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.
The seventh annual Mike Clement Golf Tournament was held at Eagle Pointe Golf Course on Oct 16.
Tornadoes finish sweep of Baytown
GCM loses sixth straight contest, winless in district
The Barbers Hill Eagles football team not only kept their playoff hopes alive, but also might have officially kickstarted the vision first-year head coach Carl Abseck had in mind as they rolled in and out of Nederland with a 66-28 destruction of the host Bulldogs Friday night.
The Crosby Cougars moved one step closer to the District 12-5A II title with a resounding 69-28 win at Port Neches-Groves Friday night.
The Anahuac Panthers secured a winning season and inched closer to a third straight postseason bid with a 32-12 Region 10-3A I win at Buna Friday night.
Baytown Christian set itself up for a district title clash next week with St. Joseph’s Academy with a 76-13 rout of visiting Grace Community Friday night in TAPPS Six-Man play.
Despite battling all night and showing the ability to move the football and also slow down a devastating Port Arthur Memorial offensive attack in spots, the host Robert E. Lee Ganders didn't have enough to avoid a titanic effort by their guests.
Monday race to determine state qualifications
The Sterling Rangers tennis team saw its season end in the Region 3 semifinals for the second straight year with a 10-5 defeat to Katy Jordan Thursday at Katy High School
As basketball’s start looms and the fall sports begin to move toward their season’s apex, the Power 5 rankings will be sure to shift in the upcoming weeks.
The Sterling Lady Rangers finally made it official: They are back in the playoffs.
The Robert E. Lee and Sterling football teams find themselves in the playoff hunt as this week’s games loom while Goose Creek Memorial seeks to right the ship as the final three weeks kickoff on Thursday.
Face off with Katy Jordan this morning
Both the Barbers Hill Eagles and Crosby Cougars are set for difficult road challenges 7:30 p.m. Friday that should go a long way determining how the District 12-5A II standings play out.
Bulldogs return home
It was a game where one team kept its playoff hopes alive and another saw its coach pleased with a new level of execution and commitment.
The Ball High School Tors handed the Baytown Lee Ganders their first loss of the season with a 23-13 win Friday night at Kermit Courville Stadium.
Playoff hopes still alive
So much for that unbeaten Texas City season.
The Sterling Lady Rangers have inched closer to a Class 5A Region 3 bi-district playoff against Barbers Hill with another win against their Baytown rivals.
Sterling ends 2-game losing streak in 27-17 win
Advance to second straight Region 3 quarterfinal
Eagles claim double district championships
If the fall golf season is any indication of how good the Barbers Hill program will do when the UIL campaign kicks off in late winter, then things could be looking quite rosey.
Once again the Power 5 poll has remained relatively static as the better teams in the area continue to prove why they are where they are.
Ganders gunning for 7-0 on gridiron
RSS tennis moves on
Cougars seek district top spot
The Sterling Lady Rangers run toward the playoffs continued Tuesday with a 3-0 (25-14, 25-20, 25-16) home win against Galveston Ball.
The cross country district meets will kick off today as Class 5A Region 3 programs will vie for three team spots in that penultimate meet before the state finals.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Houston Astros found themselves in familiar territory Monday, brushing aside comments by Chicago White Sox reliever Ryan Tepera after he implied they stole signs while winning the first two games of the AL Division Series in their ballpark.
REL now 6-0 this season; GCM to face Sterling next
BH football now 2-4 with month left to play
The Crosby Cougars football train appears to be more than well on track once again.
The Anahuac Panthers hope for adding to its five-game win streak came crashing down Friday when rivals East Chambers came to town and pulled off a 24-10 District 10-3A I win.
SANTA FE - The Dayton Broncos rolled up 410 yards of total offense in a 41-0 pounding of Santa Fe on Friday night at Indians Stadium in District 12-5A II action.
Two weeks left in volleyball season
Rangers lose big opportunity to improve playoff push
For Randi Rupp-Hennigan it was time to say goodbye.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference announced its 30th anniversary softball team and one of its nearly three dozen members happens to hail from Baytown.
There was a bit more movement than usual this week in the Power 5 as a number of teams took some losses, but also did so behind some powerful performances.
Lady Rangers still in playoff hunt
Ganders 5-0, Patriots seek to end skid
The Sterling Rangers were narrowly nipped for the District 22-5A title Tuesday, but didn’t go down without a fight.
Crosby looks to win 4th straight
Anahuac will attempt to take history by storm as the Panthers continue to trend in a positive direction.
Led Rangers to playoffs in 1971
The 18th annual Barbers Hill Sports Hall of Honor held its newest induction ceremony Saturday at the BHISD Leadership Support Center’s J. Justin Jenson Conference Room as three new members have been immortalized.
GCM now 1-4 at mid-season
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