By Chuck Licata Co-Publisher For the third time in the school’s documented history, the Liberty Hill Lady Panthers’ varsity basketball team is headed to the UIL Class 3A state tournament. The Lady Panthers swept the Region IV tournament in Corpus Christi this past weekend (Feb. 24-25); Matt Kirschner’s crew beat Corpus Christi West Oso [...]

  Final Score by Chuck Licata Those of us in Liberty Hill are hoping the third time is the charm this coming week. The chase for the Class 3A state girls’ championship title is down to four teams (aka, The Final Four) – and the Liberty Hill Lady Panthers are one of those four. All [...]

  By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter Although she has yet to decide where she’ll attend college after graduating from Liberty Hill High School this spring, senior Stephanie Metzger plans on earning an MBA and/or a law degree. Perhaps she’ll work for a federal agency, she indicated, singling out the Sandra Bullock action-comedy Miss Congeniality as an [...]

  By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter As a first-year math teacher at Liberty Hill Junior High School, Liberty Hill Junior Varsity Head Coach Blake Boren knows a thing or two about the Laws of Probability. He undoubtedly understands, then, how impressive it is that the District title his JV Panthers captured this year marked the ninth [...]

  By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter A lot of teams have tried to slow down the game against the Liberty Hill Runnin’ Panthers this season, even if that’s not their natural style of play. Slow and deliberate was the style of play for the Panthers’ Area Round playoff opponent, the La Vernia Bears, who had won [...]

  By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter Even though the eyes of most Liberty Hill fans are trained on the basketball court with both the Runnin’ Panthers and the Lady Panthers involved in post-season play, baseball has arrived in Panthers-land. It was a successful arrival at that, as Coach Mike Kristan’s 2012 club started off the season [...]

By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter Tyeler Greenstreet is a young man of few words. That’s probably fine with Liberty Hill Runnin’ Panthers Head Coach Barry Boren, as Greenstreet, one of Boren’s vaunted “nuts and bolts” players who knows his team role and fills it well, lets his actions on the court do the talking for him. [...]

CONGRATS TO THE REGION IV QUARTERFINAL CHAMPS, LIBERTY HILL LADY PANTHERS! LHHS beats a tough, good Salado team tonight, 54-35, and will head to play the 8:00 p.m. game Friday night at the Region IV tournament in Corpus Christi! Go - and Congrats - Lady Panthers!!

Contributed by LHHS coach Robert Draper The Liberty Hill Powerlfiting team won its first meet of the year at the Lago Vista invitational on Friday Feb 10th. The Panthers took 11 lifters and 9 qualified for places.  Leading the Cats were Vincent Hernandez with a total of 1270 pounds to win the 242 class.  John [...]

2012 LHHS Football Schedule Friday, Aug. 31           @ Giddings      7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7             Hondo             7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14           Smithville         7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21           @ Rockdale     7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28           Wimberley       7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5              OPEN Friday, Oct. 12                        @ Llano*         7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19                        Brownwood*   7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. [...]

By Chuck Licata Co-Publisher The Liberty Hill Lady Panthers ran through and around a younger and out-manned Fort Sam Houston (San Antonio) squad, 98-41, Friday (Feb. 17) at Wimberley High School in a Class 3A, Region IV area playoff game. The Lady Panthers improved to 32-4 overall with the win while the Lady Hurricanes ended [...]

By Chuck Licata Co-Publisher Maddie back in “game shape”: Junior Maddie Metzger suffered an injury back a couple months ago that cost her a lot of playing time in non-district action. Metzger returned to the lineup for the Jan. 6 home District 25-3A opener against Burnet. She’s been on a huge improvement curve ever since. [...]