FALLS CITY – On Tuesday, March 10, the Falls City Beavers and Karnes City Badgers met on the diamond in a rare, non-district meeting. In the end, the 2A Beavers defeated the 3A Badgers, 6-5.
KARNES CITY – The Karnes City Badgers and Lady Badgers have started the month off well in a major way.
Lady Badgers qualified for the THSWPA Regional powerlifting meet. They will lift on Thursday, March 5, at Edcouch Elsa High School. Anahi Cruz (181lb division), Brittany Kelley (132lb division), Lee Ramirez (148lb division), Olivia Monsevais (220lb division), and Brooke Gisler (148lb division).
KARNES COUNTY – The fresh scent of cut grass, dusted off bases, and the sound of aluminum bats herald the 2020 spring sports season in the county.
The Kenedy Leopard golf team won the Bishop Preseason Tournament Feb. 24 in Alice. Individual results are: Alejandra Hernandez, 1st overall (81 score); Emily Cruiz (97); Melanie Martinez (106) and Shaina Molina (117).
Kenedy junior varsity Lion (11) Chase Torres puts up a shot from the perimeter against the Pettus Eagles Feb. 6.
ek, the Karnes City JV boys basketball team took on Stockdale in the season finale. In the end, the Badgers lost a close one, 57-56.
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Falls City guard Adam Lyssy picked a steal against a Pettus guard Feb. 7 at home.
KARNES COUNTY – Last week, two of the county’s high school girls basketball teams entered the playoffs. Unfortunately, their seasons met an early end.
The Karnes City Badgers powerlifting team placed 4th at the Karnes City Invitational. Pictured are Marcus Tristan 8th, D.J. Nunez (6th), Sebastian Segura (2nd), Jace Gonzales (1st), Javier Aleman (1st), Steven Nava (3rd), Ethan Lopez (5th) and Gilbert Salas (9th). (Contributed photo)
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Runge post Kristiana Hernandez (30) goes up for a basket in a 36-21 loss to Tivoli at home Feb. 11.
This is the third in my “timeline series” on the Nations family in Live Oak, Bee and Gonzales counties and area. We left off last week after discussing how the editor of the El Paso Herald could call Neal Ricks/Rix a “Bad Man” when telling how Deputy Rix was killed by Walter Nations. The fir…
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Kenedy citizens Julie Shievelbein and Megan Schievelbein donated homemade masks to the Kenedy Police Department.
KARNES COUNTY – The ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has left a void in the sports world, with no timetable set for a return as of Monday, April 13.
Susie Carter brought her daughters, Amelia (Karnes City ISD 3rd grade) and Zoe (KCISD kindergarten) to Roger E. Sides Elementary to watch the KCISD student appreciation parade last week.
Chris Filoteo
Editor of Karnes Countywide
A herd of deer sprint across 5th Street in Kenedy around noon last week. (Contributed photo)
In this day and age, social media is one of the quickest methods of informing the public with any news information.
Chris Filoteo
Editor of Karnes Countywide
Hello everyone! Spring is in the air! On Saturday, March 7, the Karnes City Community Chamber of Commerce held their 90th Chamber of Commerce Banquet. We along with our members would like to Congratulate the 2019 Business of the Year – Ovintiv (formally Encana), for the many hours of communi…
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