Taylor Boys Soccer Coach Casey Shuck has his team within one win of its first State UIL playoff bid following Tuesday's 3-0 victory over Giddings at Memorial Field.

The Ducks travel to LaGrange on Friday and a repeat of their 1st half victory over the Leopards would be wildly celebrated. A win over LaGrange would also give the Ducks their second three-game winning streak of the year. 

Granger senior Josh Dews (right) was recognized by Taylor ISD Superintendent Dr. Bruce Scott and the Board of Trustees Monday for the recent completion of his Eagle Scout project that included over 50 people and the remodeling of the children's playground at the Northside Early Childhood Center.

Josh's mom, Cindy Dews, is a teacher at the Northside campus.  Josh is a former Taylor ISD student and brought new meaning to Taylor ISD's catch phrase ... "Once A Duck, Always A Duck."

The public is invited to drop by the playground at 2500 North Drive and take a look at all of the work completed by Josh's volunteer effort.

Coach Carla Geeslin's varsity softball squad rolled to 2nd place in their inaugural Taylor Tournament at the newly open Taylor Regional Park & Sports Complex last week, winning four games before falling to 5A Houston Lamar 13-2 in the finals.

The Lady Ducks will play host to Cameron Wednesday and are excited about the experience the recent 10-team tournament provided them.  The Lady Ducks stood tall behind pitcher Ashley Burow to sweep past Riesel 3-0 and advance to the finals to meet their ex coach -- Melvin Jenkins and his Lamar squad.

Wednesday's varsity only action will begin at 7 pm at the Lady Ducks home field. 

ELGIN - Coach Doug Kuhl's Taylor Ducks have hit an early stride and they stormed through the Elgin Invitational Tournament unbeaten last week by sweeping past Liberty Hill, San Antonio Marshall, Hutto and Elgin.

The Ducks opened the tournament Thursday down 5-0 to Liberty Hill, but they stormed back for a 12-6 win that produced their 5th straight victory.  Taylor whipped San Antonio Marshall 14-7 and then returned to Elgin on Saturday as Cade Samuelson (2-0) tossed a 5-hit shutout in a 6-0 victory over Hutto and Carter Sakewitz and Sam Jirasek took to the hill to shut down Elgin in a 8-1 final game victory.

The Ducks (8-2) will open District 24-AAA play on Wednesday in Taylor at Krueger Field. Both the boys and the girls varsity begin play at home due to schedule changes with singles games at 7 pm.

Taylor Girl's Powerlifting Coach Terrie Holmstrom has reported that senior Kristen Martinez has qualified for the State Powerlifting Meet in Corpus Christi, Saturday March 13th.

The senior lifter heads back to State for the second time after finishing 3rd at Regionals last year.  She competes in Class 198 and had a combined lift total in the Bench Press, the Squat and the Deadlift of 815 pounds.

We wish you continued success! 

THS Tennis Coach Vicki Hall has reported that her varsity took 5th place recently as they traveled to San Marcos for regional team tennis play.

Hall reports that the competition was tough and that Taylor lost a tough 1st round match-up vs Leander Vandergrift and then bounced back to topple both Lavernia and San Antonio Ingram.

Taylor's Spring district tournament is just around the corner ... April 7th and 8th! No individual scores were available.
 

Taylor girls basketball coach Kisha Jones has announced that two members of her Lady Ducks squad have garnered All-District honors.

According to Jones, junior point guard Courtney Fields was named to 2nd Team All-District, while senior Devyn Tone was named Honorable Mention.

The Lady Ducks were also represented on the Academic All-District team by junior Kiera Maddox.