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At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, the Aledo Bearcats won the coin toss and chose to kick away, thus igniting an annual rivalry with the Weatherford Kangaroos.
Brock and Millsap scored points o’plenty while shutting out their opponents, and Springtown won a teeth-grinder in the first overtime game ever played at Porcupine Stadium.
My first couple of months at the Weatherford Democrat have been mostly fun and occasionally frustrating. The fun comes from attending high school sporting events and doing what I love — taking pictures and writing stories. The frustration comes from trying to cover two counties and 16 school…
Brock 79, Bowie 0
Weatherford yins and yangs
Weatherford nails two Ws
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Large schools begin their seasons this week, and the game on most locals’ minds will be played not in Parker or Palo Pinto counties but farther east in Arlington. The rivalry between the 6A Weatherford Kangaroos and 5A Aledo Bearcats, who just happen to be the current state champs, is legendary.
Gordon 64, Sidney 40
The Aledo Ladycats volleyball team practiced on Wednesday after winning its first game of the season the night before. Aledo plays next on Friday at home.
Weatherford begins season with a W
Mineral Wells ISD announced that it's varsity and JV football games would be canceled this week after several Rams players tested positive for COVID-19.
NEW YORK (AP) — The World Series will be played entirely at the Texas Rangers' new ballpark in Arlington, Texas, and Major League Baseball hopes fans can attend.
The following are results from Friday and Saturday's volleyball games:
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Spirits continue to soar in Mineral Wells, where the Rams are savoring their first victory on the football field after a long drought.
Small schools have been keeping Friday night lights burning since Aug. 28.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It has been a mere eight months since Patrick Mahomes led Kansas City from a 24-0 hole to beat Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans in the divisional round of the playoffs, a brutally efficient comeback that ultimately propelled the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl t…
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It’s a measure of a team’s strength when its head coach is concerned after a 66-7 win.
Brock 66 — Community 7
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Fans of the Peaster Greyhounds might be cheering a McElroy at quarterback for the foreseeable future. Gunner McElroy is the varsity starter, a sophomore playing his first year at the 3A school. His younger brother, Gannon, is a quarterback at middle school and will be a sophomore in waiting …
In your face, COVID-19! The first games of 2020 occurred last Friday without any major health incidents to report in this craziest of years. Spectators distanced themselves in half-empty stadiums and wore masks. So did the coaches, players, cheerleaders, band members and drill teams.
Photos from Friday night's game between the Perrin-Whitt Pirates and Gold-Burg:
Mineral Wells loses heartbreaker to Poolville
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Photos from Friday night's game between Millsap and Bruceville-Eddy.
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Mineral Wells Rams quarterback Jacy Holland tossed a perfect game against the Boyd Yellowjackets on Friday, hitting 21 straight passes for five touchdowns and 417 yards. Holland also rushed for a TD, tying the school record for most touchdowns in a game with six. Holland credited his wide re…
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Herkies, stunts, jumps and yells -- lots of YELLING! -- require sucking lungfuls of air.
NORMAN -- Oklahoma University’s football team canceled practice Friday to march lockstep from the stadium to the campus Unity Garden to protest racial injustice and the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
This time of the season on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit, world class competitors ride and rope in numerous rodeos throughout the Northwestern United States.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Dallas Mavericks center Kristaps Porzingis will miss Game 5 of a first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers because of right knee soreness.
This time of the season on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit, world class competitors ride and rope in numerous rodeos throughout the Northwestern United States.
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High school football’s Friday night lights are set to shine again this week despite flickering in the offseason amid pandemic concerns. COVID-19 forced changes that will delay football for another month at big schools such Aledo and Weatherford, but smaller schools kick off their seasons thi…
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Here are the results from Friday and Saturday's volleyball games. Teams continue action Tuesday.
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Several areas teams scrimmaged for the first time in the pandemic era — the Mineral Wells Rams took on the Breckenridge Bucks, Peaster Greyhounds hosted the Chico Dargons and the Brock Eagles battled Midlothian Heritage this week, all at half-empty stadiums — half-empty by design. The Univer…
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The Brock Lady Eagles are soaring again, winning three of four sets against Valley View on Tuesday night: 22-25, 25-17, 25-13 and 25-23. Brock evened its overall record at 2-2.
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Springtown High School’s head volleyball coach, Leighann Strickland, received her 300th career win on Friday at Blum.
Mineral Wells drops to Dublin
Year after year, rodeo offers heart warming family stories.
Gintare “Gigi” Mazionyte is considered by many to be one of the greatest basketball players ever to don a Weatherford College Lady Coyotes uniform.
The WISD Ex-Student Association and the WHS Athletic Hall of Fame have postponed the selection of award recipients and associated recognition ceremonies for 2020 because of current COVID-19 restrictions, WISD issued in a release this week.
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The Millsap Lady Bulldogs and Mineral Wells Lady Rams went the full distance in their first game of the season Tuesday night.
Bareback rider Orin Larsen has been on a hot streak this summer on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit.
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Palo Pinto County residents will have the opportunity to witness the embryonic stage of what might develop into a decades-long volleyball dynasty. Erin Rincon is only 24, but the new head coach of the Mineral Wells High School volleyball team doubts she will leave her post.
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