The Klondike Cougars have officially booked their return engagement to the Division II state football playoffs for the fourth year in a row by corralling the Loop Longhorns, 64-0, last Friday night in a game stopped at the half on sixman’s 45-point rule.
Missed opportunities came back to haunt the Sands Mustangs last Thursday night at Ackerly where the Grady Wildcats escaped in a 44-35 nailbiter.
After not only seeing their streak of 14 straight district championships but also playoff appearances snapped last fall, the 2023 Borden County Coyotes went into last Friday night’s Division I District 7-1A opener at Garden City on a mission.
The Klondike Cougars started their bid for the District 2-1A championship last Saturday afternoon at Loop.
Although District 3-3A’s top three playoff spots are all but locked up with Denver City, Compass Academy and Coahoma leading the pack going into the final two weeks of the regular season, that league’s fourth and final spot remains up for grabs.
Lamesa’s junior high volleyballers got shut out by Odessa Compass Academy losing all four matches to the Cougars.
The Golden Tornadoes failed to advance any of their runners past Tuesday’s District 3-3A Cross Country Championships at Lubbock’s Mae Simmons Park but still their season was anything but a failure.
Whenever the Region I-IA Cross Country Championships leave the starting gate Monday. October 23 at Lubbock’s Mae Simmons Field many area runners will be among the pack.
Despite what it read on the final scoreboard the Dawson Dragons still felt like winners because of the fact that they were playing high school football overcoming their obvious lack of numbers at Welch.
Jutaun Rodriques went 9-3 on the week, good enough to hold off a slew of contestants to take the top prize in this week’s Lamesa Press-Reporter weekly football contest.
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