On Monday, the Dallas Baptist Patriots added to their baseball family with the announcement from Head Coach Dan Heefner that Dan Fitzgerald has joined the coaching staff as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Fitzgerald comes to DBU from Des Moines Area Community College in Boone, Iowa, where he has served as head coach since 2008. In his [...]
Continue reading …Duncanville, and the Best Southwest area will be the hot bed for boy’s basketball in mid July. Over 300 teams are signed up for the tournament, and the NBA and NCAA divisions are completely full and the tournament is accepting teams for a standby list. The Great American Shootout’s NBA and NCAA divisions are set [...]
Continue reading …The Dallas Baptist University Patriot Bass Fishing Team is proud to announce their partnership with Navionics, an electronic GPS and marine technology company based out of Italy. As the leader in electronic based GPS charts, technology, innovation, quality, and service, Navionics comprises of a highly skilled group of people who know the importance of using technology [...]
Continue reading …photo and portions of this story from the Oklahoma City Thunder website With the 28th selection in the 2012 NBA Draft, the Thunder added the 6-foot-11, 234-pound Baylor sophomore Perry Jones, III to their roster. Jones III was born in Winnsboro, LA but went to high school in Duncanville, TX averaged 13.7 points, 7.4 rebounds [...]
Continue reading …The DBU Bass Team moved up significantly on the leader board on Sunday as they managed to pull in an 17-67 pound sack of fish – including the biggest fish of the tournament that weighted in at a whopping 6-77 pounds. Coming off a below stellar day of fishing on day one of the 2012 [...]
Continue reading …The Patriot Bass Fishing Team will set sail on day one of the 2012 Boat U.S. Bass Fishing Open presented by Pepsi tomorrow, June 23, at 5:30 a.m. The 90 boat field will compete for this year’s crown on the infamous Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tennessee. Friday afternoon and evening consisted of a police escorted, [...]
Continue reading …Dallas Baptist’s Boomer Collins was named All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association on Wednesday and was joined by teammates Joel Hutter and Austin Elkins as All-Midwest Region honorees. This is Collins’ second All-American honor as he was also named such by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association last week. He will seek to be a consensus All-American if placed on [...]
Continue reading …Thomas is the first assistant coach named to Tim Tadlock’s coaching staff at Texas Tech LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech head baseball coach Tim Tadlock hired the first assistant to his coaching staff on Wednesday with the addition of Duncanville’s J-Bob Thomas, who will work primarily with the Red Raider catchers and assist with the team’s hitters. Thomas, 29, [...]
Continue reading …Last Friday the Panther 7 on 7 team won the Plano West tournament and qualified for the 64 team state tournament at Texas A&M. At Plano West they defeated Dennison, Sachse, McKinney, and Rockwall. “Our team plated better and better as we played, which is a good thing,” said DHS Head Football Coach Jeff Dicus. [...]
Continue reading …Approximately 65 players from as far away as El Paso and Houston along with local talent from the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex gave it their best shot to prove that they have what it takes to play collegiate basketball. Head men’s basketball Coach Ray Wilkerson and his staff are supervising the tryouts. Coach Wilkerson said, “I’m [...]
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