Read about our Athletes of the Week in every Friday edition and then watch their interviews on the FCR’s Facebook page. Recent Players of the Week: March 17 – Landri Hernandez, La Grange softball March 24 – Jacob Vacek, Schulenburg powerlifting March 31 – Taden Alvarado, Flatonia powerlifting April 7 – Austen Diggs, La Grange track April 14 – Egypt Woods, Round Top-Carmine track April 21 – Clayton Knapik, La Grange track April 28 – Lawson Fritsch, Fayetteville track/baseball May 5 – Jaden Williams, La Grange track/baseball May 12 – Hunter Schobel, Round Top-Carmine baseball May 17 – Beck Zimmerman, Flatonia Baseball.

Fayetteville pitcher Chance Konvicka came within one out of a perfect game as the Lions beat Round Top-Carmine 10-0 Wednesday in a one-game winner-take-all regional semifinal game in Navasota. Konvicka held on to preserve the no-hitter and it was also his bases-loaded double that broke open a scoreless game.

Photographer Scott Coleman captured some stunning images of Fayette County Athletes at last week’s state track meet. .

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La Grange hadn’t had a state track champion in any event in 23 years. Austen Diggs changed all that Thursday.

1922 La Grange B mile relay (Edgar Rosenberg, Ed Novosad, Arthur von Minden & A.V. Smith), 3:44.6 1923 Walter Mensing, B 120-yd hurdles, 16.2 (Conference B record, 1923-24) 1923 Walter Mensing, B pole vault, 11’ 03” 1923 La Grange State Class B Champs over Alvin, 20-16 1954 Ralph K.

The Flatonia baseball team keeps rolling in the playoffs. The Bulldogs swept Freer in a second round series last week winning 5-0 and 11-2.

The La Grange baseball team saw its season come to an end Friday in Del Valle as the Leps lost two games to No. 4-ranked China Spring 11-1 and 7-2.

High School softball season officially game to an end in Fayette County Friday as Schulenburg was swept by Weimar in a third round playoff series. Weimar won 18-1 and 6-0.

On today’s front page we featured the three Fayette County athletes who won gold at the state track meet, but several other local athletes also fared well. Flatonia’s Kobe Burton was second in the 2A boy shot put with a distance of 51-feet 11.25-inches.