Sports

Timpson Bears Gymnasium, February 7, 2017 –

Before a packed house at home, the Timpson Lady Bears Basketball Team fell in a close game to the Joaquin Lady Rams, by a 47-41 final score. The game was a hardly fought cross-county rivalry which saw Timpson claw their way back several times after trailing 16-7 at the end of the first period.

Joaquins’ Hana Bonner extended the JHS lead to 14 points when she hit a 3-pointer to start the second quarter. Timpson kept fighting and six points during the second stanza, by freshman point guard Brylee Behrens, helped THS narrow the Joaquin lead to seven points by halftime. Joaquin led 26-17 at the midway break.

Lady Bear JaKaria Deckard opened the third period with a bucket, and teammate Sara Duke followed seconds later with a 3-point bomb which cut the Ram’s lead to just 26-24. Joaquins’ Eboni Adams hit three field goals during the third frame which helped the Lady Rams build their lead to 37-31 going in to the final period.

The Lady Bears cut Joaquin’s lead to just one point with three minutes left to play but the Lady Rams were able to outscore THS 5-2 in the final minute to hold on for the win.

Timpson finished the regular season with a 20-12 mark and went 4-8 in District 22 2A play. 

Brylee Behrens led the Lady Bears with 12 points, other Lady Bears scoring were, JaKaria Deckard 11, Ashton Harris 6, Jasmine Rodgers 6, Sara Duke 6.

Joaquin was led by Eboni Adams with 18 points, Desere Cooper 13, Hana Bonner 9, Day’za Lane 6, and Erica Davis scored one point.

February 3, 2017 - Final sign-up days for the Shelbyville Youth Sports Baseball/Softball are this Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4 at First Baptist Church in Shelbyville.

Hours are Friday from 5:30pm until 8pm and Saturday from 9am until 12noon. Please bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate to sign-ups if first year playing in Shelbyville. Child must be 4 years old to play.

Cost is $85 for 1st child, $80 for 2nd child, and $75 for each additional child. Uniforms will be available for sizing.

Coaches forms will be available at sign-ups for those interested in coaching and the coaches meeting will be on February 10th at 6:30pm.

Please call 936-332-1911 with any questions or message us through the Shelbyville Youth Dragons Facebook page. Please go like the Facebook page Shelbyville Youth Dragons to get important news and updates throughout the season!

January 25, 2017 - The Center Recreation Department is proud to announce that sign ups for the 2017 Baseball, Softball and Spring Soccer seasons will begin soon.

  • Where? The Center Middle School Cafeteria
  • Who? Boys and Girls ages 4-14
  • When? Friday, January 27 (5:00pm to 7:00pm), Tuesday, January 31 (5:00pm to 7:00pm), and Friday, February 3 (5:00pm to 7:00pm)

Cost: Baseball - $85; Softball - $75; Spring Soccer - $65

Each participant must present a Copy of their Birth Certificate.  A Medical Form must be signed by their parent or guardian at Sign-Ups.  We are also looking for a few good volunteers to Coach and/or Referee. See You There!

For more information contact Jason Mitchell, City of Center Recreation Director at 936/590-7196.

February 2, 2017 - Shelbyville released their 2017 Shelbyville Dragon Baseball Schedule available below. Click to open the schedule.

2017 Shelbyville Dragon Baseball Schedule

Editors Note: Sports schedules are linked at the top of the sports page.

February 1, 2017 - Kyle Parks and Octavius Evans signed letters of intent to play football as part of the National Day of Signing, February 1, 2017 for the 2017-2018 academic year surrounded by family and friends.

Coach Barry Bowman, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach spoke, "It's a great day. Octavius [Evans] and Kyle [Parks], Kyle signing at Blinn Junior College and Octavius is going to be going to Boise State. This doesn't ever get old for me. I've been fortunate to do this for quite a few times. This is a culmination of a lot of years of hard work, a lot of parent, grandparents toting kids around dropping them off to play this and that. It's a great day not only for Kyle and Octavius; it's also a great day for their families and it's a great day for Center High School as well."

The Center Athletes signed their letters of intent along with the parents as the audience applauded. Following the signing, fellow Center ISD students had an interview with them to be aired at project graduation.

Evans answered a question asked by a fellow student, 'Who had the most impact on you at Center High School?' saying, "Who had the most impact on my life was back when I was in Middle School had to be coach Cloudy. Because we all grew up around him, he took us in, he worked with us, and he made us become young men before we got into High School. So, I have to say Coach Cloudy impacted my life, he made a big difference, he showed way and the key to be, to get where I'm at today. So, I just want to thank him."

Parks agreed with Evans about Coach Cloudy saying, "We've been rocking this since seventh grade in middle school."

A second question asked was what made them choose each college and Evans responded, "What made me choose my college is the coaches and the people. It's a lot of good people around the campus and it's a lot of people that's on the team that want to get better and they want to make you better."

Parks answered, "I choose Blinn College because I like the atmosphere and the coaches, they took me in already like, it just felt like it was a good fit for me."

Both plan on majoring in kinesiolgy along with a second degree. Parks expressed plans on becoming a coach and Evans expressed interest of adding maybe a business degree to be able to coach as well.

They also expressed wanting to be role models to younger students and athletes coming behind them to motivate them to do the same thing of going to the next level and to do better. Parks said, "I feel like for us going there that motivates and pushes the people that's behind us to do the same, which they should. We are both the leaders on the team so we try to work hard everyday just so they can have the mentality of the same thing and do the same thing as we." Evans added, "Basically what [Parks] said, it don't get better than this, when you go to start chasing a dream to get to the next level. You work hard at it. Just, I want the young people below us to know what we put in, effort and the heart that we put in to get to where we are at."

Pictured (8th grade team) Key'Savalyn Barnes, Tyrese Jones, Jase Bird, Hollis Polk, Jake Liker, Jumarcus McCollister, Marques Hall, Jordan Patton, Coach Kerry Bryan. Photo: Penny Bird

January 31, 2017 - January 28, 2017 results

8th Grade Purple won Championship
Center 22 Kirbyville 9
Center 32 Newton 22

7th Grade Purple won Consolation
Center 22 Woden 25
Center 28 Kirbyville 2
Center 32 West Sabine 8.

January 30, 2017 - Results for the Sabine Invitational

Girls
97 weight class Kaitlyn Campbell  2nd
105 weight class Hannah Hall  1st
114 weight class Steff Moore  2nd
123 weight class  Jaiden Rose 4th
132 weight class   Breanna Jackson  1st
181 weight class  Kennedey Parker  1st
259 weight class  Katie Casey  1st

Hannah won best iifter on the light platform
Kennedey won best lifter on the heavy platform

Girls finished 2nd overall as a team

Boys
165 weight class  Jacobi Jackson  3rd
198 weight class  Logan Jefferson  2nd
275 weight class  Kawon McCowin  1st place

We are Dragon Proud!

Coach Michael Taylor

January 27, 2017- Tenaha Special Events Center –

Friday night saw the Lady Tigers take an early lead, over the visiting Timpson Lady Bears basketball team, and Tenaha never looked back as they took a 30-point win, by a 70-40 point final score, at home.

Junior guard Bianca Davison hit four 3-pointers during the first half which helped the Lady Tigers take a 24-12 lead by the end of the first period, and a 41-25 lead by halftime.

The Lady Bears got two buckets from junior guard Jasmine Rogers during the third stanza but the Lady Tigers outscored Timpson 19-4 during the frame and Tenaha took an 62-29 advantage into the fourth period.

Jakaria Deckard scored three field goals in the final period to help the Lady Bears outpace Tenaha 11-9 during the final period but it was too-little-too-late as Tenahas’ margin was enough to allow them to employ a defensive game plan, and to hold on for the win.

Sara Duke led the Lady Bears with 13 points, teammate Jasmine Rogers chipped in 12, Jakaria Deckard 9, and Brylee Behrens scored 6 points. The Lady Tigers were led by Brooke McClure with 21, Arlicia Roland 16, Bianca Davison 14, Shayla Parks 6, Jaden Washington 5, Kia Suell 4, and Bianca Ramirez added two points onto the Tenaha scorebook.

The Lady Tigers are now 7-1 in District 22 2A play and trail only Woden High School. Timpson stands at 3-5 in conference action.

The Lady Tigers will travel to Shelbyville High School next Friday, February 3 where JV will start playing at 4:30 p.m. and varsity games will follow.

Timpson will play Shelbyville in Timpson on Tuesday, Jan. 31, with games beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Friday, January 27, 2017. Tenaha Special Events Center –

Friday night, Tenahas’ Tigers varsity basketball team remained undefeated by defeating District 22 2A rival Timpson High School by a convincing 109-44 score. The Tigers have now improved their conference mark to 8-0 and they have a 20-2 overall standing. The Timpson Bears are now 0-7 in district play.

Tenahas’ Jaqualin Franks and Josh Walters each scored early buckets to give the Tigers an early4-0 lead but Timpsons’ Dustin Pledger cut the Tenaha lead down to 4-2 with a jumper with seven minutes left in the opening period. Ten first quarter points by Franks helped Tenaha go on a 19-point run and lead 23-2 with 3-minutes left in the opening stanza before Cam Berry scored a second bucket for the Bears. Tenaha led 36-6 going into the second quarter.

The Tigers out-paced the Bears 34-9 in the second quarter and took an impressive 70-15 lead into the halftime intermission. Jay Lloyd had ten second-period points, followed closely by teammate Hayden Jenkins who hit three 3-pointers during the frame.

Pledger scored ten points for the Bears during the third frame but Tenaha out-scored Timpson 24-17 and took a 94-32 advantage into the final quarter.

Tenaha narrowly out-scored Timpson during the final stanza (15-12) to take the 65-point win.

Jay Lloyd led the Tigers with 20 points. Teammate Hayden Jenkins scored 16, Trai Gardner 14, Jaurmez Brock 13, Josh Walters 12, Cody Foshee 10, Erik Smith 6, TK Gardner 5, and LaDaririus Garrett had three points. Timpson was led by Dustin Pledger with ten points, Cam Berry 9, Jaden Johnson 6, Brock Behrens and Jordon Osby each had four, and Cutter Smith scored one point.

The Tigers will face the Carthage Bulldogs at Bulldogs Gymnasium on Tuesday, January 31, for a non-district game which starts with junior varsity at 5:30 p.m. Varsity boy’s action will follow.

The Bears will host the Shelbyville Dragons at THS on Tuesday with JV girl’s action beginning at 4:30 p.m. JV boy’s and Varsity girl’s and boy’s play to follow.

Roughriders Gymnasium, January 24, 2017 –

The Center Lady Roughriders dropped a District 16 4A basketball game with the visiting Carthage Lady Bulldogs by a lopsided 48-27 score on Tuesday.

The Lady Roughriders found themselves falling behind 3-14 early, then 6-17 with 2:13 remaining in the second period, and Carthage held a 21-8 lead at the midway intermission.

The Lady Bulldogs went on an 11-0 run to take a 32-8 advantage with four minutes left in the third stanza before Mekayla Hubbard scored on a free throw with 3:50 left in the frame. Center went on a 6-0 run during the period to pull to within 14-32 but Carthage held a 35-14 lead going into the final quarter.

Taylor Nichols started the final period with a bucket and a free-throw to pull CHS to within 17-35. Each team totaled 13 points apiece in the final stanza and Carthage was able to hold on for the 21-point win.

Scoring for Center were Taylor Nichols with 12 points, Jakayla Weathered 7, Mekayla Hubbard 4, Makayla Rankin 2, and Anijiah Harper 2 points.

Center will next travel to Rusk High School for another conference showdown with the Lady Eagles (1-2 8-12) on Friday January 27, at 6:00 p.m.

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