Sports

April 21, 2016 - La Marcus Goodwin and Tyrone Roland proudly signed a letter of intent to Blinn College to play football for the 2016-2017 school year. Surrounded by their family, friends and coaches, the two young men celebrated the next step in their career.

Coach Bowman addressed the boys, as well as the crowd, thanking everyone who came and taking a moment to brag on the two young men in front of him. He parted with words of wisdom, encouraging both young men to finish college with their degrees in hand. 

April 22, 2016 - Shelbyville will play Mt. Enterprise, Saturday April 23rd in Gary, TX at 11:00 am. The Dragons will play Monday, April 25th vs Joaquin, in Shelbyville at 6:00 pm. *Senior Night will start at 5:30 pm on Monday.

April 22, 2016 - The Beckville Bearcats varsity baseball team used a 13-3 hit advantage, over the Joaquin Rams, to take a convincing 13-0 District 23 2A win at Gary High School, last Thursday. Joaquin remains in second place in the conference with a 9-3 mark. The Bearcats remain unbeaten with an unblemished 12-0 league mark. They are 20-0-1 overall and have clinched the district title.

The Bearcats used hits by Ethan Harris, Zach Collins and John Bounds to jump out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning.

Joaquin threatened to score in the bottom half of the inning when Hunter Harper walked and Kase Yates singled but Bearcat pitcher, Braden Wise was able to strike out the next two Rams batters to end the threat.

BHS exploded for six hits in the top of the third inning and ballooned their lead to 10-0. They used an error, two hit batters and an RBI double by Collins to boost their advantage to 12-0 in the fourth inning. Cole Powdrill came in to pitch for the Rams and the JHS defense rallied to end the inning without any additional Bearcats scoring.

Brandt Harris scored Ethan Harris with a sacrifice grounder in the fifth frame to give Beckville a 13-0 lead.

Joaquin rallied to load the bases with an infield single by Tanner Williams, a single to right field by Justin Hooper and a walk by Brock Lawson but, Wise was able to help close out JHS by striking out the final two outs needed to end the game by the district's ten-run-rule.

The Rams will host the Tenaha Tigers at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, April 26.

April 21, 2016 - The following Shelbyville Dragon and Lady Dragon Track teams have qualified for the Regional Track Meet to be held in Palestine, TX on April 29-30.
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Area Track Results:  Athletes Advancing to Regional Track

Katie Casey - Area Champion - Shot Put
Bailey Rabalais - Area Champion - Discus
Jakyra Ross - Area Champion - Long Jump
Kiki Osby - Area Champion - 800 Dash
4x100 Relay - Area Champions - Hannah Hall, Cleosha Jeter, Jakyra Ross, Jasmine Osby
4x200 Relay - Area Champions - Kiki Osby,  Cleosha Jeter, Jakyra Ross, Hannah Hall
4x400 Relay - Area Champions - Kiki Osby, Cleosha Jeter, Jakyra Ross, Tori Babin
Bailey Rabalis - 2nd Place - Shot Put
Cleosha Jeter - 3rd Place - Tripple Jump
Hannah Hall - 2nd Place - 300 Hurdles
Mack Wheeler - 3rd Place - 200 Dash
Ben Swearingen - 4th Place - 400 Dash
4x200 Relay - Bray Thomas, CJ Kirkwood, Mack Wheeler, Jacobi Jackson

Congratulations! We are Dragon Proud!

Submitted by Jerold Roland

April 21, 2016 - The JHS Softball game scheduled today vs Gary has been moved to tomorrow, Friday, 04/22 at 5:00 pm in Gary.

April 21, 2016 - All youth baseball and softball games for today, April 21, 2016 in Center, Joaquin, and Shelbyville are cancelled.

April 21, 2016 - The Lady Dragons will play in Shelbyville  tonight, April 21 @ 7:00 pm vs West Sabine. Senior night will begin at 6:30 pm

April 21, 2016 - JHS Baseball Game vs. Beckville will be played tonight (04/21) at 6:30 at Gary High School. 

April 20, 2016 - The High School Area Track Meet schedule has changed and will be held at Carthage High School on Friday, April 22, 2016.

Field events will begin at 9:30am with running events to begin at 1:30pm. The meet will conclude at about 3:30pm.

April 20, 2016 - After the Timpson Bears varsity baseball team started Tuesdays game with a 1-0 advantage, the Gary Bobcats used a 7-4 hitting advantage, and four Bears errors, to score 11 unanswered runs, and take a 11-1 win. The game was ended at the conclusion of the top of the fifth frame due to the UIL ten-run-rule.

THS scored first when Hayden Smith and Cutter Smith started the game with back-to-back singles. Later in the inning, Hunter Smith singled and drove in Hayden Smith.

In the bottom of the first inning, Cooper Watkins drove home Kenneth Andrews with an RBI single to tie the game. Levi Tanner next walked to load the bases. A costly throwing error soon cost the Bears big and three runs scored to give the Bobcats a 4-1 advantage. More walks and errors saw the Bears trailing 6-1 by the conclusion of the first inning.

A walk by Bear Shane Peveto was the only offense Timpson could get in the top of the second frame. The Bobcats extended their lead to 8-1 after THS started the inning with two errors, and GHS got two walks, and a hit from Cody Lake. Bears short stop Chandler Burgay made a spectacular double play to end the Bobcats at-bat.
Timpson went down 1-2-3 in the top of the third inning.

GHS extended their lead by one run in the bottom of the third frame with a score by Casin Daniels.Burgay started out the fourth inning with a lead off single but Gary's defense stiffened and kept the Bears scoreless during the inning.

Gary used a double by Odom and a single by Tanner Ransom to help score the final two runs of the game, and to gain the final 11-1 advantage.

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