Hubbard won its own varsity tournament Thursday and Friday, sweeping three matches including the championship game against Bynum.
Kopperl won third place and Penelope took consolation.
Hubbard defeated Avalon, 2-0, then Italy, 2-1, and finally Bynum 2-0 in games.
Kaila Banks was the tournament MVP. Dallas Fletcher and Kate Saucke made all-tournament.
Hubbard’ JV tied for first place with Waco Reicher in the JV tournament. Kopperl took third.
Lady Polar Bears take third in Dawson: Frost won two of three matches to win third place Saturday at the Dawson Tournament.
Abbott took first place and Bremond was the runnerup. Chilton won consolation.
The Lady Polar Bears beat Waco Rapaport, 25-17, 25-14; lost to Bremond, 25-16, 25-22; and beat Bynum, a district opponent, 25-16, 25-19.
Dakota Lassetter had four kills, 12 assists and 10 aces. Jae Moore had 18 kills and six aces. Hillaree Schwartz had four kills, nine assists and four aces.
Sabrina Jameson had 10 aces and only one serving error in three matches. She served 12 straight points to bring score against Bynum from 9-15 to 21-15.
Kaycee Bowling, who came up from the JV and served well, had four aces. Heather Montgomery and Kadee Bowling each had four kills and Morgan Elmore had five assists.
Rice takes runnerup in Venus: Rice beat Fort South Hills and Blooming Grove, then lost to Venus in the championship game of the Venus Tournament on Saturday.
Rice defeated South Hills, 25-8, 27-25. Hanna Owens made 12 serves in a row in the first game. Paige Allen had four kills and 8 for 8 serving. Sadie Gent had seven digs and 6 of 6 serving with seven hits. Sadie Gent had five assists and two saves.
Rice then beat Blooming Grove, 25-9, 25-18. Sadie Gent served 15 straight points with five aces. She was 8 for 8 hitting with three kills and five digs. Paige Allen was 13 for 14 hitting with three kills and six digs. Celina Smithers had two aces and two blocks. Sarah Gent had six assists and an ace.
The Lady Bulldogs lost to Venus 25-17, 25-23. Paige Allen was 5 for 5 hitting with a kill and a block. Sarah Gent was 10 of 10 serving with nine assists and two saves. Katelyn Northcutt had 3 blocks and was 4 of 6 hitting. Samantha Harris was 5 of 6 hitting with two kills. Sarah Gent was 10 of 10 serving with nine assists and two saves.
Celina Smithers had six blocks and had 9 of 12 hits with two kills and 5 of 6 serving with an ace. Sadie Gent was 9 of 9 serving with two aces and had 10 of 16 hits with four kills and five digs. Ashley Henderson, Ashton Metcalfe and Hanna Owens also played well defensively.
Friday’s results
Dawson falls to Chilton: Dawson lost to Chilton, 25-7, 25-18, 25-12 in a non-district match Friday night.
Jalyn Miller had six kills and Demi Dotson five. Miller had four blocks. Hannah Greer and Stephanie Lindsey each had two assists. Courtner Warren had 10 assists.
Mildred beat Wortham in 5: The Mildred Lady Eagles won a hard fought non-district match against Wortham, winning 25-18, 25-6, 23-25, 21-25, 15-12.
For Mildred, Audra Springer had five aces, 10 kills, four digs and two blocks. Olivia Farmer had an ace, seven kills and three digs. Savannah Pritchett had five aces, four kills, three digs and six blocks. Jenny Jock had four kills, two blocks and nine assists.
Also for Mildred, Stephanie Zamora had seven assists. Kenndi Montfort had three kills, three digs and a block. Maddie Moore had an ace and two digs. Morgan McCreary had a kill and a block.
Thursday’s results
BG gets first in pool at Venus tourney: Blooming Grove volleyball won its pool at the Venus Tournament Thursday.
The Lady Lions will play Fort Worth Poly Tech at 10 a.m. in bracket play in Venus.
Blooming Grove won a pool that included Fort Worth South Hill, the Venus JV and Keene.
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GC Volleyball Roundup: Hubbard wins own tournament
Rice takes 2nd place in Venus tourney; Frost 3rd in Dawson
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Navarro County Pro Rodeo set to hit town next week
It’s almost rodeo time in Navarro County. The Navarro County Pro Rodeo is coming to town next weekend at the Navarro County Youth Exposition Center. Gates will open at 6 p.m. both Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, with the rodeo beginning about 8 p.m.
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Melton collects two more hits, but Aggies fall to Miss. St., 6-4
Adam Frazier went 4 for 5 with an RBI and Mississippi State beat Texas A&M 6-4 Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference tournament. Hunter Melton was 2 for 4 with an RBI single in the first.
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GC Baseball: Unbelievable - Windthorst plates 6 in seventh to stun Dawson
Bo Moore lives by the run. He likes to put pressure on the opponent. A three-run seventh looked like just enough cushion in a five-run game. But it wasn’t. Windthorst scored six runs, five with two outs, to steal a 7-6 win from Dawson in Game 1 of the Region II-1A seminfinals at Weatherford College.
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NC Baseball: Bloodlines run deep for top hurler
Lukas Schiraldi will likely be drafted in the first five to six rounds in June’s Major League Baseball draft. Navarro’s right-hander already has signed with the University of Texas. His baseball career will continue at the next level after the JUCO World Series.
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Melton homers again as A&M tops Vanderbilt, 5-0
Parker Ray pitched eight-plus innings to lead Texas A&M to a 5-0 victory over top-seeded Vanderbilt on Wednesday in the second round of the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament. Hunter Melton of Corsicana homered for the second straight day.
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GC Softball: Single focus - Hubbard has sights set on steady Sam Rayburn
When Tuesday’s rains blew through Hubbard, blowing up the last half of practice, the Lady Jags loaded up, and went home. They can only hope to be loading up and going south next week. Hubbard (24-6-1) has a chance to set GPS devices for Austin if the Lady Jags can get past Sam Rayburn (28-2) Friday in the Region II-1A championship.
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Area Schedule: Updated to correct Navarro's game time Saturday
Here is an updated schedule for this week's three remaining Golden Circle sports teams: Navarro baseball, Dawson baseball and Hubbard softball. It corrects the game time for Navarro, which is playing in the JUCO World Series in Colorado, on Mountain Time.
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Melton powers Texas A&M past Florida, 6-3
Hunter Melton hit a three-run homer and had an RBI single to help Texas A&M defeat Florida 6-3 on Tuesday in the Aggies' first appearance in the SEC baseball tournament.
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GC Baseball: ’Dogs want more - Windthorst next up for surging Dawson
At this point, it might be easy to classify the rest of the baseball season for Dawson as gravy. But hold on a minute, coach Bo Moore said. The Bulldogs (20-7) are in the Region II-1A semifinals, the club’s deepest trek in many, many moons. To do that, they beat a Dodd City team that ousted them last year in the area round.
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NC Baseball: Multi-tooled, Reeves has brought offense, defense
Navarro catcher John Clay Reeves is back in the World Series. Only this year it’s the JUCO World Series and Grand Junction, Colo., and not the NCAA Division I College World Series and famed Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb. like it was in 2012.
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