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The 5A South Track & Field Championships will be held Tuesday at Hot Springs Lakeside. El Dorado is the reigning champion in both boys and girls.

Senior Davin James cleared 5-6 in her first meet as a junior and never accomplished the feat again … until Tuesday in Nashville. James chased that height for a year before uncorking a 5-6 high jump at the Coca-Cola Relays.

Rain last week poured water on the area sports calendar, leaving teams to shake up their schedules. In softball, El Dorado has a make-up game against Sheridan Monday at the El Dorado/Union County Recreation Complex, beginning at 5 p.m. The Lady Wildcats will play a doubleheader at Benton on Thursday.

With two meets left before the 5A South Track & Field Championships, El Dorado girls’ coach John Koonce can be found doing his mad scientist routine. Or, perhaps he’s imitating one of those math nerds … uh, I mean geniuses. With pencil and paper in hand, Koonce is currently adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing to see how many points it will take for the Lady Wildcats to repeat as state champions.

HOT SPRINGS - El Dorado’s DeAndra Burns Jr., won a pair of events and led the Wildcats to the championship Thursday in the Joe Reese Memorial Track & Field Championships.

El Dorado’s Davin James was the only competitor left in the high jump area during the Oil Belt Relays. The senior easily cleared 5-foot to win the competition. When asked if she wanted to keep jumping, she nodded and moved the bar to 5-foot-2, which she cleared on her first attempt. She bowed out at 5-foot-4, narrowly missing on three attempts. “I don’t think I performed the best I could. I mean, I did qualify for state but it wasn’t … I could’ve done better,” said James. “It was...

After seeing the first two track meets of the season washed out, El Dorado was so determined to have the Oil Belt Relays this week, it moved it up a day from Thursday to Wednesday. That proved to be a good move for the Lady Wildcats, who opened the season with the Oil Belt championship.

El Dorado’s girls’ track program won its first state championship last season. The core of that team graduated and now Coach John Koonce will try to keep the Lady Wildcats on the right track with new faces. Koonce said the team has been working out all year in the weight room but has been on the track since December. The varsity squad has 31 girls participating this season.

Stephenville community news in brief

Stephenville community news in brief