Last week, three Hays High baseball players signed their letters of intent to continue their careers at the college level. Aidan Martinez, who saw time as pitcher and designated hitter in 2019, signed on to play at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Rebel pitcher Ulises Tovar signed to play a...

Lehman’s Guadarrama selected as Boys All-Hays Free Press/News-Dispatch Soccer Player of the Year Combining expert leadership with critical playmaking ability, Lehman High senior Eric Guadarrama capped his high school soccer career by earning 2019 Most Valuable Player honors in one of the toughest 6A...

After more than a decade patrolling the sidelines at Lehman High, Michael Banning will soon be heading across the highway. In April, Hays CISD tabbed Banning as the inaugural girls head soccer coach at Johnson High. When the school opens in August, Banning, who has worked as the Lehman Lady Lobos so...

WIMBERLEY – When the Hays Rebel softball team needed to exact a counter-punch Saturday, New Braunfels Canyon Cougarette pitcher Aliyah Pritchett prevented it from doing so. The inability to generate offense at critical junctures ultimately ended Hays’ 2019 campaign in a 7-2 Game 3 loss to Canyon, cl...

SAN ANTONIO – Hays High’s 2019 campaign came to a close Friday after the Rebels were swept in two games by the state-ranked San Antonio Reagan Rattlers in a best-of-3 area round series. “Two separate ball games, but today’s story was way different from yesterday’s story,” said Hays head coach James ...

Lehman High sophomore Nikayla Fitzgerald plunges into the long jump pit at the 2019 Texas Relays held at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin in late March. Fitzgerald will join two other Hays CISD athletes who will compete at the 2019 UIL state track and field meet in Austin this next week. Fitzgerald, ...

MARION – While it took some time to manifest, the Hays Rebel softball team showcased its offensive muscle last week en route to punching a ticket to the regional quarterfinals. An eight run, three-inning flurry, highlighted by home runs from Max Valdez, Annaliese Rodriguez and Katie Noble, pushed Ha...

Resiliency and mental toughness were attributes the Hays Rebels baseball team needed to outlast the New Braunfels Canyon Cougars in a thrilling best-of-3 bi-district round series. That included playing 16 combined innings of baseball over a five-hour span Saturday, culminating in Hays notching a ser...

As players huddled around him near first base Friday, Lehman Lobo head softball coach Robert Young passionately reminded them of the steep uphill climb they had just surmounted. Such a viewpoint might have been difficult to grasp after the Lobos’ 2019 campaign came to an abrupt close in a 11-0 bi-di...

When the opportunity to officially punch a postseason ticket knocked Friday, Hays High’s baseball team wasted no time in slamming down the door. A nine-run blitz over the first three frames was enough for Hays (24-7, 10-6) to cruise past the Del Valle Cardinals in a 9-0 win to close the regular seas...