Montgomery Lake Creek took the prizes both for traveling the farthest and the longest joy ride home Saturday after winning the championship of the GCCISD Varsity Invitational boys soccer tournament in Baytown.
But they’d have to share those smiles with four District 17-5A coaches who liked what they saw from their team’s 2023 tourney debuts.
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