SAN ANTONIO – Hays High’s 2019 campaign came to a close Friday after the Rebels were swept in two games by the state-ranked San Antonio Reagan Rattlers in a best-of-3 area round series. “Two separate ball games, but today’s story was way different from yesterday’s story,” said Hays head coach James ...

Resiliency and mental toughness were attributes the Hays Rebels baseball team needed to outlast the New Braunfels Canyon Cougars in a thrilling best-of-3 bi-district round series. That included playing 16 combined innings of baseball over a five-hour span Saturday, culminating in Hays notching a ser...

When the opportunity to officially punch a postseason ticket knocked Friday, Hays High’s baseball team wasted no time in slamming down the door. A nine-run blitz over the first three frames was enough for Hays (24-7, 10-6) to cruise past the Del Valle Cardinals in a 9-0 win to close the regular seas...

Hope sprung eternal Friday when Hays Rebel Zane Lilljedahl nervously watched a shallow fly ball to left field drop between a pair of Westlake Chaparrals. By the time he had sped down to first base, Lilljedahl’s teammates had already exploded out of the dugout to celebrate his walk-off RBI single tha...

Four runs scored in the sixth frame carried the Austin Maroons to a 6-4 win over Hays Friday, spoiling the Rebels’ inaugural contest at their new on-campus baseball field. “I thought the field itself played really well,” Hays head coach James Howard said. “I wish we would’ve had a better performance...

Hays Rebel senior Aidan Martinez knew all eyes were on him when the scoreboard showed two outs in the top of the seventh frame Monday. All game long, Martinez kept a proficient Lehman Lobos offense hitless over the course of 6.2 innings in what was a 4-0 Rebel win. Coming Up Lehman travels to play a...

Team looks back over 30 years of memories as new field in works Only moths populated Hays High’s baseball field April 25 when head coach James Howard, joined by assistants Joel Hinton and Greg McCulley, started cleaning the home dugout. Fans, who earlier packed into the stands for the home and regul...

Even as the Hays Rebels had their backs against the wall at times this season, head coach James Howard challenged his team to respond. Doing so helped the Hays Rebels reach the postseason for the second straight year under Howard. While several key cogs will graduate this summer, Howard is optimisti...

Expecting, embracing and overcoming adversity is advice Hays High baseball coach James Howard imparts to his team, based on lessons learned from the late David Null. So, when various lemons were pitched to the Rebels in its three-game series against the Vandegrift Vipers last week, Hays responded by...

Aggression at the plate proved beneficial for the Hays Rebels Tuesday as they rolled to a 9-4 come-from-behind win over the crosstown rival Lehman Lobos at the Rebel baseball field. Hays’ win, which was the team’s third straight, secured the best-of-3 district series with the Lobos. It also marked t...