The Graham Junior High School girls’ cross country team placed 6th yesterday, with the boys’ team finishing 12th. The teams competed Wednesday, Sept. 20 in their third meet of the year at the Wyatt Dickerson Invitational in Alvord.
The teams will compete again next Wednesday, Sept. 27 at the Brock Invitational in Weatherford. The invitational begins at 4 p.m. with the 7th grade girls team.
It did not take long for the Graham Steers to take control of their matchup Friday, Sept. 15 with the Iowa Park Hawks. The Steers rode a powerful offense and a lockdown defense to a 67-6 win over the Hawks and moved to 4-0 on the season.
Coming off an emotional high after sweeping Abilene Christian on Tuesday, Sept. 12, the Graham Lady Blues kept things rolling with a sweep of Windthorst. The Lady Blues dominated all facets of the game Friday, Sept. 15 as they won 25-16, 25-17 and 26-24.
The Lady Blues have now won eight straight sets dating back to the final two sets of their win over North Central Texas Academy on Friday, Sept. 8.
The Graham Junior High School cross country teams competed Wednesday, Sept. 16 at the Lipan Indian Invitational in their second meet of the season.
The eighth grade boys led the way as they finished first as a team while the seventh grade boys took seventh and the seventh grade girls took sixth place in their respective races. The eighth grade girls didn’t have enough participants to qualify for the team scores.
Graham ISD recently released renderings of the baseball and softball field renovations that will be carried out this fall and winter.
Each field is being fitted with a specialized synthetic turf and should be ready by the time the Graham High School baseball and softball seasons start in the spring.
The Newcastle Bobcats finally met their match this year as they suffered their first loss of the season Friday, Sept. 15 at the hands of the Jonesboro Eagles 50-38.
It was the first time this season the Bobcats played a game that required all four quarters as in their previous wins the games were over by halftime due to the high scoring margin. But the Eagles brought their A-game and the Bobcats moved to 3-1 on the season.
The two athletes selected for this week’s Athletes of the Week each helped their respective teams earn wins in big ways. Lillian Noble of the Lady Blues volleyball team and Jayton Hearne of the Steers football team are The Leader’s Athletes of the Week.
After taking losses three matches in a row, the Graham Lady Blues are back on a two-game winning streak thanks to their clean sweep of the Abilene Christian Panthers. Graham won in three sets by scores of 25-21, 25-19 and 25-23.
With so many of their recent matches requiring four or five sets, a three-set win was a welcome sight for Graham. While the home-team Panthers were no pushover, the Lady Blues excelled in all facets of the game and finished the win with a major come-from-behind victory in the third set.
Last year, the Graham Steers faced off against the Glen Rose Tigers twice — once during the regular season and once in the first round of the playoffs — and came away with losses both times by scores of 49-14 and 55-14, respectively.
This year, the Steers avenged those losses by handing Glen Rose its second loss of the season and moving Graham to 3-0 with a dominant 45-21 win Friday, Sept. 8.
Playing in their first home game of the season, the Newcastle Bobcats showed off their winning dominance in front of the home crowd as they defeated the Azle Christian Fighting Crusaders 53-6.
For the third time in a row this season, Newcastle’s game ended at halftime due to the Bobcats’ huge scoring margin. In six-man football, if a team is ahead by 45 points at any time during the game it ends.
