Senior forward Jada Finister wiped her brow and hugged her parents. Tears streamed down her cheeks. It was over. Then she embraced a teammate. Another teammate walked by to console her. Down the line, Finister met with each of her teammates for the last time on a basketball court. They shared laughs...

With several returning players from last year’s regional semifinalist team, Hays head softball coach Lisa Cone aims to go even further in 2017. Despite a relatively young squad, Cone said a pair of scrimmages against 5A powerhouses Dripping Springs and Rouse have shown promise. “Obviously, our expec...

On senior night, with his parents watching from the Bales Gym bleachers, senior guard Charles Bohannon kept shooting despite a mounting deficit. It was a microcosm for what has been another losing season for the Rebels, who trailed Vandegrift by 14 points entering the fourth quarter. Hays Rebel seni...

(photo by Becky Tenney) Hays Rebel girls soccer player Maya Hood (21) speeds past a Vandegrift Viper defender toward the ball Friday at Shelton Stadium. Hays High’s Mariah Gonzales battles with Vandegrift’s Kayla Streber for possession Friday. Vandegrift got the upper hand early on the Rebels Friday...

During Friday’s district game at Bales Gym, a 17-point effort by senior Charles Bohannon carried the Rebels to a 49-40 upset win over Leander, which is in the hunt for a playoff spot in 25-6A. Hays’ Matthew Rindahl scored 13 points, while Green had 11 points. Hays closes the season Friday against Va...

A slow start wasn’t enough to deter the Hays Rebel girls soccer team from rolling to a 4-1 win over the Leander Lions at Shelton Stadium Friday. But the victory, which was the team’s third straight, continued a ten-day stretch where Hays (8-3) compiled wins over rival Lehman and playoff contender La...

By halftime, Vista Ridge’s Nikki Cardano-Hillary had seen enough. It took Vista Ridge nearly six minutes to score its first points of the basketball game, after missing 10 consecutive shots. Hays, the third-seeded team in the district, took advantage of a rare offensive funk from Cardano-Hillary to ...

Even as his team faced a ten point fourth quarter deficit to the Hays Rebels Tuesday, Lehman head coach Michael Whitten never stopped asking his team to believe. Between every timeout in the final minutes of the game, Whitten said he kept smiling and kept telling his team to believe that “good thing...

A second half surge of offense propelled the Lehman Lobos to a 4-2 comeback victory over their crosstown rivals, the Hays Rebels, Tuesday night at Jack C. Hays Stadium. Momentum was in Lehman’s favor to begin the first half. They were controlling the ball, playing solid defense and consistently able...

Hays girls basketball coach Danny Preuss tried his best to emulate the typically terse Gregg Popovich following the Rebels’ 48-31 victory Tuesday night against rival Lehman. The Rebels clinched a playoff berth with the win, but were outscored 12-4 in the final quarter. By that time, Preuss emptied h...