Burnet’s Water Dawgs competed at the Killeen High School Monster Mash on Saturday. As a combined team the Dawgs brought home a sixth place finish with 82 points.

Girls 100 Broomstick: Burnet, third, 3:07.34, Sydney Cardenas, Savannah Sethman, Ashley Free, and Mandee Harris.

Boys 100 Broomstick: Burnet, sixth, 2:36.10, Angel Romero, Jordan Gallardo, Evan Murchison, and Seth Timmons.

Girls 100 Free: Harris, first, 1:01.33.

Boys 100 Free: Nathan Justus, 13, 1:05.61; and Dustin Barnett, 15, 1:10.42.

Boys 100 IM: Murchison, 10, 1:26.60.

Girls 50 Free: Samantha Stephens, 22, 39.72.

Boys 50 Free: Romero, 15, 26.72; Carlos Lopez, 22, 29.83; and Gallardo, 25, 31.03.

Burnet’s Bulldogs faced off with a very tough undefeated Gatesville Hornets team on Friday night and fell to 0-2 in District 8-3A with a 44-19 loss.

Burnet’s varsity Lady Bulldog volleyball team improved their chances at a spot in the playoffs with two big district wins last week. The victories moved the girls 8-3A record to 4-3 with three games left as of Friday. All three of those are road games and are against opponents that Burnet lost to in the first round.

Three teams from the district will advance to the playoffs and as of presstime Liberty Hill and Gatesville were leading the way. Brownwood and Lampasas are pretty much out of the mix so that leaves Burnet and Llano fighting for the third spot if the second round finishes out like the first.

The Lady Dawgs final district game will be played at Llano on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Now if Burnet beat Liberty Hill this past Tuesday, or if they can beat Gatesville on Friday and Llano falls to both of them then it would certainly help the Lady Dawgs. For more details as well as last week’s game results pick-up Wednesday’s Burnet Bulletin.

The Burnet Water Dawgs hosted their first meet of the season on Friday with their annual Steve Ham Hoot-N-Holler meet.

"What a fantastic meet,” said Burnet swim coach Nancy Moore. "It was fun for all and the swimmers produced some great times. We voted Ty Wynn as our meet champion.”

The Hoot-N-Holler is always a crowd pleaser with some interesting races that include a which hat relay, broomstick relay, and sweatshirt relay in addition to more traditional races.

Dripping Springs won the mens, womens, and combined team scores. Burnet finished seventh in the womens and sixth in the mens.

For individual results pick-up Wednesday’s Burnet Bulletin.

Burnet’s cross country team ran in an important race last Thursday in Lampasas and got a good look at the district course which is also being held in Lampasas on Oct. 24.

The boys team placed fifth out of eight teams and the girls placed fourth out of seven.

Burnet had three team members pick up individual medals including Joe Parker, second, Kathryn Drake, fourth; and Shaylah Hullum, 15.

Burnet hosted Brownwood for the 8-3A District opener on Friday night at Bulldog Stadium. Despite a good defensive effort the Dawgs fell short to the Lions, 25-13 after two interceptions, three fumbles, and four turnovers on downs.

Burnet threw a pick on the fourth play of the game’s first drive but the defense quickly returned the ball to the Dawgs with a Cameron Chafin forced fumble that Tyler Krause recovered on the very next play.