Despite losing the season opener, Hillcrest is set for a trip to Bartlesville March 26-28th and hopes to rebound against some very strong teams from Oklahoma. The Hornets turn around next week and play both Republic and Lake Zurich, IL before playing 6 games in 6 days April 6-11th. These teams include Willard, Waynesville, Nixa, Rolla, and Kearney. ***The Hornets  came out of  this stretch 3-7 with victories over Tulsa-Will Rogers, Rolla and Neosho.

The 2nd Annual Hillcrest Baseball Hall of Fame weekend is scheduled for April 24-26th, 2009. The festivities will begin Friday night at 6:30pm with the induction ceramoney hosted at The Tower Club. This year inductees include Hillcrest greats Ronnie Webb, Ron Norris, Kelly Snider, Doug Bennett, and Coach Dave Davis. Saturday will bring the benefit Golf Tournament at the Bill and Payne Stewart Golf Course beginning at 8:00am. Sunday we will close out the weekend with the annual Alumni Game kicking off at 1:00pm. For images of last years ceramony please click here.

The 2009 baseball season is underway with school ball tryouts starting on March 2nd for the Varsity, JV and JV 'B' teams. Legion tryouts for the Rookie and 'A' teams will begin March 13th at 6:30pm, with a manditory parents meeting, and continue on Saturday and Sunday at 2:00pm. All 7th, 8th and 9th grade boys who live in the Hillcrest school district are incouraged to come out to the tryouts.