Week 3 highlights: Mildred wins a thriller; Frost loses

Mildred scored a touchdown and a 2-point conversion in the final seconds to beat Maypearl, 15-14. More coming soon from Raymond Linex II.

Frost lost for the first time this season, 20-13.

Cayuga rallied to beat Kerens, 32-26, behind Cayuga quarterback Malcolm Kennedy, who had 111 yards rushing and 272 yards passing to lead the Wildcats to a comeback victory over Kerens in Cayuga.

In another 14-2A thriller, Malakoff defeated Italy, 50-48, in overtime.

Wortham is 2-2 after a 27-18 loss at Buffalo.

And De Leon beat Dawson again, 40-18.

Stay online with us on www.corsicanadailysun.com as we get updates through the night.

A note before we get to tonight's Golden Circle Gameday:

Fox Sports Southwest will televise next Saturday's Southlake Carroll vs. Galena Park North Shore football game at Tiger Stadium. Game time is 6 p.m.

The showdown between two of the state's top Class 5A programs has been dubbed the "Hurricane Ike Bowl" because last year's game between to the teams in Southlake was cancelled because of the hurricane that hit the Texas coast.

Now to tonight's football roll call:

Kerens at Cayuga: The battle is on between the Bobcats’ Pat Faulk and the Wildcats’ Traylon Shead.

Maypearl at Mildred: The Eagles are still looking for the first victory of the season.

Blooming Grove at Grandview: Lions’ three-headed monster at running back needs a big night.

Rice at Dallas Life (in Waxahachie): Rice looking for two-game winning streak. 

Dawson at De Leon: Bulldogs looking to avenge blowout loss at home in 2008.

Perren-Whitt at Frost: No reason to believe the Polar Bears won’t move to 4-0.

Hubbard at Bartlett: Jags coach Joe Heckathorn wants first win as coach before district.

Wortham at Buffalo: Can Wortham get to 3-1 on the season against a team that shut the Bulldogs out last year?

Golden Circle Gameday

Well it's that time. Friday Night Football. Here's a list of the Week Zero games:

(All games at 7:30 p.m.)
West Mesquite at Corsicana: Coach Phil Castles makes his debut for the Tigers.
Bosqueville at Dawson: Dawson tries to snap three-game losing streak in series.
Kerens at Valley Mills: Bobcats dedicating regular season to head coach Russell Anderson.
Waco Reicher at Mildred: Eagles moving on without Thomas McDonald. 
Blooming Grove at Wortham: RB Trey Davis makes debut for Lions; Coach Jerry Young for Wortham.
Dallas Life at Hubbard: Jags try to make good first impression under new coach Joe Heckathorn.
Santo at Frost: Polar Bears look for first win since 2006.
Rice vs Quinlan Boles (7 p.m. Sat. in Canton): Tough opening-season test for Rice.

Chris Davis to return to Rangers

T.R. Sullivan of texasrangers.com is reporting that the Rangers are expected to call up first baseman Chris Davis for Tuesday's series opener against the Yankees in New York.

Sullivan says that Davis is expected to play regularly at first base with Hank Blalock being semi-demoted to a platoon at designated hitter.

Davis is batting .327 with six home runs and 30 RBIs in 44 games and 165 at-bats since being sent back to Triple-A Oklahoma City at the end of June.

Tigers first scrimmage less than 12 hours away

We're less than 12 hours away from the first time we'll see the Tigers go up against another opponent, this one Class 3A Longview Pine Tree.

I want to see how quarterback Cameron Cutrer looks, and Dontrelle Coleman and Chris Edling, and hopefully Thomas McDonald too. I want to see how the defensive line has progressed. And I want to see if any of the younger players step up.

Just a note Rusty Hitt, Chuck Williams and myself will be on the air for the entire scrimmage starting at 9:30 a.m. on KAND 1340-AM, the home of Tigers football. That's going to be your radio crew for this season.

Also I'll have a complete wrap up in Sunday's paper and will blog some thoughts later that night.

Prevost on radio show today at 12:30

Just a reminder that new Corsicana Lady Tigers girls basketball coach Arthur Prevost will be on my "Sports Talk of the Town" radio show on KAND 1340-AM today at 12:30 p.m. for the full 30 minutes.

Prevost is going to resurrect Lady Tigers hoops. I am sure of that. Listen to how he's going to do it. Here's my column I wrote on him last month.

Former UCLA All-American Kristee Porter hired to coach Navarro volleyball

This has to go down as one of the biggest splashes ever when it comes to hirings at Navarro College.
Kristee Porter, the all-time kills leader at UCLA, has been hired as volleyball coach at Navarro College, athletic director Roark Montgomery said Tuesday.
Porter, a native of Tyler who lettered for four years at John Tyler High School, will be a head coach for the first time. She has been playing professionally the last eight years after finishing her All-American career for the Bruins.
Porter is in Los Angeles currently finishing a class at UCLA. She is expected to arrive at Navarro at the end of the month.
Porter played volleyball, basketball and ran track at UCLA.
She was state champion in the triple jump at John Tyler and the Volleyball Player of the Year her senior season for the Lions.