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With a pair of wins to close the regular season last week, the Sealy Tiger basketball squad locked up the No. 4 seed from District 24-4A and will compete in the postseason nearly eight years to the day since its last appearance.

Following the Sealy Lady Tigers’ lone defeat of play within District 20-4A, the team collected a 4-0 win over Royal last Friday at home to close the first round of district play with a 6-1 record. Sealy fell to Bellville earlier in the week by a 4-1 score but head coach Adrian Rocha didn’t see it as a setback.

The 1978 Sealy Tiger football team that won the town’s first state championship was recently honored as one of the top 100 teams from the last 100 years of University Interscholastic League competition. Cole McNanna

Although the Sealy Tiger soccer team fell in its final two contests of round one of play within District 20-4A, head coach Juan Perez didn’t see them as a hindrance to the team’s playoff hopes. “The thing is, I was expecting something like this,” Perez said after last Friday’s home loss.

The Blinn College Buccaneers softball team opened its season with a doubleheader split Friday at the Galveston College Invitational. Blinn took an 8-5 win over Temple College in its first game, but fell 12-4 to Louisiana State University Eunice in the second game.

The Bellville Brahmanette basketball team secured the fourth seed from District 24-4A with a 4-6 record but could not get past the District 23 champion Kashmere Fighting Rams in the bi-district round of the playoffs last week and fell by a 62-49 final score.

When Sealy senior Nick Martinez hit the game-winning shot to beat El Campo in overtime, 60-57, it secured the third home win for the Tigers in as many chances last Friday night after both soccer teams registered 1-0 wins over Navasota to collect a Sealy sweep.

Sealy senior Leslie Saenz’s second-half goal not only proved to be the deciding goal in the Lady Tigers’ 1-0 win over Navasota, but it also kicked off a string of three home wins in Sealy last Friday night.

Ricky Seals-Jones became the first representative of Sealy High School at the Super Bowl when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosted the Kansas City Chiefs last Sunday for Super Bowl LV.