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The La Grange volleyball team lost its playoff seeding match Friday with fellow district co-champ Giddings 19-25, 1825, 20-25. That loss drops La Grange’s overall record to 26-19 and 11-2 in district.

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The La Grange High School band competed at the 4A Area marching competition Saturday in Liberty Hill and placed 16th out of 29 bands. Only the top 10 bands advance to the area finals, and the top five bands in the finals (Springtown, China Spring, Burnet, Alvarado and Gatesville) advanced to state

We’ve never had a Pick Em contest like last week’s results. Out of the 83 entries in last week’s Pick Em, contest, eight different readers correctly picked all 10 games right.

La Grange has 20 seniors on the football team, and what a show they put on in their final home game at Leopard Stadium Friday. The Leps demolished Gonzales 50-18 to break out of a three-way tie in the district standings and now sits all alone in second place heading into this Friday’s season finale at first place Cuero. As improbable as it might have seemed after La Grange lost its district opener to Smithville over a month ago, after three consecutive wins since, the Leps (5-4 overall and 3-1 in district) could actually win the District 12-4A title Friday with a victory against the No. 3-ranked Gobblers (8-1 overall and 4-0 in district). “Three weeks ago we were disappointed as heck to let one slip away and now three weeks later we’re still where we need to be, controlling our own destiny,” La Grange head coach Matt Kates said. Beating Cuero is a tall order, certainly, but La Grange (which officially clinched a playoff berth with the win over Gonzales) seems to be peaking. They haven’t allowed more than 18 points in any of their last three games, while scoring at least 38 each of the last three Fridays.

The Flatonia Bulldogs just keep getting better and better. Flatonia won its seventh consecutive game Friday, dominating Weimar 64-27 in a game that was even more lopsided that the final score indicated.

Schulenburg had one of its best offensive football games of the season but it was still not enough to get the Shorthorns their first win of the year as Holland prevailed 53-33 Friday night. The Shorthorns rolled up 319 yards of total offense and Jayse Janda ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more (to Nicolas Lopez and Kenny Schramek). Rodney Walton also added a 84-yard touchdown run for Schulenburg. But Holland (5-4 overall and 4-1 in district) churned up 377 yards on the ground and jumped out a 14-0 lead in the first quarter that they would never lose.

LG JV Gold 41, Gonzales Freshmen 0 Offensive Stats - Ramon Ortiz (51 Total Yds, 1 Td), Mason Klieber (149 Total Yds, 2 TDs), Jeffery Cabrera (198 Total Yds, 4 TDs), Ayden Gunther (53 Total Yds) Defensive Stats - Ramon Ortiz and Jeffery Cabrera led the team in tackles. Graham Youens had one Interception.