Even a half-century later, the members of the 1973 La Grange baseball team – and their fans – are still celebrating their magical state title. Friday the team held a 50th anniversary reunion, and as part of the festivities, the team members (almost all of whom attended) were honored on the field before the Friday varsity baseball game.

Fayetteville and Round Top-Carmine athletes competed in the 29/30A area track meet last week in Runge. The top four finishers in each event advance to the regional track meet will be April 28-29 at Jourdanton ISD.

La Grange High School will host the District 21/22-4AArea track meet Friday April 21 at Leopard Stadium. Field Events start at 9:30 a.m. with the running finals to start at 1 p.m. The event is open to the public. The top four places in each event move on to the Regional Track Meet in Bullard on April 28 & 29. Shown below are La Grange’s area qualifiers. The La Grange boys are fresh off their District 22-4A team title, their fifth track district title in the last six seasons. At the district meet, Austen Diggs broke his own school record in the 200 meter dash. He ran a 21.07 in the finals.

The District 27-28 2A area track meet was held April 12 in Weimar, and several Schulenburg and Flatonia athletes finished in the top four in their events to advance to regionals. Here are the county athletes who placed:

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Against a state-ranked opponent, the La Grange baseball team grabbed one of its most dramatic, and important wins of the season. Rallying from a 3-1 deficit, the Leps scored three runs on the top of the sixth inning Monday to beat state-ranked Taylor 4-3 in a victory that vaulted the La Grange into a tied for first with the Ducks.

Round Top-Carmine track runner Egypt Woods plays a bunch of sports and recently helped her track team in a big way. At the District 29-1A meet, she won the title in the long jump event, then went on to lead her team to a runner up finish as the anchor leg in both the 4x100 and 4x200 relays en route to a District 29-1A team title.

• The Schulenburg softball team lost to Shiner Tuesday 7-2 as the Lady Horns fell to 12-8 overall and 5-6 in district. Brianna Vavra pitched a complete game with five strikeouts and Tamara Otto had two of the Lady Horns hits. Monday Schulenburg pounded Flatonia 10-0.

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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 3 – Haylie Goode, Schulenburg softball March 10 – Flatonia Boys Basketball Seniors 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.