By Andy Sevilla One day after a Hays High School student was arrested for allegedly threatening violence against fellow students and school staff, a Hays High teacher also was apprehended for making a false report or threat in connection with the case. James Wayne Archer, 17, was arrested Oct. 30 an...

  By Spencer Spilman The Hays Rebels travelled to Austin to face the Akins Eagles Friday night. The Rebels couldn’t have expected the Eagles, who were winless in district play, to battle the way they did. But in the end the Rebels’ defense was just too suffocating and they were able to hang on to wi...

By Ryan Mayner The Austin High Maroons defeated the Hays Rebels 35-34 Friday on homecoming night.  Maroon quarterback Beau Kahlbacher led his team on a 94-yard drive and scored on a wild play in the waning moments.   The Rebels scored early and often, but Austin answered every time.  The difference ...

  By Moses Leos III An inability to stop the Boerne Champion Charger offense cost the Hays Rebels in a 44-27 loss Friday at Boerne ISD Stadium.  Champion led 7-0 after the first quarter. Hays countered with a Cody Gandy touchdown run to tie it early in the second. But the Chargers responded by scori...

  By Moses Leos III It took less than 30 hours for the Hays High athletics program to lose two of it’s most recently successful coaches – softball coach Aaron Fuller and basketball coach Robert Lucero. On Monday, Fuller rocked Hays High by announcing he will leave to become the head softball coach a...

  By Moses Leos III SAN MARCOS – Adversity was plentiful for the Hays Rebel baseball team Friday at Bobcat Ballpark. Overcoming it now places them a win away from the regional finals. Despite committing four errors and conceding 14 hits to the Victoria East Titans, Hays persevered to claim an 8-7 wi...

By Charles Dee.  Fourteen innings, eight hits, 18 strikeouts and zero runs tell the tale of the two Rebel pitchers, Tyler Woodmansee on Tuesday and Calvin Coker on Thursday, in the pair of Rebel victories last week.   Woodmansee kept the Lobos at bay by scattering five hits in seven innings of work ...

By Charles Dee. In 22 years of UIL softball, only once has a team repeated as 4A state champs – a feat the Hays High softball team hopes to change. After winning their second straight 27-4A crown, the Lady Rebels’ focus lies on getting back to the state tournament in Austin. It begins against 28-4A ...