Howe Youth Baseball has a busy All-Star weekend

Howe Youth Baseball hosted the 8U All-Star tournament over the weeekend Volunteers spent many hours throughout the week preparing the field and then working gates, concessions, announcements and everything in between Kelly Grant and Larry Windon spearheaded the volunteer efforts with the help of the Mike Stephens family, Mike Portman family, and the Steven Hance family as well as many others Pottsboro and Collinsville will p in the championship tonight T game is located at the youth sof fields on East Davis Street

Howe's 10U and 12U each competed in a preseason All-Sta tournament in Bells where the 1 lost the first game 18-1 to Bells Pitchers for Howe were Eli Ston Caleb Cox, and Gage Carr. The second game was against Whitewright which was tied in the second inning at 5 However, the Tigers put together a great third inning and won 12-5 which eliminated the Dogs Rylen Strong started with a walk and that led to the game's first run Pitchers were Will Ingram, Strong, and Cox

The Howe 12U played in the championship game on Sunday, but lost to Blue Ridge 7-0 Cooper Jones and Anthony Lowder were the pitchers

Howe took game one on Thursday night against Dodd City in an 11-0 blowout The Bulldogs then beat Cooper on Saturday in a come- from-behind classic But the second game for Howe on Saturday ended in a loss to Blue Ridge That put Howe in the loser's bracket to play Fannin County which they won The game put them into the championship against Blue Ridge with a rematch, but Howe was unable to overcome the great pitching performance by the Tigers

Howes 6U All Stars played Pottsboro and Tom Bean and were eliminated in the tournament with a loss to each team. Howe had a stand out player in Hayes Carter and Keegan Crosson Carter played pitcher and Crosson at second base Coaches were kevin Crosson, David Morris, Eric Allison, and Jonathan Coleman The tournament was played in Southmayd

The Howe 12U All-Stars will play this weekend in Pottsboro with games starting on Thursday No word on Howe's first game to this point for 40 yea

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In his slow charming and classic 1930s-reared Texas drawl Williams said, "If you's (sic) out here and it came a good rain, you's (sic) gone (sic) get stuck before you got out a here "

Once Highway 75 was constructed in 1969, the dues went up $5 per month from $10 to $15 to build the road from the highway Williams said that Luke Adams was the first person in charge at Hurricane Creek and was a great promoter that grew the membership to 450 initially

Anyone that visits with Williams cannot mistake his slow-talking

Texas twang for slow-moving

The 95-year-old gets around better than most 65-year-olds and thinks quicker than most people who write articles During my visit with Williams, we decided to get a cart and drive each hole from one through 18 and let him share his 50 years of working the terrain on each hole and significant features and moments of each one

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