Sports

Breckenridge High School seniors Chloe Whitmire and Christian Arellano have been selected this week’s Breckenridge American’s Athletes of the Week.

Baseball and softball throw a lot of games all at once to athletes early in the season.

Before district starts, teams often play four to seven games a week and face tough competition from school all over Texas.

This week’s athletes have shown leadership to their teams to lead them both to success last week.

Three Lady Buckaroos powerlifters earned their spots in the state powerlifting meet. The team competed Saturday, March 2 at the region meet at Bells High School.

Rylee Fuller, Isabelle Biddison and Joni Jackson each advance to the state powerlifting meet.
Cabel Perkins, Maria Duran, Ruthie Valdez, Analia Palacios and Adriana Perez each earned medals at the region meet.

As a team, the Lady Bucks took third overall with 28 points.

The girls’ state meet will take place March 13-16 in Frisco.

With games split between Graham and Clyde High Schools, the Buckaroos took part in their first tournament of the season Feb. 23-24.

The team finished the weekend with a 3-0-1 record with wins against Graham, Clyde and Lampasas.

Bucks 10, Graham 6
The Bucks and Steers met formally for the first time this season to open the tournament at the GHS baseball field. The two teams previously met in a per-season scrimmage with the Bucks winning 5-4.

In the rematch, Cameron David led the Bucks offensive with on hit and two RBIs.

The Lady Bucks put on their most dominate performance of the season last weekend at the Icebreaker Softball Tournament in Abilene.

During the three-day tournament, the Lady Bucks won four of five games.

Lady Bucks 5, Ballinger 1
Chloe Whitmire struck out 14 batters in the Lady Bucks first game of the tournament while giving up three hits.
As a team, the Lady Bucks scored five runs on three hits. Emma Williams, Charlie Salazar and Whitmire each earned hits.

Buckaroos senior Alexis Franco and Lady Buckaroos junior Joni Jackson have been selected the Breckenridge American’s Athletes of the Week.

Success in athletics does not always show up on the stats sheet and does not always equate to wins.

A great team player puts their teams in positions to win sometimes by skill and athleticism and other times with leadership and poise.

This week’s athletes have shown a bit of both in games that were sometimes losing efforts.

A late meltdown spoiled what looked to be a blowout victory in the Lady Buckaroos’ home opener Wednesday, Feb. 14. After taking a six-run lead, the Lady Bucks gave up eight straight runs to lose to Clyde 10-9.

The Buckaroos opened the 2024 season at home Wednesday, Feb. 21 against Holliday. While the team lost 2-1, the Bucks are optimistic as they begin the first tournament of the season this weekend.

There are many cliches in sports including “speed kills” and “basketball is a game of runs.” Both of these played heavy roles in ending the Buckaroos’ season with a 75-50 loss Tuesday, Feb. 20 in the bi-district playoff against City View.

The Buckaroos’ regular season came to an end last week with a pair of road games at Brock and Hawley.

During the district finale on the road at Brock, the Buckaroos lost 70-52 Tuesday, Feb. 13. With the season over and a week off until the bi-district playoff, the Buckaroos scheduled a “playoff warm-up” game against Hawley that took place Friday, Feb. 16.

The Lady Bucks took part in the first of three pre-district tournament Feb. 8-10 in college station. The team faced tough competition from larger schools to finish 1-5.

As a 4A school, the Lady Bucks took on Richland (5A), A&M Consolidated (5A), McKinney Boyd (6A), Houston MacArthur (6A), El Paso Eastlake (6A) and Southlake Carroll (6A).

Richland 7, Lady Bucks 1
The Lady Bucks struggled to string together hits and defensive errors to open the tournament Friday, Feb. 15 against Richland.