Game Day

Kaufman Lions vs Terrell Tigers, 7:30PM Memorial Stadium, Terrell

2011 Terrell Tigers-photo courtesy Captured Image

2011 Terrell coaching staff-photo courtesy of Captured Image

2011 Terrell Tigerettes

Baseball practice continues

I got a chance to watch the baseball team practice a little last night.  The weather was cold, but they have to take advantage of all the practice time they can get.  Forecast today is for more snow and below freezing temperatures.

A busy night last night makes for a double post today. Visit www.ihigh/terrelltigers for Tiger Sports info.

Lady Tigers soccer shuts out West Mesquite

Last night the Lady Tigers soccer team hosted West Mesquite at Memorial Stadium.  Terrell scored 4 times in the second half and won 5-0.  Mollie Tolbert scored 3 times for the Tigers.  Their District record is 2-0 and they are 10-3-1 overall.   Tigers coach John Lantrip always fields a tough team, and this year seems no different.

The boys and girls basketball teams both lost their games to Lancaster.  The boys soccer team lost to West Mesquite.

Tigers baseball look to make it three in a row

Heath Hottinger taking a swing against Cleburne.

This Friday the Terrell baseball team will start the long journey to the playoffs. The Tigers have made the playoffs the last two years, but making
it a third time will be a bit more difficult in the revamped District 15-4A.  Leading the Tigers will be new Terrell baseball Coach Gage Davis. Coach
Davis was selected to lead the program in June after Coach Casey Rush accepted a job out of the District.

Davis moved to Terrell from the Rockwall Heath baseball program, who made it to the State Regional Finals last year and finished with a 40-3 record.

Besides Terrell, District 15-4A will include holdover playoff teams Poteet, Red Oak and Forney. Joining the holdovers are playoff teams from last year's
district 16-4A, Corsicana and Ennis. Rounding out the tough district are
Waxahachie, West Mesquite and Lancaster.

Coach Davis sees the favorites in the district as Poteet, Waxahachie and
Corsicana.

Coach Gage Davis at his introduction to the Tigers in June.

The Tigers play a tough non-district schedule that includes tournaments in
DeSoto, Corsicana and Rockwall. The tough tournament schedule may not
produce a desired win-loss record, but it will get the team ready for when
the play begins on district games that actually count.

When asked about his expectations for the Tigers, Coach Davis hoped for the kids to just play hard and never give up. He expects his team this year to
compete hard every game and hopefully play their way into the playoffs for a 3rd consecutive year. Gage said, "our new district is going to be tough, but we have the talent to compete with any of them on any given day."  Fridays practice will start around 3:20. A try out will be held starting
around 5. Coach Davis expects about 15-20 kids to tryout.

Senior Cody Weishaar taking a practice swing last year. 

Asked for advice he could give to a young kid trying out for a sport, Gage said "to make sure that they are prepared and in shape for whatever sport
they are trying out for." Gage went on to explain when trying a sport for the first time or a sport they haven't played in a long time, that they'll
be behind others who've been playing for a while. He added, "it will take dedication and lots of extra work to get caught up."

The Tigers will have four scrimmages prior and a home contest against Garland Lakeview before playing in the Desoto Tournament that begins on
February 24th. A complete varsity and junior varsity schedule is posted on www.ihigh.com/terrelltigers.

100 inning baseball game

The Tigers will also be holding a 100 inning baseball game fundraiser at
10am on Saturday, February 5th at the ball field in Ben Gill Park.

Not sure what a 100 inning game is? The rules for the game are: every hitter
starts with a 3 ball 2 strike
count, so they only get 1 pitch. After 3 outs the bases are cleared, but the
team that was hitting gets to continue to hit until they have 15 outs.

After 15 outs, the team at bat goes to the field and the team that was
fielding goes to hit. Every 3 outs counts as an inning (instead of 6).

The game will start at 10AM. It's free to attend, but they will be taking
donations throughout the game. Come out and spend part of your Saturday at
the ballfield in Ben Gill Park. The kids can use all the support we can give
them!  I will have more on the 100 inning game as the date gets closer.

Skywatch Friday-Ben Gill at dusk

The sky was clear last night allowing the temperature to drop into the 20s. Nothing like the low temperatures our friends up north are getting.

See more Skywatch Friday photos here.

Today will be a busy day for TISD athletics.

The Lady Tigers soccer team begins this morning in a postponed game from yesterday.  They ladies will play Argyle at 10am.  If they win, they they play again at 4pm.  If they lose they play at 2pm.  Click the map for the location of the Lovejoy fields.  The ladies will also be in action on Saturday.


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The boys soccer team takes on the Plano Wildcats starting 1:15pm at Homer Johnson Stadium in Garland.  They then travel to Williams Stadium to take on Allen at 6:30pm.   Below are directions to HBJ Stadium and Williams Stadium.  Like the ladies the boys will be in action Saturday.   Both games are part of the Garland tournament.

HBJ

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Williams

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Coach Mike Halac will take his Lady Tiger basketball team to Red Oak to face the Hawks in a critical District 15-4A game, tip off is 7:30pm. Find your way to Red Oak by using the directions below.


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The boys basketball team has the shortest route to their game tonight. They host Red Oak, tip off is 8pm. This is their second meeting with Red Oak, but the first district game against them. They met earlier this year in Royse City, losing in the championship game of the Royse City tournament. Red Oak won the game 53-47.

Lady Tigers win in Overtime

The game Friday night between the Lady Tigers of Terrell and the Waxahachie Indians didn't start well for the Tigers.  It was midway through the first quarter before the Tigers got on the scoreboard.  By then the score was 8-2 Indians.  Terrell ended the quarter down by the same 8 points 15-7.  The team started to come to life in the second quarter outscoring the Indians 12-6, they trailed 21-15 with just over 2 minutes to go in the half but scored the final 4 points to go into the break only down by 2 points 21-19.


In the second half the Lady Tigers pressing defense started creating opportunities.  Tonisha Dean gave the Tigers their first lead with 23-22 with 5:17 left to go in the 3rd quarter.  The Tigers built a 4 point lead but every time the ladies would be poised to open the game up, the Indians would claw back to tie the score.

The Tigers held a 2 point lead with just over a minute to play but the Indians created a turnover and scored a layup to tie the score.  The Tigers turned the ball over again and the Indians had a chance to win the game but they never got a shot off.


Overtime was all the Lady Tigers.  Tonisha Dean opened up with a layup to give the Tigers a 2 point lead.  An Indian turnover led to a 3 point basket by Dean.  The Tigers were able to hold on and win in overtime 55-49.

The Lady Tigers win, along with Red Oaks loss to Poteet pulls the ladies within 2 games of the final playoff spot for the District.

Terrell: 7-12-13-13-10-55OT
Waxahachie: 15-6-12-12-4-49

Terrell:
#20 - Tonisha Dean - 17pts
#10 - Kelcee Derrick - 11pts
#32 - Cortney Hubbard - 10pts
#5 - Tiara White - 8pts
#21 - Ty Bolden - 4pts
#3 - Gabby Wren - 3pts
#23 - Hailey Whiteside - 2pts

Waxahachie:
#4 - Sterns - 19pts
#3 - Miller - 10pts
#2 - King - 10pts
#5 - Perez - 4pts
#14 - Davis - 3pts
#13 - Hill - 2pts

Tonisha Dean led all scorers with 17 points. 

The boys Runnin' Tigers missed a chance to gain a game on 4th place Waxahachie Friday night losing 55-54 on the road. The boys are 2-6 in district play only good for 7th place,  they are 3 1/2 games behind Waxahachie for the final playoff spot.

The Lady Tigers soccer team finished play in the Mount Pleasant Tournament.  They ended up 2nd in their pool, and 5th out of 16 teams.

The boys soccer team won last night at the Dr. Pepper Cup.  They have one more match this morning, then if everything works out a medal game this evening.

Fall Sports Banquet

Last night the Terrell High School athletic department held their Fall Sports Banquet to recognize the accomplishments of the students who take part in the fall sports.  Awards were given for cross country, tennis, volleyball, football and the sports trainers. I have a few more pictures posted on the ihigh website. Follow the link to the right.

Carmona's Restaurant provided food

The Terrell Athletic Booster Club helped with the food and tickets.

The Lady Tigers basketball team will try to keep their playoff hopes alive tonight. They are in action at home against Waxahachie, tip off is 7:30.

The Runnin' Tigers boys team travels to Waxahachie, game time tonight is 8PM.

Oh so close

The Lady Tigers basketball team traveled to Mesquite to take on district rivals West Mesquite.  The ladies played their hearts out but came up just short losing 59-57.  The Tigers were down early but fought back and held a lead until West Mesquite hit a pair of free throws to give the Wranglers a 58-57 lead with 10.2 seconds remaining in the game.  The Tigers were unable to get a shot off on the next possession and the Wranglers added one more free throw for the final score. The final score wasn't what the Tigers wanted, but if they keep playing like they did last night there will be many more wins.

Work to do

Terrell hosted the Jackrabbits from Forney last night and came out on the short end of a 59-57 score.  Forney had a 6-0 lead before Terrell got on the scoreboard.  The Tigers were down 19-9 with 7:11 left in the half, but a  12-2 run brought the Tigers even at 21 and they led 28-25 at the half.  The lead changed hands a few times in the second half with the Tigers biggest lead of 6 points, 54-48 with just over 4:30 left in the game.  The Tigers though were unable to hold the lead.   The Jackrabbits had a 57-54 lead when Jhrerrod Stiggers hit a 3 pointer to tie the game with 50 seconds remaining.  The Jackrabbits held on the to ball the final 50 seconds and Grant Shaw, who finished with 19 points, hit an easy shot with 2.2 seconds left to give the Forney Jackrabbits a 59-57 win.  The boys district mark is 0-2.

The Lady Tigers fared better in Forney against the Lady Jackrabbits.  They final score was 54-42.  The win evens the district record for the ladies at 2-2.

Both teams face Corsicana on Friday night.  The girls are at home, while the boys travel to Corsicana.

Tigers come up short

The boys and girls teams came up on the losing end last night. The boys team lost to A Maceo Smith in the semifinal of the Herman Furlough Jr. Tournament.

The Lady Tigers kept Red Oak close but ended up losing 53-48. Tonisha Dean was high scorer for both teams with 15 points.

Tigers lose District opener to Mesquite Poteet

The Lady Tigers opened up District 15-4A with a loss to the Pirates from Mesquite Poteet 58-45.  A slow second quarter doomed the Tigers when they were outscored 18-8.   They played Poteet even in the second half and their inside game showed promise.  Tonisha Dean led the Tigers with 16 points, the majority coming from inside or from the free throw line. The Pirates, who made it 3 games deep into the playoffs last year, were led by Shanovia Gamblins 31 points .   The Tigers recored is 0-1 in District and 3-3 overall.  The Lady Tigers will play two games on the road before returning home to play North Garland on Dec. 7th.

Tigers make easy work of Lions

Terrell traveled to Kaufman Friday night for a non-district game against the Kaufman Lions. The Tigers held a 20 point lead a half time 34-14. The Tigers out scored the Lions in the second half 46-15 by using a full court press and hitting a flurry of three pointers, the final score 80-29.
Tavian Henderson led the Tigers in scoring with 19 points.

The varsity next plays on Nov 30, when they host Waxahachie at the Complex in their first District 15-4A game.

Lady Tigers win first one for Coach Halac

The Terrell Lady Tigers tipped off the the new year with a win last night giving first year Coach Mike Halac his first win as a varsity head coach.  He could retire now undefeated.

The Tigers defeated Garland Lakeview 63-52.  

Skywatch Friday-Kickers

The battle of the Tigers tonight as Terrell faces another must win game when they host the the Tigers from Corsicana.  Corsicana is riding a 3 game winning streak, having defeated Ennis, then unbeaten Mesquite Poteet and Waxahachie.  Our Tigers have won 2 straight, beating Red Oak and Forney.

Todays picture is Terrell kicker Josh Simmons leaving the field after a kickoff against Forney.  Josh would end up hitting a 27 yard field goal in the 2nd overtime to win the game for the Tigers.

Other 15-4A games

Lancaster 4-0 @ Mesquite Poteet 3-2

West Mesquite 3-1 @ Waxahachie 2-2

Forney 1-4 @ Red Oak 2-2

Ennis 0-5 is on bye

If you can not go to tonights game listen live on KPYK.
Check the Terrell Daily Photo Facebook page for scoring updates and add the page to your list of likes.



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District play begins

Tonight at Memorial Stadium in Terrell, the 2-0 Tigers host the 2-0 Mesquite Poteet Pirates in the district opener for both teams. Both teams were picked to finish in the bottom half of the district this year.

The Tigers defense, who didnt allow a touchdown last week to Greenville will be tested tonight. The coaches will have to come up with a game plan to contain Pirate QB Beau Nowell and WR Justin Velasquez, both are off to fast starts. The Tiger offense and special teams will have to limit turnovers and mistakes.

Both shots today are of the defensive team during last weeks game.

The biggest key to the game? Outscore the Pirates.

Purchase your Tigers shirt at the game from the Terrell Athletic Booster Club and buy an All Sports Program, featuring some of the non football team photos taken by Brian and me.

If you can not attend the game, listen live on KPYK. Kickoff is 7:30. Updates tonight on the Terrell Daily Photo Facebook page.

Other district games:

Ennis @ Red Oak

West Mesquite @ Corsicana

Lancaster @ Forney

Tigers come up short again

Terrell lost to District leader Mesquite Poteet 6-5 last night. Heath Hottinger gave Terrell a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the second after he hit a 3 run homer over the left field fence. Poteet wasted no time making up the deficit and taking the lead, scoring 4 times in the top of the next inning to lead 5-3. Terrell was never able to get the lead back.

#10 Heath Hottinger leads his teammates back to the dugout after his 3 run home run.

Three runs not enough

Friday night, Terrell Tigers coach Casey Rush told his team in the top of the 3rd inning that 3 runs would not be enough to beat Red Oak. He was right, they lost in extra innings 7-4.

Terrell jumped to a 3-0 lead after 1 inning when Nathan Adam hit a full count, 2 out, 3 run double. Terrell had opportunities to score more runs in later innings, but each time Red Oak was able to pitch out of jams.

Red Oak scored single runs in the 4th, 5th and tied the score 3-3 in the 7th with another single run.

Terrell had one more chance to win the game in the bottom of the 7th but was unable to get a runner home.

Red Oak scored 4 times in the top of the 8th inning, enough to put Terrell away. The Tigers managed to score one run in the bottom of the 8th, final score 7-4.

Tigers win the game lose a shortstop

The Tigers put away the Wranglers from West Mesquite last night winning 12-2 in a five inning 10 run rule game. The Tigers did lose lead off batter and starting shortstop Nathan Adam in the bottom of the 1st inning after he hurt his ankle on the 1st base bag. He left the game but he was able to put some weight on the ankle a little later on.

Monday Morning Mashup

The Terrell Tigers finished the first half of district play 2-4, so far one game out of a playoff spot. They begin the second half Tuesday night at home against West Mesquite. With last Fridays game being moved to Lancaster, the Tigers have 5 of their 6 remaining district games at home.

The St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers begin their 2010 MLB season today. As of this morning, both teams are tied for first in their divisions and the Yankees are in last place, works for me.

I would love the chance to photograph a Rangers or Rough Riders game.

I found a familiar picture on Facebook last night. The fan page for the State Fair of Texas has a picture I took in 2007 posted as their profile picture. I don't know if its an official Fair page, but shouldn't I be compensated for use of my picture? :-) Of course, now it will probably be removed.

Sunday is the Capitol 10K in Austin, yeah I'm ready.

More photos from Friday nights baseball game at Lancaster are posted on the Terrell Daily Photo Facebook page.

Five years ago yesterday, I quit smoking.

Has the Terrell Wal-Mart lost their license to sell fire arms and ammo? Or is this old news?

Don and Brian have pictures posted of the high school rodeo held Saturday at Wade Indoor Arena. I'll have my pictures posted tomorrow. The pictures on the Arena site are mine, used with my permission.

Picked off

Another of the bad breaks that seem to find the Tigers. Thursdays game against Lancaster has been moved to Friday. Same time and location. The weather forecast for Friday, showers and thunderstorms. I'll have more pictures from the game on the Facebook page later this week.