Perrin

Area coaches had mixed reviews of their new districts, which were announced Feb. 3.

Jacksboro’s new ”everything but football” district is a change for the Purple, but one it has seen before. It includes Bowie, Breckenridge, Henrietta, Holliday, Nocona, and Wichita Falls City View. All have been a district foe in recent years with Breckenridge the most recent holdover from the last two years.

Jacksboro Boys Basketball Coach Aaron Bass said the realignment brings some familiarity with it.

With less than three seconds to go and Bryson locked in a 43-all tie with Perrin Feb. 4, Tyce Reeves went to the free throw line already 0-3 at the charity stripe for the game, including having missed the front end of this two-shot foul.

Deciding he did not want overtime after watching Perrin come back from a 12-point deficit with just over five minutes left, Reeves buried the free throw to give the Cowboys the lead. With still an eternity remaining, Perrin Coach Jeffrey Browning called timeout to set up a play.

Jack County STOMP brought professional speaker Nathan Harmon to present to students from all three Jack County districts last week.

Harmon said he grew up in Indiana, where he was an all A student until his parents divorced.

With a winter storm expected to bring inches of snow and sleet Wednesday, Jacksboro ISD, Bryson ISD, Perrin-Whitt CISD have all decided to cancel or delay classes.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for most of North Central Texas, which helped Jacksboro ISD determine the need to cancel their classes for Wednesday, Feb. 5.

Changes made in UIL realignment will move Jacksboro even further west in their football realignment.

The two-year UIL realignment was announced Monday morning. Jacksboro will remain in Class 3A Division II, but will see some changes.

Gone are Tolar and Rio Vista, which drop down to Class 2A Division I. Replacing them in the new District 5 are Eastland, which drops from Class 3A Division I and has been a non-district opponent for many years, and Merkel, which is outside of Abilene.

Perrin-Whitt CISD announced on Facebook Wednesday that the district is closing both campuses for Thursday, Jan. 30, and Friday Jan. 31, due to illness.

Perrin High School Principal Loren Sell said students have been battling the flu since Monday.

“Starting on Monday, since we came back, we have had a large number of kids (…) out,” Sell said. “On the elementary campus, is really where it hit hard and some classes only had half the students in the class. We wanted gather a little more data and look Tuesday. Yesterday, was very similar to Monday."

PERRIN – Most teams go through cold streaks in a game, be it for part of a quarter at most.

That looked pretty good for Perrin’s Lady Pirate basketball squad, who went through a more than two quarter span Friday night without hitting a bucket. That enabled visiting Bryson to take control of the game and cruise to a 38-18 win over Perrin at Pirate Gym.

Bryson goes to 3-0 in district and 16-8 overall while Perrin slips to 1-2 in district. Cowgirl Coach Rusty Jones said his squad’s defense paid dividends.

Holiday mode is a tough thing to overcome.

With Perrin’s boys basketball team in the middle of the holiday rush, the Pirates had some issues getting into the flow of the game Dec. 30 against Strawn. The Greyhounds, who had played just one game prior, due to a deep run in the football playoffs, led after one quarter, but a 12-0 Perrin run put the visitors behind for good in a 50-34 Pirate victory.

PERRIN – Without three key players, Perrin was forced to use substitutes for key playing time Dec. 19 vs. Bluff Dale.

The Bobcats, who had just seven players, took advantage and made a game of it in the first half. The Pirate subs made some key contributions in the final two quarters and enabled the Pirates to pull away and post a 55-38 win. Perrin goes to 4-10 with the win.

Bobcat point guard D.J. Bibb had a solid first quarter, scoring 12 of his team’s 15 points in the first. Perrin Coach Jeff Browning said the reserves getting used to the defense was key.

In a brief meeting Dec. 17, Perrin-Whitt CISD board members found out what was happening in the district with holiday break just days away.

Elementary School Principal Teresa Mathis said many of her students participated in the Perrin Stock Show at the Perrin Fair Barn Dec. 14. Students also participated in the Grinch and ugly sweater competitions during the final week before school. 

Perrin Elementary also won the UIL district academic meet at Newcastle earlier this month. The school medaled in 16 of the 25 events they participated in.