Outdoors With Mat Taylor
Jury still out on success level of deer season
      After 67 days, the Texas general deer season has come to a close. That is not entirely true, however, as a special two-day, youth-only hunt is scheduled Jan. 19-20. Also, some hunting is allowed on Managed Land Deer Permit ranches for another month or so.
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HALF-COURT PRAYER DOOMS LADY BADGERS
Lady Rangers rally to top LHS after improbable shot to close third quarter
By JEREMY HEATH Staff Writer
      CEDAR PARK -- While it's certainly not uncommon for a basketball game to turn on one shot, it is unusual for that shot to find the net from half-court.
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Badgers' rally comes up short in 25-4A game
Vista Ridge 47, LHS Boys 45
By JEREMY HEATH Staff Writer
      CEDAR PARK -- A fourth team emerged as a potential playoff contender in District 25-4A on Friday. And it wasn't Lampasas. Cedar Park Vista Ridge (10-11 overall, 4-0 in district) proved its previous district wins against Marble Falls, Burnet and Dripping Springs were not just a case of it beating...
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Looking at 2007
      From local athletes honored at the state and national level to coaching changes in Badger sports such as football and volleyball to a boys' basketball team poised to make a playoff run, 2007 offered local sports fans plenty to cheer about.
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BEYOND BADGER FIELD
Former Badgers turn in big seasons at next level
      Several former Badger football players made impacts at the college level in 2007. Brock Stickler saw plenty of playing time at the Division I level as a starting slot receiver at North Texas. On the year, Stickler caught 37 passes for 391 yards and two touchdowns.
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Former Badger siblings run together
      The fall of 2007 will mark the final season in which Lampasas High School graduates Maegan and Wesley Fisher run cross country together. The siblings, who ran together at LHS until Maegan's graduation in 2006, both ran at Western Texas College in Snyder last fall.
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