Archive - 2012
January 19th
The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Texas is one cent more than the average last week, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. The current statewide average is $3.23.
The Sweetwater Police Department (SPD) received 28 calls for service, issued five citations and made three arrests on Jan. 17, 2012.
The SPD received 16, 911 calls.
Accidents:
• Lamar and Georgia.
Calls for service:
• Credit/debit card abuse — Sweetwater area.
• Theft — 1500 block of Ragland.
• Family violence assault — 500 block of Newman.
Arrested by SPD:
• Jamie Yeazel, 26 — Grand jury indictment.
• Mark Abbe, 33 — Grand jury indictment.
• Elizbeth Hanneman, 32 — Grand jury indictment.
Nettie Annlee Tollison, age 93, of Lafayette, Louisiana, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, at Lafayette Medical Center.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, at Roscoe Cemetery with Rev. James Baker officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home.
Nettie was born Dec. 15, 1918, in Arlington, Texas, to James Jefferson and Lura Buffie (Jackson) Tollison. She worked in the health care industry for over 40 years.
THURSDAY,
JAN. 19
Basketball
Sweetwater 7th and 8th grade ‘A’ and ‘B’ girls host Wylie, 5 and 6:15 p.m.
Sweetwater 7th and 8th grade ‘A’ and ‘B’ boys play at Wylie, 5 and 6:15 p.m.
Highland junior high teams host tournament.
Roscoe junior high teams play at Highland tournament.
Blackwell varsity girls and boys at Bronte starting at 6:30 p.m.
Powerlifting
Sweetwater boys and girls teams at Big Spring meet.
FRIDAY, JAN. 20
Basketball
Sweetwater girls at Brownwood — JV at 4:30 p.m., varsity at 6 p.m., freshmen at 7:30 p.m.
Sweetwater High School’s powerlifting teams did well at season-opening meets this past Saturday in Miles and compete again today at meets in Big Spring.
The SHS boys were first and the girls second at Miles this past weekend.
SHS had four individual boys winners in their re-spective weight classes — Jay Lomas (790 pounds) in the 123-pound class, Sam Nemir (1,270 pounds) in the 181-pound class, Mateo Gonzales (1,390) in the 242-pound class and Angel Caballero (1,005) in the su-perheavyweight class. Sam Nemir also won the Best Lifter Award for the meet.
The seventh grade Red team won first place at the Sweetwater Middle School girls basketball tournament held Jan. 7 as they defeated Merkel 9-5 in their first game and then held off Midland Christian, 31-27, in the championship game. The team includes, back row from left, coach Jill Locklar, Stephanie Castillo, Kensi Chowning, Maddie Berry, Kaitlyn Foster, Lauren Jones, Brittany Peeples; front row, Christa Martin, Annaliese Espinoza, Davina Walker and Rhylee Meneses.
Here are recent junior high basketball tournament results from Sweetwater, Roscoe and Highland:
HIGHLAND
TOURNAMENT
Highland girls
Highland 25, Roscoe 12
Highland scoring: Hannah Allen 13, Sydny Helbert 6, Bailey Garrett 4, Karlie Allen 2.
Highland 25, Ira 18
Highland scoring: Hannah Allen 11, Bailey Garrett 7, Kailee Hall 4, Kelsi Johns 3.
Highland 22, Trent 19
(Championship)
Highland scoring: Hannah Allen 6, Karlie Allen 4, Kailee Hall 4, Bailey Garrett 3, Hannah Kirby 3, Kelsi Johns 2.
Highland boys
Roscoe 44, Highland 22
January 18th
The first quarter of Tues-day’s District 5-3A basket-ball game between Sweet-water and Big Spring featured five lead changes and ended with the visitors up by just a point, 11-10.
Midway through the sec-ond quarter, it was still a contest as the Mustangs trailed by just three (17-14). But the Steers caught fire at that point, going on a 15-1 run to lead by 17, 32-15, at halftime, and never looked back en route to a 64-35 win at Mustang Gym.
After falling behind 10-0 in the first two minutes of play, Sweetwater twice rallied to within striking distance of Big Spring in Tues-day’s district girls game.
Both times, however, the Lady Steers responded with a decisive run as they beat the Lady Mustangs, 58-39, at Mustang Gym.
Sweetwater (0-3, 14-14) narrowed the lead to 16-12 on a three-pointer by Ken-dra Crosson early in the second quarter, only to see Big Spring (1-2, 17-7) run off the next nine points.
The Sweetwater junior varsity girls picked up the lone victory against Big Spring in sub-varsity action here Tuesday as they prevailed, 23-19, to improve to 15-4 overall and 3-0 in district play.
Kayla Chowning and Claire Williams had six points, Maddie Jones five, Taylor McPherson four and Shaneese Brown two for Sweetwater.
The freshman girls (14-3, 1-2) lost 43-28. Cierra Knox scored 10, Abby McPherson seven, Bianca Castillo and Jas-mine Reddic four, Lexi Castillo two and Gabby Reyes one.
The JV boys (13-8, 0-2) lost, 44-30, in their game with Big Spring.
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