Atlanta took part in the Spring Hill/White Oak softball tournament in Longview late last week, and added four more wins to their resume’ on the season.
The Lady Tigers hosted Hughes Springs in district action on Tuesday, Feb. 26, but lost a close game after allowing the Ponies to score 10 runs in the top of the sixth inning for a 14-4 victory.
Linden-Kildare’s baseball squad hosted the Maud Cardinals on Tuesday, Feb. 26, but couldn’t complete the comeback after scoring three runs in the bottom of the final inning in a furious response to Maud’s six-run lead. The final result was Maud 10 and L-K 7 as both teams were warming up for district action.
Bloomburg’s softball team made the trek to Maud on Thursday, Feb. 28, to play the first of three meetings between the two schools. The outcome was a 17-1 loss for the Lady ‘Cats as the Lady Cardinals plated 13 runs in the first inning.
Maud scored four more runs in the second inning during a game called in the third inning on the mercy rule, and took advantage of Bloomburg’s eight errors.
Linden-Kildare ran a few athletes in the Queen City track meet on Thursday, Feb. 21, and fared well in the cold weather.
Storms dropped a few inches of rain that morning and cold winds dominated the day forcing Queen City officials to cancel the field events. The running events were pushed back to a later starting time, but went by quickly with the cold weather biting at everyone present.
The 2012-2013 All-District girls’ basketball selections were released recently for District 16-2A and Linden-Kildare had a few players make the list.
Junior Shardai Love was named to the First Team All-District squad, seniors Caitlin Grider and Baleigh West were selected as Honorable Mentions, and West, Shelby Norwood, Haylee Smoak, Shenari Green, and Amiyah Brown were named to the All-Academic Team.
Atlanta, Queen City, Pleasant Grove and Liberty-Eylau competed in the Guaranty Bond Bank Baseball Tournament hosted by L-E from Thursday, Feb. 21, through Saturday, Feb. 23.
Queen City and Atlanta had to play their game on Queen City’s field due to L-E’s field not being ready after a steady dose of rain pelted the area Thursday, forcing double-headers to be played on Saturday.
