Some kids take it easy during the summer. But not Abbot Acosta, Dilan Barron and Jacob Estrada.

La Grange native Trey East III placed 17th in the 400 meters at the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships last week in Eugene, Oregon East ran a 46.07. East was also part of the University of Houston’s 4x400 relay at nationals that placed 14th with a time of 3:04.36.

La Grange native Trey Supak is having a really good month of June so far with Frisco, the Double-A baseball team for the Texas Rangers. In three starts this month Supak is 1-0 with a 2.16 ERA in 16.2 innings pitched with 13 strikeouts.

The members of the state semifinalist Schulenburg baseball team got their state bronze medals and their semifinalist trophy at this week’s Schulenburg school board meeting. The team is shown here with their hardware. The Shorthorns went 20-15 this season, and lost to eventual state champ Centerville in the state semifinals.

Flatonia Bulldog senior baseball player, Titan Targac played in the 51st Annual Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 2A-4A All Star Game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock last Saturday, June 14.

Legendary Flatonia baseball coach Shawn Bruns has informed Flatonia ISD that he plans to step down as head coach of the baseball team but remain as the school’s assistant athletic director. Bruns’ former player and current assistant coach Colby Mica will take over as head baseball coach.

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The Round Top Family Library is proud to announce that legendary Houston Astros broadcaster Bill “Brownie” Brown will be the featured guest in its FYI Presents… Series on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m.

La Grange native Garry Dippel was officially inducted into the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley’s Athletic Hall of Fame earlier this spring. In his speech at the banquet on March 22, Dippel had a lot of people to thank for his college baseball career from 1978 to 1980 at the school, which used to be called Texas Pan-American.

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is an elegant way of describing the virtue of persistence. But I like the way Fayetteville pitcher Jack Schley put it instead Saturday in the dugout at Dell Diamond with a gold medal around his neck.