Staff Report   HAYS COUNTY – Take me out to the ball game has a whole different meaning for one Hays CISD alumnus.   CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Seth Stephenson, eyes the pitcher during his time at Hays High School. Seth Stephenson, a 2019 Hays High School graduate, was selected to be in the Major League Base...

All Hays Free Press, News-Dispatch Baseball Team Player of the Year   Aidan Martinez , Hays Up until he suffered an elbow injury in mid-April that kept him off the mound, Hays High’s Aidan Martinez was on pace for a breakout season. Compiling a 5-1 record and a bounty of strikeouts, Martinez, a Univ...

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...

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...

Early offense from the Leander Lions was too much for the Hays Rebels (14-7) to overcome in a narrow 5-4 loss March 29. The game capped off a doubleheader between the two district teams, with the Rebels closing the day 1-1 against Leander. The third and final game of the series was played Tuesday. H...