It took two extra frames to get a verdict in the Tuesday, Jan. 24 showdown between the home team Aledo Bearcats and the visiting Saginaw Rough Riders. When the final buzzer sounded following 32 …

Tim Buchanan and Steve Wood, architects behind the past 10 Aledo state football championships, are retiring. The announcement came last Friday morning, Jan. 27, a day I thought was going to be spent …

Aledo ISD announced on Jan. 27 the retirement of both AISD athletics director Steve Wood and head football coach Tim Buchanan at the end of this school year and the promotion of assistant head coach …

The Aledo Bearcats soccer team took to the pitch in Benbrook Friday, Jan. 20, for their final non-district match of the season against the hosting Bobcats. Aledo dominated the match, shutting out the …

When the 2022 football season began there were questions surrounding what kind of quarterback Hauss Hejny would be for the Aledo Bearcats. After all, he'd never started a game behind center in coach …

With the most important meet of the season coming up, the Aledo Bearcats had their best showing of the season. The Bearcats varsity placed second out of 23 teams in the Bowie Invitational in …

The Aledo Ladycats and Bearcats will send a host of swimmers to regional competition following their performance at the District 5-5A Meet at Northwest ISD Natatorium on Jan. 20. The Ladycats …

Led by five powerlifters winning their respective weight classes, the Aledo Bearcats took first place in their first meet of the season at Saginaw Boswell on Jan. 12. They bested a field that also …

Aledo’s Ladycats earned some redemption and got themselves back in the win column on Tuesday, Jan. 17, with a blowout 56-32 victory over Wichita Falls Rider. The win comes on the heels of a …

Aledo’s Bearcat varsity hoops squad successfully thwarted a pair of invasion attempts to their home court over the last week. On Friday, Jan. 13, the Bearcats held on to win a close 38-35 …

Aledo’s Ladycats worked their way back into the win column on the road in Azle on Jan. 10. Reagan Davis led the Ladycat offense with a dozen points as her team returned home with a 47-38 …

Losing is never easy, but some losses sting more than others. That was the case on Friday, Jan. 6, when the visiting Brewer Bears managed to sink a last-second shot to steal the win from the …

There is a connection between winning and intelligence. After all, would a coach let an athlete see much action in a game if they only knew 60% of the playbook? Clearly, the athletes at Aledo High …

Two members of the Aledo Ladycats have been named to the 2022 Texas Girls Coaches Association Class 5A All-State Cross Country Team. Honored were freshmen Elizabeth Griffin and Molly Garrison. The …

The Aledo Bearcats returned to Azle over the Jan. 7 weekend for the Nest Invitational, just one week after a strong second-place showing in the Hornet Dual Tournament. This time the Bearcats overcame …

Monday night’s 65-7 loss by the TCU Horned Frogs to the Georgia Bulldogs in college football’s national championship game must have brought back some painful memories for longtime Horned …

Coming off a 2-2 performance in the Battlin’ Billie Classic in Fredericksburg over Christmas break where Reagan Davis took all-tournament honors, Aledo’s Ladycat basketball squad took no …

As the second half of the North Texas High School Rodeo Association prepares to get underway, several athletes from Aledo and Weatherford find themselves in contention for a berth in the NTHSRA …

Fifteen members of the Aledo fall team tennis program, along with the coach, were honored recently as part of the All-District 5-5A Team Tennis accolades. Elli Kate Bussmeir was named …

Three former Aledo Bearcats who know a lot about winning championships could be on the verge of capturing another as members of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. The Horned Frogs (12-1), ranked …

It’s not often the Aledo Bearcats are underdogs, but they were in their Class 5A Division I state semifinal contest with No. 1 Longview on Dec. 10. Of course, the Bearcats, No. 3 in the state, …

The Aledo Bearcats defeated visiting Benbrook 49-27 and Carter Riverside 63-6 on Dec. 14, while the Ladycats dropped a 36-30 contest to Benbrook. The match with Carter-Riverside ended with pins …

Cameron Martinez, a 2012 graduate of Aledo High School, has been named to the Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) Athletic Hall of Fame, the first such honor since the college joined NCAA Division III in …

After capturing the program’s 15th consecutive district championship, the Aledo Bearcats had 26 players named to the All-District 3-5A Division I Team by the league’s coaches. [cqmedia …

We should have known all along how this would end. It’s hard to imagine a team that had won nine state championships since 2009, including most recently a second three-peat in 2018-20, would …