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Marble Falls baseball goes undefeated at Llano tourney

CAPTION: Marble Falls sophomore Braxton Dicken slides into third base after taking multiple bases to get into scoring position against Austin Hyde Park. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Marble Falls High School baseball team went 4-0 at the Llano’s Hill Country Classic tournament Feb. 26-28. The Mustangs (7-1) slipped past Austin Hyde Park 6-5 Feb. 28 after crushing Liberty Hill Legacy Ranch 13-0, Comanche 12-1 both on Feb. 27, and Hyde Park 9-1 to begin the event. Head coach Tyler Porter noted his players performed well. “I don’t mean…

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Featured Football High School 

Burnet girls soccer beats Travis, Jarrell

CAPTION: Burnet’s Avery Barth (12) is leading the Lady Dawgs’ offensive attack. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Burnet High School girls soccer team defeated Jarrell 3-2 Feb. 27 and Austin Travis 1-0 Feb. 24 in District 25-4A play. The Lady Dawgs (16-5, 10-1) trailed Jarrell 1-0 at the half. Then Avery Barth scored the first of her two goals when she split the defenders and outran them to go one on one with the goalie seven minutes into the second half. Her second goal came five minutes later when…

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Burnet baseball performs well at Llano tourney

CAPTION: Freshman Hudson Crawford embodied all the positives that’s part of pitching during his performance against Llano. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Burnet High School baseball team went 1-3 at Llano’s Hill Country Classic Feb. 26-28. The Bulldogs beat Harper 15-0 Feb. 27 and lost to Austin Hyde Park 13-5 and Liberty Hill Legacy Ranch 5-1 both on Feb. 26 and to Llano 3-1 Feb. 28. The last game of the event against the host displayed so much. While the Yellow Jackets went with senior pitcher Austin Humphries, the Bulldogs…

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Featured Softball 

Marble Falls softball uses tourney to get ready for district

CAPTION: Sophomore Callie Phillips (left) scores and encourages senior Cheyenne Thompson before she bats. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Marble Falls High School softball team competed at the Central Texas Turf Wars tournament hosted by Georgetown Independent School District, Leander and Jarrell Feb. 26-28. The Lady Mustangs lost to Leander Glenn 8-5, Fredericksburg 9-4, Midland Greenwood 14-6, Baytown Goose Creek Memorial 8-0 and Cibolo Steele 16-2. As the week started Feb. 23, head coach Alex Lozoya said he told his players they were going to compete against some quality…

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Burnet boys soccer beats Travis

CAPTION: Marco Campos-Huerta’s powerful leg ensures the Bulldogs are never completely out of a match. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography The Burnet High School boys soccer team defeated Austin Travis 4-1 Feb. 24 and lost to Jarrell 3-1 Feb. 27. The Bulldogs (4-11-3, 3-5-2) got two goals from Jose Rios Rodriguez with one coming off a ricochet and the other on an assist from Ricardo Flores. Marco Campos-Huerta scored on a free kick and Alfredo Jaramillo Gonzalez had the final goal thanks to an assist from Campos-Huerta. Rodriguez’s first goal came…

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