Sports

Salinas is 242 lb State Champion in 3A-Division 3

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Landon Salinas brought home the title of the 242 Division 3 State Champion from the 2024 State Powerlifting Meet held in Abilene on Friday, March 22. Salinas had a squat of 700 pounds, bench of 500 pounds, and deadlift of 525 pounds for a total of 1,725 pounds.

Axtell sweeps Wortham

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The Wortham baseball team lost a pair of games to Axtell last week. The Bulldogs were beaten, 12-1, on Tuesday, March 19, at Axtell and lost 16-1 at Wortham on Friday, March 22.

Lady Eagles win Fairfield Meet

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The Fairfield Lady Eagles won the Fairfield Meet with 176 points out of 10 schools. Eustace came in second with 166.5 points and Westwood third with 125.5 points.

Not all white bass ‘up the creek’

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One of my favorite ways to spend an early spring morning is tossing small Roadrunners or Beetle Spins into the slow moving current of a stream feeding a lake with a healthy population of white bass. When conditions are just right, catching can be nonstop. The fish often stack up in the deeper holes below creek bends and provided action that keeps anglers coming back year after year. Current and water temperature and clarity trigger the annual white bass spawn and conditions have to be just right to cause the mass movement out of the lakes and reservoirs. Finding concentrations of fish is the key to success and this often requires walking the creek bank to locate a hotspot.

5 Eagles advance to state meet in powerlifting

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Out of 29 schools, the Fairfield Eagles took third place overall at the Region II Division III 3A Powerlifting Meeting on Saturday, March 9, at West High School. Fairfield scored a total of 29 points behind Troy with 37 points and Little River Academy with 31 points.