If you ever doubted how big football is in Texas, all you had to do was look on Twitter.
Glenn Hartrick loves to compete and test his body to the limits.
The Bayou Bowl committee decided not to dissolve itself Thursday, and preparations are underway to host 2015 game despite financial losses in 2013.
In support of youth baseball, Topline Baseball will host its second anniversary celebration at 120 S. Alexander Drive 12 p.m. on Saturday.
Sterling takes second at 7-on-7 tournament
New youth baseball teams looking for players
After 54 years of providing opportunities for Baytown area youth, organizers of the Baytown Youth Fair are stepping things up a notch.
Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car driver Tommy Johnson Jr. has an accomplished history in the sport of drag racing.
BAYTOWN – It’s taken just five races during the 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series for Steve Torrence to realize his season is not like last year. And for the Top Fuel standout, that’s a good thing.
Sign ups for Optimist Football start April 27
Sign ups for Optimist Football start April 27
Sign ups for Optimist Football start April 27
Cougars 7
Knapp sinks hole in one at Evergreen
Davis 1
Makenzi May (Barbers Hill) played in 31 games and made two starts for University of Texas-Tyler this year.
• NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good on the Louisiana shoreline on topwaters and Corkies. Flounder are fair on jigs tipped with shrimp around marsh drains.
Lady Eagles 6
BAYTOWN – With many exciting storylines ongoing in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series in 2014, one of the most prominent has been the girl power theme as the world’s fastest motorsport heads to the Lone Star State for the 27th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA SpringNationals, April 25-27…
There was a time when one of the best wide receivers to arguably ever come out of the Robert E. Lee Ganders’ football program didn’t don a jersey with a number in the teens, not even in the single digits.
The Baytown Sun is looking for sports writers to help with the remainder of basketball season and the upcoming baseball/softball seasons.
The Bayou City Select Bulls Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball team will be holding its second round of tryouts Sunday from 2 p.m.-5 p.m. at the Lee College gym in Baytown.
Before I begin, I just have to say thank you. All of your cheers and congratulations and your prayers during and before this event just mean the world to me. I feel so loved. And a huge thank you to my immediate family that allowed me the time to train for this event. Tony, Bree and Damon, I…
Rain or sun, hot or cold, Sebastian Pacheco plays his favorite sport of soccer literally all year long in his hometown of Houston.
The Bayou City Select Bulls Amatuer Athletic Union (AAU) basketball team will be holding its first tryout session of the year today from 2 p.m.- 5 p.m. at Eagle Point Recreation Center in Mont Belvieu.
What a shot.
Barbers Hill Sports Hall of Honor will induct two former athletes during its 14th annual ceremony this week.
The 2014 NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series is making a pit stop in Baytown for the annual O’Reilly Spring Nationals April 25-27 at Royal Purple Raceway.
La Porte native and former Baytown George Washington Carver High School graduate, Gene Washington recently informed me that on Nov. 27, the Big Ten Conference announced that he, a former Michigan State University student-athlete, was named the recipient of the Ford-Kinnick Leadership Award.
The first of six City of Baytown toy drives will take place during the senior softball tournament at the Wayne Gray complex Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m.
None of the Goose Creek CISD teams are playing now that the fourth round of the UIL football playoffs will be played this weekend, but for one local referee, the work has just begun.
While attending an Offense-Defense Football Camp this summer, Anthony Garcia, 10, son of Willie and Raquel Estrada Garcia, and grandson of Rudy and Sandra Estrada and Irma Garcia of Baytown was named an Offense-Defense All-American.
As the sports season officially begins this week in all activities, a number of programs will have to reload their rosters or fill in valuable holes in the lineup.
We had a new neighbor move in next door that immediately parked his personality in the drive-way.
Semi-pro football team with local ties returns to field
COVID-19 precautions still present despite pandemic progress
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Barbers Hill shortstop Cameron Cauley and head coach David Denny earned the Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A Player and Coach of the Year awards this week.
MLB career begins in Florida A-league
Former Barbers Hill trackster to pursuit doctoral goals at UT
The Wayne Gray Sports Complex was one of a number of sites to play host to the PONY International World Series of softball this weekend and some area teams battled distractions and the heat to come away with plenty of lessons learned.
With an intent of advancing the development of the overall athletic programs within Goose Creek CISD, what better way to kick things off with an improved look at the junior school level.
Emergency reductions in spotted seatrout bag limits in Laguna Madre that were effective April 1- July 29 were extended last week by Parks and Wildlife. The reductions now extend until Sept. 27.
Softball clubs make most at tourney
Baytown’s own Sabrina Munguia has found a way to bounce back from the year of COVID-19.
Shortstop reports to Arizona rookie league next week
The Sterling Lady Rangers volleyball team has claimed recognition of some true distinction.
Event set at multiple sites including Baytown
HOUSTON — Yordan Alvarez snapped an 0-for-22 slump with at two-run homer to help the Houston Astros to a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Monday night.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock swimming and diving team has officially added nine swimmers for the 2021-22 season, inlcuding 2018 Barbers Hill High School graduate Lauren Gray.
Twenty years ago, I did something embarrassing.
Wearing blue in support of their winning teams, Barbers Hill fans lined up down Eagle Drive cheering on their hometown champions after having to wait almost a month due to bad weather.
Kennedy Tristan expects to come back bigger and better than ever.
To celebrate the wins of both the Barbers Hill High School baseball and softball teams, the City of Mont Belvieu and Barbers Hill ISD are collaborating for a “Parade of Champions” down Eagle Drive tonight.
Cameron Cauley has some decisions to make and either way no one would fault him with having a big grin on his face when he points himself in his next direction.
With the books closing on the 2020-21 sports season – one that will be forever defined as the year of COVID-19, social distancing and contact tracing – coaches took time out to reflect on some of its bigger moments.
When my 8-year-old granddaughter visits from Tennessee, she often ventures into my man-cave while I’m working to tell me about her latest adventures. Yesterday, it was about how much our latest dog had grown since last summer when she carried him around everywhere. She could almost ride him, now.
How can anyone deny dominance?
Highlands own Nick Wade learned you can go home again – sort of – or at least pretty close to it.
A number of teams are using the summer to improve their standing from the previous campaign to ready themselves for the upcoming sports calendar.
‘It’s not every day you make school history’
A number of teams are using the summer to improve their standing from the previous campaign to ready themselves for the upcoming sports calendar.
Nicholas Wade has been tabbed as the new head coach for the Lee College men’s basketball team as well as the new athletic director for the college.
It couldn’t have been a better day for the Texas Bud Heat Wave 5-mile and Michelob Ultra 5K runs in Mont Belvieu on 4th of July.
By Alan Dale
A hot-barrel hunt usually means there are so many birds flying that participants shoot rapidly and their shotgun barrels become too hot to touch. People talking about Argentine dove hunting relate hot barreled hunt tales.
‘For a minute, we were Baytown’s team’
‘Without a doubt it was a fantastic showing’
State title run no Cinderella story
Finishes season with 4-5 run in Las Vegas
Mississippi State baseball claims World Series title
Review of 2021 squads begins
New Goose Creek Memorial baseball coach George Banda doesn’t mince words when he speaks about expectations for a program he leads.
The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Showcase in Duncanville played host to a number of squads trying to show off their talents and also get plenty of run in as they begin to prepare for the newest season.
By Alan Dale
The first fish I caught were two little perch that bit on small pieces of earthworms or bits of bread squeezed into little balls. We were at Grandmother Jefferson’s house on the Guadalupe River, west of Sequin. I was about eight or nine. My tackle was a bamboo pole with braided cotton line, …
An old adage essentially says that teams are made in the offseason.
When a number of area coaches were asked who among them performed the best job in 2020-21, many pointed toward both of Barbers Hill’s Aaron Fuller and David Denny for their accomplishments in leading teams to Class 5A softball and baseball titles earlier this month.
Lady Rangers beat BH teams for summer title
COVID-19 has killed people, put people on the unemployment line, created fears real or imagined and disrupted our planet’s way of life.
Little League all-star play is in full throttle and titles are being decided or still played for as summer heats up.
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