to combine two of Watson’s passions: sports and a deep desire to help children be the best they can be. Proceeds from the event will be used to fund a scholarship in Watson’s memory. Watson,…

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Texas’ Fields gives Horseshoe Bay Sports Club look at marvelous career

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#greens, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #links, #longhorns, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Fresh from guiding the University of Texas men’s golf team to a national championship, head coach John Fields was the featured speaker of the latest gathering of the Rudy Davalos Horseshoe Bay Sports Club June 28 and sat next to the man who has meant so much to so many — Davalos himself. Davalos, now a Horseshoe Bay resident and one of the founders of the local sports club, was the athletic director at the University of New Mexico when his counterpart at Texas, Deloss Dodds, offered Fields the Longhorns’…

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Ross is the district runner-up, moves on to state tournament

April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #FaithAcademy, #greens, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #links, #MarbleFalls, #marblefallsfaith, #TAPPS, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Faith Academy of Marble Falls senior golfer Libby Ross is returning to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools state tournament after finishing as the runner-up at the district tournament April 25. Ross shot an 89, one stroke behind the district champion. It’s the third time in four years Ross is headed to state. The only year she didn’t go was 2020 when the event was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2019, she was fifth overall at the state tournament and was third in 2021. The Class…

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MFalls golfers battle Mother Nature during regional tourneys

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #greens, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #links, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The golf season for Marble Falls High School ended at the Class 5A Region IV tournament April 18-21. Maddie DeBerard finished 15th in the girls division thanks to scoring 80-83–163, good enough for all-region honorable mention. Blake Turner shot an 83-76–159 to finish tied for 24th in the boys division, while teammate Coby Holley had an 86-82–168 to tie for 43rd. Head coach Ricky Blackington noted the golfers faced more than the region’s best in San Antonio. “The Texas weather was in full display throughout our time at the Golf…