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Gomez earns regional golf berthFrom Staff Reports Marble Falls golfer Tori Gomez shot a two-day total of 170 at the District 25-4A golf tournament at Delaware Springs Golf Course to earn a spot in the regional tournament. Gomez shot rounds of 83 and 87 this week to take ninth overall in the district. Maddie Rue of Vandegrift was the other medalist with rounds of 84 and 89. The regional tournament is Wednesday-Thursday, April 17-18 at the Golf Club of Texas in San Antonio. Gomez’ 170 total was three strokes ahead of the next qualifier. Amy Hendrix shot her personal best, an 88, on Tuesday along with Sam Offutt who fired a 95. The first team finished in fourth place and were helped in scoring by Breanna Heinzke (98, 100), Kelsie Tackitt (105, 97) and Shelcee Clark (110, 100). The second team finished sixth in the eight-team field and were led by Offutt’s 95 score along with Blaire Hambrick (99, 104), Chloe Parnell (102, 103), Crystal Marroquin (108, 119) and Peyton Fishbeck (116, 120). Cedar Park won the tournament with rounds of 327 and 330 for a 657 total. Vandegrift was second at 323 and 340 for 663. Marble Falls team totals were 376, 372—748. |
Heinatz delivers key homerBy Mark Goodson Highlander Sports Editor Marble Falls had the right guy at the plate. In a game when the Mustangs struggled to get hits into a heavy wind, senior Stacy Heinatz delivered with a 3-run blast over the left field fence for the game’s big hit that propelled the Mustangs to their 18thwin of the season and keeps the team tied with Dripping Springs for the district lead. In the fifth inning with the game tied at 3-3, Heinatz smashed a 1-0 pitch to score Carson Bowen and Joey Blackledge. Bowen had singled and stole two bases while Blackledge reached on a fielder’s choice. In a tight series throughout, Vista Ridge answered with two runs in the sixth on three singles off Heinatz, who came in to relief pitch in the fifth inning with one out. Heinatz persevered for the victory, allowing five hits and striking out three. Starter Garrett Winslett did his job again, going 4 1/3 innings allowing three runs on five hits with four strikeouts. Marble Falls offense had just four hits off two Vista Ridge pitchers. They all came in the fourth and fifth innings. Damico had a key double in the fourth with two outs to score two runs and push the margin to 3-1. Vista Ridge bounced right back in the top of the fifth with two runs only to have Marble Falls take the lead for good on Heinatz’s homer in the bottom of the fifth. Damico scored after leading off with a walk in the sixth, advancing on a sacrifice and a stolen base. He scored on a passed ball. In the fourth inning, Marble Falls utilized two hit batsmen to spark a three-run inning. Heinatz led off by getting hit then Domenic Patterson singled and with one out, Saul Guzman got hit by a pitch. For Guzman it was the third time he took an inside pitch off his body in the doubleheader. Jay Watson sacrificed in one run and then Damico added his key double for two more runs. |
Marble Falls will play twinbill SaturdayThe Marble Falls baseball games against Vista Ridge scheduled for Thursday have been rescheduled for this Saturday because of wet conditions on the fields. The Mustangs varsity (16-3) will play at doubleader at Marble Falls on Saturday, starting at 1 p.m. The Friday scheduled game at Vista Ridge is still slated for 7 p.m. Marble Falls’ JV Gold is at Vista Ridge 11 a.m. Saturday with the JV Purple set to start at 1 p.m. Saturday.
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Marble Falls rips Vandegrift, 14-0Marble Falls’ Cole Ridgely threw a 3-hitter and struck out eight to lead the Mustangs to a 14-0 win over Vandegrift Tuesday at Vandegrift in District 25-4A baseball. The Mustangs offense was solid throughout the lineup led by No. 3 hitter Stacy Heinatz. The senior shortstop had a double and drove in two runs in the five-inning contest. Cason Bowen and Domenic Patterson continued to swing solid bats. Bowen had two RBI. Marble Falls improved to 14-3 overall and 6-1 in district play. The Mustangs and Vipers will have a doubleheader starting at 6 p.m. Thursday. Mustangs coach J.T. Blair said he’ll have both Cody Goodman and Garrett Winslett available to start the doubleheader, but has not decided who will start Game 2 of the set.
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Faith Academy athletes hit trackFrom Staff Reports Faith Academy’s Juliette Fisher, Kylie Cozby and Sarah Kiley took third-place finishes to lead the Faith Academy Lady Flames to a seventh-place team finish at the Harper Invitational. Fisher jumped 4-feet, 10-inches for her medal in the high jump. Cozby ran a 51.55 in the 300 hurdles and Kiley was third in the triple jump 32-2 ¾. Harper won the meet with 144 points. Faith Academy was seventh at 33.3 Kiley was fifth in the high jump at 4-6. Sierra Brinkley took sixth in the pole vault at 7-6. In the triple jump, Hailey Shipley leaped 30-11 for sixth. The 4x200 relay of Brinkley, Rachel Ormsby, Cozby and Bailey Brinkley were fifth in 1:53.92. The 4x400 relay of Fisher-Paloma Ortiz, Christina Lykken and Shipley tookj fourth in 4:35. The team results were: Harper 144, Ozona 116.5, Junction 92,
Ingram 74, Johnson City 44, Bracken 38, Faith Academy 33.5, Comfort 27,
Centerpoint 21, Medina 17, Mason 12, In the JV girls, Ortiz ran a 69.45 to win the 400 meters to highlight the team’s efforts. Others scoring were: Hannah Cozby first in high jump at 4-6, Cosby fifth in the 100 hurdles at 20.33, Peace Preston fourth in the 800 meters at 2:59.85 "Really good meet for us overall,’’ said coach Steve McCannon. "The meet after spring break ends up being hit or miss, so I am pleased with what we learned from this meet. This was our first meet with the girls from basketball and we had a couple of girls unable to attend but we were still able to see where we are at. We did very well in a few events and so so in others. Very quality, well run meet with lots of teams. Points are harder to come by with this many teams.’’ The team is at Florence this week. "District is 27 days away and we will taking aim at our ninth district title in the last 10 years and our eighth in a row,’’ said McCannon.
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Mustangs' Patterson swinging bat with confidenceBy Mark Goodson Highlander Sports Editor Domenic Patterson said swinging the bat is coming naturally right now. The junior played with a lot of confidence Saturday in Marble Falls’ third game against the Rouse Raiders. Patterson, who has batted cleanup all season for the Mustangs, responded with three hits Saturday in an 8-3 win over Rouse. Two of the hits were smashes that went for doubles. All there were good contact and came with Patterson seeing the ball well. "I’m playing with confidence and I’ve got a groove going,’’ said Patterson. "We worked hard all week and it showed.’’ The Mustangs win gave Marble Falls the sweep against a Rouse team that has competed well in district, but hasn’t had luck in close games. On Friday on the road, the Mustangs snuck out a 5-4 win in 10 innings. For the three game set, the Mustangs rolled up wins of 3-1, 5-4 and 8-3 behind strong pitching performances and timely hitting. The Mustangs are 13-3 overall and 5-1 in district. Rouse dips to 7-12-1 and 1-8. Cody Goodman threw a complete game Saturday, yielding four hits, three walks and fanned one Rouse batter. The lefty used his off-speed pitches well and worked around scoring situations often. In the second inning Rouse had two hits and an error lead to two runs. Robert Martinez drove in one of the runs on a sacrifice fly. However, Marble Falls never trailed in the game, scoring two in the first and five in the second inning. Patterson had a strong double to right to drive in the game’s second run and give the Mustangs a 2-0 cushion. After the game was tied in the top of the second, Marble Falls unloaded wit five runs on three hits. Patterson delivered with a blast to left field this time for two runs, scoring both Carson Bowen and Cole Ridgely. Jay Watson had a single and Joey Blackledge reached on an error to open the frame. Bowen doubled to score a run and Stacy Heinatz got on by an error to set the stage for Patterson. Rouse’s Robert Martinez hit his first homer of the year off Goodman with one out in the fourth inning. The one-out shot cut the lead to 7-3. Marble Falls added another run in the seventh off the third pitcher of the day for the Raiders. Mike Richardson drove in Heinatz, who was hit by a pitch to get on base. A Patterson ground ball on his fourth at-bat, still advanced the runner. Heinatz got to third on a passed ball before Richardson hit a ball to the shortstop to get Heinatz across the plate. "You never know what you are going to get on Saturday,’’ Marble Falls coach J.T. Blaire said. "I knew if you pitched well and played defense we’d have a chance.’’ Marble Falls had four doubles in the game. On Friday night, the Mustangs pulled off a 5-4 win behind a solid start from Garrett Winslett and relief duty from Heinatz and Ridgely. The trio allowed seven hits. Winslett went 4 2/3 innings, allowing two hits, four walks and striking out two. Ridgely picked up the win in relief. Marble Falls will play Vandgrift in three games this week. Tuesday’s outing is a 7 p.m. start at Vandegrift. The team’s play a doubleheader Thursday, starting at 6 p.m. at Marble Falls. |
Eighth graders take first at WimberleyLauren Loader celebrated her birthday March 22 by winning five gold medals in the Wimberley Middle School Relays. The Marble Falls eighth grader won the 100 meters in 13:20 and took all three jumping events as well as anchoring the 4x100 relay. The team scored 197.5 points to win the meet. Burnet was second with 155 points in the nine-team meet. Loader teamed with Taylor Dixon, Skyler Noack and Aspen Woerner on the relay, clocking a 54.69 time. Her winning leaping efforts were 15-1 ½ in the long jump, 31-0 in the triple jump ad 5-0 in the high jump. Sophie McCannon won both the 1,600 meters (5:45.08) and the 3,200 meters (12:56.02). Dixon captured first in the 200 meters in 28.6 and Sydney Gibson won the 400 meters in 1:05.65.
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Rouse team wins state fishing tournamentBy Mark Goodson Highlander Sports Editor Colton Mitchell and Dallin Bishop of Leander Rouse High School won the Texas High School State Fishing Championship on Lake LBJ Saturday catching three fish weighing in at 15-pounds, 13-ounces. They also had the big bass at seven-pounds, 11-ounces. The anglers edged out the Westlake fishing club by two ounces. Westlake’s Knox Kronenberg and Richie Pusateri caught the limit of five fish over the minimum length of 14 inches to take second with a total of 15-pounds, 11-ounces. The defending champion Corrigan-Camden team of Wyatt Frankens and Clay Nash also caught five fish weighing in at 15-pounds, 11-ounces. The tie was broken by the third tiebreaker of the first team to weigh in. Frankens and Nash edged out Kronenberg and Pusateri by an ounce on the big bass with a catch of seven-pounds, seven ounces. The tournament was the biggest in the three years of the event. The two previous tournaments had been held on Lake Lavon near Allen in North Texas. Marble Falls High School had 28 anglers in the field matched in two-person teams. The best finishers for the Marble Falls team were Cole Van Brocklin and Tyler Rutherford, who are both students at Burnet High School. The duo logged five fish at 15-pounds, three-ounces. In all there were 68 teams (136 anglers) entered in the one-day tournament that started at first light and ended near 5 p.m. with the conclusion of weigh-ins. In all 22 teams caught their limit and 52 of the 68 teams caught fish. Marble Falls had four teams in the top 20. The top Marble Falls teams were (fourth) Van Brocklin-Rutherford, (13th) Jordan Breaux-Jordan Wright, (14th) Shilo Nelson-Ben Stripling and (19th) Lyle Schmidt-Lane Amidon. "We caught all our fish at the second place we stopped,’’ Wright said after he and Breaux had to come in an half hour before weigh-in because they were running low on gasoline. "We hit that one spot and got them all.’’ The 14-inch minimum was killer on some of the anglers. "We had 13 at 13-inches and never had a keeper,’’ said Matthew Manley who teamed with Marble Falls angler Wes Thornton. There is a captains tournament scheduled for Sunday on Lake LBJ at the LBJ Yacht Club and Marina in Cottonwood Shores. Marble Falls will host the tournament again next year.
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Fishing championship comes to Marble FallsBy Mark Goodson Highlander Sports Editor More than 150 anglers are expected to compete in Saturday’s Texas High School Fishing Championship on Lake LBJ. Marble Falls bass club parent Bryan Ellis said organizers are hoping to have 80 teams entered in the event. Marble Falls will be well represented in the event that will start at daybreak and run into the afternoon. Weigh-in will be at either 2 or 3 p.m. at the LBJ Yacht Club. Among the local anglers competing will be Shilo Nelson, Ben Stripling, Austin Ellis, Hunter McNeese, Nick O’Connor, Travis Sparks, Lyle Schmidt, Lane Amidon, Colt Anderson, Connor Metzler, Roy Dunavant, Jordan Childress, Chris Mata, Hunter Delz, Cody Box, Ty Wynn, Jordan Breaux, Jordan Wright, Wes Thornton, Matt Manley, Drake Harkins, Josh Robles, Tyler Rutherford, Tanner Worley, Isaac Salas, Austin Free and Dillon Caldwell. Registration for the state championship will be Friday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the River City Grille. Teams entered will have two anglers each with an adult boating captain. On Sunday a captains’ tournament will be held with part of the proceeds going to a scholarship fund for future college and trade school students. Marble Falls will hold the tournament for the next two years. It has been held at Lake Lavon near Allen, Texas in Collin County for the past two years. Lake LBJ has a surface area of 6,449 acres with a maximum depth of 90 feet. The anglers will be fishing for bass. The tournament will attract high school anglers from throughout the state. Each fishing team can catch as many as five bass. The fish must be within the regulation slot limit. The record largemouth bass caught on Lake LBJ is a 13-pounder.
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Mustangs return home to face Cedar ParkMarble Falls returns home Wednesday night for the second game of the team’s 3-game set with Cedar Park in District 25-4A baseball. Marble Falls dropped its opener in district play Tuesday night on the road at Cedar Park. Timberwolves’ senior Anthony Farmer had a two-run double in the sixth inning to solidify a 4-1 victory for the Timberwolves over the Mustangs. Marble Falls drops to 8-3 on the season. Cedar Park’s Ryan Johnson threw a 2-hitter on Tuesday and fanned 10 Mustangs. Cedar Park had eight hits and committed one error. The team’s will play a 2 p.m. finale against the Timberwolves on Thursday at Cedar Park |
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