Sports

South Plains College is anything but plain and neither is one of its incoming, scholarship freshmen: Cole Hoffman, the best middle-distance runner in Llano High School history.

The Llano Jackets summer baseball team took first place in the third annual Llano Extreme Classic, June 28. Llano went 3 and 0 to defeat Burnet, Ingram, and Abilene.

50 meters to go. . .

For those of you who think this is a football state; that basketball should be tolerated in the winter, if at all; that girls should still be playing “three on one side of the court” (Why would anyone think THAT? ? ), you should have been at Texas A&M, June 27 through June 29, for a basketball bonanza:

In case you read here a week ago that Brandon Walters was heading to Wills Point, either you need better glasses or the reporter needs to review his blue-book notes on, “Journalism, a lazy man’s journey through life. ” The translation of the above is Walters, in what some would call a gutty decision, phoned the folks at Wills Point and told them, “I’ve changed my mind.

“We don’t want them on the couch, eating potato chips and watching ‘Oprah,’ if they’re on ranches working or doing something else meaningful, okay, but the weight room is open for those who have the time. ” The words flow from head football coach, David Yeager, who can’t do any coaching in the summer, but he can certainly encourage his boys to pursue strength and conditioning and maybe some running on the practice field.

Two of Llano football’s most feared foes of the decade now play for teams much of the community supports--well, one or the other--and they are embarking on their senior seasons. Texas A&M quarterback, Stephen McGee, says, “I’m excited; our new coach, Mike Sherman, will do a great job.

You can’t accuse David Yeager-led search committees of running the bases slowly; in all of two days it decided on a successor to Chad Krempin as head coach of the Llano High School varsity baseball team, and Brad Harman said, “yes. ” Harman has been head coach at Class-2A Coahoma (east of Big Spring in west Texas) for the last five years.

Brandon Walters shot an arrow in the air and hoped it would land in Winnsboro, where his folks are, and his wife’s parents are close by, in Emory. The arrow disobeyed, but it wasn’t too far off: it floated to the turf in Wills Point, 45 miles southwest of the bullseye.

It couldn’t have been an easier crowd to please for the Llano Lady basketball Jackets--it was like going camping, shopping in the mall, as relaxing as reading something brilliant in People. The Jackets, June 23, were on the floor in Fredericksburg, wrapping up six weeks of spring-league competition, and in this finale they only had to impress one person in the stands, and he wasn’t Simon Cowell.