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Monday, March 27, 2017
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Back-to-back shutouts for the Lady Bulldogs for two wins
https://www.independent-bank.com/ Torrey Stubblefield all smiles after her homerun. Photo by Michelle Carney Madisyn Hargrove threw a 4-hit shutout on Friday night to get the Lady Bulldogs (9-2) in the win column over rival Van Alstyne, 18-0. With the varsity boys also winning against VA, the Victory Light downtown was turned on for the first time for a non-varsity football win. Hargrove and Torrey Stubblefield combined to allow only nine baserunners for the two combined shutouts versus Van Alstyne and Farmersville. Erin Blackburn led the way at the plate with four hits and three runs scored. Emily Sanders went 2-for3 at the plate as she led the team with four runs batted in. The Lady Bulldogs ripped off 18 runs thanks to 18 hits and drawing four walks. Hargrove pitched five scoreless innings, allowing four hits, and striking out eight. Howe had three doubles (Hargrove, Kamryn Fulenchek, and Payton Griffin), and three triples (Stubblefield, Sanders, and
Blackburn). Fulenchek had the only stolen base of the game. On Tuesday night, Stubblefield had a masterpiece of her own versus Farmersville in a 15-0 win. She went four scoreless innings, surrendering only one hit, and striking out seven. Blackburn again led Howe with three hits at the plate with three runs scored. Stubblefield hit a three-run bomb to help herself out on the mound. The Lady Bulldogs racked up 14 hits off of Farmersville including a double by Dani Ross and a homer by Sanders. RBIs came from Hargrove (2), Stubblefield (3), Sanders (2), Streetman (2), Fulenchek, Ross, and Blackburn. For the week, Howe scored 33 runs on 32 hits while allowing no runs on 5 hits. They will play Friday at Leonard to start the second half of district play.
Keep Howe Beautiful to host a Howe Texas Trash-Off Howe's local beautification program, Keep Howe Beautiful, is holding a "Trash-Off" for locals to help clean up the city. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Howe Development Alliance/Howe Chamber of Commerce office at 101 E. Haning St. in Downtown Howe. KHB is also requesting that volunteers bring gloves. This is the third year that KHB has organized an event in conjunction with the Texas Trash-Off, which is actually a week later on Saturday, April 8.
Kayla Anderson with the stretch for the out at Van Alstyne on Friday. Photo by Michelle Carney
The Don’t mess with Texas TrashOff is the single largest one-day cleanup event in the state and serves as Texas’s signature event for the Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program, held annually from March 1 through May 31. The Don’t mess with Texas Trash-Off is part of TxDOT’s litter prevention program, which includes Don’t mess with Texas, Adopt-aHighway, and a grassroots partnership with Keep Texas Beautiful.
