The NTCC Eagles softball team used strong hitting and a never-say-die attitude to earn a six-game winning streak at the Murray State Softball Festival over the weekend.

Boy meets girl. Girl writes boy. Girl and Boy correspond throughout their lives. That more or less sums up the romantic comedy,†Love Letters, by A. R. Gurney, to be presented by Theatre Northeast on March 2-4 at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the Northeast Texas Community College campus.

Friday and Saturday (March 2 and 3) shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday, March 3 performance will be at 2:05 p.m.†Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 age 17 and under and $3 for senior citizens, NTCC faculty and staff.

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Tim Davis, Director of the Industrial Technology Training Center, Shirley Peterson, MPHS†Associate Principal and CTE Director,†and Kevin Rose, Associate Vice President for Workforce Education at NTCC, finalize details for the new dual-credit Industrial Technology program at MPHS.

The Northeast Texas Community College Agriculture program recently hosted 187 sixth-grade students from Pittsburg ISD. The students spent the morning touring the Elizabeth Hoggatt Whatley Agriculture Complex and the rest of the NTCC campus. If you have a class, club or organization that is interested in learning more about NTCC, please call us today at 903-434-8100 to set up a free personalized tour.

The Adult Education department at Northeast Texas Community College recently announced that ESL (English as Second Language) student Maria De La Luz Dominguez (pictured) of Mount Pleasant has received the Texas Association for Literacy and Adult Education (TALAE) ESL Student Persistence Award. This statewide honor is awarded to students who exhibit personal accountability and commitment to pursuing their education while maintaining their family and civic responsibilities. A award of $500 was given during the TALAE Awards Dinner in San Antonio earlier this month.

The Eagles softball team moved to 3-7 Saturday as they picked up a split in a double header with visiting Connors State.

With both teams battling frigid temperatures, it was the Eagles that came away with a 3-2 victory in game one.

The Eagles took advantage of their three hits to score their three runs in the contest and held off the Cowgirls late to get the win.

The Cowgirls grabbed a quick lead in the top of the second inning on a fielder?s choice play with the bases loaded but the Eagles answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning.

Jessica Mil

The Eagles baseball team moved its record to 3-3 Tuesday as the squad split a double-header at Weatherford College.

It took extra-inning heroics for the Eagles to pick up a win in game one as Matt Durst drove in the game-winning runs with a two-RBI single in the top of the eighth inning to secure a 3-1 victory.

A pitcher?s duel throughout, Weatherford took the lead in the bottom of the second inning with a sacrifice fly by Cody Semier.

The Eagles tied the score in the top of the fifth inning as a two-out single to center by Richard Bain brought in Eric Hughes, who