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August 18th, 2011
THURSDAY, AUG. 18
Football
Roscoe varsity and JV teams host San Angelo Grape Creek (scrimmage), 6 p.m.
Blackwell varsity hosts Patton Springs (scrimmage), 6 p.m.
FRIDAY, AUG. 19
Football
Sweetwater teams host San Angelo Lake View (scrimmage) — freshmen at 5 p.m., JV at 6:15 p.m., varsity at 7:30 p.m.
Highland varsity hosts Sands (scrimmage), 6 p.m.
Volleyball
Sweetwater varsity at San Angelo tournament through Saturday, Aug. 20.
SATURDAY, AUG. 20
Volleyball
Sweetwater varsity completes play at San Angelo tournament.
Sweetwater freshmen at Abilene tournament.
The Sweetwater volleyball team is back over .500 for the 2011 season after a 3-1 victory at Seminole on Tuesday after losing in four games to Midland Lee to begin the dual match.
Kendra Crosson had 15 kills, Kelsi Crosson seven, Shelby Cason and Alicia Finn four and Larissa Locklar and Taylor McPherson three against Seminole. Suede Shirley had 15 assists and Finn 10 for Sweetwater (5-4). Against Midland Lee, Cason had eight kills while Kendra Crosson had seven kills, Kathleen Campbell five and Kelsi Crosson and Finn three apiece.
Sweetwater’s two sub-varsity football teams were both very competitive in their first scrimmages of the year at Lubbock Cooper, with the JV White team outscoring Cooper three touchdowns to two while Sweetwater’s JV Red fought to a 3-3 standoff.
Mark McCann (21- and 32-yard runs) and Kris Duran (35-yard run) scored for Sweetwater Red. Scoring for Sweetwater White were Jay Lomas (6-yard run), Xavier Jones (4-yard run) and Duante Williams (19-yard pass from Kaegan Jeffrey).
The Sweetwater junior varsity volleyball team won the recent Albany tournament held Aug. 12 and off to an outstanding 7-1 start.
At the Albany tournament, Sweetwater had wins over Archer City 25-12, 25-15; Breckenridge 25-10, 25-6; Bronte 25-18, 25-20; and Bangs 25-20, 25-22. It also beat Grape Creek 25-15, 25-16, lost to Midland Lee 12-25, 6-25 and beat Seminole 25-17, 25-12.
August 13th
MONDAY, AUG. 15
Volleyball
Sweetwater teams play at San Angelo Grape Creek — freshmen at 5 p.m., JV at 6 p.m., varsity at 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, AUG. 16
Volleyball
Sweetwater teams play Seminole and Midland Lee at Seminole — matches will be played at 6:15 and 7:30 p.m., respectively.
THURSDAY, AUG. 18
Football
Roscoe varsity and JV teams host San Angelo Grape Creek (scrimmage), 6 p.m.
Blackwell varsity hosts Patton Springs (scrimmage), 6 p.m.
FRIDAY, AUG. 16
Football
Sweetwater teams host San Angelo Lake View (scrimmage) — freshmen at 5 p.m., JV at 6:15 p.m., varsity at 7:30 p.m.
WOODROW — While his team’s execution wasn’t as crisp as he’d hoped and the No. 1 unit failed to get into the end zone, Sweetwater head football coach Craig Slaughter was also encouraged by much of what he saw in the Mustangs’ season-opening scrimmage with Lubbock Cooper as the teams battled to a 1-1 draw on Friday.
And the final result was clearly much better than in 2010 when Lubbock Cooper dominated the teams’ scrimmage at Sweetwater, winning by a 4-0 count.
August 12th
FRIDAY, AUG. 12
Football
Sweetwater at Lubbock Cooper (scrimmage) starting at 6 p.m.
Highland hosts Panther Creek (scrimmage) starting at 6 p.m.
Blackwell hosts Jayton (scrimmage) starting at 6 p.m.
Volleyball
Sweetwater varsity at Abilene tournament.
Sweetwater JV and freshmen at Albany tournament.
SATURDAY, AUG. 13
Football
Roscoe at Haskell (scrimmage) starting at 10 a.m.
Volleyball
Sweetwater varsity at Abilene tournament.
After two weeks of practices, Sweetwater’s football team finally gets to see how it will fare against outside competition when the Mustangs go to Lubbock Cooper today for their first scrimmage of the season.
Freshman and JV skirmishes will begin at 6 p.m., setting the stage for the varsity scrimmage at 7:30 p.m.
Sweetwater head coach Craig Slaughter said the format calls for the No. 1 units on offense and defense to get in 30 plays each tonight while the No. 2 units will run 20 plays apiece.
August 11th
Blackwell posted a sub-.500 record for the first time in three seasons a year ago, losing all three games in district play after a 4-3 start. To get back to their winning ways in 2011, the’ Hornets must rely exclusively on players with limited or no varsity experience.
Ten of the players on the roster are either freshmen or sophomores, while the other four are juniors. Five seniors who earned all-dis-trict recognition this past season have graduated.
August 10th
Highland has a new head football coach, Jeff Shelton, this year, and he inherits some good talent from former coach Karry Owens, who left Highland after 18 seasons and a 147-56-3 record to become the head coach at Water Valley.
Highland managed just a 2-7 record for Owens in his final year, but was practically starting over with a slew of youngsters after graduating most of the top talent from the 2009 squad that reached the state finals.
