Sports

Dripping Springs High School’s Tiger football team has put all phases of the game together and seem ready for the backto- back battle with Westlake and Lake Travis High Schools in a couple of weeks.

The cross country teams at Dripping Springs High School traveled to Marble Falls to participate in the Leo Manzano Invitation in their final tuneup before district.

The Dripping Springs High School volleyball team (40-3, 9-1) shutout Del Valle and Johnson High Schools to remain one game behind Lake Travis High School (9-0) in district standings.

With one meet to go before district, the Dripping Springs High School cross country teams entered the toughest meet of the year.

A sluggish first half that included big penalties and a couple of interceptions that saw Dripping Springs High School going into halftime with a slim 14-12 halftime lead was saved by another top notch defensive effort this past weekend.

Lake Travis High School got the jump on the Dripping Springs High School Lady Tigers in their first district meeting and came away with a 3-1 advantage.

Dripping Springs High School showed an improvement of strength in all phases of the game as they notched their first shutout of the season — 56-0 — over Austin High School.

The Dripping Springs High School volleyball team raised their record to 36-2, 6-0 with two tough wins over Westlake and Austin High Schools.

As the Dripping Springs High School cross country team heads for the district meet in several weeks, they continue to improve their standings in competition.

The Lady Tigers Volleyball team have stretched their season record to 24-2 with wins over Austin Akins and New Braunfels. Akins was a district game while New Braunfels was non-district. Dripping Springs will be facing their first round of battles with the other top teams in the district, Westlake and Lake Travis. They will have to face the same pair again later in the schedule.

After making a trip to Denton to run in a meet, the Dripping Springs crosscountry teams stayed a little closer to home. They entered the St. Andrews Invitational in Austin with all four teams having good success in their divisions. The Lady Tigers took first in both their divisions while the Tigers placed fourth in varsity and seventh in JV.

Fifty years ago, there was another Tiger football team that had in mind a district championship. A large contingency of returning starters were vowing to get the job done after suffering through one of the most snakebit seasons a team could endure. They had the great misfortune of losing four games in the final 20 seconds. This certainly gave them the resolve to take the 29A crown and they did.