With nine letter winners and six starters returning from a team that went 12-7 and made the playoffs as the runner-up in District 4-5A, the Abilene Wylie volleyball team has high hopes for the upcoming season. Shay Cox, beginning her seventh season as the Lady Bulldogs’ head coach, says her team’s strength is its versatility. Lilly Doby and Jaron McAden, who will both play ... Read More
Trent Football
Chris Ellison begins his second season as the head football coach at Trent with optimism that the Gorillas can turn things around this season. “We will have more depth,” Ellison said. “Our kids learned a lot, and now will be year two of our football system.” Trent, which returns four starters on offense and three on defense, went 2-8 last year and posted a 2-2 record in ... Read More
Eastland Mavericks
The key to Eastland’s volleyball season will be finding help on the back line. “We lost a lot of our defensive specialists, including our libero,” Eastland coach Rachel Schuman stated, “but we are returning three strong hitters and our setter. They already have a chemistry built from last season. Our biggest weakness is inexperience at the varsity level, however. We have a ... Read More
Eastland Mavericks
For coach James Morton, beginning his sixth season as the head coach at his alma mater, the biggest challenge at Eastland this fall is replacing his son, quarterback Behren Morton, who is now at Texas Tech. With the younger Morton at quarterback, Eastland won the District 5-3A Division II title with a 5-0 mark a year ago, advancing to the state quarterfinals to finish the ... Read More
Cisco Lobo Football
Cisco returns seven starters on both offense and defense from last year’s team that won the District 4-2A Division I title and advanced to the state quarterfinals. Kevin Stennett, who guided Cisco to a 10-4 record in his first season as head coach, said experience is his team’s biggest strength going into the 2021 season. The Loboes started the season with a 2-3 mark but ... Read More