By Linda Lattanzio, Sportwriter Doughty parents and staunch Panther fans hungry for football made for a supportive crowd when the Leander Rouse Raiders brought their freshmen and JV teams to Liberty Hill Aug. 25.  It was a great first taste for the football season. The JV Panthers didn’t mind hosting the JV Leander Raiders but [...]

By Monroe Williamson, sports Liberty Hill opened the 2011 football season with a 21-0 loss to the Rouse Raiders from District 25-4A. Rouse recorded their first varsity football victory in school history. The Panthers had poor field position for most of the first half. The locals started 2 drives at their 10-yard line. Add 3 [...]

By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter The Liberty Hill Panthers were one of three District 25-3A teams to trip up in its 2011 season debut. The Burnet Bulldogs, who are supposed to challenge the Panthers for the 25-3A title this year, went to Giddings and lost to the Buffaloes by a 35-19 count. Giddings (out of District 23-3A) [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata The Rouse Raiders scored their first-ever varsity football victory last Friday night. Unfortunately, that win came at the expense of the Liberty Hill Panthers, who opened their 2011 season with a 21-0 defeat at the hands of Joshua Mann’s Raiders. Obviously this was not the kind of start head coach [...]

District 25-3A Standings                         Overall                                                                        District Team               W        L          Pct.      GB       PTS     OPP     W        L          Salado             1          0          1.000   -           41        6          -           - Lampasas      1          0          1.000   -           39        33        -           - Llano               1          0          1.000   -           36        32        -           - Liberty Hill   [...]

By Chuck Licata The start of school this week also signals the “back to normalcy” for many in the Liberty Hill community. That includes the Liberty Hill All-Sports Booster Club, the provider of funding for Liberty Hill ISD athletic programs. The Booster Club works hard to provide funding for scholarship as well – this past [...]

By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter The ideal announcer on a K-MAC Sports broadcast team possesses three primary characteristics: knowledge of the game, an engaging personality, and strong ties to the school and/or community. As the Allison Boyd State Farm Agency broadcast of Panthers Prime Time on K-MAC Sports prepares to kick-off its fifth season of football [...]

By Chuck Licata One wouldn’t argue that Moms in the Liberty Hill community would go to great lengths to help and support their children. It happens each and every day. Back in late July, one Liberty Hill Mom (Lorri Cunningham) went world-wide to help her younger son, Colton, enter a contest for new football cleats [...]

By Chuck Licata The folks at Prosperity Bank say their just-ended school supply drive lived up to the bank’s first name – it was a “prosperous” drive. The bank’s fourth annual school supply drive ended with the most items ever accumulated – and now the bank has the pleasure of donating those items to Liberty [...]

By Chuck Licata The Liberty Hill High School varsity volleyball squad played its first “single” match of the 2011 season Tuesday (Aug. 16) at Del Valle High School. The Lady Panthers took on a young but very athletic Lady Cardinals’ squad – and beat them in three straight games, 25-15, 25-19 and 25-18. The Lady [...]

By Chuck Licata The Liberty Hill High School football squads headed to Sealy (about a two-plus hour trip) on Thursday (Aug. 18) for its final preseason action. The freshman and JV squads played in heat hovering around 107 degrees, as recorded by the Sealy bank clock-thermometer. The two varsity squads (Liberty Hill Panthers and Sealy [...]

By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter Liberty Hill High School defensive coordinator Jimmy Duncan crawled out from underneath his truck. It was a hot, muggy night (so what else was new this summer?) so the request to talk about the Panthers’ defense going into the next two scrimmages gave the coach a chance to take a break. [...]