CCLP/LEE LETZER - Cove senior Ali McBride takes a shot on goal during the Lady Dawgs 0-0 tie with Killeen.CCLP/LEE LETZER - Cove senior Ale Ross makes a cross during the Lady Dawgs 0-0 tie against the Lady Roos.

Cove soccer battles to 0-0 tie with Roos in district opener

By TJ MAXWELL
Cove Leader-Press
 
The Lady Dawgs’ soccer team opened up district play Tuesday night against the Killeen Lady Kangaroos at home.
 
Senior Bailey French was credited with the shutout from the goalkeeper position while Le’Brittany Hodges earned the shutout for Killeen.
 
The Cove boys’ soccer team (2-6-2) also battled to a 0-0 tie Tuesday against the Roos.
 
The Lady Dawgs (2-3-3) will get back to action tonight in Belton against the Lady Tigers while the Cove boys will host Belton at the Ave E. soccer complex.
 
Stutz leads Cove to fifth win
 
Cove’s Dakota Stutz continues to open up a gap on the competition in the CenTex girls’ standings. Her combined 245 score in the 15-2 win over Shoemaker Tuesday at Hallmark Lanes pushed her season average to 236.83, more than 37 points better than the next competitor Amanda Morgan of Killeen (209.71).
 
Stutz and the Cove co-ed squad shot out to a 7-0 lead after match play on their way to the 15-2. The win improves Cove’s record to 5-2 and secures the third place in the standings behind Ellison (6-1) and Harker Heights (6-1). Ellison holds the points edge over Heights, 91-28, but Heights has the better team Baker average with 183.89 to Ellison’s 176.83. Cove comes in next with a 166.61 average.
 
Cove’s Chris Ochoa is just under three points out of the fifth and final individual qualifying spot. He has a 188.07 average behind Heights’ Michael Dixon-Dates (191.00)
 
Cove next faces Killeen on Monday at the Killeen Bowlerama before returning the Hallmark to face Harker Heights on Feb. 9.
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Bulldawg basketball comes up short at Ellison
 
The Copperas Cove Bulldawgs team suffered a huge blow on Tuesday as they surrendered a 31-17 halftime lead to fall 63-61 to the Eagles in overtime.
 
The Dawgs outplayed Ellison most of the game, leading by as much as 14, but the Eagles kept clawing to cut the Bulldawgs’ lead to just seven at the end of three quarters.
 
Dujuan Jones then willed the Eagles to overtime with 12 points in the period, including three shots from beyond the arc.
 
Ellison’s Travian Wright gave the Eagles their first lead of the night at about the five-minute mark of the fourth period.
 
Senior Malyk Thomas put the Dawgs up by four with 50 seconds to play but Jones sent the game into overtime with a three-pointer and a free throw.
 
A pair of buckets by senior Devante Robinson kept the Dawgs in the game but a putback by sophomore Casey Armour at the buzzer ended the Dawgs chances of forcing a tie for fourth place.
 
Cove (12-15, 2-5 in District 12-6A) sits two games out of the fourth and final playoff spot with Ellison (4-3) and Midway (4-3) tied at third behind Shoemaker (7-0) and Harker Heights (5-1).
 
The Bulldawgs host Midway tonight with a 7 p.m. tip-off.

 

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