Fayetteville State Champs Honored.

Brock Gardiner, far left, and Brian Cox, far right, split the $300 football pick-it pot this week after both picked all 10 games correctly in our reader contest. Both Gardiner’s and Cox’s tiebreaker score prediction for the Cowboys game were also the same numbers away from the actual score so they each got a $150 gift card, presented by Fayette County Record publisher Regina Keilers.

The La Grange Leopards swim team showed impressive improvement in their second meet of the season, competing in a tri-meet against Bryan and Brenham, both 5A programs. Despite facing larger schools, the Leopards proved they could hold their own in the pool.

Out of 106 entries in last week’s reader football pick-it contest, three folks predicted all 10 games correctly – Jason Vela, Brian Cox and Brock Gardiner. But in a first for our contest, even the score prediction tiebreaker didn’t break the tie. Cox predicted

The Flatonia volleyball team stunned district-leading Weimar Friday in five sets, winning 26-24, 25-21, 22-25, 22-25 and 15-11. That vaults the Lady Bulldogs into a three-way tie atop the district standings with Schulenburg and Weimar, which all have 6-2 district records.

Despite the Loss, Lady Leps Have Already Clinched Playoff Berth Heading Into Regular Season’s Final Week The La Grange volleyball team came within one point of knocking off district-leading and No. 9 state-ranked Bellville Friday in a five-set thrillers in the Lady Leps home finale.

Wednesday the La Grange Middle School Cross Country teams competed at the district cross country meet at the Fayette County Fairgrounds. The girls placed 1st and the boys team placed 3rd, individual results below.

Score by quarters Schulenburg 7 13 0 0 – 20 Ganado 0 21 7 14 – 42 Schul. Gan.

The Schulenburg football team put a scare into a Ganado team that is the defending state champs before the Indians eventually prevailed 42-20 Friday. The Shorthorns led 14-0 in this one and 20-7 before Ganado scored the final 35 points of the game.

Score by quarters La Grange 0 7 7 7 – 21 Bellville 14 21 21 0 – 56 LG BV Rushes-yds 42-232 54-538 Passing yards 128 67 Total yards 360 605 Comp-Att-Int 9-17-1 2-4-0 Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yds 4-20 4-30 Scoring summary FIRST QUARTER BELLVILLE – 7:14, Rody Luera 1 run (Paul Alvarado kick) BELLVILLE – 1:53, Travis Turner 15 run (Alvarado kick) SECOND QUARTER LA GRANGE – 11:00, Eli Gillum 1 run (Aaron Torres kick) BELLVILLE – 9:13, Travis Turner 21 run (Alvarado kick) BELLVILLE – 3:22, Kendrick Turner 1 run (Alvarado kick) BELLVILLE – :51, Don Gillum 45 pass from Knox Bauerschlag (Alvarado kick) THIRD QUARTER BELLVILLE – 9:30, Travis Turner 77 run (Alvarado kick) BELLVILLE – 7:22, Kendrick Turner 52 run (Alvarado kick) LA GRANGE – 4:25, Gillum 2 run (Torres kick) BELLVILLE – 1:07, Luera 1 run (Alvarado kick) FOURTH QUARTER LA GRANGE – 9:11, Dillan Johnson 14 run (Torres kick) INDIVIDUAL STATS Rushing: La Grange – Eli Gillum 16-127, Dillan Johnson 10-75, Klayton Michalka 1432, Dwodney Thompson 1-1, Quade Brothers 1-(-3); Bellville: Travis Turner 13-219, Kendrick Turner 12-162, Rody Luera 20-112. Passing: La Grange – Eli Gillum 9 of 17 for 128 yards with 1 INT; Bellville Knox Bauerschlag 2 of 4 for 67 yards with 1 TD.