Sports

After breezing through the regular season at the Upchurch Fields in Italy, the Avalon 10-and-Under boys baseball team sailed through district and area competition to qualify for the state tournament this week.

Jonathan Flores is one of the exciting players who have led the Avalon Eagles on a flight to the Boys 10-and-Under state tournament.

Ennis football picked in playoffs; Eagles, Bulldogs state-ranked

Ennis soccer’s all-time leading scorer, Reagan Trojacek, a 5’9 midfielder at East Texas Baptist University, scored three goals and assisted on four others as a sophomore the NCAA Division III Tigers.

Called soccer in the United States, the beautiful game also goes by sokker in Africa, soccer in other countries, with some spelling it soka (Kriol), soka (Bislama) and sokur (Bulgaria). Still, many refer to it as football or futbol, with FIFA governing it as association football. The world’s most popular game, in terms of participants, continues to grow and expand.

Advancing to within one win of a berth in the State Boys 10 & Under baseball tournament, Avalon won three straight games this week, defeating Abbott and Hillsboro in the last two, 10-0 and 5-3. They played Friday night and could be State bound.