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Burnet aims to stay in stride in final week

The Burnet High School girls soccer team still has a shot a finishing second in the District 18-4A standings after already securing a playoff berth. But the Lady Dawgs (14-6-3, 10-3) must win their final two matches of the regular season, both on the road. First up is Lampasas (7-13, 5-7) at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at Lampasas High School, 2716 U.S. 281 South in Lampasas. Then Burnet ends the regular season at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, at Salado (13-8-1, 8-2-1). Though Lampasas is officially out of the…

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Mustangs give The Helping Center some needed muscle

Sam Pearce, executive director of The Helping Center, was in a bind. He had a “big warehouse” truck carrying numerous pallets averaging 1,500 pounds of food apiece and didn’t have enough volunteers to empty the vehicle. In all, it totaled 30,000 pounds of food. Volunteer Lauren Haltom heard Pearce’s dilemma and offered to contact Marble Falls head football coach Brian Herman to see if the Mustangs could stop by. It didn’t take long for Herman to say yes. By 7:30 a.m. on March 1, the players arrived and immediately went…

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Lady Dawgs look to continue season success in the spring

Burnet High School is extremely proud of the accomplishments of both the volleyball and basketball teams during the 2021-22 school year, and girls athletics coordinator Rick Gates believes there’s plenty more great memories to be made in the spring, especially from the soccer and softball squads. The Lady Dawgs already sealed a berth in the Class 4A soccer playoffs, and the softball team is 9-2 before beginning District 19-4A play March 15. While tennis has played a fall schedule and returned to the courts this semester already, golf and tennis…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. The Burnet Lady Dawgs athletics program is moving from very good to great. Just look at the success. The basketball team joined the volleyball team in qualifying for the Class 4A Region III tournament, known to many as the Houston region. That is a tough road, indeed, to get to the state tournament. Credit volleyball head coach Crystal Shipley and her team for setting the bar for…

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Mustangs announce postseason awards

The Marble Falls High School football celebrated the accomplishments of the 2021 season with its annual banquet Feb. 28. Head coach Brian Herman had scheduled the event for earlier in the semester, but weather forced a date change. Herman and coaches weren’t in a hurry to have this event since it is the last gathering to commemorate a Mustangs team that reached the third round of the playoffs, a first for this century. He had released the all-District 14-5A Division II teams around the holidays but doesn’t release the Mustang…

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Lady Dawgs qualify for Class 4A playoffs

The Burnet High School girls soccer team earned one of the four playoff berths in District 19-4A thanks to some impressive individual performances that led to lopsided victories. “The Lady Dawgs have been putting in work the last two weeks,” head coach Kimberly Myhre said, “and it has paid off.” Burnet (11-7-1, 8-2) completed the season sweep of Gatesville (7-5, 5-4) 1-0 Feb. 25 after beating Florence (2-14, 1-6) 7-0 Feb. 22 and Little River Academy (0-15, 0-9) 7-0 Feb. 18. Currently the Lady Dawgs are in third place with…

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Bowlsby discusses what the NCAA Oversight Committee will examine

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he recently read some headlines he saw in a newspaper, noting that reporters wrote that “athletes aren’t real students, and coaches are paid too much.” “It was from a 1927 New York Post,” he said with a grin. “Not much has changed. Somehow we’re sustaining.” In a recent appearance, Bowlsby talked about some of  the items that the NCAA’s Oversight Committee, of which he is a member, is examining, including the graduate transfer rule, the new fall signing period for high school football players,…

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