Recent FCR’s Players of the Week Aug. 28: Erica Otto, Schulenburg Volleyball Sept.

The La Grange varsity girls basketball team opened the season at Gonzales Tuesday, losing 61-44. Aysia Grant led La Grange in scoring with 11, Maddi Fritz scored nine, Camille Gonzales had seven, Megan Brothers six and Ariel Thompson.

Last Thursday the La Grange JV Gold capped off their season with a 42-12 win to capture the district title going 7-3 and 5-0 in district. Highlights included two touchdown runs by Devon Johnson, a touchdown run by Abraham Urbina, two-point conversions by Abraham Urbina and Eli Roberts and an interception return for a touchdown by Jaiden Williams.

This year’s 7th grade football team experienced many ups and downs throughout the season. From a slow start of 0-3, to beating Bellville for the first time in over 11 years, and then hardly having enough players to finish the season against Smithville.

The La Grange High School Band competes at the UIL marching competition next Tuesday in Giddings as they try to advance to the next round. In preparation, the band competed, right, at the Lost Pines marching Festival in Bastrop last Saturday.

The Round Top-Carmine volleyball team defeated Nordheim Thursday to advance to the regional semifinals. The Cubettes won 25-17, 25-21, 25-15.

In a game La Grange needed to win to make the playoffs, the Leps turned the ball over six times and lost to Smithville 31-13 in the regular season finale at Leopard Stadium. The Tigers ended up outgaining La Grange by just sixteen yards (358 to 342) but it was those six turnovers (four interceptions, three of which were snagged by Smithville’s Charles Hodge, and two fumbles) that proved to be the difference.

After a week of waiting, the Flatonia football team now knows who they will play in the first round of the playoffs. The Bulldogs (4- 3) will face Ozona (7-3) Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at San Antonio’s Comalander Stadium. The winner of that games faces defending state champ Refugio.

Several county athletes have been named to the Texas High School Coaches Association Academic All-State team. La Grange volleyball players Megan Brothers, Natalie Blackwell and Lanie Doyle made the team.

Last Thursday the La Grange Middle School 8th grade football team traveled to Giddings to take on the Buffalos. The exciting game started off on the first play from scrimmage with Kameron Leonard going 65 yards off the right edge for the Touchdown. The 2 point conversion was added on a pass from Max Dixon to Leonard. The Buffalos answered with a touchdown and 2 pt. conversion of their own. The remainder of the quarter was a defensive struggle resulting in a halftime score of 8-8. Giddings began the 2nd half with a scoring drive that occupied all but 34 seconds of the Quarter. However, that is all the Leopards needed as Elijah Haardt had 2 runs totalling 65 yards and a touchdown. The two-point conversion failed by near inches. With 1:54 left in the game and down by a score of 22-14, the Leopards drove down the field on the strength of two passes from Dixon to Haardt. The following play, a pass from Dixon to Leonard, resulted in a La Grange Touchdown and was followed by a 2 pt. run by Haardt to bring the score to 22-22. The Leopards executed a successful onside kick with :56 seconds remaining, but it was called back due to an offsides call. Giddings recovered the second try. The next two plays resulted in fumbled quarterback center exchanges that Giddings recovered. On the subsequent 3rd down play Haardt picks off the Buffalo quarterback. Down to the final 8 seconds and using both their timeouts the Leopards drop the next two passes resulting in a 22-22 tie.