LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF
BY SPORTS EDITOR MITCH LUCAS
      FOOTBALL Freshmen, JV beat Hallsville Both the freshmen and junior varsity football teams at Kilgore High School scored wins over Hallsville on Thursday night here at R.E. St. John Memorial Stadium. The JV, coached by Jay Dean, won the nightcap, taking a 12-7 victory. Coach Dean said the defense played well, led by Willie Lawler and Chris Williams.
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UTEP fans hyped for Longhorns
      EL PASO (AP) — This remote border city has never been one of those college football-crazed places where everything shuts down on game day, parking lots overflow with tailgaters and major events like weddings rarely get scheduled for Saturdays during the season.
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Former KHS players in college football on Saturday
BY SPORTS EDITOR MITCH LUCAS
      Several former Kilgore High School football players are in college football programs. Here's where they'll be playing this weekend. • DeAndre Rossum (WR), Joe Colbert (WR) and Danny Smith (LB) all play for Kilgore College (0-1), who hosts Tyler Junior College — and former KHS teammate Rick Thomas (LB) — Saturday night at 7 p.m.
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Time to get the kinks out: TJC here Saturday
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      The Southwestern Junior College Football Confernce — Texas' junior college football conference that prides itself as maybe the toughest JUCO football conference in the country — went 5-3 last weekend in games against the Kansas-based Jayhawk Conference.
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'Cats no longer a district foe, but still dangerous
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      School hooks up with Hallsville High School in any sport, it's a district game. The Longview-area school, only about 20 minutes away if that, is almost always a district foe for Kilgore, but not this year.
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Pigskin Predictions
     
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Troup visits Cards for home opener
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      Friday night will be the firstever home game for Jerry Baker as head coach of the Sabine High School Cardinals. He's hoping Troup isn't in sync when the Tigers come to James Bamberg Stadium for the 7:30 p.m. kickoff. Troup, which was a bit down last season, is normally an East Texas Class 2A power, and proved to Baker last week that they could be good again in 2008.
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Great slate of games in week 2
WHAT'S CAUSING ALL THIS?
MITCH LUCAS
      Wow. It seems like it's only been a couple of months since we did a Game Time Weekly, and it's been nine. I'm glad it's back. For you GTW old-timers, you know that here in this column, I basically tell who I think will do well in our games we've selected this week.
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a win at Union Grove
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      Ty Robinson didn't win his coaching debut with Overton High School last week against Ore City, but he might have, he said, if not for a few things. "We're not into moral victories around here," Robinson said Wednesday. "We just made way too many mistakes. You can't turn it over four times and expect to win.
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LC hopes to build on opening win
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      Don't tell Leverett's Chapel head football coach Matt Everett that his team blew by Dallas Academy in the 2008 opener last week. Everett, who watched as his Lions dismantled DA, 69-38, found a few bad things in the overwhelming victory.
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After beating Harleton, WR takes aim at Gorman
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      Nobody with the West Rusk High School football program is overconfident after shutting out Harleton last week, or overlooking T.K. Gorman, coach John Frazier said Tuesday. Frazier's Raiders (1-0) opened the season last Thursday with a 20- 0 blanking of Dennis Alexander's Harleton team, got an extra day off and visits Gorman in Tyler on Friday night, a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.
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