JOSHUA — After a five-set loss that snapped their winning start to District 14-5A play, the Midlothian Lady Panthers plummeted all the way to No. 14 in the Texas Girls Coaches Association statewide Class 5A volleyball rankings.
With Chase Elliott pursuing him relentlessly for the final 50 laps, Chris Buescher held on to win Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motors Speedway, becoming the 19th different NASCAR Cup Series winner this season. After the event that set the field for the Round of 12 in the series Playoffs—and eliminated superstars Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick from the postseason—a dozen drivers were breathing sighs of relief and hoping fervently for a return to stock car sanity in the next round.
Make it three in a row for Noah Gragson, who has built enormous momentum as the NASCAR Xfinity Series moves into its seven-race Playoff. On 90-lap older tires, Gragson held off Brandon Jones, the driver who will take his seat in the No.
The Class 5A No. 3-ranked Midlothian High School volleyball team shows no signs of slowing down in District 14-5A play, with two more match sweeps last week.
Last year, hunting related accidents in Texas hit an alltime low, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is hoping to continue that downward trend. One way to do that, according to Steve Hall, TPWD Hunter Education coordinator, is for hunters to ensure they always maintain a safe zone of fire.
The Heritage Jaguars were glad to get junior Grace Sweeney back on the floor Friday evening after nearly a month’s absence. Sweeney didn’t put up many numbers, but her presence seemed to spark the Jaguars as they swept all three sets over Mansfield Summit, 25-11, 25-20, 25-18, at HHS Arena in District 14-5A volleyball play.
In what is turning out to be a banner season for Noah Gragson, the driver of the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet scored his fifth NASCAR Xfinity Series victory of the year in Saturday’s rain-shortened Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway.
Driving the same car number that carried teammate Kurt Busch to victory in the May race at Kansas Speedway, Bubba Wallace claimed a dramatic win at the same track in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400, the second event in the first round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.