Month: March 2024

Basketball

KC MEN BOW OUT, AS WELL | Lee gets by Rangers, makes RXIV title game

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

LADY RANGERS’ RUN ENDS | Trinity Valley escapes, 71-58; Rangers facing Lee in semis

LADY RANGERS’ RUN ENDS | Trinity Valley escapes, 71-58; Rangers facing Lee in semis

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

LADY ‘DOGS WIN | …and then thank trainer Fry

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Kilgore catcher Joe Hendrickson (right) tries to make a tag on a GIlmer runner during a game on Tuesday at Driller Park in Kilgore. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

WEATHER MOVES KHS-HENDERSON | Forces change to date, site of district game

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Kilgore College's Willie Williams had 20 points and 13 rebounds in a 65-53 win over Blinn in the Region XIV Conference Men's Basketball Tournament at Tyler Junior College on Thursday afternoon. Williams is pictured here in this file photo in a home game at Masters Gymnasium earlier this season. The Rangers (24-8) join the Lady Rangers in the semifinal round: the Lady Rangers will face Trinity Valley on Friday at 3 p.m., and the Rangers will play Lee College on Friday at 6 p.m. (File photo by ALEX NABOR - ETBLITZ.COM)

RANGERS TO SEMIFINALS, TOO | Knocked off Blinn; Lady Rangers play at 3 p.m. Friday, men at 6 p.m.

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Basketball

LADY RANGERS TO SEMIS | They crushed Panola; KC men face Blinn today at 3 p.m. at TJC

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Kilgore's Elizabeth Beason (11) outruns Carthage's Cyara Davis (5). KHS defeated Carthage, 4-1, on Tuesday at both sites: in the girls game at R.E. St. John Memorial Stadium in Kilgore, and at Carthage in the varsity boys game. Both Kilgore teams host Tatum on Friday, beginning with the boys JV game at 10 a.m. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

SOCCER SWEEP! | Kilgore soccer teams (all of ’em) sweep Carthage; at home vs. Tatum Friday A.M.

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Kilgore sophomore Colt Bullard (center) shouts as he's congratulated by his coaches and teammates after hitting a grand slam against the Gilmer Buckeyes in a District 17-4A game at Driller Park on Tuesday afternoon. Kilgore won a wild one, beating the Buckeyes, 16-13. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

‘DOGS WIN SALOON FIGHT AT DRILLER | Bullard homers as Kilgore takes out Gilmer, 16-13

Joe Hale 8 months ago

Kilgore's Tanner Beets is shown here, doing what he's usually doing: making a play. Beets is the Whataburger / ETBlitz.com Boys Player of the Week for last week, the week of March 4-10, and Kilgore College's Nyla Inmon is (once again) the Whataburger / ETBlitz.com Ladies Player of the Week for last week. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

TANNER BEETS, KC’S INMON | They’re the WHATABURGER / ETBLITZ.COM Players of the Week!

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Kilgore College's men's basketball team listens as coach Robert Byrd (center) talks during a first-half time out. The Rangers smoked Bossier Parish early, going up 43-18 by halftime, and then put it in cruise control for a 78-65 victory in the first round of the Region XIV Men's Basketball Tournament at Tyler Junior College. The men's and women's conference tournaments are being played there all week, with both championship games set for Saturday. KC's men are back in action Thursday at 3 p.m. against Blinn, and former KC coach Scott Schumacher; the Lady Rangers play Panola College on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. (Photo by ANNETTE WILEY - ETBLITZ.COM)

MOVIN’ ON! | KC wins, faces Blinn, former coach on Thurs.; Lady Rangers play Wed. night

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

A banner on NRG Stadium in Houston declares the slogan for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, founded in 1932, an event that draws almost 2.5 million each year. (Photo by MITCH LUCAS - ETBLITZ.COM)

LET’S RODEO! | A spectacle, an event, a way of life

Mitch Lucas 8 months ago

Kilgore High School baseball finished up the Tiger Classic in Mount Pleasant with a 3-2 win over Sulphur Springs on Saturday. Coach Eugene Lafitte and the Bulldogs will host Gilmer on Tuesday, back to District 17-4A play, and then visit Henderson on Friday. Both of those days begin at noon with JV Red games, and then varsity to follow at 2:30 p.m. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

KHS FINISHES WITH WIN IN TIGER CLASSIC | Back to district grind at home vs. Gilmer Tuesday

Mitch Lucas 9 months ago