A6 Friday, June 5, 2015 SPORTS The Fayette County Record

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who attended our 79th Annual Festival.A special thanks to those who gave their time,

donated items or cash, and supported the events.We thank Round Top State Bank and Hruska’s Grocery/Bakery

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Fayette Lake Monster Bass

Deborah Johnson and her husband Elliot live in Houston but re-cently they made a trip to Fayette Lake for a weekend at Oak Thicket Park.

And what a weekend they had, catching a largemouth bass that weighed 11.44 pounds and was 26.25 inches, another that was 10.74 pounds and 25.75 inches and another that was 7.95 pounds and 23.5 inches.

According to Texas Parks and Wildlife the record weight for a largemouth bass caught at Fayette Lake was 12.25 pounds caught March 13, 1982 by James Scogin. That record fish was 25 inches long, so Deborah’s bass was actually longer than that record bass, just not as heavy.

She said the larger bass were caught fishing the bottom of the lake using brown rubber lizards and the smaller bass were caught fishing top water using Rattle Traps.

“The experience was awesome and we had a marvelous, marve-lous time on the water. My husband began fishing as a toddler with his Dad but, fishing for me is a totally new experience. The beautiful large mouth bass that we had the opportunity to catch was an experi-ence we will never forget,” Deborah said.

Going Fishing This Summer? Email us pictures of your big catches to jeff@fayettecountyrecord.com and we may print it in an upcoming paper.

Deborah Johnson holds up the bass she caught recently at Fayette Lake that was 26 1/4 inches long and weighed in at 11.44 pounds.

Elliot Johnson holds up a bass he caught that was 23 1/2 inch-es long and weighed in at 7.95 pounds.

After a dominating season that ended just one step shy of the state tournament, the La Grange softball team earned some major awards as the 21-4A all-district softball team was announced this week. Junior pitcher Missy Zoch was named the district’s overall MVP after going 26-2 this season with a 0.26 ERA with 229 strikouts in 162.2 innings pitched.

Junior Amber Loehr was named the district’s Offensive MVP. She hit .465 with a team-leading 42 RBIs and 10 homers.

Sophomore catcher Hatti Moore was the district’s defen-sive MVP

La Grange honorees include: Overall MVP: Missy Zoch, Jr.Offensive MVP: Amber Loehr, Jr.

Defensive MVP: Hatti Moore, Soph.First TeamInfieldersBlake-Ann Fritsch, Jr.Briana Angel, Jr.Kristy Bertsch, Sr.OutfieldersAbby Gage, So.Hannah Gerecke, Sr.Shelby Dixon, So.Second TeamInfielderRiley Fisbeck

Academic All DistrictBriana AngelKristy BertschBrenna BesedaShelby DixonRiley FisbeckDarby FitzpatrickBlake-Ann FritschAbby Gage

Hannah GereckeAmber LoehrLibby ReadMissy ZochElana Ledwik

Zoch Named 21-4A Overall Softball MVP

Flatonia Faces Refugio in Regional FinalsThere are eight teams still

alive in the 2A baseball play-offs and Flatonia is one of them.

The Bulldogs, the defend-ing state runner-ups try to re-turn to the state tournament as they face Refugio this weekend in the regional finals.

This best-of-three series begins Thursday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Legacy Field in El Campo, 303 West Loop.

Game 2 is Saturday June 6 at noon at the SAISD Sports Complex at Burback High School in San Antonio, 1000 Edwards St.

If needed a Game 3 would follow 30 minutes after the conclusion of Game 2.

Refugio is 21-3-1, impres-sive yes, but two of those losses have come to the Kenedy team Flatonia just beat last week 11-0. Flatonia’s record is 21-6. This postseason the Bulldogs survived extra innings to beat Holland 6-5 in the opening round before sweeping past Big Sandy and Thorndale be-fore knocking off Kenedy 11-0 in the regional semis last week.

Here’s the other regional final matchups:

Hawley vs. BookerRiesel vs. CrawfordHarleton vs. Beckville

The Big East Bucks, an 13-under elite select baseball team that includes several local players re-cently won first place at the Spring-Klein “June Jam” tournament in Spring May 30-31. Pictured are, front row, left to right: Tyler Goodman, Jarrett Brandes, Kannin Mikulik, Houston “Wyatt” Radcliff, Justin Stang. Second row: Ethan Schobel, Aidan Wagner, Israel “Izzy” Salinas, Derek Oestreich, Chase Coleman, Hayden Leopold. back row: Houston Radcliff, Manager Carlos Coleman and Coach Scott Leopold.

Bucks Win Tournament

Missy Zoch was named the 21-4A overall Softball MVP.

Flatonia’s Marcus Mica slides in safely to third base in action earlier this season. Photo by Stephanie Steinhauser

The Home of the FREEBecause of the BRAVE

Whether they served on the front lines or provided critical support services behind the scenes, now is the time to

recognize and thank our World War II veterans

Businesses can Purchase special 1940s style ads in this once-in-a-lifetimepublication. Individuals can purchase special memorial/congratulation plaques.For more information, contact Bobby Bedient at 979-968-3155

Alvin Langhamer Arnold Kramr Bennie Beale Bob Clements Charlie Mazoch

Charlie Ripper Clarence Weishuhn Cleve Friddell Dennis Rudloff Dr. E.L. Fitzpatrick

Eddie Hulsey Edward Jurek Elvas Roensch Eugene Hollas Frank Brauner

Gene Muzny Henry Reiss John Kobersky Laddie Ripple Lonnie Daniels

Milton Koenning Leland Miller Joe Bargas James Ephraim Otto Fuchs

Pete Glaiser Joseph Hild Joseph Hlavinka Elton Jochen Warren Pennington

Leon Reeder Frank Stastny Edgar Tiedt Alford Zoch Richard Gabler

Roy Wilks Ted Wolfram Tom McLean Victor Sternadel Walter Noll

Join The Fayette County Record in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by saluting the service of these Fayette County veterans and reading the detailed war stories they shared with writer Elaine Thomas.

On August 14, Fayette County Record will Publish a special section “Voices of Fayette County Veterans”

The Texas Girls Coaches Association has announced its Academic All-State track team. Athletes must be seniors and must have a GPA of 94 or above for grades 9-11. Honorees from La Grange include:

Brenna Beseda, Hannah Gerecke, Kelsey Parchman, Elizabeth Read, Hannah Zuhn.

Several Lady Leps Named Academic All-State in Track

All-Star baseball and soft-ball season is almost here again, and the La Grange Little League has begin announcing its first batch of all-stars.

Here they are with more to come later in the month:

2015 LA GRANGE LITTLE LEAGUE - ALL STARS7-8 Year Old GirlsHaylie CooperRylie DyerVictoria HaroldLandri HernandezJena JobbCassidy LaakeAlyssa LiccioniAvery MarshallCamryn SmithRiley YouensManager: Jeff DyerCoaches: Megan Cooper & Sue Smith

7 Year Old BoysLuke AndersonKameron BehrensQuade BrothersJonah EhlerMason FenhausCaidon FitzpatrickEli GillumKole SchmittCaleb StokesCash WesselsManager: Louis AndersonCoaches: Chris Gillum, Anthony Wessels

9 Year Old Boys – AmericanAusten DiggsMax DixonLawson FritschReid GrossJake KubalaBrock LoehrTanner SchobelCorbin SupakKeagan Supak

Owen WestallManager: Brian KubalaCoaches: Aaron Gross & Bradley Loehr

9 Year Old Boys – NationalPhillip ArceneauxBraxton DahseBrayden HortonCooper Imhoff

Colton KleselCordale KnapikCooper MauCody ParksHunter SaboJhase ScottNathan ScottManager: Justin DahseCoaches James Little & Cory Holladay.

La Grange Little League All-Star Teams