Area Sports
Softball bests Childress, to start playoffs Thursday
By Melissa McCaghren Slatonite GM District is over – and the Slaton softball team may have finished in second place – but now in playoffs everyone is 0-0. The Tigerettes finished out their District contests strong, defeating the Childress Lady Cats 19-14 in their last game of the regular season. The team finished 9-3 in…
Read MoreGolf finishes season at Regionals
By Melissa McCaghren Slatonite GM Slaton High School golfer JD Hogan competed in the Regional Golf Tournament April 19-22 at Shady Oaks Country Club in Baird. Although he did not qualify for the State tournament, Head Coach Louisa Gonzales was pleased at how Hogan did. “I am so proud of JD and his performance at…
Read MoreBaseball ends 1st round of District play, split games
By Jacob Chavarria Slatonite Correspondent The Slaton Tigers split their two games on the week as they ended the first half of District play going 1-1 in a close contest against Abernathy and a run rule win against Childress. The Tigers fell to District leader Abernathy on Tuesday (April 6) evening 8-3. In the first…
Read MoreSoftball goes .500 in games against Shallowater, Roosevelt
By Melissa McCaghren Slatonite GM The Slaton softball team split their games last week in their second round of District action. The Tigerettes lost a tough 10-5 game against the Shallowater Fillies Tuesday evening (April 6) but bounced back against the Roosevelt Lady Eagles 9-7 Saturday (April 10). The team is currently 6-3 in District…
Read MoreDuo places 3rd in mixed doubles in District tennis
Mykah Lamberson and Jeredan Wallingsford placed third in mixed doubles Monday (April 12) during District tennis in Abernathy. The Tennis team continued District Wednesday (April 14) again in Abernathy with the hope to advance to Regional. Results from Wednesday’s matches will be reported in next week’s edition. (Submitted photo)
Read MoreBoys, Girls track sends many runners to Area contest
From Staff Reports The Tiger and Tigerette track teams competed in the District Track meet Wednesday and Thursday (March 31-April 1) in Abernathy. The boys team finished third overall while the girls placed sixth. Multiple athletes from both teams qualified for Area. Elijah Culver set a new school record in the 3200 meter dash with…
Read MoreGolf competes in District, 1 advances to Regionals
By Melissa McCaghren Slatonite GM The Slaton golf teams competed in their District meets March 29 in Childress, and April 5 in Lubbock. JD Hogan qualified to regionals as an individual. Head Coach Lousia Gonzales said while the teams improved their scores significantly, neither team qualified for the next round. She said District this year…
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Tigers score 27 total runs as they go 2-0 in District action By Jacob Chavarria Slatonite Correspondent Tiger baseball was able to get their first back-to-back wins of the season during their second week of District play. These wins came with a total of 27 runs being produced by the Slaton offense. They started out…
Read MoreTrack boys tie for 1st, girls medal in Bold Gold Relays
From Staff Reports The Slaton Varsity track teams competed in the Post Relays Thursday afternoon (March 25) in Post. The boys tied for first place as a team while the girls finished fourth overall. The teams next will compete in District Wednesday and Thursday (March 31 and April 1) in Abernathy. Individual placings are below.…
Read MoreBaseball falls short in games against state ranked teams
By Jacob Chavarria Slatonite Correspondent The start of District play is kicking off for the Tigers, but they had one final tune-up last week before opening District play last Saturday (March 27). In both contests they fell short by a few runs to both teams who are ranked highly in the State. Their first close…
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