Mitch Lucas

Kilgore coach Eugene Lafitte and the Diamond 'Dogs host Carthage on Friday night at Driller Park in a District 17-4A baseball game, one of just three left in the regular season before the UIL Class 4A playoffs begin. (File photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

DISTRICT 17-4A BASEBALL STANDINGS | Prior to Friday night; Don’t miss our REAL-TIME UPDATES during KHS-CARTHAGE!

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

Luciano Brizuela (center) will run in both the mile run and the two-mile run for Kilgore at the UIL Region III meet in Bullard on Friday, in an effort to make the state meet the first weekend in May. ETBlitz-area athletes will be at three different regional sites this weekend, all attempting to finish second in their respective events and punch that state meet ticket. (Photo courtesy of KILGORE HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD)

REGIONAL-BOUND! | A list of ETBlitz.com-area track athletes headed to Friday’s regional meets

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

SOFTBALL ROUNDUP | White Oak blistering folks; Overton’s Nobles gets walk-off home run

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

OVERTON BOYS FIFTH | Miss state tourney, but not by much

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

Gladewater's Peyton Hunter (above) is shown here in mid flight at the UIL Area Meet last week at West Rusk High School. Hunter qualified for five events at this week's regional meet. Below, inset: Kilgore's Braydon Nelson, who won both the shot put and the discus at the UIL Area Meet at Spring Hill High in Longview. Hunter and Nelson are last week's Whataburger / ETBlitz.com Players of the Week. (Photo of Hunter by MITCH LUCAS - ETBLITZ.COM; Photo of Nelson courtesy of KILGORE HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD)

GLADEWATER’S HUNTER, KILGORE’S NELSON | They’re the Whataburger / ETBlitz.com Players of the Week!

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

Kilgore senior Tate Truman delivers a pitch to home plate. Truman and the Bulldogs beat Henderson Friday, and play at Carthage on Tuesday night. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

DISTRICT 17-4A STANDINGS | …Prior to Tuesday’s baseball games

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

Sabine's girls golfers (from left) Lillian Odle, Emily McBride, Dakota Wick, Allyssa Crutcher and Avery Rutland (with coach Phillip Anderson) finished fourth at regionals at Oak Hurst Golf Course in Bullard. (Photo courtesy of SABINE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS)

REGIONALS! | Sabine, Overton golfers competing for shot at state tourneys

Mitch Lucas 10 months ago

Overton's Christian Hall, shown here competing in the high jump in the district meet at Alto. Hall won the event at area, as well, and is among the Mustangs' athletes headed to the regional meet this coming Friday and Saturday in Palestine, one step away from the UIL State Track & Field Championships on May 2-4 at the University of Texas in Austin. (Photo by RONNIE SARTORS - SPORT SHOT PHOTOGRAPHY - ETBLITZ.COM)

OVERTON TRACK ATHLETES TO REGIONALS! | They’ll go to Palestine in an effort to make the state meet

Mitch Lucas 11 months ago

AREA TRACK AT WEST RUSK! | A gallery by RONNIE SARTORS

Mitch Lucas 11 months ago

Tatum's Victor Cantellano (foreground) finished second in the mile run and third in the two-mile on Thursday in the UIL District 15-16 Area Meet at West Rusk High School in New London. All of the top-four finishers at the meet move on to the Region II meet next weekend at Whitehouse High School, where they'll try for a top-two finish that would send them to the state meet in Austin May 2-4. (Photo by MITCH LUCAS - ETBLITZ.COM)

BIG-TIME PERFORMANCES AT WEST RUSK | Area meet has athletes from seven ETBlitz-area programs

Mitch Lucas 11 months ago

Henderson's Giselle Alejandro (second from left) and Kilgore's Ruby Almanza (third from left) took gold and silver, respectively, in the mile run on Thursday at the 17-18-4A Area Meet at Spring Hill High School in Longview. They'll advance to the regional meet next weekend in Bullard, where a top-two finish would send them to the UIL State Track & Field Championships in Austin the first weekend in May. (Photo courtesy of KILGORE HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD - T.J. GILLEN-HALL)

NELSON, ALEJANDRO GOLD FOR KHS, HHS | Kilgore, Henderson athletes advance to regionals

Mitch Lucas 11 months ago

Kilgore High School head baseball coach Eugene Lafitte waves Cade Cox around third in a recent game. (Photo by DENNIS JACOBS - ETBLITZ.COM)

DIAMOND ‘DOGS-LIONS AT DRILLER TONIGHT | Making up Tuesday’s rain-out; here’s what we know about all make-ups

Mitch Lucas 11 months ago