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Edna's See You at the Pole had a lot of students in prayer and bonding.

Ganado's See You at the Pole had music and prayer for all students involved.

By Michelle and Jason
Tumlinson
    The Industrial Cobras set out Friday night to face the Van Vleck Leopards with a hope for a win.
    Both the Leopards and Cobras entered this game 0-3 for the season, but, it was the Van Vleck who ended up on top with the win with a final score of 35-0.
    “Van Vleck was extremely fast, but I think we did a good job maintaining that speed,” said Athletic Director Kensey Allen. “Our offense had something to build on and I think they had their best night yet. We had 150 yards offensively, it was a good offensive game.”
    The Leopards started the night by winning the coin toss and elected to receive to begin the first half of play. Van Vleck's opening drive was immediately stopped dead in its tracks by the Cobra defense.     #11 Logan Gabrysch went back deep to receive for the Cobras and signaled a fair catch placing the Cobras on their own 43-yard line.

    Friday night, the Indians played away against the Goliad Tigers and suffered a 39-7 loss.
    “We continue to move forward. The score doesn’t show where we’re at,” said Defensive Coordinator Johny Lesak, “The biggest thing is how hard we played; there was never any lack of fighting. We really played well overall, we just made some mistakes at the wrong time.”
    Captains for the Indians were juniors Michael-Douglas Maresh, Matt Bridges, Christian Palacios, and senior Jacob Foltyn. The Indians won the toss, opting to receive. Bridges received the ball on the kick-off, and Maresh stepped in as quarterback after the down to start the Indians’ first offensive run.

    The Edna Cowboys traveled to Hallettsville on Sept. 18 to take on the Brahmas and suffered a hard-fought, heartbreaking loss, 41-31.
    Offensive Coordinator Josh Lovelady said, “I think we did a very good job on defense and special teams. I think our guys played hard till the end. We need to clean up a couple mistakes, but we are on the right track.” He added, “For us to win and keep winning, we must stop turning the ball over. We had seven turnovers on Friday night. Almost every game is decided by who wins the turnover battle.”
    The Cowboys won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. Two minutes into the game Edna's corner back, senior #4 Jordan Norman came up with a huge interception and the Cowboy offense took over. The Brahma turnover led to a field goal by senior #60, Aaron Padilla giving Edna the first points of the night with 8:52 left in the first, Edna 3, Hallettsville 0.

Tuesday night the Cowgirls won in three quick games against the Palacios Sharkettes, 25-14, 25-8 and 25-13. Edna was on their game and the team was on point, earning points with tips, spikes and hard serves that had Palacios fans taken aback.

Head Coach Rachel Collins said her team has been putting in a lot of hard hours at the gym. "This win is what we needed," she said. "It's just about staying focused and playing our game and not worrying too much about what's going on around us. We finally have a full team with people back from their injuries so I feel like our momentum is going and we're starting to peak somewhat so we have to keep pushing." She added the 'Girls know no one they play is going to be easy, and every chance they get they have to better than the point before.

Ganado lost to Goliad 35-7.

Industrial lost to Van Vleck, 35-0.

Edna lost to Hallettsville 41-31.

Edna vs St. Joseph 9/8/15
Lost in three matches
25-15, 25-20, 25-17
Bailey Brown 7 kills, 13 attacks, 2 blocks, 6 digs, 4 assists
Crystal Coulter 1 kill, 1 attack,, 3 blocks , 3 digs
Kadi Elledge 2 kills, 3 attacks, 2 blocks, 1 dig
Haleigh Evans 4 kills, 8 attacks, 1 ace, 2 blocks, 9 digs, 14 assists
Reagan Luedecke 6 digs
Kim Ortolon 11 digs
Sierra Pruitt 6 kills, 7 attacks, 8 digs

Industrial vs. Calhoun
17-25, 12-25, 27-25, 25-22, 14-16 (Lost)
Skylar Chreene- 15 digs, 3 kills
Katie Sparkman- 15 digs, 3 kills
Kayla Weixelman- 14 kills, 4 digs, 2 blocks
Savhannah Kitchens- 7 kills, 2 digs, 4 blocks
Skylar Lenamon- 2 aces, 1 kill, 11 assists
Maddison Heibel- 1 ace, 9 digs, 4 kills 15 assists
Joy Schroeder- 2 kills, 3 blocks
Sarah Kusak- 4 kills
Kelsey Van Pelt- 1 ace, 3 digs, 1 kill, 1 block, 3 aces
Jessica Martin- 1 dig, 4 kills, 3 ace
Morgan Gabrysch- 1 ace, 8 digs.
J.V: 21-25, 25-21, 11-25 (Lost)
9th: 25-19, 26-24 (Won)
Industrial vs. Ganado
25-4, 25-13, 25-11
Chreene- 2 aces, 4 digs, 4 kills
Weixelman- 10 kills, 3 blocks
Sparkman-3 digs
Kitchens-4 kills, 1 block
Van Pelt- 1 ace, 1 dig, 3 kills, 2 aces
Heibel- 1 ace, 8 digs, 2 kills, 14 assists
Lenamon-2 ace, 2 digs, 7 assists

    The Ganado Maidens played Schulenburg in their first district game on Sept. 8 and lost in three, 25-20, 25-17 and 25-20. They then played Industrial on Sept. 11 and lost in three, 25-4, 25-13 and 25-11.
    Head Coach Bryan Branch said the team is working on one point at a time and trying to be more aggressive. “We’re just trying to do what we can control, get better at serve/receive and get to where we attack the ball more. When we do that we can work more on defense,” he said. “Scheme things we’re doing wrong, but we’re just trying to get more assertive in our decision making and execute fundamental skills better.”