A long line of colorful jerseys snaked their way around the pastures adjacent to Rains schools last Thursday at the Rains Invitational cross-country meet. Twenty-eight teams produced over 120 runners … more

The Mt. Vernon-Mineola football game Friday promised to be akin to a heavyweight fight. Largely, it met its billing. Mt. Vernon returned home with a 42-25 win, in a game which belied the final … more

For Mineola fans, last Friday’s volleyball match with Mt. Vernon was a pleasure to watch. The Lady Jackets took the match in four sets: 20-25, 25-5, 25-23, 25-23. It was an afternoon chockfull … more

The Mineola Lady Jackets went west to Wills Point last Tuesday to take on the Lady Tigers, finding a formidible 4A foe and returned with a four-set win, 25-18, 27-25, 24-26, 25-12. more

The play was designed to go wide to the right side. It was a direct snap to Dawson Pendergrass. The point of attack was outside the right tackle. At the snap of the ball, the left side of the Bullard line surged up, creating a logjam where the play was supposed to go. Pendergrass took two steps toward the right and hesitated. A split second before two Panther edge defenders arrived at him from each end of the line, he sighted the narrowest crease just to the left of the intended point of attack... more

Sept. 16 and Mineola travels to Bullard while Quitman makes the trip to Ore City. Meanwhile Alba-Golden welcomes everybody home as the unbeaten Panthers face Big Sandy. more

There aren’t many ways to couch a decisive defeat of the home team. The West Rusk Raiders scored touchdowns on seven of their eight possessions Friday at Meredith Memorial Stadium and handed Mineola a 46-13 defeat. more

The Mineola Lady Jackets could be closing in on a banner year. They are days away from beginning district play and seem to have addressed all those particularly-difficult aspects of scholastic … more

Mineola sophomore Olivia Hughes is picking up her running career where she left off last spring – leading the pack. Hughes took first place in the 2-mile cross country race at the Yellowjacket … more

lin in the Mineola High School gymnasium last Tuesday. The Lady Panthers of Alba-Golden were in town to face the Lady Jackets.  Both teams have had promising pre-district performances this … more

The Mineola Yellowjackets overcame a lethargic first half only to have an offensive explosion in the second half and record a 44-34 win over the Hughes Springs Mustangs Friday. Maybe it was a long … more

There was something different about this Lady Jacket volleyball side. Mineola has had some competitive volleyball teams in the past few years, but there was always something missing – the … more