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The Tolar Lady Rattlers are hitting the reset button. After an 0-14 district campaign last year, the Lady Rattlers brought in coach Michael Hall, who was an assistant at Mansfield

As head coach Amber Branson put it, the Lipan Lady Indians can’t lean on youth as an excuse any more. Last season, Lipan rode a core of sophomores and juniors

A new coach and what feels like a new roster for the Granbury Lady Pirates will take the court in 2019-20. Alan Thorpe comes in from Stephenville to lead Gran-bury

11/2 v. Cisco (scrimmage) 11/5 v. Santo (scrimmage) 11/12 @ Christoval 11/15 @ Krum 11/19 v. Haskell 11/21-23 @ Marlin Classic (Port Aransas) 11/26 @ Grapeland (in Glen Rose) 12/3

11/2 v. Comanche (scrimmage) 11/5 @ Clifton (scrimmage) 11/12 @ Dublin 11/16 v. Santo 11/19 @ Early 11/23 @ De Leon 11/25 v. Meridian 12/3 @ Hico 12/5-7 @ Dublin

11/2 v. Northwest/Nolan Catholic (scrimmage) 11/5 @ Mineral Wells (scrimmage) 11/9 @ Decatur 11/12 v. Nolan Catholic 11/22 @ North Forney 11/25 v. Azle 11/26 v. Abilene Cooper 12/3 @

Girls basketball season is right around the corner. All three Hood County public schools have scrimmages today, while the regular season begins on Nov. 9 when Granbury travels to play

PASSING: K. Gibson 92-178-1,132-5 10 TD; Z. Watson 1-1-71-0 1 TD; C. Gibson 2-8-10-0 RUSHING: Z. Watson 130-807 13 TD; C. Kracy 90-585 7 TD; K. Gibson 82-244 5 TD;

The Granbury Pirates entered this year believing they were a playoff team, even if few others did. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football pegged the Pirates at the No. 8 spot in

The Tolar Lady Rattlers entered their last game of the season needing a win to make the postseason. They delivered in style, blowing out Paradise on the road 3-0 (25-19,

WHO: Granbury v. Carter-Riverside WHERE: Aledo High School WHEN: Monday, Nov. 4 at 6:30 p.m.

The Granbury Lady Pirates closed out their regular season with a 3-0 (25-13, 25-22, 25-11) win at Everman Tuesday. Granbury finished at 13-1 in District 5-5A, which put the Lady

North Central Texas Academy claimed the Texas Christian Athletic League Class 3A state volleyball championship with a 3-0 sweep of El Paso Faith Christian last week. NCTA swept Bob Hope in

The Granbury Pirates and Tolar Rattlers both earned postseason bids with wins Friday.

The Granbury Lady Pirates will play Carter-Riverside in the bi-district round of the Class 5A UIL volleyball playoffs.

The Granbury Pirate golf team came in second place at the Burleson Invitational, held at Squaw Valley Golf Club last week. Ty Holbrook paced Gran-bury with a 78-69-147, winning first

BRING HIM DOWN: North Central Texas Academy players take down a Westlake Academy ballcarrier during a six-man football game at NCTA Friday. The Pioneers lost 56-8 and hold a 1-7

1. Jacksboro (3-0) T2. Comanche (2-1) T2. Dublin (2-1) T4. Tolar (1-2) T4. Millsap (1-2) 6. Rio Vista (0-3)

T1. Brock (12-1) T1. Boyd (12-1) 3. Peaster (9-4) 4. Tolar (6-7) 5. Paradise (5-8) T6. Millsap (3-10) T6. Breckenridge (3-10) 8. Jacksboro (2-11)

Two Hood County schools are sending cross country runners to the UIL state meet. Clayton Smith, a senior at Granbury High School, set a school record at the Region I-5A

Friday night’s game against Millsap was a slug-fest through and through for the Tolar Rattlers – but then, Tolar is built to win those types of games. The Rattlers edged

T1. Granbury (12-1) T1. Burleson (12-1) 3. Mansfield Legacy (9-4) 4. Burleson Centennial (7-6) 5. Everman (6-7) 6. Crowley (5-8) 7. Mansfield Timberview (1-12) 8. Arlington Seguin (0-13)

The Granbury Lady Pirates suffered their first loss of District 5-5A play Friday with a 3-1 (25-17, 25-17, 19-25, 25-18) defeat at Burleson. Payton Bell led Granbury with 11 kills,