Soccer

CLASS 5A Region II Mount Pleasant 3, Carrollton Creekview 1 Region III Waller 0, Nacogdoches 0 (Waller advances, 4-3, on penalty kicks) CLASS 4A Region II Kilgore 5, Pleasant Grove 2 Palestine 13, Mount Pleasant Chapel Hill 0 Chapel Hill 6, Atlanta 0 Pittsburg 2, Athens 1 Region III Center 2, Gatesville 0 Lufkin Hudson 4, Liberty 2

TYLER -- Credit Waskom for not immediately chalking its season up as a loss when it realized it would face the defending Class 4A state champions in the bi-district round of the state playoffs. It had a game plan for Saturday's all-Wildcats showdown at CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium. But Palestine lays it on thick. With perhaps the state's best collective group of ball handlers, once

TYLER -- Athens' first trip back to CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium was a success. The Lady Hornets crushed Waskom, 10-0, in the bi-district round of the Class 4A state playoffs at the same site they dropped the 2016 Region II championship game. They're three wins away from returning to the regional title game thanks to a second-round bye and four wins from reaching Georgetown for the

BOYS CLASS 5A Region II Mount Pleasant 2, Forney 0 Lucas Lovejoy 5, Sulphur Springs 2 Mesquite Poteet 3, Marshall 0 Region III Waco 3, Lindale 1 CLASS 4A Region III East Chambers 4, Diboll 0 Lufkin Hudson 2, Little Cypress-Mauriceville 2 (Hudson advances, 6-4, on penalty kicks) — GIRLS CLASS 6A Region II The Woodlands College Park 1, Longview (College Park advances, 3-0, on penalty kicks)

BOYS CLASS 6A Region II The Woodlands 3, Tyler Lee 0

TYLER -- Madison Munoz notched two assists on corner kicks and led Palestine to a 3-0 victory against Henderson in the bi-district round of the Class 4A state playoffs Thursday at CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium. Munoz opened scoring with a feed Lacey Gambrell finished 19 minutes into the match and then closed scoring on a long pass from the corner that Lauryn James was able to maneuv

TYLER -- Kilgore waited about a year for Thursday and did not disappoint the naked eye in its return to the postseason after a heartbreaker in the 2016 state semifinals. The Bulldogs blasted Mineola, 5-0, at CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium in the bi-district round of the Class 4A playoffs to start what head coach Austin Hall hopes is a return trip to Georgetown for this season's final

CLASS 6A Region II Tyler Lee 4, Lufkin 0 The Woodlands College Park 1, Longview 1 (College Park advances, 3-0, on penalty kicks) CLASS 5A Region II Forney 2, Hallsville 1 Highland Park 5, Pine Tree 0 Mesquite Poteet 3, Texas High 0 Royse City 3, Sulphur Springs 0 Region III Jacksonville 1, Waco 0 A&M Consolidated 3, Lindale 0 Waco University 4, Whitehouse 3 CLASS 4A Region II Kilgore 16

CLASS 6A Region II The Woodlands 3, Tyler Lee 0 The Woodlands College Park 5, Longview 2 CLASS 5A Region II Mount Pleasant 2, Forney 0 Lucas Lovejoy 5, Sulphur Springs 2 Mesquite Poteet 3, Marshall 0 Highland Park 1, Pine Tree 1 (Highland Park advances, 5-3, in penalty kicks) Region III Waco 3, Lindale 1 Nacogdoches 5, College Station 2 CLASS 4A Region II Kilgore 5, Mineola 0 Palestine 7, W

This past February, the University Interscholastic League's biennial realignment and reclassification designated Lufkin High School a member of Class 6A, the state's highest classification, for the 2016-18 school years. As it turns out, Lufkin should've been at the 6A level the last two school years when the Panthers were classified as 5A, according to an investigation conducted by KTRE-TV... Read