Archive - May 2011 - Sports Article
May 11th
Ryan Mercer of Sweetwa-ter will be competing in the Class 3A boys state golf tournament as a medalist starting at 9:55 a.m. Thursday at the Roy Kizer Golf Course in Austin. The 36-hole tourna-ment wraps up Friday.
Mercer is making his first trip to state after finish-ing as the No. 2 medalist earlier this month at the Region I-3A tournament in Lubbock. He had the lowest score of any regional medalist who was not on one of the top two teams.
May 10th
The state meet in Austin represents the pinnacle for high school track and field athletes. And for Callie Sandusky of Highland, it will be a chance to end her two-sport career by bringing home a state medal.
Sandusky, a senior, will be making her first state appearance when she com-petes in the Class 1A girls high jump at 6 p.m. Friday. She qualified with a second-place jump of 5-4 at regionals, a personal best effort that tied Highland’s school record set in 1984 by Brandye (Owens) Wilson, now a teacher at Highland.
May 9th
First there was Shane, then Brittany. And starting Thursday, yet another Mer-cer sibling from Sweetwater High School will be compe-ting in the Class 3A state golf tournament in Austin.
May 6th
Sweetwater’s Jason Vause (left), a freshman on the Hardin-Simmons University baseball team, somehow managed to avoid the tag on this play last Saturday at Abilene’s Hunter Field and score the go-ahead run for the Cowboys in an 8-6 win that evened their best-of-three playoff series with Mississippi College. HSU then came back to win Game 3, 12-11 in 14 innings, and reach the championship round of the American Southwest Conference tournament that begins today at Texas-Dallas in Richardson. HSU is one of four teams in the tournament.
Courtesy Photo
May 5th
REGION I-3A
(Texas Tech
University’s Fuller Track, Lubbock)
SWEETWATER BOYS
Prelims
300 hurdles — Nick Nemir 42.13 (did not make finals)
SWEETWATER GIRLS
Prelims
400 relay — 51.23 (did not make finals)
Relay runners: Kinsey Browning, Kelsi Crosson, Brittany Lashinski, Suede Shirley)
1600 relay — 4:11.55 (did not make finals)
Relay runners: Kelsi Crosson, Kendra Crosson, Jayci Shelton, Suede Shirley)
100 hurdles — Jayci Shelton 15.30 (made finals)
300 hurdles — Jayci Shelton 46.32 (made finals)
Finals
100 hurdles — Jayci Shelton 14.90 (1st place — advanced to state meet)
May 4th
LUBBOCK — After making her first trip to state as a junior, Jayci Shelton is going back — this time in both hurdles — to Austin her senior year after a clean sweep at regionals on Tuesday.
The state meet, scheduled for May 13-14 at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the University of Texas campus, gives Shelton another shot at matching her older sister Morgan’s 2009 accomplishment of winning a first-place gold medal in the hurdles. Jayci was fifth at state last year in the 300 hurdles, and gets to compete not only in that event again later this month but in the 100 hurdles as well.
Students completing grades 1-7 are invited to attend a Lady Mustang Basketball Camp set for June 6-9 at the Sweet-water Middle School gym, which is located on 305 Lamar Street.
Times for the camp are from 9-11:30 a.m. on all four days. The cost will be $35 and pre-registration is greatly appreciated. A concession stand will be available.
The goal of the camp is to improve players’ skills in basket-ball through instruction in individual skills and fun team competitions.
May 3rd
ABILENE — Roscoe’s Caden Smith will be going to the Class 1A state track and field meet in Austin in the discus and shot put for the third consecutive year after winning both events in Region II-A competition Monday.
May 2nd
Several Nolan County high school athletes will compete in regional track meets starting today.
Sweetwater has eight girls and one boy competing in the Region I-3A Track and Field Championships at Texas Tech University’s Fuller Track in Lubbock. Roscoe, Highland and Blackwell have athletes at the Region II-A meet, which is being held at Abilene Christian University. The top two in each event advance to the state meet in Austin on May 13-14.
Blackwell High School pole vaulter Mason Magness will compete in his specialty at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Region II-A track meet to be held at Abilene Christian University’s Elmer Gray Stadium.
.jpg "Jason Vause (left) of Sweetwater (Courtesy Photo)")
.jpg "Blackwell's Mason Magness (Courtesy Photo)")
.jpg "Shane Mobley and Liz Miller")
