Matt

Gotta stop the Wing T. Crazy offense.

SR Aiden Gay of Jacksonville gets the silver metal in the 5A shot put in Austin this morning with a throw of 55‘6“, a PR by 2 feet!

Lots of speed in the View. Whoa!

Jacksonville’s Aiden Gay, ETBU football signee, headed to Austin in shot put. Haven’t seen any coverage on regional meet in newspapers. I’m sure this district had other athletes going (?)

If you want to hear a cool history of East Texas football from Marshall's 1988-1990 run, to Jacksonville's run under Danny Long, and some amazing coaching stories from Danny's coaching tree, listen to this! As usual, David's memory / recall is amazing with some really cool insights. Thanks, Hunter, for getting this together. youtube.com/watch?v=aAbPtgLUj0s

What a classy move this week by the boys soccer coaches in this 5A district. Typically, the team that wins the district has their coach named coach of the year, right? Well, the boys coaches got together and named the girls soccer coach at Nacogdoches high school, Kendra Lockett, as the BOYS coach of the year. Coach Lockett was also named the GIRLS coach of the year by the girls coaches even though Nacogdoches did not win district. Coach Lockett has a 13-year old, Kai, battling cancer …. and her husband was also recently in a traffic accident. Man. So much on her plate …. yet she continued to battle and lead the young ladies in soccer at Nacogdoches. Thought this was a classy move by all the coaches. God bless her and her family. ** I learned of this from Jay Neal, the sports editor of the ‘Jacksonville Daily Progress.

JAX girls soccer, district champ, loses to 4th place Mt Pleasant 2-0 in bi district at Tomato Bowl.

Faith Family…. That’s ridiculous. Yes, UIL caved badly…. Recruiting central.

This is why….. https://reportingtexas.com/how-dallas-became-a-hotbed-of-high-school-basketball-recruiting/

Hmmm…. We have a Jayden Boyd here in JAX. Stud.

Awesome job, Lee!

I love basketball. Totally agree with @JTFAN99But there are far more opportunities (and $$$) for high school athletes at the next level in football than in basketball. How many D1 basketball players have come out of East Texas (15-20 maybe?) in the last 20 years compared to football? Again, I love basketball … but unless you are playing select basketball in Dallas or Houston…. It’s hard to compete with the metro kids and be seen. And, the chances of winning a state championship at 5A level is more than difficult for any of our East Texas teams. Can it be done? Sure, but its a very low probability.

That’s awesome, yep, what a team! Blake was a freak.

“You could screw up a bowling ball!”

Ugh! Keeps buffering on NFHS

Great season!

Great season!

Lufkin updates?

Yes, that’s him.

Yes! Houston Madison. No one gave Lufkin a chance. Of course, no one REALLY gave Lufkin a chance against the powerful Dunbar team. What a team, I can’t tell you how good Ronnie Blake was for Lufkin. One other little sidenote about that 1978–79 Lufkin team. They played in the ‘Jacksonville Jaycee basketball tournament in December over the holidays. Lufkin did not win the tournament, Nacogdoches did, led by Alan Johnston, who went on to have a pretty good coaching career at various places in East Texas. Alan was MVP of the tournament. OK, there’s your history lesson for the day, LOL! Go Panthers!

I remember the 1979 Lufkin state champion. I saw them beat Conroe in the playoffs at G Rollie White at A&M, I was a freshman that spring at A&M. ‘Ronnie Blake was absolutely amazing, 5 7” guard and all the Dipsy doodle moves around the bucket. He was actually as good a tennis player player, if I remember. The great Jesse Walker was the coach. What a team. They won so many 1 point and OT games to win it. I am going on pure memory here…didn’t they upset a heavily favored Houston team with 6 11” Greg Kite (Boston Celtics for years) in state game? Good luck to the Panthers today.

World domination Nothing less. Seriously, the site continues to amaze me. Some of the posters are amazing. One thing that would be really cool is a master page with standings, individual stats, team stats, etc…. If we could get one person from each school to commit (I’ll do JAX!) uploading stats and standings (like @Mavchampdoes so well), you could draw a lot of people to that section. Newspapers just aren’t able to get the information anymore…, I know our ISD hasn’t sent stats for football in a long time to the Tyler paper. I mean, I’d love to see the leading rushers, passers, receivers, at all levels. Plus, be able to keep up with standings especially at end of season. @Smoakthe site is incredible. So thankful for it.

Looked back at the call on the replay…. I was wrong, JAX did foul.

Looked back at the call on replay…. it was a foul on JAX. I was wrong. Took the HP player to the ground.

Yeah, I hate to whine about one call. It’s part of the game. We had a 15 point lead at half…. Hung with one of DFWs best… we only have ONE senior on team. We will be back but now we will be 4A.