By J.J. Smith. Class 4A Area Baseball Player-of-the-Year Javon Hernandez scored three touchdowns on short runs and set up another with a 67-yard kickoff return in the fourth quarter to lead the Rockwall-Heath Hawks to a 35-28 non-district victory over former Rockwall ISD Athletic Director Mark Elam’s Garland Naaman Forest Rangers last night at Wilkerson-Sanders [...]
By J.J. Smith. A valiant second half comeback bid by 13th-ranked Rockwall was stopped short by an intercepted pass with under two minutes to play and the fourth-ranked West Mesquite Wranglers held on to defeat the Yellow Jackets in an exciting season opener for both teams, 32-28, last night at Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium. Down 26-14 at [...]
By J.J. Smith. Ranked 10th in the Dallas Morning News pre-season football poll, the Rockwall-Heath Hawks – led by head coach Mickey Moss – will open their season tonight against Garland Naaman Forest, coached by former Rockwall athletic director and head coach Mark Elam, at 7:30 pm at Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium. Elam left the Rockwall ISD [...]
By J.J. Smith. After experiencing a 1-9 rebuilding year in 2009, head coach Greg Strahm’s Royse City Bulldogs welcome back 16 starters and 21 lettermen from last year’s team tonight against the Mesquite Poteet Pirates at 7:30 pm in the opening game for both teams at Bulldogs Stadium in Royse City. This will be the [...]
TimesRecordNews. WICHITA FALLS – The way Zack Eskridge figures it, this will be his fourth season playing football. No, not the Rowlett senior’s fourth year playing college football. His fourth season, period. While that might not warrant loads of optimism from the casual observer, any Mustangs’ fan who saw him play last year will be [...]
By StlToday.com. COLUMBIA, MO – Kendial Lawrence, Mizzou’s 5-foot-9 No. 2 tailback, can sing the advantages of being a little guy with the ball. “It’s easier to get through holes or make people miss,” Lawrence said. “That’s an advantage of being short.” Of course, another responsibility that falls to the tailback in Mizzou’s spread offense [...]
By J.J. Smith. Only one percent – or 1,100 – of the maximum capacity 110,000 Dallas Cowboy Stadium tickets will be sold to the general public for Super Bowl XLV, scheduled Feb. 6, 2011, in Arlington. That’s what North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee Business Development Director Robbie Douglas, a Rockwall resident, told Rockwall [...]
The Dallas Morning News. Player of the Year. JOVAN HERNANDEZ, 3B, Rockwall-Heath, Sophomore. (Photo from HeathHawksbaseball.com) Baseball is defined by numbers. They are associated with every aspect of the game. Innings. Outs. Hits. Runs. Errors. And individual statistics. The raw data don’t lie. And in Jovan Hernandez’s case they tell the whole story, capturing the [...]
By J.J. Smith. Twenty Rockwall County players and coaches from Rockwall, Rockwall-Heath and Royse City were named to the 10-4A All District Baseball Team last week by District coaches. District champion Rockwall-Heath (39-3) Coach Greg Harvey was named Coach of the Year, while four of his players were given top individual honors. Hawk sophomore pitcher/first [...]
The Dallas Morning News. The result was so sudden, so unexpected and so resounding no one could have seen it coming. In the aftermath of Frisco Wakeland’s 12-3 victory over Rockwall-Heath in the Class 4A Region II final Saturday, both teams were in shock. In less than three hours, Rockwall-Heath, ranked first in at least [...]