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CROSS COUNTRY | Dallas St. Mark's and Houston St. John's are favorites for the boys in SPC 4A this year. What about the girls? Houston Awty International School and The Woodlands John Cooper move up to 4A, while Austin St. Stephen's moves down to 3A. Taking the top times from last year's state championship meets of returning runners, assuming no transfers in or out, here's who is expected to be upfront this year. Based on the top returners, Bellaire Episcopal would win the meet with a score of 53 points. John Cooper would be second with 58 followed by St. John's with 63 and Duchesne with 80.

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FOOTBALL | So off comes Argyle on 9/11 in Flower Mound and add MaxPreps National #4 Baltimore St. Frances Academy, who will come here to Houston on Saturday, October 3. SFA has seven MaxPreps Top 25 finishes since 2017. @PigskinPrep

BASEBALL | Houston Lutheran South Academy alum Luke Harrison in Taiwan with the U.S. Collegiate National Team as he gets the win in a 10-6 decision over Chinese Taipei on Sunday night.

CROSS COUNTRY | The Southwest Preparatory Conference sees Austin St. Stephen's Episcopal School move down to 3A and San Antonio TMI Episcopal and Saint Mary's Hall are new additions, joining from TAPPS. Taking the top times from last year's state championship meets of returning runners (both SPC and the TAPPS meets from '25), assuming no transfers in or out, here's who is expected to be upfront this year. If you were to run a meet off of last year's state meet, with these returnees, Austin St. Andrew's would win with 55 points, San Antonio TMI Episcopal would be second with 57, followed by Irving Cistercian and Austin St. Andrew's Episcopal with 73 and 74 points, respectively.

CROSS COUNTRY | Football isn't the only sport that'll open up the 2026-2027 school year! Taking the top times from last year's state championship meets of returning runners, assuming no transfers in or out, here's who is expected to be upfront this year. Awty International and The Woodlands John Cooper move up to 4A, while Austin St. Stephen's moves down to 3A. Based on the top returners, Dallas St. Mark's is favored to win with 45 points while the Mavericks of St. John's would be second in 47.

GOLF | Ursuline Academy of Dallas completed its first two rounds on Sunday with a score of 645 -- seven strokes from making the cut. The Bears ended being 23rd of 36 teams from across the US. TAPPS 6A runner-up Ella DeWitt '28 will continue in medalist play on Monday. She has a two-round score of even par 142 and is currently tied for 17th overall. The top 20 teams, which includes Austin Westlake (4th) and Comal Pieper (6th), will also finish play on Monday.

BASEBALL | Cort MacDonald, an alum of Arlington Pantego Christian Academy, was selected as the first pick of the 19th round of the MLB Draft by the Colorado Rockies.

BASEBALL | Ryne Rodriguez is an alum of Fort Worth Trinity Valley School.

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BASEBALL | Luke Pettitte is an alum of Houston Second Baptist School.

Congratulations, Savion! We are proud of you! GO LIONS! 🦁⚾️

⚾️ Congratulations to LSA alumni Luke Harrison on being selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2026 MLB Draft!

LSCSN Sunday Morning Notebook; July 12, 2026 lscsn.substack.com/p/fort-worth-c…

TEFA | If we're reading this information correctly, 18,034 high schoolers (out of 49,005 applicants) are set to receive funding via the state's new voucher program. 9th - 5,910 awarded (of 15,573 applied) 10th - 4,973 (of 13,237) 11th - 4,048 (of 11,244) 12th - 3,103 (of 9,001)

BASEBALL | Dee Kennedy, from Plano Prestonwood Christian Academy, had a monster season for Kansas State University with the following numbers: .357 AVG / 20 HR / 69 RBI / .733 SLG / .461 OBP / 22 SB. Still on the board out of Plano Prestonwood is recent graduate Savion Sims, who was ranked as the 85th top prospect in the Draft.

BASEBALL | Of the 62 second overall selections in the history of the MLB draft, Fort Worth Christian School's Grady Emerson was the ninth all-time from a Texas high school. Seven were selected directly out of high school. The complete list as follows: 1974 - Tommy Boggs, Austin Lanier HS (Texas) 1986 - Greg Swindell, Houston Sharpstown HS via University of Texas (Cleveland) 1994 - Ben Grieve, Arlington Martin HS (Oakland) 1999 - Josh Beckett, Spring HS (Florida) 2010 - Jameson Tallion, The Woodlands HS (Pittsburgh) 2014 - Tyler Kolek, Shepherd HS (Miami) 2019 - Bobby Witt, Jr., Colleyville Heritage HS (Kansas City) 2020 - Heston Kjerstad, Canyon Randall HS via University of Arkansas (Baltimore) 2026 - Grady Emerson, Fort Worth Christian School (Tampa Bay) LSCSN research via @baseball_ref data @FWCathletics | @fwcbaseball_