ARLINGTON — The Texas Rangers acquired minor league right-hander Yohanse Morel from the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night for pitcher Albert Abreu. The hard-throwing Abreu had been designated for assignment by the Rangers three days earlier.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Texas freshman Mia Scott is so shy that she hasn’t spoken at a news conference all season. There was nothing timid about the way she swung the bat on Thursday.
IRVING — There are representatives from the Big 12’s four future members attending the conference’s spring meetings, along with the lingering presence of Texas and Oklahoma, the league’s only football national champions who still are three years away from their scheduled departures to the SEC.
Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway started with Denny Hamlin out front and ended with Denny Hamlin out front. What happened in-between defied belief.
When Josh Berry crossed the finish line at Charlotte Motor Speedway—giving JR Motorsports its first NASCAR Xfinity Series win at its home track—second-place Ty Gibbs was just reaching the 200-footlong Speedway TV screen television on the backstretch.
After winning eight team state titles as the girls head track coach at DeSoto, June Villers is leaving the legendary program to become the girls head coach at Waxahachie, it was announced Friday. Villers became the head coach at DeSoto in 2008 and won team state titles in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
The Waxahachie Daily Light and Midlothian Mirror are proud to announce the nominees for the 2021-22 Golf Players of the Year for the Ellis County High School Sports Awards. The Players of the Year will be announced in a special section in both the Daily Light and Mirror to be published June 29 and 30 respectively.
Waxahachie’s Todd Alexander has coached numerous sports in his more than a quarter of a century at his alma mater, including three seasons as the Indians’ head football coach. He will be adding golf to his portfolio this fall.
RED OAK — After making it to the Class 5A Region II quarterfinals, the Red Oak High School softball team received plenty of honors in voting by the coaches of District 14-5A at the end of the season.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The National Christian College Athletic Association has released its baseball postseason awards and Michael Watson of SAGU has been named the 2022 NCCAA National Pitcher of the Year.