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Texas state law will not allow officials at scholastic athletic events to, without warning, remove unruly spectators from events sponsored or sanctioned by the school district or the University Interscholastic League (UIL) starting in the 2025-26 school year.

In their final week of their summer basketball league at the Breckenridge ISD Athletics and Fine Arts Center last week, the Bucks had their best performance of the four weeks with a full squad of players back in action.

As they finished up the final week of the Graham summer volleyball league, the Breckenridge Lady Bucks saw some success on the court Monday, June 23. For another week, the Lady Bucks’ first team swept both of the matches they played, against New Castle and Perrin, while the second team lost both of their matches, to Burk 1 and Graham 2.

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As she continues to rack up her achievements before going off to Weatherford College, Joni Jackson was recently named as a finalist for the Abilene Reporter’s 2025 Readers’ Choice All-Big Country Softball Player of the Year. The former Lady Bucks’ star catcher and soon-to-be Weatherford Coyote is one of 15 candidates from the Big Country that readers are voting on.

This past baseball season, the Buckaroos made the playoffs as the third seed in Conference 3A Region 1 District 8 and went on to face Iowa Park, out of that region’s District 7, in a bi-district matchup. The Hawks got the best of them in what was only a one-game playoff at Iowa Park, beating the Bucks, 6-1, and moving on to district playoffs. A recent approved change to the baseball postseason format for conferences 3A and 4A, by the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Standing Committee on Athletics, would have potentially opened the door for the Bucks to get a second crack at the Hawks had it been in place earlier – the fallacy of the predetermined outcome aside.

For their third week of participating in the Graham summer volleyball league, the Breckenridge Lady Bucks’ first and second teams played each other before the second team faced Perrin later in the evening Monday, June 16. The first team beat the second team in the first game on the night before losing their second game to Mineral Wells’ second team.

As they hosted the second week of their summer basketball league, the Buckaroos took on the Newcastle Bobcats in the main gym of the Athletics and Fine Arts Center for their first game Tuesday, June 10. In a game that they fell behind early, the Bucks ultimately turned another gear before outlasting the Bobcats, 3230, in overtime.

The Breckenridge Buckaroos athletic department, led by Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Casey Pearce, continues to fill coaching positions during the summer as the 2025-26 school year nears. The most recent coaching hire was of Randall Case as special teams coordinator for the Buckaroos football team.