James Lacombe

Awards were plentiful for local schools in the All-District 24-6A girls soccer postseason honors, led by the top spot being shared by crosstown rivals.

With both teams breaking extended playoff droughts this season, Hitchcock's baseball and softball teams received plentiful All-District 24-3A postseason honors.

Clear Creek pitcher Harlie Wright was picked as District 24-6A’s most valuable player to head up the group of locals earning all-district superlatives — which also featured Clear Springs’ Makenzie

Spencer was picked as the district's offensive player of the year, while Santa Fe's Lailah Mielsch also received a superlative award as co-newcomer of the year.

Headlined by multiple superlatives, Galveston County schools were well decorated in the All-District 20-5A baseball awards.

Jah'Quan McAfee became the first in the long and storied history of La Marque athletics to win two gold medals at a single state track and field meet, and he

One of the first big sporting events of the summer, the Women’s College World Series, offers some local ties in which Galveston County fans can be invested.

The Galveston Sand Crabs — a brand-new team in the wooden-bat summer league, the Cowboy Collegiate League — open their inaugural season 7 p.m. Monday on the road against the Conroe X's before making their home debut 7 p.m. Tuesday at Tor Field against the Pearland Cobblers.

In the first game of their inaugural season in the Cowboy Collegiate League on Monday, the Galveston Sand Crabs outlasted the Conroe X's for an extra-inning 13-9 win.

The Galveston Sand Crabs packed the Tor Field stands with enthusiastic supporters of the brand-new Cowboy Collegiate League team for their home opener, but came up just a bit short