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Peaster Athletic Director Dianna French made two coaching hires. Tennessee Brown, a former Peaster volleyball and basketball player, has stepped into the assistant’s role left by Julie West in volleyball and Kenton Weaver in girls basketball.

LeAnn Busby will fill Weaver's assistant softball role. Boys track coach Jason White will also coach golf.

Weatherford Democrat

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Being forced to sit through a rain delay in the middle of a state-title defense should wreck a team’s nerves.  But the Monahans girls golf team was loose, laughing, joking around, playing cards, inviting anybody and everybody within earshot to sit down for a few hands.

When the rain stopped, the Lady Loboes calmly headed back out to the Roy Kizer Golf Course, shot a rain-shortened 165 through nine holes and clinched their second straight Class 3A state team title.

Monahans coach Becky Hix buried her father, Harold, on Tuesday, and flew down to catch up with her team on Wednesday. The Lady Loboes responded by handing Hix her second state title.

“I wanted to win this tournament for her,” Erin Fisher said. “Because of that loss.”

Odessa American

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Sometime Friday afternoon, Lauren Ballenger, Shikhi Cheruku, Haley Green and Casey Grice will head to the clubhouse after playing their last rounds for the College Station A&M Consolidated girls golf team.  The Lady Tiger seniors, along with sophomore teammate Angela No, would love to leave with gold medals.

Consol's girls will be making their third consecutive trip to the UIL State Tournament when they tee it up at the Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin on Thursday and Friday. The first two visits produced an individual championship for Grice in 2008 and silver medals for the team last year.

It has been a remarkable run for the senior class, whose trip to state two years ago was the school's first since 1994.

Bryan Eagle

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Nicco Brown understands the experiences the Yoakum girls golf team is going through as it preps for the state championships Thursday, and not just because she is the coach.

Brown played for the Lady Bulldogs from 1990 to 1993, and went to the state tournament all four years. Yoakum hasn't missed a UIL State Golf Championship since Ronald Reagan's first term as president, a total of 29 straight years.

Brown succeeded her coach, Grant Gurewich, whom she said she learned how to coach from before taking over in 2001. He led the team to 14 medal finishes in his 20 years with the program before Brown took over the team, and they haven't missed a beat in her nine years as coach so far.

"That was where I learned how to practice, how to putt and chip and hit on the driving range, and going onto the course and making something of each shot instead of just hitting the ball. Grant Gurewich was my coach then, and he was who I learned who to coach from."

Victoria Advocate

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So who do you talk about first? The boys golf team, which was led by the individual state champion, overcame a nine-stroke deficit to win its third-straight state title? Or the girls golf team, which protected a narrow six-shot lead while winning its second-straight state championship and the 10th state title in its history?

That was the choice Tuesday at Morris Williams Golf Course, where the Robert Lee boys and Baird girls both defending their titles with a touch of drama.

Abilene Reporter News

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Haley Kemp made sure she got to fellow senior Rachel VanHoozer first. Leah Ray and Meredith Ward soon followed and Taylor O'Rear completed the celebratory group hug on No. 9 fringe at Roy Kizer Golf Course.

Then VanHoozer let out triumphant tears of joy to symbolize Salado's accomplishment of its mission.

VanHoozer finished second individually after losing on the first playoff hole, O'Rear tied for fifth and Ward provided the clinching boost Tuesday as Salado ran away from Melissa by 31 strokes to claim the University Interscholastic League Class 2A State Golf Tournament championship -- the school's fifth -- and first since 2006.

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