Brice Cherry

2 days ago | wacotrib.com | Brice Cherry

Whereas other school administrators and teachers in Central Texas are already off enjoying their summer breaks, Brad Shelton is still waiting for his to start. He’s not about to complain about it. File this one in that manila folder labeled “Good Problems to Have.” A lot of athletic directors would love to be in the position that Midway’s Shelton is in this week. “Obviously these are the problems you want to deal with. These are the fun things,” Shelton said.

3 days ago | wacotrib.com | Brice Cherry

Lake Belton senior Maddison Ruiz won the Texas Built Ford Tough Class 5A Female Athlete of the Month for May. Ruiz went 20-3 in the pitching circle for the Lady Broncos’ softball team in the 2025 season, amassing 261 strikeouts while carrying a 0.83 ERA. She tossed two perfect games and two more no-hitters, and beat national No. 1-ranked Melissa, 1-0, in Game 1 of the regional final on a two-hitter. She also had a 20-strikeout game.

4 days ago | wacotrib.com | Brice Cherry

For the second consecutive year, the National Player of the Year resides at McLennan Community College. MCC sophomore Trinity Allen won the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Player of the Year honor for NJCAA Div. I, that organization announced Tuesday. Last year, MCC’s Katia Reyes was the NFCA Player of the Year. Allen, a first baseman from Cypress Bridgeland High School, demonstrated a dominant hitting stroke all season.

4 days ago | wacotrib.com | Brice Cherry

Gather round, children, and let me regale you of a time when hitters actually knew how to hit. It was a glorious time in all of the land. Major League Baseball didn’t need to ban defensive shifts, because batsmen were actually capable of hitting a ball to any part of the field. A mustachioed, sweet-swinging Padre named Tony Gwynn struck out a meager 21 times per season. Every team had a .300 hitter, and usually more than one. Wait, kids, why are you walking away?

6 days ago | wacotrib.com | Brice Cherry

COLLEGE STATION — The mindset for the NCAA West Prelims is “survive and advance.”For Baylor, it felt more like “finish with a flourish.”Baylor flourished this week at this precursor for nationals, and its sixth-ranked women added four more NCAA event qualifiers on Saturday’s final day of action at Texas A&M’s Cushing Stadium. “Overall, we had a good meet. Now, we’ve just got to get some people healthy and get ready to go to Oregon,” Baylor head coach Michael Ford said.