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The second home run of the Texas Collegiate League baseball season for East Texas' Matt Juengel helped the Pump Jacks to a win at Coppell on Tuesday night, the first of a two-game series at Coppell, and even better, the Pump Jacks are now in first place in the league. More ... Sabine's Ashley Gadson, who came home from the UIL State Track and Field Championships with a little hardware. Gadson went to Austin with a mission, and returned to Liberty City as a state champion in the Class 2A girls high jump. More ... Pro baseball player Jess Todd made his Major League Baseball debut Friday night, and hadn't been in St. Louis very long when he was sent back to Memphis, a bit of a victim of the slump the Cardinals are in. More ... The incredible has happened for the Overton High School baseball team and their fans: a trip to the University Interscholastic League's Class 1A State Baseball Tournament. The Mustangs qualified for the state tournament appearance, the first in school history, with a 6-5 comeback win over Maud in game three of a best-of-three-game series on Saturday in Tatum. More ... My initial reaction to hearing how Jess Todd's Friday night — his first in a St. Louis Cardinals majorleague uniform — went was one of frustration and sadness. I mean, the Cardinals gave Jess a call Wednesday night late, flew him in and did paperwork on Thursday, and threw him out on the mound on Friday night against Colorado. More ... Pairings have been set for this year's East Texas Treatment Center Classic, the two-person-scramble golf tournament to be played this Friday and Saturday at Meadowbrook Country Club here in Kilgore. Playing Friday morning (7:30 a.m.) and Saturday afternoon (a 1 p.m. More ... It's so early in the Texas Collegiate League schedule that fans literally have to have a program to get familiar with their own team's players, not to mention the players for the other TCL teams. But the East Texas Pump Jacks are 3-1 and have already defeated two of the other squads — they'll face the other two, Coppell and Brazos Valley, this week. More ... BASKETBALL KC boys camp in July The Kilgore College Rangers' men's basketball team will hold a summer skills camp July 13-17. The camp will focus on development of beginning to intermediate basketball skills, ending with a basketball game on the last day of camp. More ... |
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