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DCG’s Rankin coaches 500th game, girls wrestlers hit milestone

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January 24, 2024

DCG’s Rankin coaches 500th game, girls wrestlers hit milestone

Sean Cordy
| Special to Dallas County News

This week for Dallas Center-Grimes saw one major career milestone and a couple of important individual marks. (Note: Events covered Jan. 17-22)

Boys Basketball (9-2)

While it should have come a couple of weeks earlier due to a series of postponements, Dallas Center-Grimes head coach Joel Rankin coached his 500th career game on Saturday. And it turned into one of the highlights of the season.

DCG traveled to Gilbert’s annual showcase and took on Carroll (8-3), a team vying for a conference title of its own. The Tigers proved to be little issue for the Mustangs, though, as DCG walked through for a 73-43 win. Only the season-opening 31-point win is a larger margin this season.

Calix Cahill was a walking bucket, putting up 23 points while making 10-of-12 shots and all three shots from the penalty stripe. With nine rebounds and five assists (tied with Brogan Fuller), this marks the first time that Cahill led the team in all three major categories.

Dallas Center’s success carried into Monday night playing a ranked Pella Christian (2A, 9-4). Right from the jump, it was DCG’s game and ended in a 64-56 win. After stumbling into the winter break with two straight losses, the Mustangs have won four games in a row by at least eight points.

Girls Basketball (12-3)

For the second time, the Mustangs’ game against Pella Christian (5-10) was postponed. All that wait amounted to a 66-35 win, a fiery comeback after losing 60-29 to Bishop Heelan (12-0) on Saturday in Dallas Center.

Against Pella, however, the Mustangs logged their 20th win in a row over the Eagles, as Kayla Reis scored 19 points to increase her lead as the team’s top scorer. She has now scored 12.2 points per game, ahead of Vanessa Bickford’s average of 8.6 points. And while Bickford is typically the team’s top facilitator (ranked 12th in the class in assists per game), it was freshman Macy Meyer that opened up the most doors on Monday.

Meyer logged six assists against the Eagles, the fourth most by a 4A freshman in a single game this season.

Boys Wrestling

The Mustangs made a quick trip to Urbandale on Saturday where the team scored 58.5 points for 14th place among the 21 teams invited including the likes of Waukee (20th), Ames (16th) and Dowling Catholic (10th). Bettendorf won with 199.5 points.

Cole Hemmingsen (150 pounds) was the team’s biggest point contributor with a third place mark. His ran through his first two draws before falling to Waverly-Shell Rock but managed to battle back in the consolation bracket to cap a 4-1 day overall, beating three 30-win opponents in the process (he faced the same PCM opponent twice).

Girls Wrestling

DCG spent its Saturday in Mason City at a meet with over 20 programs attending, ending with a 11th place finish for the team.

Both managing to get to the championship round, Asia Jahangir (130 pounds) and Bella Mulder (135) led the team with second place finishes. Jahangir added four wins to her resume and narrowly missed on a 5-0 day but lost a 4-2 sudden victory to Mason City’s opponent. Mulder went 3-0 before a fall in the title match.

Halley Beaudet (190) won her first round of the day and reached 20 wins on the season, as did Jenah Grey (145) who placed fifth after going 3-1 overall.

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2024 UIL tennis regional results: See how boys and girls from Dallas-area schools fared

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May 9, 2024

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2024 UIL tennis regional results: See how boys and girls from Dallas-area schools fared

CLASS 6A

THURSDAY’S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Brandon Cowling/Kate Delgado, Wylie d. Caroline Artho/Barrett Stroud, Amarillo, 6-1, 7-5

THURSDAY’S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Trevor Short/Hope Willis, Wylie d. Brandon Cowling/Kate Delgado, Wylie

Find more high school sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here.

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Dallas Cowboys Add ‘Jack-Of-All-Trades’ Receiver in 2025 NFL Draft?

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May 8, 2024

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Dallas Cowboys Add ‘Jack-Of-All-Trades’ Receiver in 2025 NFL Draft?

Could the Dallas Cowboys add a versatile and elusive wide receiver in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft? Dallas drafts Oregon transfer receiver Evan Stewart with the No. 26-pick in the latest mock from ESPN.

Talk about a homecoming! Stewart is a Frisco, Texas-native, which is where the Dallas Cowboys headquarters is located.

Oregon wide receiver Evan Stewart attempts to avoid defensive back Solomon Davis during practice / Ben Lonergan/The Register-Guard / USA

Could Stewart be a Dallas star alongside receiver CeeDee Lamb? Currently the Cowboys room is highlighted by Lamb, Brandin Cooks, Jalen Tolbert, Kavontae Turpin.

“I want to show that I am a jack of all trades,” said Stewart during Oregon practices. “…I can go up and get it like a big receiver, I can move like a little receiver. I’ve got great hands, I’m very quick, very fast.”

Stewart transferred from Texas A&M, totaling 1,163 receiving yards and six touchdowns in two seasons in college station, despite an early season ankle injury in 2013 that resulted in diminished production. Stewart’s undeniable talent and experience was highly sought after in the portal, ranking as a top-5 overall athlete in the portal.

Stewart’s goal for the Oregon 2024 football season is clear.

“That ball, man. I’m trying to get those passes,” Stewart said during Oregon’s spring practices. “(Oregon suited everything that I was looking for. I wanted to be in a great program that had a lot of order and construction. Everything is so much better here, honestly, I’m happy with my decision.”

Stewart already turned heads in a Duck uniform during spring football practices. Possibly the biggest get for the Ducks in the transfer portal this year by coach Dan Lanning. Oregon enters their inaugural season in the Big Ten Conference as one of the favorites to win the Big Ten Title, with much thanks to additions like Stewart.

Dallas’ rookie mini camp is May 10-11. It’ll be a first-look at the Cowboys’ first-round 2024 NFL Draft selection Tyler Guyton. The hope is that Guyton, a former Oklahoma offensive tackle, can help reinforce the Cowboys offensive line quickly.

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What we learned in FC Dallas' win over Memphis

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May 8, 2024

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What we learned in FC Dallas' win over Memphis

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FC Dallas picked up another much-needed win on Tuesday night, a US Open Cup Round of 32 win over USL Championship side Memphis 901.

This morning, as I am sitting at a pub in the Pittsburgh Airport, I thought I would take a few minutes to discuss the comments made by head coach Nico Estevez and the game’s goal scorer, Logan Farrington, after last night’s win. I’m also going to take a quick look back at a game that FC Dallas had control over…for the most part.

This won’t be our normal breakdown of the game since we do need to quickly turn our attention to Saturday’s game with Austin FC.

For a coach who needed to go for it in a Cup tournament game at home against a lower-division team, Estevez really didn’t push things all that much with his lineup choice. He stuck it out once more with the 3-4-3, as he reintroduced Jesus Ferreira and Asier Illarramendi back into the lineup after the two weren’t ‘fully fit’ enough, Nico’s words there to do so in Toronto last week.

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