Lometa fell to Santa Anna 49-27 in the varsity girls’ basketball season opener on Saturday. The Lady Hornets’ game Tuesday against Priddy was canceled, as the Lady Pirates had coronavirus issues.

Brooke Coffman led Lampasas at cross country regionals, placing 33rd in a 135-girl race in Lubbock on Tuesday. Although her finish would have been enough to qualify for regionals in a normal year, this year the number of state qualifiers was reduced to cut down on crowd size at the state meet.

Lampasas led McGregor by just three points at the start of the fourth quarter but beat the visiting Lady Bulldogs 54-43. The strong finish gives the Lady Badgers a 2-0 start to the season.

TENNIS Several Badgers made the all-district tennis team after Lampasas placed third in the district and ended the season with a first-round playoff loss to Peaster. First-team all-district Abby Valdez - girls’ singles Second-team all-district Mario Aguirre - boys’ singles Travis Calk - boys’ singles Amore Zapata - girls’ singles Calk/Isabel Pronovost - mixed doubles Valdez/Kailr Clements - girls’ doubles Honorable mention Rory Magill - boys’ singles Kelsea Moyer - girls’ singles VOLLEYBALL Lady Badger sophomore Morgan Lovejoy and senior Skylor Poole received honorable mention in a tough district that included regional quarterfinalist Stephenville.

Keagan Richardson returns a kick.

The Badgers’ best regularseason showing in almost a century ended with a 56-20 win over Fredericksburg and a second straight district title. Lampasas (5-0 in district, 8-0 overall) will advance to the bi-district playoffs to face Uvalde (2-8, 1-3) on Thursday in Fredericksburg at 7 p.m.

Enrique Prado, right, follows a block by Alonso Caso during the regular season. The Lometa Hornets are 7-2 and ranked No. 25 in this week’s sixmanfootball.com poll. Their bi-district playoff game against No. 8 Leakey (9-1) is Friday at Fredericksburg High School at 7:30 p.m. JESSICA MALDONADO

Lampasas led at the end of every quarter and defeated the Georgetown East View Lady Patriots 53-38 at home on Saturday. The season-opener victory was the Lady Badgers’ first against East View in coach Mark Myers’ tenure.

Jackson Griffith shot his first buck on a hunt in far west Lampasas County. Jackson is the son of Shane Griffith of Lometa and Brittney Schwarz of Austin.

The Lampasas varsity boys improved every quarter in a series of scrimmages on Saturday at home. With a 20-minute running clock in each scrimmage, Lampasas fell 26-14 to Salado before beating Milano 28-16, topping China Spring by a 27-20 score and winning an eight-minute quarter against Milano 23-17.