CARROLLTON — The Heritage Jaguars took a 4-1 lead into the bottom of the fifth inning on Friday evening, and it was looking like a deciding Game 3 was in the future in their Class 4A Region II bi-district playoff series against Aubrey.
The 10-4A champion Heritage Jaguars dropped a meaningless district finale at Kennedale on Tuesday night, then warmed up for the playoffs on their home diamond with a 5-1 victory over Class 3A Tolar on Friday night.
The Midlothian Lady Panthers had a tough draw in the Class 5A Region II softball playoff bracket, and Class 5A No. 14-ranked Forney lived up to its billing as the Lady Jackrabbits ended MHS’ season on Friday night, 20-1 in five innings, to sweep their bi-district series on the Lady Panthers’ home field.
The Heritage Jaguars came up just short of winning a third state girls’ soccer title in five seasons, but there were still plenty of postseason honors to be had for the members of the team. The Jaguars enjoyed three all-state selections and were also handed numerous awards by the coaches of District 8-4A at the end of the season.
The Midlothian Panthers ended regular-season play with a pair of losses to the Joshua Owls, but now the Panthers can turn their attention to the playoffs. The Panthers suffered a 6-1 loss to the Owls on the road last Tuesday and closed out the District 14-5A schedule with a 3-2 loss at Ronnie Clanton Field on Friday night.
A former understudy of legendary Waxahachie head volleyball coach Sandy Faussett-Stoops is coming back home to her alma mater. Erika Weber, who has coached with distinction at nearby Midlothian Heritage the last three seasons, was announced this week as a new assistant volleyball coach at WHS.
COMMERCE — SEC-bound senior jumper Leah Anderson, freshman Evanna Jacobsen and sophomore Stetson Sarratt will carry the Heritage High School track and field banner into next week’s University Interscholastic League state track and field championships.
RED OAK — Texas State Technical College’s North Texas campus hosted more than 250 area high school students on Friday for the first in-person open house held since 2019. Students, guided by their teachers and parents, learned about programs offered at the North Texas campus, including Diesel Equipment Technology, Electrical Power and Controls and Welding Technology.
The motto for Great Valley High School and its 1,400 students in the Pennsylvania borough of Malvern, about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, is “Creating a new age of learning.” It may be helping create a new age of conversation, too. By all accounts, political polarization is growing in the United States, having seeped into schools during the pandemic over what steps were needed – or not – to protect children from COVID-19 and now spreading to issues including critical race theory and gender identity.
On Wednesday, Congressman Jake Ellzey (TX-06), whose district includes Ellis County, joined 28 of his colleagues in sending a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concerns with provisions in the president's fiscal year 2023 budget that threaten the stepped-up tax basis and impose 'marked-to-market' capital gains taxes on property such as farmland that has been held in families for 90 years or more.