The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association has named three Fayette County players All-State – Fayetteville’s Jack Schley and Round Top-Carmine’s Will Neese in Class 1A and Schulenburg’s Jayse Janda in Class 2A.

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Baseball great Yogi Berra once said “it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” For better or worse, the folks at Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine do their best to predict the finish of every district in the state in their annual magazine that comes out every summer. The folks at Texas Football see La Grange and Schulenburg making the playoffs, but Flatonia, Smithville and Giddings missing out.

The Fayette Area Swim Team (FAST) wrapped up its regular season schedule by taking 78 swimmers to Columbus to compete against the Columbus Catfish in the final dual meet of the summer. While no team records fell during the meet, the performances in the pool were nothing short of remarkable.

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The La Grange City Council met in executive session Monday night, June 22, to discuss a lease agreement for a gymnastics program at the Randolph Recreation Center. Shay Iannelli currently operates the gymnastics program at the Rec Center on behalf of the City.

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Styne Schramm of Winchester recently accompanied the Texas Bulldogs of New Braunfels, a 12U baseball team, to Cooperstown All Star Village in Oneonta, New York. Competing in a slate of 94 teams, the Bulldogs finished in the top third, facing teams from California, Arizona and others. One highlight for Styne was hitting a walk-off two-run home run after trailing by five runs in the team’s final at bat. While in New York, time allowed for visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and Fly Creek Cider Mill and Orchard, an apple orchard and cider processing company in Fly Creek.

The Fayette Area Swim Team (FAST) continued its strong summer season as 93 of the team’s 117 swimmers traveled to Weimar to compete against the Schulenburg Sharks and WAKE Aquatics in the third meet of the season.

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