Holliday FFA competed in the Area contest on Wednesday, April 10, and advanced its Ag Mechanics team to the state competition. Ag Mechanics: 1st in district and 1st in Area and will advance to the State Competition! Kayden Bullington was the high point individual of the entire contest and Thomas McRae was 3rd highest individual.

The Windthorst Trojanette track and field team continued to display their dominance on Thursday, April 11, this time at the Area Track Meet in Graham. Following a district meet that saw the Trojanettes send 12 individual athletes and all three relays to Area, those same athletes lived up to the occasion on Thursday, finishing second in team points with 76, while also sending 10 athletes, all three relays, and three Area Champions to the Regional track meet held in Springtown.

Coach Glenn Griffin has turned the Lady Eagles’ track and field program into a championship winning factory. Holliday won its fourthstraight District 7/8-3A Area Track Meet, more than doubling up second place Jacksboro 152 to 63.

Holliday (23-7, 9-2) locked up District 7-3A’s No. 2 seed for the postseason with a pair of lopsided wins over City View (15-0) and Bowie (12-2).

Archer City ISD dedicated the flagpole at its baseball complex to its late title-winning baseball coach, Pat Maxwell, prior to the Wildcats game against Olney on Friday, April 12.

Maxwell coached at Archer City from 2002 to 2012 and claimed the school’s first baseball title with a 6-2 win over New Deal in the Class A title game in 2007. He would go on to coach Godley and Petrolia where he would pick up his 400th win as a coach.

All three Archer County High School each had multiple students advancing to the Regional Academic meets following strong performances in the district meet earlier this month. For Archer City, sophomore Kori Keeter, freshman Jocelyn Tedrow, junior Estefani Zea, senior Louren Conner and juniors Brooke Smith, Isaac Dieguez and Ty Cantrell will advance to the regional meet at Grayson College in Denison on April 26-27.