SPORTS SHORTS

SOCCER

The Lampasas Soccer Association is now taking applications for both boys' (Force) and girls' (Tri-City Express) teams.

Players from ages 9 to 18 as of Aug. 1 are eligible. Registration forms and additional information are available on the association's Web site at lampasassoccer.org or by calling Clay Harrington at 556-3581 or Jerry Barbero at 556-4106.

BASKETBALL

The Lampasas High School Lady Badger Basketball Booster Club is selling photos that were taken during recent summer camps for kindergarten through third-graders and fourththrough ninth-graders.

Proceeds go to the booster club. For more information, call head coach Stuart Beckwith at 556-2327.

BADGER FOOTBALL

Lampasas High School football season tickets will be on sale at the LHS athletics office Aug. 4-8 for current ticket holders and Aug. 11-15 for non-ticket holders. Sales will be cut off Aug. 15.

Call 556-2327 for more information.

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The LHS and Lampasas Middle School weight rooms will be open to student-athletes throughout the summer.

The LHS weight room is open from 6 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. for varsity and junior varsity players and from 8 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. for female athletes and incoming freshmen.

The LMS weight room is open Monday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon and Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

RANCH RODEO

The Mills County Cowboy Church has scheduled its second annual MCCC Ranch Rodeo for July 19 at 7 p.m. at the arean one mile south of Goldthwaite on Texas Highway 183.

The first 12 four-man teams to sign up will be accepted. The cost is $400 per team with an 80 percent payback. Events include branding, sorting, trailer loading, doctoring and wild cow milking. To enter, call Kent at 325-451-4016 or Debbie at 325- 648-2000.