Final Score by Chuck Licata *While the recent rains are very welcomed in our time of drought, the one thing affected by the downpour was last Saturday’s Panthers Relay high school track meet. The event, held by the Liberty Hill All-Sports Booster Club (LHASBC, web site lh-all-sports-dot-org, lhallsports.org), was cancelled – thus cutting into the [...]

  Final Score By Chuck Licata A whole slew of “Thank yous” to dish out – with more to come: *Thank you to the entire Liberty Hill community, on my behalf. First, a lot of you responded so kindly when I lost my puppy of 13 years, Fabian. The outpouring and support was overwhelming – [...]

  Final Score by Chuck Licata Editor's note: K-MAC Sports will present its 3rd Realignment Show, live from the UIL offices in Austin, Thursday (Feb. 2) morning starting at 8:45 a.m. Go to www.kmacsports.com for the link to the live video/audio show. Even local magician C.J. Johnson couldn’t pull “a rabbit out of the” UIL [...]

Final Score By Chuck Licata Texas football fans and natives of Texas have Darrell Royal. Us Pennsylvania natives and fans lost “our” Darrell Royal, Joe Paterno, early Sunday morning. The timing of the death of “JoePa” – as he’s known famously throughout the world and endearingly across the state of Pennsylvania – is just horrible [...]

Final Score By Chuck Licata When it comes to athletics those of us at the Liberty Hill Leader and LibertyHillSports.com focus a lot of energy on the varsity squads at Liberty Hill High School but we also we work our butts off to give ample time to the junior varsity and freshman squads at the [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata The Liberty Hill High School varsity boys’ basketball team knows it. LHHS varsity head coach Barry Boren knows it. “It” is the stigma of a program that’s produced three straight 30-5 seasons – and has produced just one playoff win in that same period. On the brink of the start [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata The only appropriate way to start this column is to say I hope everyone reading it had a wonderful, warm and family-filled Christmas. And I’m guessing a few of you have loosened your belt buckle a notch, maybe two? There are certainly plenty of LHHS graduates here in town for [...]

 Final Score by Chuck Licata Not surpisingly, there are plenty of reason for Liberty Hill ISD sports fans to be excited about the current basketball season. But I’m not just talking about the two varsity squads, coached by Barry Boren (coming in with three straight 30-win seasons) and Matt Kirschner (two years coached, two playoff [...]

  Final Score by Chuck Licata Okay, so I’m a week late in writing the expected “Thanksgiving” column. As Jamie Williamson and her Leader staff can tell you, things have been so busy these days we’re lucky to be “caught up” on issues, let alone stay ahead of them! But yes, Thanksgiving does make one [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata *What a tough loss for the LHHS varsity football team against Devine last Friday night. Sorry to see the season end like that but 20 seniors made it a very special season. We’ll have (and write) more on the football season after the Thanksgiving Holiday. *If you don’t have time [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata  Once upon a time, there was a junior at Liberty Hill High School named Jadon. What his last name was, just depended on whom you asked. Actually, the above scenario is very current. LHHS’ junior football player (defensive back, kicker, swing man) Jadon has a couple different last names. The [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata  Minus four yards of total offense. Zero first downs. That’s what the Llano High School football team mustered against the newly-named “Black Thunder” defense which was absolutely stout in last Friday’s game (Oct. 21) against the homestanding Yellowjackets. So much so, it’s clearly a record for the LHHS defense for [...]