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• Sports Briefs: Tyler Spurs hosting basketball tournament

  The Tyler Spurs basketball organization, along with Primetime Sports, will host a basketball tournament April 13 and April 14, and the deadline to enter a team is April 9.
  The tournament is open to teams from fourth grade up to high school boys and girls, and the cost to enter is $215 per team. Each team is guaranteed three games.

  April 8, 2013

• 2012-2013 Dogwood Circle Boys' Basketball: Grapeland's Walker grows into leadership role

  Grapeland junior Patrick Walker can score the basketball. That was never a secret.
  Early in the season, Walker routinely put up 25-or-more points and, most of the time, the Sandies won.
  But, as the season wound down and the playoffs loomed, Walker took on another role: All-around leader.
  The junior didn’t combine for 30 points in the Sandies’ first two playoff victories, and still the Sandies won.

  April 5, 2013

• H.S. Soccer Playoffs: Diaz hat-trick leads Waco over Palestine

  It took just five minutes for the Palestine boys’ soccer team to open the scoring against Waco in their sectional round boys’ soccer playoff game Friday, but for all their possession, they could not make that early lead stick as the Lions ran out 3-1 winners.

  April 5, 2013

• H.S. Baseball: Two-out runs lift Elkhart past Westwood in 5 innings

   If it only took two outs to end an inning in baseball, Thursday’s District 19-2A matchup between Elkhart and Westwood would have been a close one.
  As it is, however, the rules still state that it takes three outs to end an inning, and Elkhart took advantage of that fact.
  The Elks scored 11 of their runs with two outs en route to a 13-0, five inning victory over the visiting Panthers here at The Backyard.

  April 4, 2013

• Quick Hits: Week of 4/1/13

  April 4, 2013

• H.S. Soccer Playoffs: Palestine ready for big test against Waco

  Going up against teams from much bigger schools is nothing new for the Palestine boys’ soccer team.
  As a Class 3A team, the Wildcats are almost always going up against bigger opponents, being forced to play in a Class 4A district at the moment.
  That’ll be no different when the Wildcats head north to Corsicana Friday to take on Waco in the sectional round of the state soccer playoffs.

  April 3, 2013

• H.S. Baseball: Zavala walk-off hit lifts Palestine over Groesbeck

  First, the Palestine baseball team was losing to Groesbeck heading into the bottom of the seventh inning.
  Then, without a play being made on the field, they weren’t.
  Then, sophomore catcher Ryan Zavala stepped in with one out and two on, his team tied with the team ahead of them in the standings in extra innings.
  Zavala delivered.

  April 2, 2013

• Youth Sports: Elkhart Summer League introduces BlastBall

  The Elkhart Summer Baseball League has a new kind of game on the schedule for 2013.
  The league started playing BlastBall for its 3- and 4-year-old players last week, with resounding success.

  March 27, 2013

• Quick Hits: Week of 3/25/13

  March 27, 2013

• H.S. Soccer Playoffs: Palestine boys win, girls fall in opening round

  The Palestine boys soccer team is moving on to the second round of the playoffs after a 6-1 win over Brookeshire-Royal Tuesday.
  The Wildcats opened the scoring with a goal from Kaleb Garcia on a pass from Adrian Rodriguez, then Garcia found Alonzo Cruz for the second — and deciding — goal.

  March 26, 2013

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