Friday’s Class 2A Division I area playoff football game between the No. 10-ranked Coleman Bluecats and No. 3-ranked Crawford Pirates appears more like a matchup you’d see in the state quarterfinals.
Football coaches in Daniel Price’s shoes often say their team has to focus on playing the opponent, not the name. “We can’t get caught up in their tradition,” said Price, head football coach of the Early Longhorns, who play the Canadian Wildcats in a Class 3A Division II area playoff game at 7 p.m.
New Bangs girls’ basketball coach Chesney Neely hopes the drop from Class 3A to 2A will help build a winning program in her first head coaching assignment. The Lady Dragons last season finished 9-23 overall and 2-12 in its Class 3A district that included perennial state powers Brock and Peaster.
The American Southwest Conference has announced its all-conference men’s soccer team, and it included eight Howard Payne players. HPU sophomore forward Daniel Hernandez, freshman midfielder Julio Colmenares and senior goalkeeper Eduardo Flores were named to the second team.
FRISCO (AP) — Dallas coach Mike McCarthy keeps telling his staff he would attack the run defense if he had to set up a game plan against the Cowboys. The opponents keep proving him right.
These photos were taken by freelance photographers Mike Jones at the Early-Odessa Compass game and Rita Boultinghouse at the Blanket-Cherokee game. Both were bidistrict games last week. Early and Cherokee advanced to the next round of the postseason.
Class 4A Division I Brownwood (9-2) vs. Canyon (10-1), 7 p.m.
The Howard Payne football team led for only 33 seconds Saturday, but it was enough to pull out a 23-20 win over the Austin College Kangaroos at Apple Stadium. The win in the Yellow Jackets’ season finale gave HPU a 7-3 overall record for the second consecutive season.
We’ll have more on Canyon later this week before the Brownwood-Canyon Class 4A Division I area playoff football game at 7 p.m. Friday at Midland.