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Sarah Bundrick relishes the big-time moments. The junior continues to be one of the most consistent players in the district and it showed on Friday. After Bundrick delivered the walk-off hit that clinched the district title for the team last season, she came up huge once again in the district finale. A standing-room only crowd of softball fans came out to watch two teams ranked in the Texas GIrls Coaches Association Class 4A poll going at it. With the game tied at 4 in extra innings, the junior stepped into the box with a runner on second and two outs and came though.

The Graham Steers varsity baseball team has had a tough few games go against them during the district part of their schedule, but on Tuesday, everything went their way. Four pitchers combined for a no-hitter in a dominating 13-0 victory in five innings over Wichita Falls Hirschi on Senior Night. The Steers used a 10-run bottom of the first inning to pummel the visiting Huskies (0-16, 0-6). 14 batters came to the plate in the frame.

More than a dozen Graham High School track and field athletes qualified for the upcoming regional meet in Lubbock in two weeks. Nineteen GHS athletes moved on to the next round. The Lady Blues finished second out of the 10 schools competing at the Districts 5/6-4A area meet at Abilene Wylie High School on Wednesday. Brownwood earned first place overall with 162.5 team points while Graham had 127, ahead of Abilene Wylie. Brownwood’s boys and girls teams won the event.

More than 60 teams will compete throughout Young County Saturday as part of the fifth annual Brandon Bailey Shoot-Out 3-3 Basketball Tournament.

The gymnasiums at Newcastle High School and Graham Junior High School will have basketball games going morning, noon and night for the fundraiser, which has raised more than $35,000 for student scholarships in its brief history.

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WEATHERFORD— The Graham High School softball team advanced to the third round of the UIL playoffs following a walk-off RBI single by senior Alysia Alcantar Saturday. The Lady Blues’ extra-inning victory seemed a fitting end to a series that began with Graham getting run-ruled 16-6, but rallying to take the second game 13-5 and ending the third in extra innings with a 5-4 victory. Alcantar gets redemption with walk-off RBI  Alcantar stepped to the plate determined to redeem herself for two fielding errors in the seventh inning, which allowed Alvarado to score the go-ahead run to take a 4-3. “I