Tied 7-7 at halftime, Rockwall-Heath’s offense finally broke open a close game by scoring 19 points in the second half, while the Hawks’ defense limited Arlington Seguin to just three points, and Heath defeated Seguin 26-10 in a tough home opener Friday night at Rockwall’s Wilkerson-Sanders stadium. Running back Jesse Irokwe rushed for 105 yards and two scores in [...]
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Royce City crushed in home opener by Frisco Wakeland, 45-6
Royse City’s Ryan Fedric scored a touchdown on a 51-yard run during the third quarter but that was about the only excitement the Bulldogs could muster in their home opener Friday night as Frisco Wakeland crushed the Bulldogs, 58-6. Royse City (0-2) which was limited to 196 total yards total offense, while Wakeland rolled up [...]
Defending 5A state champ Allen rolls over Rockwall, 38-10
ALLEN-Defending state 5A champion Allen showed off its powerful running game and solid defense rolling over Rockwall, 38-10, Friday night at Allen’s Eagle stadium. Allen(2-1) rolled up 264 yards rushing on 42 attempts, led by a 106 yard effort by sophomore Jonathan Williams. He scored three of the Eagle’s five TDs on runs of 1, [...]
A Proud Future Navy Wife
 The Military View Column, by Jerry Hogan, US Army Lt. Colonel (retired). “He is a Navy Corpsman who is preparing to deploy to Afghanistan with his Marine reserve unit from Camp Mabry. Before we met, I had no idea what a Corpsman is, what they do, or even that I had been looking at [...]
Rockwall Boys & Girls Club gets extreme makeover from big accounting firm for new school year
By J.J. Smith. Just in time for the new school year, the Rockwall Boys & Girls Club has received an extreme makeover inside their 59-year-old Dobbs Elementary Annex building just west of Harry Myers Park, thanks to the extreme generosity of the Dallas office of the nation’s largest accounting firm. The makeover was completed by over 450 [...]
Royse City loses opener to Atlanta, 27-26, when two point conversion run fails
A two-yard run for a two-point conversion was stopped short by Atlanta’s defense after Royse City’s Ryan Fedric’s six-yard TD run and the Bulldogs lost their first game of the season in a hard-fought game Friday night, 27-26, in Atlanta. With the score tied at 20-20 in the fourth quarter, Atlanta’s quarterback Carlos Ibarra connected on a 31-yard scoring strike to Orlando [...]
Rockwall scores TD in final two minutes, beats Rowlett, 31-28
Junior running back Josh Broach scored his third touchdown of the night on a five-yard run with less than two minutes remaining on the clock to lead Rockwall to a hard fought, 31-28, come-from-behind victory over neighboring Rowlett last night, as the Yellow Jackets successfully christened their beautiful new Wilkerson-Sanders stadium in front of about 8,000 spectators. Down 28-24, [...]
Rockwall-Heath loses season opener, 40-31, as Sherman scores twice in last two minutes
SHERMAN – Sherman quarterback Madison Carter scored from three yards out with 2:07 remaining and Geoff Hooker returned an interception 75 yards on the next series as the Bearcats stunned Rockwall-Heath, 40-31, Friday night at Bearcat stadium. After the Hawks (0-1) led 17-7 at the half and Heath’s defense had limited the Bearcats (1-1) to just [...]
Heritage Christian trounced by top-ranked six-man Calvert, 58-6
By Jeff Mateer. One of the top-ranked public school six man teams, the Calvert High School Trojans, travelled to Rockwall to take on Heritage Christian Academy’s Eagles in its home opener Friday night.  Meeting expectations, Calvert (2-0) trounced HCA (0-2), 58 to 6. Calvert’s explosive offense scored on every possession and returned a punt return for [...]
Most if not all Rockwall County schools not streaming live Obama speech to students in classrooms
By J.J. Smith. Most and perhaps none of Rockwall County’s public and private schools will be showing President Obama’s controversial live speech to school children in their classes Tuesday morning at 11 a.m (Central Time). Rockwall ISD will provide ”optional access” at a designated location on each campus. Royse City ISD and Heritage Christian Academy (HCA)will not. The Fulton School’s administrators were meeting [...]
