Sports

The Fruitvale cross country team competed at the North Hopkins Invitational Aug. 31 and the individual results for Fruitvale were as follows: Reyli Rubio, 17th place, 15:48.65; Brooklyn Brown, 40th place, 17:08.24; Madison Mae, 67th place, 23:00.33; and Ariana Smith, 71st place, 25.55.69.

Only two of the six Van Zandt County varsity football teams recorded wins on the first night of the 2023 high school football season Aug. 25.

Van Zandt County was well represented at Kaufman’s annual Run with the Lions event last week with four schools, Canton, Fruitvale, Edgewood and Wills Point, all entered to compete.

With a winning percentage of 80, Stefani Curtis of Wills Point is the winner of Football Contest No. 1 in the Van Zandt News.

All six Van Zandt County schools were scheduled to open their 2023 varsity football regular season schedules Aug. 25.

The winner of Football Contest No. 1 will be announced in the Sunday, Sept.