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By Benny Rogers/TVCC Sports Information
With one week of the 2015-16 basketball season in the books, the 11th-ranked Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals are off to a fast start.
Fourth-year coach Kris Baumann’s squad went 3-0 in the Collin College Tournament in Plano. The Cardinals defeated Odessa, 79-76, Midland, 63-61, and Carl Albert, 66-61.
By Benny Rogers/TVCC Sports Information
Unfamiliar faces will attempt to take the men’s basketball team at Trinity Valley Community College back to what has become a familiar place.
As the 11th-ranked Cardinals open the season Friday in the annual College College Classic in Plano, the goal is to see the season reach the NJCAA tournament in Hutchinson, Kan., for a third straight year.
To do so, fourth-year coach Kris Baumann will rely on a team of newcomers. Only 6-8 Houston sophomore Melvin Swift returns from last year’s 28-5 squad that went 17-2 in Region XIV Conference play.
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By Benny Rogers/TVCC Sports Information
It’s on to the spring season for the Trinity Valley Community College Lady Cardinal softball team.
The Lady Cardinals wrapped up the fall exhibition season last weekend, finishing with a 9-11 mark, largely against four-year universities/colleges.
Ashley Johnston, the only coach in the history of the college’s softball program since it began in the fall of 2008, said the tougher schedule was by design.
“We had a much more challenging schedule this fall,” Johnston said. “We wanted to test our kids and see how they would handle adversity. I believe after seeing what we did this fall that we will definitely compete this spring.”
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The Athens High School swim team attended the first meet of the season this past weekend in Nacogdoches. Allison Hardin (far right) placed second in the 50 freestyle and first in the 100 freestyle. Lauren Takata (center) took sixth in the 100 backstroke, and Nathan Garner (left) placed in the 50 and 100 freestyle. (Courtesy photo)
Seven new members were inducted into the Cardinal Hall of Fame on Saturday. Inductees were: (front row, from left) Yolanda Jones (women’s basketball), Shannon Bobbitt (women’s basketball), Shauna Tubbs (women’s basketball); (back row, from left) Ron Baugh (special contributor), Erik Flowers (football), Neil Derrick (men’s basketball), Chavis McCollister (football).