EYEING THE PRIZE
EYEING THE PRIZE - The Bulldog cross country team is entering the season ranked third in the state after a fourth in state 2020 season and a 2021 state runners-up finish
Sports
Dogs kick off this Friday after sparring with Gladiators
The Hamilton Bulldogs went tit for tat with the District 7-2A DI favorite Italy Gladiators on Thursday of last week in Italy during the final football scrimmage of the season.
Lady Dogs on a roll
Following up on a Whitney Tournament championship the previous week, the now 9-2 varsity Lady Bulldogs returned home to host the Hamilton Volleyball Tournament last Thursday and Saturday and placed second overall.
Court nixes burn ban
Hamilton County Commissioners lifted the burn ban Tuesday morning but will leave it on the agenda for now. “It looks like with the damper weather, we can lift it for now,” said Precinct 4 Commissioner Dickie Clary, who voted for the action along with Precinct 3’s Lloyd Huggins and Precinct 2’s Keith Curry. Precinct 1 Commissioner Johnny Wagner voted against, and County Judge Mark Tynes abstained. The court authorized the City of Hamilton to take over maintenance of McCaleb Lane to Highway 281 and Park Road to County Road 101 and Curry to install culverts to Private Roads 16017 and 16019 in the Lanham Estates subdivision off Highway 1602. Commissioners discussed the county budget but there was discrepancy on numbers received from Hamilton Central Appraisal District. They recessed to call Richard Petree, who was not available. “I question the accuracy of these numbers,” Clary said. “They do not fit the calculation. If we don’t have numbers we can depend on, you can be certain I won’t vote for a budget again. This is not acceptable. I’m not pointing fingers; I just don’t understand.”
Dogs bottle up Dublin
Export to Italy this Thursday
GO BAND!
Staff Photo/ Kim Hinton FIGHTING BULLDOG BAND - Under the tutelage of Band Director Asa Hamilton and Director of Fine Arts Tim Edins, the Hamilton High School Marching Band began marching practice on Aug. 1.
Schronk enlists in US Army
Tanner Schronk of Lake Charles La. has enlisted in the US Army. Schronk scored over a 101 to qualify as a 37F Psychological Operations Specialist and will be attending Airborne training.
Serving Aces
Following scrimmages versus multiple teams in both West and Early on Friday and Saturday of last week, Hamilton’s varsity and two junior varsity volleyball squads were scheduled to officially tipoff the 2022 season by hosting Dublin on Tuesday. The Lady Bulldogs will compete in the Whitney Tournament on Thursd a y through Saturday of this week and will return home to host Comanche next Tuesday in the Larry Eilers Gymnasium with JV matches scheduled for 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., followed by the varsity at 6:30.
Dogs to host Lions for pigskin scrimmage
After two weeks of civil revelry between the red and black, the Hamilton Bulldogs will finally have an opportunity to sic their efforts on opposing colors this Friday evening beginning at 6 p.m. at Kooken Field.
Schoen family thanks
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Gary Wayne Schoen, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament was a wonderful weekend at Perry Country Club. After a two-year break, we were very happy to have all of our golf family back together again to celebrate. Our golf tournament is a BIG golfing family reunion. The tournament was opened with a prayer by Pastor Aaron Kalbus. This year we had a total of fifty-six three-man teams. Twenty- eight teams began play at seven in the morning and twenty-eight teams began play in the afternoon. Many thanks go to all of the golfers that came out to help celebrate the 30th anniversary.
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