James LaCombe

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With a highly competitive regular season now in the rearview mirror, five Galveston County softball teams enter the UIL playoffs’ opening bi-district round this week. Here’s a quick glimpse at each matchup. • Clear Creek vs. C.E. KingWhen and where: One-game series, 6 p.m. Friday at Clear Creek High SchoolQuick take: The Wildcats ride into the postseason coming off one of the program’s most successful seasons in a number of years, winning a three-way share of the District 24-6A title.

2 days ago | galvnews.com | James LaCombe

Scores and player statistics for Galveston County high school baseballDeer Park 5, Dickinson 0DISTRICT 20-5AFriendswood 13, Angleton 6ANGLETONThe Friendswood Mustangs drove in seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to finally put away hosting Angleton in a game that had a wild race to the finish Tuesday night.

2 days ago | galvnews.com | James LaCombe

LEAGUE CITYAlthough Clear Falls pushed them to the brink, the District 24-6A-leading Clear Lake Falcons played spoiler to retiring Knights head baseball coach Eddie Youngblood’s final home game by staging a seventh-inning rally for a 4-3 win Tuesday night. “They played hard,” said Youngblood, whose 37-year coaching career — the last 15 of which have been at Clear Falls — comes to a close 6 p.m. Friday at Clear Lake. “We didn’t finish like we wanted to, but we gave them a good run for their money.

5 days ago | galvnews.com | James LaCombe

LEAGUE CITYWith the Region III-6A/5A meet featuring some of the nation’s best track and field athletes, Galveston County represented with five gold-medal performances, and even more clinched additional berths to the state championships, on the event’s final day Saturday at Challenger Columbia Stadium.

5 days ago | galvnews.com | James LaCombe

HUNTSVILLEThe Hitchcock Bulldogs’ relay race runners again proved to be among the best in Class 3A with strong showings at the Region III-3A championships hosted by Huntsville High School on Friday and Saturday. Hitchcock’s boys 4x200-meter relay team were regional champions, taking home gold with a time of 1 minute, 26.79 seconds from the foursome of Jamarion Cooper, Taurian Fontenette, Jared Dotson and Brian Harris. Also winning gold was the Bulldogs boys 4x400-meter relay team.