Sports

The Region 7-5A swim meet in Rosenberg this weekend will feature five Bay City High School swimmers and 10 from Van Vleck.
    Bay City’s entries will be highlighted by a boys relay team that qualified for the meet in three events. 
  Colby Johnson, Stephen Estraca, Nickelas DeLaGarza and Jayden Dye will race in the 400 yard freestyle, 200 yard medley and 200 yard freestyle events. 
  Hanna Sliva will represent Bay City in the girls 500 yard freestyle race, and Johnson will also be in the 500 yard freestyle race. 
   Van Vleck will send four relay teams to the meet. 
   Alyssa Lopez, Meagan Schrader, Mehgan Orsaak and Morgan Cereo will appear in the 200 medly team event. 
    Lopez, Schrader and Orsak will also join Tiera Gibson in the 500 yard freestyle relay. 
   For Van Vleck’s boys team, Zachary Hubbard, Logan Hood, Wiliam Galbreath and Kason Klump will race in the 200 yard freetyle event. 

 The powerlifting teams from Bay City and Tidehaven High Schools recorded strong individual and team performances at recent meets. 
   The Bay City boys team took second place overall at the Sixth Annual Milby Powerlifting Meet last month. 
   Placing for Bay City were Luke Longoria, 3rd in the 114 pound class; Kaleb Wolfe, 2nd in the 132 pound class; Zane Havel, 5th in the 132 pound class; Jorge Carli, 3rd in the 198 pound class; Antonio Ruff, 5th in the 198 pound class; Richy Ortiz, 1st in the 220 pound class; and Prince Flye, 2nd in the 242 pound class. 
   For the girls team, Gabby Garza was 1st in the 132 pound class. 
   Nine Tidehaven athletes placed in the top 10 at the Industrial meet on Jan. 23. 

 The new Bay City Texans, moving to Matagorda County this year after three seasons in Victoria, picked up win number one Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
   And it came in dramatic fashion.  
   With their game against the Houston-based Texas Lone Stars tied at 20 at the end of regulation, the Texans won the overtime toss and elected to receive. 

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As area high school athletic programs await Friday’s announcement of Texas’s latest district re-alignments, preliminary indications are that football teams at Bay City and Tidehaven will stay in their current divisions while Van Vleck will be moving up a notch beginning next school year. 
   Exact district alignments for all sports at all schools are set to be released by the UIL Friday morning. But schools have already been tentatively assigned to classes and divisions based on the enrollment numbers they reported late last year. Those assignments are subject to change as coaches and administrators still may argue their cases through most of this week. UIL officials may also take miscellaneous considerations such as travel time into account in making final district assignments. 

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  Swimmers from Bay City and Van Vleck High Schools advanced to the the UIL Region 7 -5A meet set for Feb. 5-6 in Rosenberg. 
   The athletes earned their spots based on their top six finishes at the District 27-5A meet Jan. 21-22 in Victoria. 
   For Bay City, the boys relay team of Colby Johnson, Stephen Estraca, Nickelas DeLaGarza and Jayden Dye will advanced to region in three events. At district, they finished second in the 400 yard freestyle,  third in the 200 yard medley, and fourth in the 200 yard freestyle.

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   Members of the Bay City Aquacats swim team had a good showing at the State Games of Texas Swim Meet hosted by the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation Jan. 16-17 in Frisco.
   Four local swimmers broke local records at the meet, and one swam on a state record breaking relay team. In total, six of the eight competitors from Bay City qualified for the State Games of America national meet set for Michigan in 2017. 

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