Sports

Boyd breaks records en route to Area Meet

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   Copperas Cove’s Amber Boyd has seen the back of Belton’s Brooke Gilmore for far too long. Gilmore has gotten the best of Boyd on the cross-country course for years.

‘BEST DAY EVER’

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   Some athletes go their entire careers without fulfilling their dreams of playing on the biggest stages of their respective sports.   Even fewer get the chance to be called champions on that stage.

SO CLOSE

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   WACO - Copperas Cove junior Caden McAnally finished just one stroke out of a tie for the final qualifying spot for regionals with his two-day total of 164 at the Boys’ District 12-6A Golf Tournament held Tuesday and Wednesday.

Lady Dawgs split week on opposite end of shutouts

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Lady Dawgs softball team ranged the spectrum this week with a 10-0 shutout over Killeen at home on Monday followed by an 11-0 shutout on Tuesday at the hands the Belton Lady Tigers and ace pitcher Sidney Holman who pitched her second perfect game in as...

Silver Sunday for Cove’s Fox and Stutz

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   AUGUSTA, GA - Copperas Cove seventh-grader Elle Fox was six inches away from claiming a girls’ 12-13 title at the National Drive, Chip and Putt National Championships at the famed Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday.

COLD-BLOODED

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   WACO – Copperas Cove senior Tyler Morrison battled blustery conditions to clinch her second-consecutive trip to the Region II-6A with a third overall finish at the District 12-6A tournament at Cotton wood Creek in Waco held Wednesday and Friday.

Lions Club holds 28th annual golf tournament

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove Lions Club 28th annual golf tournament kicked off early Saturday morning with temperatures in the upper 40s, but that didn’t deter the 28 golfers who showed up to enjoy themselves at the Hills of Cove Golf Course.

Cove’s Stutz tied for top seed at State Tournament

BY TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   Copperas Cove’s Dakota Stutz leads 11 bowlers averaging over 200 to compete at the 2016 Texas High School Bowling Club State Tournament April 2-3 in San Antonio.

ARMS RACE

BY TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   HARKER HEIGHTS – In a pitcher’s duel between two of the top pitcher’s in District 12-6A, it was a matter of who’d blink first.

Bulldawg basketball players honored at annual banquet

By TJ MAXWELL Cove Leader-Press   It was a disappointing year for the Copperas Cove Bulldawgs basketball team after missing the playoffs for the first time in four years but head coach Billy White Jr. knows that was because of circumstances and not effort.