THE HOME STRETCH
Badger defense stymies Rangers
By JEREMY HEATH Staff Writer
      The Lampasas High School boys' basketball team assured its head coach of two things on Friday night: 1) a winning season and 2) it plans to make a strong stretch run despite being out of the playoff race.
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Home Games Tonight
      The Lady Badgers and Badgers are scheduled to play host to Dripping Springs tonight, starting with the girls' game at 6:30 p.m.
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Lady Rangers rally past LHS
VR Girls 54, LHS 49
By JEREMY HEATH Staff Writer
      In a game that strangely resembled the first meeting between the two teams, the Vista Ridge Lady Rangers used an early third-quarter run to upend the Lampasas Lady Badgers, 54-49, on Friday at Bozarth-Fowler Gymnasium. In the first meeting on Jan.
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BOOTIN' BADGERS
      Left: LHS midfielder Patricia Roberts gains control of the ball in the Lady Badgers' 1-0 home loss against Stephenville on Friday. Right: LHS forward Jeanette Marquez battles for position.
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LHS spring tennis begins
      The LHS spring tennis team opened its season Friday at the Killeen Tournament. The girls' doubles team of Amy Johnson and Ciara Salazar went 3-1 to place third. Fellow girls' double tandem Ashley Perkins and Kayla Krueger grabbed a fifth-place finish, going 3-1.
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Realignment offers opportunities, challenges
Jeremy Heath
      On Friday morning, the University Interscholastic League announced its biennial classification and district realignments. For Lampasas High School sports fans, the results were good and not so good, depending on the sports one follows.
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Copperas Cove Powerlifting Invitational
LHS girls placed 2nd
      Lifter Stephanie Smith Shelby Faught Shannon Lucas Kelsey Bernado Courtney Carpenter Susie Goodspar
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Freshmen 1 win away
      After Friday night's 40-33 victory over Vista Ridge, the Lampasas High School freshman girls' basketball team's resume reads: 25 wins; zero losses. A win tonight at home against Dripping Springs would complete a perfect season. The game is scheduled for 8 p.m.
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Outdoors With Mat Taylor
TV show brings back memories
      Recently, I was channel surfing on my television and began to watch a program entitled "The Best and Worst of Tred Barta" on an outdoors channel. Barta said he hunts the hard way, using only a long bow and homemade wooden arrows.
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LHS gridders honored for classroom work
      The original Academic All-District 25-4A list, which was released in late December, did not acknowledge all of the Lampasas High School football players who qualified for the honor.
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SPORTS SHORTS
BADGER BASEBALL
      The Lampasas Badger Baseball RBI Club is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the LHS cafeteria. The RBI Club is a booster club for the LHS baseball program and open to all Badger fans. Anyone interested in Badger baseball is encouraged to attend.
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