Sports

With a winning percentage of 85%, Allan Holloway is the winner of Football Contest No. 1 in the Van Zandt News.

The first week of the 2026 high school football season is officially in the books with all six local schools that field programs hitting the field either Aug. 27-28.

The Van Lady Vandal volleyball program rolled out the red carpet to some of the top programs in the area last week, hitting the court six times over a three-day span as part of their annual home tournament.

The winner of Football Contest No. 1 in the Van Zandt News will be announced in the Sunday, Sept.

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Correspondent Are you a fish eater? If so, what is your favorite freshwater fish? I posed this question on social media a couple of years ago and there was a smorgasbord of ‘favorites.’

Bobbi ‘Breanne’ Talbott of Wills Point traveled to Abilene June 4-13 to compete in the Texas High School Rodeo Association (THSRA) state finals. The state finals rodeo is an annual week-long event where high school students across Texas and surrounding states come and compete.

Huge shoutout to Edgewood Anglers and recent graduates Tyner Jistel and Terry Thompson. Tyner and Terry have fished with the Grand Saline High School Bass Anglers throughout their four years of high school, and they finished that chapter in a big way at the THSBA State Championship on Lake Texoma.

Wills Point High School Girls’Cross Country Coach Bobbie Lester has been named as the Class 4A, Region 3, Girls’ Cross Country Coach of the Year by the Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA).

Jett Taylor of Grand Saline placed in two different events during the recent Class 3A State Track Meet in Austin. Taylor, who played quarterback in Grand Saline and will be playing college football at Navy, finished in second place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.48 seconds.