Nathan Hague

2 days ago | dailysentinel.com | Nathan Hague

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a 10-part series looking back at the biggest sports stories at SFA during the 2024-25 school year. No. 10: Buzzer-beater, pick-six land among top individual playsBrown’s pick-sixOn Saturday, Sept. 7, SFA’s football team traveled to Denton trailing North Texas 14-3 when linebacker Jermaine Brown leapt to intercept a pass from Mean Green quarterback Chandler Morris.

2 days ago | dailysentinel.com | Nathan Hague

Garrison High School athletes are participating in summer workouts to prepare for the upcoming school year — one that athletic director and head football coach Brandon Alvarez hopes will mirror the success of the year just completed. “I thought we had a really good year overall,” Alvarez said. “We won state in powerlifting for the third year in a row. Volleyball made a deep run. Football made a good run. Baseball made a good run with their fifth district title.

3 days ago | dailysentinel.com | Nathan Hague

Former Lumberjacks takes lessons learned on the court and applies in the classroomAs Benson Akpan teaches high school business management at Uplift Education in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, he often sees parallels between his current job and his former role as a member of the SFA Lumberjacks basketball team. “When you play team sports, you don't have a choice but to get along with the people you work with,” Akpan said. “You can take that concept and apply it to teaching.

4 days ago | dailysentinel.com | Nathan Hague

Nacogdoches High School head baseball coach Eric DeJesus is continuing a tradition he started shortly after taking the job — the Mini Dragon Baseball Camp. “It went pretty well,” DeJesus said of last year’s event. “We had a good turnout, about 30 kids. I think we’ve already got 45 or 50 signed up for next week’s camp. Last year’s camp was a great success.”DeJesus, who was hired in July 2023, launched the camp just a week into his new role.

4 days ago | dailysentinel.com | Nathan Hague

With another school year in the books, Alto athletic director and head football coach Brock Grigsby said he considers it a successful one for the Yellowjackets and Lady Jackets programs. “I think that we had a great year across the board,” Grigsby said. “We had a winning season in football, so we got back on the right side of that. Every girls sport qualified for the playoffs, so we were very proud of that. “Man, our boys basketball team won its first playoff game in eight years.