Contributed by Liberty Hill Wildcats The 8th-grade Liberty Hill Lady Wildcats headed to South Austin to play in the Tournament of Hope all Girls tournament. The proceeds from this event benefits Seton Hospital Breast Cancer Center. This was the second time The Lady Wildcats were playing [...]

By Merle Rouillard When Joe Schram was a young boy, he didn’t have much time to get into trouble.  When his father, who was a serious outdoorsman, wasn’t taking him fishing, Joe was learning to read from his mother, a teacher, which he could do by the age of three. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Joe [...]

By Merle Bertrand, Leader Sportswriter It’s not quite the Bears vs. the Packers, Texas vs. Oklahoma, or Liberty Hill vs. Burnet, but in minor league football circles, the Austin Vipers vs. the San Antonio Warriors has quickly evolved into a classic grudge match. The two I-35 rivals face off in the Quarterfinal Round of the [...]

By Merle Bertrand, Sportswriter Conventional wisdom states that the average football fan faces three whole months and a long hot summer before the return of the game they love. Conventional wisdom is wrong. The Austin Vipers, a perennially successful AAA-level semi-pro football team, will begin their Xclusive Football League (XFL) playoff drive Saturday night (June [...]

  By Chuck Licata Say the words “Cotton Bowl” in most any corner of the state of Texas and most people – especially sports fans – will conjure up images of the Cotton Bowl football game, a bowl game played yearly (sometime around New Year’s Day) after the NCAA Division I football’s regular season is [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata A lot of folks in the Liberty Hill community are still sometimes confused about the local media. I’ve been associated with the Liberty Hill Leader since 2010 after two-plus years with the Independent. Since hooking up with James, Jamie and Monroe at the Leader, we’ve expanded our reach. That’s why, [...]

Contributed Story The 2013 Liberty Hill 5th Grade boys’ team, the Liberty Hill Panthers, finished their select basketball season in style this past weekend by winning first place in their hometown tournament, The Hill Summer Jam, put on by the Liberty Hill Wildcats’ group. The first day featured some tough games against the Copperas Cove [...]

by Chuck Licata Winners: Before falling to Kennedale in two straight in the Region I quarterfinals, the LHHS Panthers won 22 of 25 games after an 0-9 start to the season. That span covered win streaks of eight - and then, nine – straight games and 17 out of 18 at one point. Return on [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata Academy Award winner Tom Hanks muttered those famous words during the 1992 movie, “A League of Their Own.” Hanks (the mananger of an all-girls baseball team) chastises one of his players, Evelyn (played by actress Bitty Schram) for making a terrible throw upon which Evelyn starts balling like a baby [...]

Kristan’s crew finishes 22-14, winning 2nd straight district title by Chuck Licata There’s a nice little pattern setting up inside the Liberty Hill High School baseball program. After missing the playoffs in 2011 because of a play-in loss to Llano, Mike Kristan’s Panthers have won the last two district championships with identical 9-1 records. Last [...]

by Chuck Licata The only possible drawback on the new Liberty Hill High School facilities and campus opening up is the “transition” stage. The good news: word has it the construction is ahead of schedule and going smoothly. As readers of The Liberty Hill Leader have seen, notices about summer camps are already being printed. [...]

Former LHHS star headed to play at Howard Payne by Chuck Licata It was a simple tryout. When former LHHS student-athlete Macy Floyd (Class of 2012) participated in college tryouts recently – including one May 2 at Howard Payne Univeristy – it marked the culmination of one incredible year. As most in the Liberty Hill [...]