REFUGIO — Jordan Kelley is preparing for his fourth season of varsity football.

WACO — UHV Sports Information Director Paul Ebner has announced plans to retire this summer after being named the 2020-21 Red River Athletic Conference SID of the Year.

Industrial and Hallettsville were both included in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football’s 2021 preseason high school football Top 10 rankings for Class 3A, Division I.

Four Weimar softball players were named to the Texas Girls Coaches Association All-State team for Class 2A.

YORKTOWN — Kailey Sinast made her third appearance at the UIL state track & field meet during her senior year at Yorktown.

Refugio and Shiner are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football’s 2021 preseason high school football rankings for Class 2A, Division I.

The Victoria Generals kept their home run binge going, but their three-game winning streak came to an end.

Jadon Williams was upset that Victoria East had to cancel its spring football game in May.

AUSTIN — The UIL voted unopposed to allow high school football games to be live streamed on the internet.

Well, it’s started. A post on a neighborhood chat site read: “Baby fawn in our backyard – how do we take care of it?”

Shiner sophomore Ryan Peterson injured his elbow in the first round of the playoffs and was unable to pitch during the Comanches’ run to the state tournament.

SPRING — El Campo captured first place in the War Zone Lineman Challenge on Saturday at Leonard George Stadium.

Texas Collegiate League

ROUND ROCK — Shiner senior catcher Cash Shows was named to the UIL Class 2A all-state tournament team.

Following are results from Saturday’s Coastal Bend Swim League of Victoria meet.

CUERO — Cuero got off to a ragged start in its 7-on-7 Division II state qualifying tournament.

Patrick Cates found it hard to explain how excited he was to be playing 7-on-7 this summer.

Two spots in the Division II state 7-on-7 tournament will be up for grabs Friday in a qualifying tournament hosted by Cuero and Goliad.

EUGENE, Ore. — Stephen F. Austin’s Izac Canchola placed 22nd in the javelin throw Wednesday night at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

ROUND ROCK — Shiner put together a season to remember.

Luke Walters has resigned as offensive coordinator at Victoria East after two seasons with the Titans.

Victoria East’s Kelsey Perez and Weimar’s Skylar Heger have been selected to play in the Texas Girls Coaches Association Softball All-Star Game in July.

The Victoria Generals Chase Sanguinetti was named the hitter of the week in the Texas Collegiate League for the first week of the season.

SHINER — Shiner advancing to the state tournament was hardly a given.

Lynn Turner will be busy in the upcoming school year.

Weimar freshman outfielder Hannah Fisbeck was named to the Class 2A Softball State Tournament All-Tournament Team.

We were on our deck watching it rain. But our dogs seemed highly interested in the empty collapsible trash bin we put pruned branches in. Vicky said it might be a cotton rat as she tipped it over.

T.J. Mooney finished the last week of the Thursday Sundowners League with the high total for the week to earn the weekly honors once again.

REFUGIO — Ysidro Mascorro was watching from the sideline as Sam Houston drove down the field late in the fourth quarter at Toyota Stadium in Frisco.

Class 2A State Semifinal

Izac Canchola had not even begun his freshman year at Refugio, but he already had an idea of what he wanted to do in the future.

The Victoria Generals weekend series against the Baton Rouge Rougaroo has been postponed due to rain.

JOURDANTON — Shiner waited 17 years to get back to the state tournament.

Three Victoria players received all-district recognition for the 2021 season.

Toya Jones and Charles Austin are included in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2022 preliminary ballot.

JOURDANTON — Shiner took a while to figure out the right approach at the plate in Game 1 of its Class 2A regional final series against Sabinal.

CORPUS CHRISTI — Victoria East senior A’Nasia Wallace was selected to play in the Coastal Bend Coaches Association All-Star softball game.

CORPUS CHRISTI — Victoria West shortstop Blake Buzzell and Victoria East catcher Cory Cann were selected to play in the Costal Bend Coaches Association All-Star baseball game.

The Victoria Generals’ home opener did not go as the team hoped.

AUSTIN — Reagan Wick did what she’s done all year for Weimar, she struck out opponents.

SHINER — Ty Winkenwerder is thankful for the advice Shiner coach Daniel Boedeker gives him whenever he takes the mound.

The biggest plus for the Victoria Generals this season is they can concentrate on playing baseball.

My friend and frequent fishing partner, Shea Seale and I fished Lake Austin in mid-May in Shea’s fine Skeeter bass boat. Shea left it up to me to choose which lake to fish.

AUSTIN — The players on the Weimar softball team were 10, 11 years old when the Ladycats last reached the Class 2A State Tournament in 2014.

The Knights of Columbus Holy Family Council No. 9088 will sponsor the 19th Annual 3 R’s Fishing Tournament on Aug. 6-7 at the Port O’Connor Community Center.