Tomorrow, April 21, 2011, the Italy High School Track Team’s regional qualifiers will travel to Meridian, Texas for a Regional Qualifiers Meet. Coach Heather Richters has released information regarding the event.
Italy’s Varsity and JV Track & Field athletes competed at a high level during the district track meet held in Alvarado. Italy advances six Varsity members to the UIL 2A Region 2 Track meet in Stephenville on May 2nd and 3rd while strong performances by Italy’s JV girls and boys’ track stars bode well for upcoming seasons.
Gladiator Baseball and Lady Gladiator softball seniors will be honored just prior to their home games this Friday, April 22. Make plans to come out, cheer on your home team and applaud the efforts of these seniors, as well as their teammates, as they take on the Clifton Cubs.
Game times edited 4/20/11-8:18am
The Gladiator Band Boosters will meet in the Italy High School band hall on Thursday, April 21 at 5:30pm. The major topic of discussion will be transportation for the June band trip to florida. Currently there is $8,500 shortage of funds for the trip. This meeting will be used as a brainstorming session on more fundraiser project ideas. All supporters of the Italy Gladiator Regiment Band are urged to attend.
Italy’s Lady Gladiators have managed to position themselves with a chance for the playoffs and currently stand alone in 3rd place within their district. A must win game is today in Italy against Maypearl.
The Italy Tennis team traveled to Alvarado to compete in the JV district tournament. Also participating, were Italy’s varsity players who managed to advance from the day before.
Italy High School Track Coach Heather Richters has released the schedule of events for the Texas UIL 2A Region 2 Track meet. The meet will be on May 2nd and 3rd in Stephenville, Texas and will be held at the Tarleton State University Track & Field facility. Italy High School has six students that have qualified for the meet.
The Gladiator Athletic Booster Club will meet on Thursday, April 14 at the Italy High School Library. Meeting time will be 6:00pm. Plans for the upcoming athletic banquet will be discussed. The Booster Club needs volunteers for this event.
Local football heroes, Jasenio Anderson of Italy High School, and, Rolando Vega of Milford High School, were recognized, along with their FCA Red teammates, during the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) All-Star Victory Banquet held in Waco.
Italy High School track coach Heather Richters has released an updated schedule for next week’s district High School track meet. The Junior High Track team will travel to Rio Vista today to compete in their district meet. By releasing these detailed schedule of events, Coach Richters hopes that this will foster support from the community to come out and cheer on our Gladiators and Lady Gladiators.
Updated schedules
The Gladiators traveled to Clifton on Tuesday night to represent Italy in the fifth game in district play. They came to perform well and it showed, according to Head Coach Josh Ward.
Friday night the moon might have been full because the beast came out of the Gladiators as they took on Whitney Wildcats in a district game. The Cats were cut short at every move they made. The final score was Italy 7, Whitney 0.
The Italy Lady Gladiators performed a high level at the non-district Grandview Zebra Relays on Thursday which included schools from many different classifications.
Held at Mertz Tennis Park in Corsicana and hosted by the Rice Bulldogs, the Italy Tennis team, head coached by Aidan Callahan, participated in the invitational tennis meet on Saturday.
Italy’s JV boys baseball team pencils in another win after a strong performance against Maypearl while the Lady Gladiators start strong but struggle late against the Lady Panthers in Maypearl.
“No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.”
The Italy Lady Gladiators Softball team has had quite a stretch of softball starting with the Grandview Tournament just before Spring Break and wrapping up with a non-district home win against Rice this past Tuesday. All-in-all, the Lady Gladiators played 7 games in 6 days winning 4-of-7.
The Gladiator Athletic Booster Club will have a meeting on Monday, March 21 at 5:30pm in the Italy High School Library. Per Booster Club president, Erick Thompson, the meeting will adjourn at 6:45pm or before. All supporters of Italy High School and Junior High School athletics are welcome to attend.
The Italy Gladiator baseball team traveled to Axtell Tuesday night and played in their first district game of the season. The Axtell Longhorns used their bats a little better and won the game 1-0.
Stephenville — The Italy Gladiators (27-8) returned to the regional final game for the third straight season on Saturday. This time around, Italy matched up against the top-ranked Melissa Cardinals (36-1) who suffered their only loss against 4A Woodrow Wilson.
Italy Lady Gladiator Kaytlyn Bales, a junior, earned 4th Place at the regional girls powerlifting meet held in Forney and will be returning to the AA State Powerlifting Meet where she finished in 3rd Place last season at the 1A level and in 5th Place back in 2009.
The IYAA Girls T-Ball team & the Girls 8u Coach Pitch team needs a few more players to fill these rosters. Registration has been extended to Wednesday, March 9, for these age groups.
An all-around athlete and an all-around good guy, Italy Gladiator Jasenio Anderson has been drafted to play in the FCA SuperCentex All-Star game to be played at Floyd Casey Stadium on the Baylor University campus on Saturday, June 11, 2011.
The Italy Gladiator baseball team will travel to Berryville to play in a tournament hosted by Frankston ISD on Thursday, March 10 to begin play in the Keno Fitzgerald Memorial Tournament. Italy will take on Westwood in a 3:00pm game. The tournament will continue thru Saturday, March 12.
Added directions to field 3/8/11 2:05pm
The 2:00pm playoff basketball game between our Italy Gladiators and the Melissa Cardinals can be heard on a live stream broadcast. Go to http://kfyn1420.com/sports/index.asp and click on “Listen Live.”
The Italy Gladiators (27-7) knockoff the three-time reigning Region II-AA State Champions, the Ponder Lions (20-16), by a score of 74-67 inside Wisdom Gymnasium on the Tarleton State University campus in Stephenville. With the win, the Gladiators claim the Regional Semifinal Championship and will compete in the Regional Final game against Melissa starting at 2:00 p.m. today.
The Italy Gladiators enjoy a farewell send-off from Italy High School’s faculty and students, as well as, IHS alumni and fans as they board the playoff bus for Stephenville.
Both the Italy Gladiators (25-7) and the Hearne Eagles put on a dazzling display of athleticism, aerial acrobatics and precision shooting with a Region II-AA Regional Quarterfinal Championship on the line. In the end, a 34-point third-quarter explosion by the Gladiators blew the feathers off the high-flying Eagles and allowed Italy to coast home from Waco.
The Italy Gladiator JV team took on the Avalon Eagles Tuesday night in pre-district game and did so with great success. The final score was 12-7 for our local baseball team.
The student body of Italy High School/Junior High School invites the community to join them as they send off their Gladiator Basketball Team as they continue their playoff run in Stephenville. At approximately 9:15am the students and faculty will assemble in the High School campus’ parking lot to wish our Gladiators luck. The bus for Stephenville is leaving at 9:30am sharp per head coach Aiden Callahan.
Final IYAA Softball/Baseball signups will be this Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the old Italy gym and again on Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Italy Gladiators traveled to Meridian this past Saturday to match up bats with the Yellow Jackets. The Gladiators got started on their season that will culminate in a district battle against Grandview, Maypearl, Axtell, Whitney, Clifton and Rio Vista.
The Italy Gladiators keep the dream alive with a playoff win over the Mildred Eagles Friday in Midlothian. The Gladiators win 64-37 to claim the Region 2-AA Area Championship and await the winner from the Sunnyvale matchup with Hearne.
It’s the playoffs! Here are some additional photos from the Region 2-AA Area Championship game between the Italy Gladiators and the Mildred Eagles.
The Italy Gladiators basketball playoff game has been scheduled for Friday, February 25, at 8:00 p.m. at the Midlothian High School.
Upcoming IYAA Baseball/Softball registration dates and uniform information. Also, spirit items can be ordered by fans!
After clenching the District 15 2A Championship with a 54-44 win over Axtell. The Italy Gladiators basketball team had 2010-2011 Playoff Shirts printed and are currently available for purchase. The cost of the shirts are $10.00 each.
The booster club for Gladiator Athletics and Gladiator Band will hold a meeting on Monday, February 21. The meeting will be held in the IHS Library at 300 S. College Street. Meeting time is 6:00pm.
Already with a successful fund-raising burger sale under their belts held inside the Italy High School Cafeteria last Friday, in which every burger they cooked sold, the Lady Gladiator Softball team geared up for their season opener.
The Italy Gladiators (24-6, 13-1), the District 15 2A Basketball Champions, are scheduled to participate in a PLAYOFF PREVIEW this Saturday, February 19 at Richland High School.
Pack The Dome Night marked the final games of the season for both the varsity and JV Lady Gladiators’ teams and a chance to clench a the district championship for the Varsity Gladiators against visiting rival, the Grandview Zebras.
IYAA Baseball and Softball registration continues tonight, Tuesday, February 15, at the old Italy gym during basketball pictures. Gary Wood will be at the gym from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
IYAA Basketball Picture Day is scheduled for Tuesday, February 15 inside the old Italy gym. Each team has been assigned a time slot to have each individual player and team pictures taken.
The Lady Gladiators will travel to the Waco Reicher campus for their first tournament of the 2011 season. Game schedules have been released. Italy’s first game of the tournament will be Friday, February 25th against the West High School Lady Trojans at 2:30.
Clifton — The Italy Gladiators and Lady Gladiators Varsity and JV teams matched up with the Clifton Cubs and Lady Cubs to close-out the month of January.
Italy Gladiators’ Basketball head coach Aidan Callahan and Lady Gladiators’ head coach Stacy McDonald invite Gladiator fans to attend several upcoming events:
Due to treacherous road conditions, below is a list of known sporting event cancellations affecting Italy athletics:
Due to the inclement weather closings of the Italy ISD campuses the Gladiator Booster Club meeting has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
With the winter weather heading full steam towards North Texas the decision has been made to move games scheduled for Tuesday night against Rio Vista to be played tonight (Monday, January 30th). The Lady Gladiator varsity game will begin tonight at 5:00pm followed by the varsity boys. There will not be any JV games due to this emergency change in schedule.
Italy’s Varsity and JV Gladiators and Lady Gladiators played four games against Whitney. The JV Girls game was played in the old Italy gym while the JV Boys and both Varsity games were played under the Italy Coliseum dome.
