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 [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata *Congrats: To Lauren Shamblin and Cameron Cardwell for being named Homecoming Queen and King. Two well-deserving students – especially Cameron, one of those great, all-around young adults! *Thanks: To Tim Dean, the original “Voice of the Panthers” on Panthers Prime Time broadcasting. Tim filled in for me for the Taylor [...]

  Final Score by Chuck Licata Okay – quick quiz. How many of you knew that the Liberty Hill High School boys’ cross country team was named the top-ranked, #1 team in Class 3A by a coach’s poll last week? Yep – me neither. I found out via text from one of the LHISD administrators. [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata Two years after the Liberty Hill High School volleyball team made a journey to the regional tournament (the 2009 squad made it to the Region I semifinals), Gretchen Peterson’s Lady Panthers are about to launch into what could be a “landmark” district season for the program. The 2011 version of [...]

Final Score By Chuck Licata *To say the least, last week’s Fill The Bus event – held to help out those affected by the Texas Wildfires, and in particular those in Bastrop – really showed how incredibly giving the Liberty Hill community is, and continues to be. Having only been here since November of 2006, [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata There may be those of you not old enough to know the phrase “blue-collar player.” It’s a term I learned while watching sports in the 1970s; basically, it’s a player who puts his “nose to the ground,” works harder than most and doesn’t expect (or push for) a lot of [...]

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 [...]

Final Score by Chuck Licata Welcome to August, 2011. At this time of year we’re already weary from the hot Texas summer temperatures. Coach Jerry Vance and his LHHS footballers are fighting the heat (under the assured guidance of Doc Charles Harrington and Sarah Baulch); Kim Holt’s cross country runners are battling the heat while [...]

  Final Score by Chuck Licata If you can, we highly encourage you to make the trip down to Canyon Lake High School for Tuesday night’s dual match, as Gretchen Peterson’s Liberty Hill Lady Panthers play the host Lady Hawks and a team from San Antonio. If you’re like Judy Metzger (mother of LHHS senior [...]

  Final Score by Chuck Licata Some observations while I wind up my last few days of visiting family in Connecticut: *Everyone up here is saying I “brought the heat with me.” It’s been 95-plus degrees since I got here last Tuesday and the heat index has been over 100 degrees each day. They finally [...]