Schumann led all Knight scorers with 12 points, but it was her single assist in the game that proved the most essential to the game’s outcome. Photo by Risa Darlington-Horta.
Whether it was the pitch in Bastrop or Elgin, the lanes at Dart Bowl or the gym at Navarro or Mac, six varsity teams took the field, and they all won making Friday a perfect night to be a Knight.
The story of John Pratt’s best-ever bowling game begins—as stories of greatness often do—with a noble failure. In his first individual game bowling for the McCallum boys team Friday night at Dart Bowl, it looked like Pratt would beat his previous best game, a 234. After bowling poorly during practice, Pratt found a groove once the match started. Through eight frames, he had throw...
With less than 30 seconds remaining in a close game that the girls varsity basketball team felt it simply had to win, junior guard Abby Robison sat on the bench. She had been relegated there after getting her fourth foul about a minute earlier. Thanks to a Makayla Mason's free throw just seconds earlier, the score was tied. Mac 31 Navarro 31. Like all of her teammates, Robison felt like ...
The McCallum Lady Knights breezed to a sweeping 5-0 win over the Cedar Creek Eagles Friday. Junior Avery Miller opened up scoring for the Knights, followed by sophomore Kyla Murphy off of an assist from sophomore Mia Gomez, and an Eagles' own goal off of a corner kick and then Gomez added a goal of her own with an assist from senior Karen Esparza to extend the lead to 4-0 at the half. Th...
The Knights came out of the gate with a purpose tonight at Navarro, building an 8-0 lead before Navarro scored a point, but the host Vikings steadied from there, fighting back to within two points at 12-10 and again at 14-12 with 3:39 left in the second quarter. With the game very much still in doubt, Coach Fuentes trusted his bench to get the job done, and they richly rewarded his trust wi...
The varsity boys soccer team hit the road to travel to Elgin Friday night for a battle against the Wildcats. The boys came into this game in scintillating form. With wins in their past two games, the boys had Elgin in their sights. The Wildcats, however, weren’t going to make this game an easy one for the Knights. “Elgin were very active in the attack with fantastic interchanges betw...
Sophomore Zoey Rucker recorded the highest game in each of the individual rounds, and sophomores Olivia Linscomb, Lulu Elliott and Frances Arellano each outscored the Hendrickson opponent there were paired against in the individual games to enable the Knights to complete a 17-0 shutout of the Hawks. The Knights are currently 2-0 in district play in both the girls’ division and the boys’ di...
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