Sports

Ganado Warrior Luke Bures runs with the ball for his team at their Super Bowl, hosted by Edna at Shelby Park. The Ganado Warriors won against the El Campo Ricebirds, with a final score of 34-13.

    Jackson County schools competed in their District Cross-Country meets on Oct. 22. Ganado competed in Shiner and Edna and Industrial competed in Palacios.
    In the Varsity girls, Maiden Sierra Salazar placed 10th with a time of 14:50 running two miles, and Indian Sergio Martinez placed 2nd with a time of 17:11, running three miles.
    The Junior High boys Braves team won first place with a score of 24 points; Logan Hurt placed first with a time of 13:09, Andrew Nelson placed second with a time of 13:35, Angel Rubio placed third with a time of 13:37, Fernanado Rubio placed fifth with a time of 14:01, Gavin Sanchez placed 13th with a time of 15:49, and Lake Prove placed 17th with a time of 17:00

    The Indians took a hard 67-7 loss against the Refugio Tigers on Friday night. Ganado High School Principal and assistant coach Andy Bridges felt the kids played well. “It was really a matter of being outnumbered,” said Bridges. “The kids played great and never gave up.”
    It didn’t take long for the Indians to find their way to the end zone with a long pass from Jonathon Martinez to Garrett McCann. With a good field goal by Martinez the score became 7-0.
    The Tigers seemed to be making a run to the end zone soon after they received the ball, but they were pulled down by McCann. A short run finished the job. This moved the score to 6-7 in the Indians favor.

by Millie Diaz
Sports Writer
    The Edna Cowboys won the first annual Lavaca River Showdown this past Friday night at home against the Industrial Cobras with a final score of 34-7.
    Head Coach and Athletic Director Huey Chancellor said he was really proud of the ‘Boys and believes they’ve gotten better with each week. “Defensively, they’ve played really solid and offensively we’ve had to move people around because of injuries but they’ve gotten better,” he said. “We had three interceptions on Friday night and we secured a playoff spot because of that win.”
    Cowboys #33 Logan O'Connor, #7 Marquis Broussard, #4 DeOntae Jones and #76 Dylan Kallus represented their team at the coin toss and Cobras #77 Levi Perry, #73 Travis Alexander, #32 Brady Karl and #61 Sean Bastian did the same. The Cowboys won the toss and deferred to receive in the second half.

Edna beat out Industrial with a score of 34-7.

Ganado lost to Refugio with a score of 67-7.

    The Industrial Cobras played the Tidehaven Tigers on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and won in three games, 25-8, 25-8 and 25-10.
    Cassidy High had four digs and 15 assists, plus Kayla Weixelman’s dig, 10 kills and a block. Jessica Martin had nine digs and six kills, while Lauren Brogger attacked seven digs and three kills. Taylor McCloud had three kills, Katie Sparkman gave three digs and nine assists, and Skylar Chreene gave eight digs and two kills. Landry Mikulec had a dig, Brendalyn Fojtik added two digs and a kill, while Kelsey Van Pelt had a dig, two assists and a kill.
    The Cobras will play again on Friday, Oct. 24, against county rivals the Edna Cowgirls, there.

Two Jackson County fathers are hoping to start a new friendly and fun trophy competition tradition between two fan-based rivals, calling it the Lavaca River Showdown. From left, Cippi Palacios of Edna is representing the Edna Cowboys fans and Wess Prukop of El Toro will be representing the fans of the Industrial Cobras. "We are just looking to have a little friendly competition with friendly bragging rights" said Palacios and Prukop. They would also like to thank Kevin and Marcy Davis of Davis Jewelry for their donation of the trophy. The first annual Lavaca River Showdown will be held this Friday night at Cowboy Stadium.

    The Industrial Cobras played and unfortunately lost to the Hempstead Bobcats on Pink-Out Friday night with a final score of 48-7. Captains #64 Hunter Goyen, #84 Wesley Sliva, #44 Kyle Fortenberry and #88 Bubba Garcia represented the Cobras for the coin toss.
    #33 Tyler Conard believes the team will step up. “We know how much this game means to our community and especially to us,” he said. “We know what we can do. We just need to execute. We’re determined to walk off that field this Friday and know without a doubt we left everything out there.”

    The Ganado Indians faced a devastating 35-7 loss against their rival, the Shiner Comanches, on their home field Friday night. Head Coach Jim Bird said he felt that the Indians did not execute as well as they should have.
    “We gave up a lot of big plays, and that’s something we don’t do a lot of normally,” said Bird. “We’ll just keep working on our technique so we can come in and blow away Refugio.”
    Through the entire first quarter both teams kept the other out of the end zone. Despite several runs by Jonathon Martinez, Garrett McCann, and Kameron Smith there was no getting to the end zone. This ended the first quarter with a score of 0-0.

    The Edna Cowboys hit the road again on Oct. 7 to take on the Rice Raiders, and came away victorious on their second straight district game with a score of 44-41.
    Rice won the coin toss and deferred to the second half.  Cowboys received the opening kickoff and started their first offensive possession with success on the ground when #7 Marquis Broussard ran in for the touchdown with 8:55 left in the first quarter.  Extra point was good by #60 Aaron Padilla making the score 7-0, Cowboys.