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The La Grange baseball team officially clinched a playoff berth Friday with a 17-6 victory at Smithville. The Leps (13-10) cranked out 15 hits with Tristin Ulrich and Eli Gillum leading the way with three hits each.

Amazingly with all the rain earlier this week the La Grange baseball team was still able to get its district game against Smithville in, thanks to a move to the all-turf field in Bastrop … and the Leps performance was worth the work to get the game played.

The Fayetteville High School track team won both the boys and girls team titles at the district and area track meets. Here are Fayetteville’s regional meet qualifiers: Boys 100 Meters 1.

La Grange has hired Cierra McCain as its new head volleyball coach. McCain, a Sam Houston State grad from Wallis, went 10-16 overall last season at Snook in her first year as a head coach and went to the second round of the 2A playoffs before falling to Schulenburg.

The La Grange softball team got two much needed wins last week to force a playoff tiebreaker game Monday. But the magic ran out for the Lady Leps Monday in Navasota as they lost to Caldwell 16-7. The Lady Hornets grab the final playoff spot out of District 22-4A. The loss ends a 28-year streak of making it to the playoffs by the Lady Leps.

4. Jaelynn Ahrens 21.11 4x100 Relay 4.

Several track athletes from Schulenburg and Flatonia placed in the top four of their events at the 27/28 2A Area Meet last week in Granger to advance to the regional meet next week in Kingsville. Boys 300 Meter hurdles: 3rd Freddy Manzano, Flatonia 43.04 Boys Shot Put: 3rd Tavondrick Ellison, Schulenburg 42-2 Girls 400 Meters: 2nd, Summer Sodek, Flatonia 1:02.17 Girls 100 Meter Hurdles: 1st, Ava Faith, Schulenburg 16.81; 3rd Emma Kosler, Flatonia 17.55 Girls 300 Meter hurdles: 2nd, Jordin Davis, Schulenburg, 50.67 Girls 4x100 Relay: 4th Flatonia 51.45 Girls 4x200 Relay: 4th Schulenburg 1:50.26 Girls 4x400 relay: 4th Schulenburg 4:21.19 Triple Jump: Michaela Kollman, Schulenburg, 43-11.25 Girls Discus: 4: Nashawna Willis, 103-8, Flatonia.

The past two seasons the Round Top-Carmine girls golf team missed making it to state by the smallest of margins – by just four strokes two years ago and five strikes last year. This year’s team was determined to change that trend, and they did so by shooting a two-day team score of 833 earlier this month in Manor to claim the regional runner-up title and the school’s first ever girls golf team state tourney berth.