Yoemen Sports Network

The Yoe track team competed on Thursday, March 21, at the Lexington Relays. The varsity boys finished tied for third in team standings and the junior varsity boys finished in second in team standings.

Davion Bynaum had an outstanding day, shattering the Yoe High record in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.22.

Varsity Boys Results 

High Jump - Kadrian Hammond - second place - 6’ 0”; Triple Jump - Kadrian Hammond - first place - 45’ 1”; Thomas Melton - sixth place - 39’ 6”; Discus - Callyn Harris - second place - 1371”; 4x100 Relay - first place - 43.36 - Deonte Williams, Kadrian Hammond, Malik Thomas, Davion Bynaum; 100-meter dash - Davion Bynaum - first place - 10.22; 4x200 Relay - first place - 1:30.36 - Deonte William, Malik Thomas, Kadrian Hammond, Davioun Bynaum; 110-meter hurdles - Callyn Harris - third place - 15.34; 200-meter dash - Deonte Williams - fourth place - 23.47.

JV Boys Results

The Lady Yoe soccer team will play their bi-district playoff game against Bellville on Friday, March 29, at 7:30 pm in Rockdale. 
Tickets are $5 adults and $3 students to be sold at the gate only. Go Yoe!

The Lady Yoe softball team bounced back from a stinging defeat Friday with a win over district foe Lexington on Monday night.

After falling on a late error against Rogers on Friday, the Lady Yoe bounced back in a big way by knocking off Lexington at Mark Humble Softball Field 4-2. They fell to Troy 16-1 on Tuesday night.

Cameron now sits at 2-3 in district play.

Lexington opened the scoring in the first with a couple of runs on a couple of errors. But the Lady Yoe responded by plating three runs in the bottom half to take a lead they would not surrender. 

Cameron added an insurance run in the third inning. 

Cheyanne Spillers got the nod in the circle and tossed a complete game with one walk and two strikeouts. 

Senior Kenzie Wimmer had a pair of RBIs in the game as Carly Tucker and Madison Brunson drove in the other two runs for the ladies.

The ladies stumbled on Friday in their home district opener against Rogers.

Three Lady Yoe Powerlifters are headed to State.

The girls competed in the Regional Tournament finishing second this past weekend as a team.

Selene Vargas won first place in her 123-pound weight class. Yareli Contreras placed second in the 259-pound weight class and Daejanay Bell placed second in her 259+-pound weight class.

The girls will head to State on March 16.

The Yoe Powerlifters will compete at their Regional Tournament on Saturday, March 9 in West.

Boys that qualified for Regionals were: Joseph Rangel in the 132-pound weight class; Joshua Lopez in the 132-pound weight class; Fabian Solomon in the 148-pound weight class; Tyler Burt in the 181-pound weight class; Eduardo Gil in the 220-pound weight class; and Dominic Lewis in the 242-pound weight class.

The Lady Yoe golf team competed in the weather-shortened Cameron Invitational Golf Tournament on Tuesday and came away with second place team. Jazmin Vaculin led the ladies with a second place finish with a score of 47. Other Lady Yoe placing were: Presley Berry in sixth place with 51, Shawn Bernard in seventh place with 53 and Lexi Stroud in 12th place with 56. 

The Yoe baseball team went 2-2 in their annual Cameron-Rogers Tournament last week. They go into district play sitting at 4-5 on the season.

The Yoemen began district play with Franklin on Wednesday night after moving the game from its planned Monday slot due to the freezing temperatures. Game results were not available as of press time.

The Yoemen kicked off tournament play with a loss to Brock 7-3 on Thursday. Anthony Layne took the loss for the Yoemen surrendering seven runs on five hits over five innings and striking out two. 

Brannon McCall, Bobby Borgas, Luke Greene, Jason Llanas and Layne each managed a hit during the game.

The Yoemen came back in game two on Thursday evening to defeat La Grange 4-2. 

After trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning Richie Acosta singled on a 1-0 count, scoring two runs. 

The Lady Yoe lost the lead late in an 11-8 defeat to Rockdale on Tuesday.  

Rockdale was down 7-6 in the bottom of the fifth inning when Jineuhez homered, scoring four runs.

Kenzie Wimmer drove in four runners in the loss.

Lady Yoe got things started in the first inning when Mia Wimmer drew a walk, scoring one run.

Cheyenne Spillers led things off in the circle for the Lady Yoe. She lasted four innings, allowing five hits and nine runs while striking out two.  Madison Brunson threw two innings in relief out of the bullpen.

The Lady Yoe hit three home runs on the day. Kenzie Wimmer had a four-bagger in the third and fifth innings. Amelia Wimmer went yard in the third inning.

The Lady Yoe will be back in action Thursday in the Franklin tournament at The Ranch Complex. The Lady Yoe will play today at 4 p.m. and Friday at 9 a.m. and 10:45.

Burton Tournament

Yoe High School Senior Davion Bynaum signed with the University of Texas El Paso on Feb. 14 to continue his career as a student-athlete as a part of the Minor’s Track and Field Team.

The Yoe wrestling team had a banner day at the district meet last week in a sport that is growing in popularity in Cameron.

All seven Yoe wrestlers qualified for Regionals this week in a tough 14-team 5A district.

Judith Llanas finished second in her division. Johnvanique Porter was fourth, making this her third trip to Regionals. Patience Adcock stunned the Cameron crowd with a great last match to finish third.

Seth Perez and Domanique Borgas were the top finishers for the boys.

Wrestling in the 138-pound class Perez met some of last year’s state qualifiers but managed a strong third place finish. 

Domanique Borgas keeps getting better and also finished third for a second trip to Regionals. 

Payton Aguillon was fourth and Dylan Smith also finished fourth and both will advance to Regionals.

The Yoemen defeated the Rogers Eagles 43-36 to wrap up third place in District 20-3A on Tuesday night.

They are set for bi-district next Tuesday night against Teague at Robinson High School starting at 7 p.m. The Yoemen will be the home team.

With the win the Yoemen improve to 14-10, 9-5 in district play.

“We knew it was going to be a hard fought battle tonight,” Coach Nick Burns said. “Rogers did a great job of attacking the paint and making us have to shot the three-ball. Those three’s have been falling the last few weeks, but they weren’t falling tonight.”

The Yoemen and Rogers kept the score tight for most of the first half going into the locker room with the Yoemen ahead 33-20. Rogers would never quite catch up in the second half even though both team scored 20 over two quarters.

Burns gave credit to Rogers along with his team for going toe-to-toe all the way through.