After helping to lead the Lady Dogs back to the state basketball playoffs, seniors Lizzie Allen and Ashlyn Reyna will cap their New Waverly basketball careers at the Texas Roundup All-Star Game later this month.
The New Waverly girls were looking to make a statement.
The New Waverly boys did everything they were supposed to do during their home matchup with Trinity on Friday.
New Waverly’s Joseph Crayton, left, drives toward the basket during the Bulldogs’ 55-52 loss to Trinity on Friday. The New Waverly boys close out the regular season against Palestine Westwood on Tuesday.
Heading into their final two games of the regular season, the New Waverly boys basketball team is sitting comfortably in fourth place in the District 21-3A standings.
NEW WAVERLY — The New Waverly boys started off slow on Tuesday night at home against Leon. In the second half, however, it wasn’t even close.
New Waverly senior guard Ashley Parks leaps toward the rim to attempt a layup during the Lady Dogs' 62-50 loss to Crockett on Tuesday night. The New Waverly girls fought back from a 12 point halftime deficit to tie the contest at 38, but Crockett's offense came alive toward the end of the th…
NEW WAVERLY — New Waverly girls basketball coach Donna Gilliam didn’t know what was going to happen during her team’s district bout with Crockett on Tuesday night at the Bulldog Gym, but she had seen matchup before.
Lady Dogs guard Ashlyn Reyna (10) hoists a 3-pointer during Tuesday’s nondistrict game against Grapeland. Reyna poured in a much-needed 15 points as the New Waverly girls rallied from a double-digit deficit to win 46-40 and improve to 3-1 on the season. After the Thankgiving holiday, the Lad…
NEW WAVERLY — The Lady Bulldogs didn’t start out strong, but they figured out a way to adjust and rallied to beat Grapeland 46-40 on Tuesday night.
After a roller coaster of a season filled with ups and downs, it all comes down to tonight for the Bulldogs.
The game got away from them in the third quarter.
There were too many turnovers in the first half and not enough defensive rebounding in the second.
Since it was the last time New Waverly’s senior boys would play together in their home gym, the Bulldogs made sure Tuesday night was a memorable one with a 62-53 victory against Trinity.
The Lady Bulldogs dominated Trinity 69-29 in their home finale Tuesday night.
A night after losing a heartbreaker in Hempstead, the Bulldogs needed to find a way to get back on track.
With all-everything point guard Ashley Parks leading the way, the Lady Dogs took care of business Tuesday night and helped to improve their playoff position.
When they needed it the most, the Lady Dogs had poise under pressure.
A halftime talk from coach Kevin Ward was exactly what the Bulldogs needed Friday night against Hearne.
Well, the final chapter of 2013 is almost upon us. Looking back, there plenty of championships won as well as a few setbacks here and there.
It must seems like so long ago since we saw the Bearkats playing for a national championship for the second straight time, the Hornets and Bulldogs return to the playoffs and the Lions make a long postseason run to the TAPPS six-man semifinals.
Jason O’Bryant wants to hang another championship banner in the Paul Bohan Hornet Gym. This one would be purple and neon yellow, not Hornet green and white says the former Huntsville High School basketball star who now is coaching at Stewart Elementary.
The Bulldogs held off Anderson-Shiro with a narrow 49-48 win Friday night, led by 18 points from senior guard Brent Purvis. New Waverly needed every bit of it, as the two teams spent the entire game going tit for tat.
For a while, the Bulldogs were on the verge of squandering a 13-point fourth-quarter lead Friday against Hearne. But New Waverly’s varsity boys got a few defensive stops and picked up critical points in transition to pull away from the Eagles, 66-53.
Senior guard Joshua Durisseau had a chance to send the game into overtime in Friday night’s 62-59 loss to Hempstead. But Durisseau, who led the Bulldogs with 23 points in defeat, was unable to knock down the fadeaway corner 3-point shot with just five seconds left in the game.
The Bulldogs played well enough to hang with 14th-ranked Franklin in the first half of Friday night’s 73-45 loss, but the Lions’ athleticism proved to be too much for New Waverly to handle and the Dogs eventually ran out of gas.
One young athlete who took the Sam Houston State athletic department by storm in 2012 was Southland Conference Player of the Year Deveney Wells-Gibson. The sophomore from San Antonio helped lead the Bearkat volleyball team to its first regular-season conference championship since 1994, SHSU …
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Tuesday wasn’t a good day for New Waverly High School basketball. Right after the Lady Bulldogs lost by 30 points at the hands of Centerville, the boys were defeated by a similar score, 53-34.
The Bulldogs’ opponent in Tuesday night’s varsity boys basketball game traveled farther than any team that has come here before.
The boys’ basketball team in New Waverly hasn’t gone through a lot more than one full week of practice. All things considered, the Bulldogs were happy to pull away with a 65-46 win in their season opener Tuesday night against Hardin.
The Lady Bulldogs played a close game against Grapeland before winning 68-60. Unlike their male counterparts, New Waverly’s girls have had some time to settle into their new system with first-year head coach Dave Beck, playing in their seventh game of the season Tuesday night.
After completing four years with the Lady Dogs varsity basketball team, standout guard Myeisha Williams was in desparate need of a place to go to school as well as a place to play.
After scrapping through their first week of summer workouts, the New Waverly players and their coaches hoped to cap the week the right way.
Over the past few years, the New Waverly boys and girls basketball teams have been models of consistency with district titles and postseason berths as well as lengthy playoff runs.
Johnathon Reece realizes confidence can sometimes come off as cockiness, but what his attitude reflects is a pattern of self motivation by the 18-year-old senior from New Waverly.
Bulldogs star basketball player Isaiah Gilliam can be found playing either first base or in the outfield for the New Waverly baseball team that’s currently making a playoff run in Class 2A.
Following a successful season, seven Lady Dogs received all-district basketball honors.
ATASCOCITA — The Lady Bulldogs played a bit out of control Tuesday night, which allowed East Chambers to come from behind and beat New Waverly 49-38 in the first round of the Class 2A girls state basketball playoffs.
After spending countless hours in the gym, the hard work has paid off for both the girls basketball teams from Huntsville and New Waverly.
To say that this is an important week for the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs basketball team would be a big understatement.
Bulldogs athletic director and head football coach M.K. Hamilton couldn’t sleep for nervousness Wednesday, the night before the latest realignment plan was released.
Groveton was spotted a couple of points Tuesday night when the Bulldogs were hit with a technical foul for dunking in the layup lines before the game.
To describe Friday night’s basketball game between No. 16 Trinity and No. 15 New Waverly in just one word — physical.
After a close first-half battle against the Trinity Lady Tigers, the Lady Bulldogs surged in the third quarter on their way to a 70-44 victory.
Bulldogs basketball is on a roll right now.
Huntsville freshman Courtney Tibiletti turned a solid golf team into one of the state’s best in 2011. With Tibiletti and seniors Madison Ward and Lindsey Lunceford leading the way, the Lady Hornets won the District 18-4A championship, they were runners-up at the regional tournament and they …
The Bulldogs are still rolling.
The decision was unanimous as to who would be The Huntsville Item’s Male Athlete of the Year.
In years past, trying to pick just one coach from all of the sports program in the Huntsville area as coach of the year has been a hard a task as any because of all of the overwhelming success attained through the year.
It’s become to be expected for the New Waverly boys basketball team to be a force to be reckoned with once the playoffs roll around.
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