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The Round Top Family Library is proud to announce that legendary Houston Astros broadcaster Bill “Brownie” Brown will be the featured guest in its FYI Presents… Series on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m.

La Grange native Garry Dippel was officially inducted into the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley’s Athletic Hall of Fame earlier this spring. In his speech at the banquet on March 22, Dippel had a lot of people to thank for his college baseball career from 1978 to 1980 at the school, which used to be called Texas Pan-American.

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is an elegant way of describing the virtue of persistence. But I like the way Fayetteville pitcher Jack Schley put it instead Saturday in the dugout at Dell Diamond with a gold medal around his neck.

After a long run in the basketball playoffs, the Fayetteville Lions didn’t begin their baseball season until March 4. And that opener was a doozy.

E aston Jaeger’s last baseball game playing for his dad Clint was a truly special one. Easton, a senior, was named MVP of the state championship game as the Fayetteville Lions, managed by his dad Clint, won the state title Saturday with a 4-2 win over Gordon.

Both the La Grange and the Schulenburg football team competed in the 7-on-7 football State Qualifying Tournament in Wimberley over the weekend. Here are the scores from the event: Pool A Davenport 40, Katy Harmony 13 La Grange 26, Katy Harmony 13 Davenport 34, La Grange 18 Pool B Somerset 35, Schulenburg 0 Lago Vista 14, Schulenburg 6 Somerset 27, Lago Vista 7 Consolation Schulenburg 12, Katy Harmony 0 Play-In Games Davenport 27, Lago Vista 18 Somerset 20, La Grange 8 State Qualifying Round Somerset 28, Davenport 20.

Katherine Bruns, a 2022 graduate of Flatonia High, has been working for over a year for 12th Man Creative, the dedicated branding, digital and social media group of Texas A&M Athletics. Katherine works specifically in the social media department and has covered Football, Volleyball, Basketball, Softball, and Baseball games. This spring she was assigned to be the lead of social media for the Aggie Softball team. Katherine works with a team of videographers and photographers to develop videos and photos of Aggie athletes in action that can then be shared. The posts she contributes to are shared to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, etc. Another part of her duties include covering post-game press conferences, and all games out-of-town remotely. The 12th Man Creative offices are located in Kyle Field. She also traveled with the Aggie Volleyball team to their Sweet 16 appearance in Nebraska.

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Saturday, La Grange High School brought a group of 11 offensive and defensive lineman to San Marcos High School for a Lineman Challenge hosted by Hardin- Simmons University. They competed against four different teams (Davenport, Fredericksburg, Sommerset, and McCallum’s JV team) in eight different events including a farmers walk, tire-flip relay, a power drive, an obstacle course, bench press, a sled push, a dumb bell stack relay, and finished with tug of war.