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We’ll be releasing our Big Country Preps Preseason Football Preview, the most comprehensive look at the upcoming Big Country football season anywhere, on Wednesday, Aug. 20. But you won’t have to wait until then to sate your gridiron appetite.
Leading up to the first day of fall football practice on Aug. 4, we’ll be spotlighting each 11-man team in the area and posing some of the key questions they’ll face in 2025 as part of our annual “Countdown to Two-a-Days” series.
Today, we take a look at the Ballinger Bearcats.
ABILENE — While some may say that it’s difficult to create intrigue with an all-star game, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes managed to do so in the nightcap of Friday’s FCA doubleheader at Abilene Christian University’s Moody Coliseum. 
STEPHENVILLE — It’s Wall versus Thrall for all the marbles. 
DALLAS — One night after seeing a 5-2 lead slip away in a Game 1, 7-6 loss in eight innings, the Brock Eagles suffered another heartbreaker at the hands of Longview Spring Hill, falling 2-0 in Game 2 of a 4A DII state semifinal on Friday at Dallas Baptist University. 
AUSTIN — Perhaps no softball pitcher in Big Country history has been more intimidating than Coahoma’s Hannah Wells, with a fearsome look of determination and velocity to match it. 
BROWNWOOD — The game was sufficiently well-pitched that there were no extra base hits and a combined 19 strikeouts between the two starting hurlers. 
HOLLIDAY — Effective pitching, cleanly played defense and raucous enthusiasm is what one generally expects from a softball state semifinal. 
STEPHENVILLE — Despite suffering from a groin injury, Aubrey’s Mya Cherry walked away from a Class 4A DII State Semifinal series with Snyder as the star of the show. 
With 10 combined fielding errors, it may not have been the prettiest game of softball played by either team. But by the end of the evening, the Hermleigh Lady Cardinals played well enough to defeat Jonesboro, 10-8 in Game 1 of a Class 1A State Semifinal at Tarleton State University. 
ABILENE — Two streaks were kept alive at Abilene Christian University’s Poly Wells Field on Saturday in the Region I-3A Division II championship series — both of which belong to the Coahoma Bulldoggettes. 
COLORADO CITY — After winning the flip a few days prior to the Region I-4A DI semifinal series with Canyon West Plains, Mineral Wells elected to go with a one-game, winner-take-all format and rely on Texas Tech-bound righthander Holden Hering. 
WOLFFORTH — With outfield dimensions of only 198, 198 and 198 feet, along with a stiff wind blowing out to left field, it seemed only a matter of time before softballs began leaving the park in Game 1 of the Region I-2A DII championship series between Sundown and Haskell on Thursday. 
BIG SPRING —Even an ace will eventually run out of gas and in the case of 
BIG SPRING — With back-to-back nail-biters already behind them, the Stamford and Sundown softball teams will meet in a winner-take-all third game on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Lady Steer Field.
BIG SPRING — A day removed from a 16-1 mercy rule beating at the hands of 
BIG SPRING — For Snyder, it was one of those days when virtually everything went right. From Midland Greenwood’s perspective, Thursday’s 16-1 mercy-rule beating at the hands of the Lady Tigers at Lady Steer Field couldn’t have been much worse. 
BIG SPRING — For half of Thursday’s Region I-2A DII Semifinal opener with Sundown, the Stamford Lady Bulldogs had the look of a team that was in control. They led 3-0, starting pitcher Emma Follis was breezing along and Stamford had every ounce of the momentum. 