Sports

    The Industrial Cobras welcomed the Rice Lady Raiders for a district basketball game on Jan. 19, and won in a close game of 65-58.
    Skylar Lenamon started off the night with a three-pointer, and Kelsey Van Pelt scored two points soon after. Four minutes in the Lady Raiders had eight points, and led the first quarter despite Jessica Martin scoring four points, Van Pelt scored two free throws and Desiree Hill scored a jump shot.
    The score was 17-13 in the Rice’s favor. Both Martin and Lenamon had some notable blocks in the first quarter.
    Van Pelt started off the second quarter with two points, and Sarah Kusak scored a three-pointer. Van Pelt took the rest of the second quarter with a jump shot, a free throw and a three-pointer. The score was still in Rice’s favor at halftime, 30-24.

    The Industrial Cobras played a strong game against the Rice Raiders on Jan. 19 and won with a final score of 55-29.
    The Alexander brothers, Brandon and Kyle, were definitely instrumental in getting the team win for district play. Kyle started off the night with a jump shot, and Brandon followed with two points of his own, and then a three-pointer. Bubba Garcia scored two points as well with a rebound, and Brandon scored another two points to end the first quarter.
    The score was 11-10 in the Cobra’s favor at the end of the first.
    Brandon continued to up his numbers with two two-pointers, and Kyle followed with two two-pointers and a three-pointer. Tyler Warzecha scored two points and then Kyle followed behind him with another three-pointer. Brandon was fouled and score two free throw shots, while Kyle added two more points to end the second quarter.
    At halftime the score was 31-20, still in the Cobra’s favor.

The Industrial team representing at the Jackson County Hoops Showdown on Jan. 23 at the Edna dome gym came out on top. Consisting of Industrial basketball alumni, Dr. Jason Hayden, Troy Spree, Chad Kinsfather, Ashley Jalufka, Jesse Rodriguez, BJ Ellison, Trey Neel, Tre Flowers and Henry Totman accepted the trophy that night after beating out Edna and Ganado alumni teams.

    Edna and Industrial girls and boys powerlifting teams competed in an Industrial meet on Jan. 23. Due to a basketball injury, Ganado was not represented at the meet.
    The Cowgirls placed first overall, the Cobras placed fifth overall.

The Ganado Knights of Columbus held a free throw competition for all ages at the old Ganado gym on Jan. 16. From left are front, Ashton Strauss, Cayden Branch, 11,  first place, Michael Bubela, 11, second, Luke Bures, 10, first place, Brayden Martinez, 10, second place; and back, Vincent Barajas, Stephen Kelly, 13, first, Ashley Alford, 13, first, and Samantha Douglas, 12, first place. Not pictured is Zoe Ybarra. A reminder for winners: take scoresheet and birth certificate to register in Port Lavaca in the new gym at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 2:00 p.m. for the next level of competition.

    Cheerleaders from Industrial and Edna high schools competed at the 2016 UIL Spirit Competition held in Arlington from Jan. 13-16.
    For the Cobras, the girls brought home some awards, 12th overall, second place in Band Dance and third place in Crowd Leading Cheers. Cheerleading sponsor Beth Turk said this year is the first year for the Cobras to compete, aside from Summer Camp competition.
    “I am proud of all my girls, but my three head cheerleaders are really instrumental in our success, Kalli Ellis, Haley Branum and Cierra Borak,” she said. “They take my creative, crazy ideas and run with them. They have great leadership skills, and organizing and preparing a squad of our size in not easy and they do it amazingly well.”
    The Cobras competed with 18 girls, and Turk said the junior varsity cheerleaders she pulled up rose to the occasion because of the patience and leadership of her head cheerleaders.

    Ganado welcomed the Palacios Sharks on Jan. 5 for a basketball game against the Indians and lost with a final score of 56-49.
    Matt Bridges started the night off with the first two points of the evening, followed by Caleb Thedford. Bridges scored a free throw shot before Thedford scored another two points. Jorge Campuzano stepped up and scored his first three-pointer of the night. Within a few minutes Sergio Martinez scored two points of his own before Bridges came back with a free throw basket and a three-pointer.
    The score was 16-12 in the Indian’s favor. Unfortunately Ganado didn’t score in the second quarter, only to have Palacios add 12 points to their score, making it an uneven 24-16 in the Shark’s favor.

    Edna fourth grader Katelyn Dodds attended the 26th Super Grands World Games Karate tournament in South Carolina from Dec. 26 through Dec. 31 and brought home some top awards for her dojo, Zen Martial Arts. Competing against up to six people in her divisions, Dodds brought home a first place in sparring, first place in traditional form, second place in non-musical creative form, third place in musical creative form, fifth place in non-musical weapons.
    She is the daughter of Christie Dodds and the granddaughter of Donna and Jim Peagler.
    “It was really nice to see what she achieved, we were hoping but not expecting for her to do as well as she did,” Christie said. “She did awesome.”
    Karate entered her life when she was invited to a friend’s karate party. Katelyn said she ended up liking it so much she quit dancing to get involved in karate. Soon after she began competing at tournaments.

    Edna Cowboy Cade Orsak has been selected to the 2015 South Texas Showcase Second Team as a defensive back. It was a surprise for him to learn about the credit, his grandmother Nancy Simons brought it to his attention at a recent basketball tournament.
    “I was shocked a little bit at first, I knew I was put on the Honorable Mention team for All-State, but I hadn’t heard of the South Texas team before,” he said. “Learning about All-State was an honor because me, Wyatt Neuman and Braveon Terrell were selected and it was a pretty great accomplishment. It is a great honor with all the work paying off in the off season and working hard during the summer and taking the coaching we’ve been given and working with all the guys to get better, it’s all paid off,” he smiled.
    Orsak is the son of Tara and Shannon Orsak. He has two younger siblings, Reese, a freshman, and Raney, in eighth grade.

Jackson County was represented well by volleyball players in the All-Star Victoria College and Chick-Fila game. From left are Cowgirl Haleigh Evans, Cobras Skylar Chreene, Kayla Weixelman and Maiden Hannah Janssen.