The varsity portion of the Bluebonnet Relays is slated to take place Friday at Gordon Wood Stadium with a format the features essentially two track and field meets in one.
The Class 1A-3A schools will begin competing with field events at 9 a.m. and running finals at noon, while the Class 4A-6A schools start their field events at 4 p.m. and running finals at 7 p.m.
Due to COVID guidelines established by the UIL, no more than eight teams can compete in a meet which has led to the staggered starts.
“We always want to make this as big as we can make it and had this overbooked when the restrictions came out so I had to go with the first eight that committed,” said Lions track and field head coach Andy Howard. “At 9 a.m. Friday we’re going to have our small school division and that’s Early Bangs, Cherokee, Roscoe, San Saba, Eastland, Whitney and Brady coming to that. Once we’ve cleared them from the stadium then we’ll bring in our big schools, which is going to consist of
The Brownwood Lions finished with a 3-1 record at the Brown County Invitational, again rallying from an early deficit to knock off the San Angelo Lake View Chiefs, 7-4, in Saturday night’s tournament finale at Morris Southall Field.
“We won three ball games this weekend and we’re still not playing our best baseball,” said Lions head coach Brian Harris. “I can’t say enough about them – they’re competing, they’re helping each other, they’re playing the way we are asking them to play and they’re just getting better. The things that we mess up on, we’ll work on in practice this next week and hopefully we won’t make those mistakes again.”
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