Arlington News

Dragons sweep state-ranked Arlington Martin in baseball playoffs (Southlake Times)
With his team holding a 9-1 lead and three outs separating them from a sweep of state-ranked Arlington Martin, Carroll baseball coach Larry Hughes still was nervous.

In Texas football, a second season is catching on (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Move over baseball and soccer; the Texas School of Football based in Keller is a new player in the spring.

PREP FOOTBALL: Arlington High promotes assistant to coach football team (Everett Herald)
For his first head football coaching job, Greg Dailer took over a new program at a high school in Florida. Technically, Dailer won't be starting from scratch for his second head-coaching opportunity. But there's plenty of work to do at Arlington High School, he said.

BASEBALL: Carroll sweeps state-ranked Arlington Martin (Southlake Times)
Before this weekend the most runs Arlington Martin’s baseball team had allowed this season in a game was nine runs. Carroll scored nine runs in both games of its best-of-three Class 5A Region I area-round playoff series to sweep the Warriors.

Fitness and nutrition program tries to put kids on the right track (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By SHIRLEY JINKINS ARLINGTON -- Thornton Elementary fifth-graders got a lesson in life last week -- mainly, how to prolong it. The east Arlington school was the kickoff point for a program produced by the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation and Medical Center of Arlington, aimed at steering children toward healthy lifestyle choices. Nutritionists, physical therapists and sports medicine experts ...

Weekend: Sports notes and happenings (The Findlay Courier)
YATES WINS AWARD: Arlington baseball coach Tom Yates has been selected as Ohio's honoree as a NFHS Coaches Association Coach of the Year in baseball. Holgate's Paul Wayne earned the state's boys basketball award.

4 IPSAC football teams to have new coaches in fall (The Indianapolis Star)
The winds of change are sweeping through Indianapolis Public Schools Athletic Conference football. When the 2008 season begins in August, new coaches will direct programs at four of seven schools with Scott Marsh taking over at Howe, Aaron Sauter being hired at Northwest, Henry Jordan III in charge at Washington and Manual yet to complete its search. Arlington's Rob Patchett, Broad Ripple's Bob ...

Cowboys will face Arlington Lamar in area round of baseball playoffs (Coppell Gazette)
Coppell’s baseball team won District 6-5A, but entered the playoffs on a bit of a slide following consecutive losses to close the regular season.

Coppell eliminates Arlington Lamar, will face Southlake Carroll in regional quarters (Coppell Gazette)
Coppell’s baseball team advanced to the Class 5A Region I quarterfinals Friday night after closing out Arlington Lamar in Game 2 of their area round matchup, 13-5.