Sports

The Sun Belt Conference— a multi-bid baseball league in 27-of-33 seasons since 1989—has historically been one of the nation’s premier college baseball conferences.

As Texas State broke ground to signal the start of construction for both the renovations of the south endzone complex and the new football performance center, there was a sense at work that Texas State is turning a new page in its life that has not been seen since the Bobcats made the jump to FBS.

The Bobcats proved who the top cat was as Texas State knocked off the Georgia State Panthers with a walk off home run by first baseman Daylan Pena, winning 6-5 in 12 innings.

I was visiting the small town of Hughes Springs in Northeast Texas a couple of weeks ago. There is a Wild Flower Festival in the town that is a fun event to attend. Along with the Festival there is a 5K race. The race is called the Wild Flower Trails 5K. Since the area has a forest of loblolly pines around I assumed a trail run would be run through some of the trails in those tall pine trees. I thought it would be a fun race to take some photos of at the start/finish line. Upon checking about the race I was told it is a point to point race. That meant the start was 3.1 miles from the finish and my chances of some photos was going to be a problem. The race started up on a hill on Highway 161. I drove up to highway 161 and tried to figure the direction runners would take to run on a trail. It was a major highway and could not figure how this could be the starting point. I took several side roads that looked promising through some wooded neighborhoods. I found out the race followed highway 161 back into town and then turned up the town’s main street back to City Hall. Why it was called a trail run while following a major highway had me a little confused.

Men’s Hammer Throw

Chris Preddie punched his ticket to the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships as the freshman qualified in the men’s long jump on Wednesday at the 2023 NCAA West Prelims at Hornet Stadium.

With 22 events featuring Bobcats, the Texas State track and field team is set to compete and aiming to qualify for the NCAA Championships with the 2023 NCAA West Prelims in Sacramento this Wednesday through Saturday at Hornet Stadium.

With the summer fast approaching and people wanting to try out new activities, one of those possibilities is participating in what is called the fastest growing sport in the country: pickleball.

Today

Texas State ended the final regular season game in emphatic fashion as the Bobcats ran over the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks in a 17-0 win.

Texas State’s season came to an end over the weekend as the Bobcats fell to Texas A&M in a thrilling 4-2 loss.

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