Sports Shorts - 4/24

Yoe golf clinches spot at state

After day one at the regional golf tournament, Cameron was on the outside looking in at a state berth. The Yoemen sat in sixth place with a score of 366, 12 strokes behind Rockdale, who sat in the third and final advancing spot.

The Yoemen simply did everything the could on day two, trimming 27 strokes off their first round score, for a two-day total of 705. It proved to be enough as Cameron leaped a total of three spots to finish third to earn back-to-back trips to the state tournament.

Day one team scores: 1. Altair Rice (344), 2. Pollok Central (346), 3. Rockdale (354), 4. Central Heights (358), 5. Groesbeck (365), 6. Cameron Yoe (366).

Final team scores: 1. Rockdale (683), 2. Pollok Central (689), 3. Cameron Yoe (705), 4. Altair Rice (737), 5. Clifton (744), 6. Central Heights (745), 7. Groesbeck (746).

Cameron had two golfers shoot their personal best while Altair Rice took a nosedive, shooting 59 strokes worse than their day-one total to drop from first to fourth place overall.

Nikolas Keratsopolous - Cameron’s number one golfer - paced his team in each round, shooting a 77 on both days for a 154 and fourth place overall finish. Jale Walzel’s 96 and Luke Greene’s 82 were also both career lows in round two.

Cameron’s final scores: 1. Nikolas Keratsopolous (154), 2. Luke Greene (179), 2. Kobe Young (179), 4. Jale Walzel (193), 5. Stockton Kruse (194).

The state golf tournament will take place on May 14 and May 15 from the Grey Rock Golf Course in Austin.

The girls competed on Wednesday and Thursday in Brenham. We will have a full report in next week’s edition of sports.

Houston Harris earns trip to state tennis tourney
Cameron’s Houston Harris will be competing for a state championship in May at the state tennis tournament after winning a play-in match at the regional tennis tournament this past week. Harris, who is a junior, won her semifinal match 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 before falling to Franklin in the finals, 0-6, 0-6. With two players advancing to state, Harris had one final opportunity to earn a bid, and did so with 6-3, 6-1 victory. The state tournament will take place on May 17 and May 18 from the campus of Texas A&M University.

New leadership in athletic boosters

With the graduation of students in May, new parents are stepping into the fold to take over athletic booster club leadership roles.

On Monday, Andy Layne was nominated and unanimously approved as the next president, as Greg Hoelscher is stepping down after this school year.

Kenny Driska will remain in his current role as vice president, while Theresa Hollas will remain as secretary and long-time treasurer Mike Zajicek will continue with finances. Angie Brashear, Julie Muniz and Jamie Galvan are now in charge of promotions.

Physicals set for Yoe athletes

Physicals for the next sport season have been announced. All incoming seventh through 12th graders can get their physical on May 8 from the fieldhouse at 4:00 pm. Cost is $15 per athlete.  

Softball Playoffs

The 20-3A playoffs will begin this week, and all playoff matchups have been set. District champ Rogers draws fourth place West out of 19-3A in the opening round. That series will take place at Waco ISD, with game one on Thursday at 7:00, game two at 7:30 on Friday and game three (if necessary) on Saturday at 5:00. 20-3A runner-up Academy draws third place Groesbeck in a home-and-home series. Game one is Thursday at 6:30 in Groesbeck, game two is Friday at 7:30 in Academy, and game three would take place 30 minutes after game 2 (if necessary). Third place Lexington draws Whitney in a best of three at Bremond. Game one is Thursday at 6:00, game two is Friday at 4:00 and game three (if necessary) will be Saturday at 1:00. Rockdale, the fourth place team in 20-3A, gets district champ Troy in the bi-district round at Rosebud-Lott. That is a one-game playoff at 7:00 on Thursday.

Life-A-Thon set

Cameron Yoe Boys Athletics will be hosting our annual Lift-A-Thon this Thursday, April 26th at 6:00 pm in the High School gym. This is a spring fundraiser we do for boys athletics. Please come out and support the Yoemen as they go for personal records in the bench press.