The top-10 ranked Mineola Lady Jackets have opened their season with six consecutive wins, including four in the Longview tournament that was held to two days when rain washed out the Saturday games.
The Alba-Golden Panthers basketball team fought their way into the playoffs by defeating the Grand Saline Indians 55-46 Friday in a “play-in” contest that determined the third place finisher in district.
The team of Ron Ihler, Jack Cox, John Clariday and Monroe Reich shot a six-under par 65 Thursday to capture the Mineola Country Club Senior Scramble.
The Azalea 10k run is coming up on Saturday, March 24 at 8 a.m.
The Mineola baseball Yellowjackets hosted Van in a scrimmage last Monday, leaving Head Coach Travis Jackson with a bit more knowledge about his team.
The Grand Saline Indians outscored Mineola 25-5 in the first quarter Friday and went on to win by that margin, 62-42 in the final home game of the season for the Jackets.
The Mineola Lady Jackets and the Alba-Golden Lady Panthers will participate in the Longview Softball Tournament this week with a total of six games each played over a three-day period beginning Thursday.
The Mineola Lady Jackets closed the door on their basketball season Tuesday with an 86-31 loss at the hands of the visiting Winnsboro Lady Raiders.
The Alba-Golden baseball alumni game is Saturday and registration is at noon.
The team of Joe Parrish, Monroe Reich and Robert Tullis shot a six-under-par 65 Thursday to capture the Mineola Country Club Senior Scramble.
The Alba-Golden Panthers withstood a late-game comeback by the Mineola Yellowjackets Tuesday to defeat Mineola 44-33.
The Alba-Golden Lady Panthers’ defense smothered Mineola’s offense Tuesday, holding the Lady Jackets to five points in the first half and A-G defeated Mineola 39-19.
The Alba-Golden Lady Panthers closed out their week with a 51-44 victory over Como-Pickton.
The Mineola Lady Jackets withstood a 26-point game by Como-Pickton’s Megan McCoy Tuesday and picked up points from six different players to win their second district game of the season, 45-40.
The Alba-Golden Lady Panthers defeated Grand Saline 23-14 Friday in a contest during which both teams struggled to score.
When the Mineola High School basketball teams play at Edgewood Friday that school’s band boosters will be holding their annual hamburger supper.
The once powerful Mineola baseball program is in the progress of retooling and they are doing it with a pair of new coaches, Head Coach, Travis Jackson and assistant John Talley, who understand what it takes to become successful. Jackson has guided two teams to Austin in recent years as head coach in Overton.
The Alba-Golden Junior High girls basketball teams swept their way through the district tournament last week to finish the year with 15-0 records for both the seventh and eighth grade teams.
The Alba-Golden Junior High School girls basketball teams continued their winning ways last week with the seventh grade A team defeating Lone Oak 42-4 and the eighth grade A team defeating Lone Oak 39-4.
The team of Elroy Doggett, John Clariday, Carlis Yelverton and Monroe Reich shot a 12-under-par 59 Thursday to capture first place in the Mineola Country Club’s Senior Scramble.
The Mineola Yellowjackets won their second consecutive “nail-biter” Tuesday by coming from behind in the second half to defeat Como-Pickton 58-57. To do so they had to overcome consistent three-point scoring by the Eagles.
Most softball coaches would love to have eight of nine starters from the previous year’s district champion and playoff team returning and Mineola’s Jana Nance is no exception.
Mineola’s Matt Shade picked up two more post season football honors this past week when he was named to the First Team Collin Street Bakery Texas Sports Writers Association’s Class 2A All-State Football Team.
Both the Mineola girls and boys powerlifting teams captured second place finishes in the Van Vandal Invitational meet Saturday, with Brady Rose taking home the Overall Lifter Award for the meet.
The Mineola Lady Jackets softball schedule will open Feb. 4 and 11 with scrimmages against Lindale, Hallsville and Gladewater before opening the regular season against Rains in Mineola, Feb. 14.
The Alba-Golden seventh and eighth grade girls basketball teams continued their undefeated seasons last week with wins over Grand Saline.
When Garrett McCalla’s long jump shot from the right wing found nothing but the bottom of the basket, it wiped out a solid outing by the visiting Bulldogs and turned an almost-in-the-bag Quitman win into the Yellowjackets second district victory of the season, 45-44.
The visiting Quitman Lady Bulldogs defeated Mineola 63-36 Friday by outscoring Mineola 19-4 in the first quarter and never letting up.
The Alba-Golden Lady Panthers fell victim to one of the state’s top 15 teams, Edgewood, Friday by a score of 58-26.
The Mineola High School power lifting team competed in the Peoples Invitiational Saturday in Quitman and brought home a third place finish in the boys division and a sixth place finish for the girls. There were 17 teams competing.
Mineola baseball will begin the season under a new head coach, Travis Jackson, with a scrimmage at home Feb. 6 against Van and another scrimmage at Kemp Feb. 10.
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