Sports

Despite a 2-0 loss to first-place Bellville earlier this week, the Sealy Lady Tiger soccer squad locked up second place from District 20-4A heading into the playoffs and will face the third seed from District 19.

The Sealy Tiger soccer teams capitalized on home-field advantage and earned four wins in as many games to inflate their District 20-4A record to 9-2 with only three games remaining in the regular season.

The Sealy Lady Tiger softball team hit the field for real 350 days after the previous campaign was cut short due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Head coach Brittney Whitehead, who missed the first district games of last season on maternity leave, said it was extra special to return to their home diamond last week.

Both offense and defense were solid for the Blinn College softball team in the Buccaneers’ home opener in order for them to sweep Kilgore College Saturday at Hohlt Park. Blinn’s strong pitching led to a 7-1 victory in the first game of the doubleheader, while its explosive offense led to a 14-5 run-rule win in five innings to finish the day.

In the first tournament action of the season, the Sealy Tiger baseball team traveled to West Columbia for the Hit and Run Tournament where it dropped three games and won one to move to 2-3 overall on the season.

In what was his last shot at an indoor conference championship, Sealy High School alum and Sam Houston State pole vaulter Clayton Fritsch collected his first Southland Conference title in the event last weekend in Alabama.

The Sealy Tiger track and field teams opened their regular seasons last Friday at the Calhoun Relays and had five athletes win the heat in their individual events. On the boys’ side, Manny Aguilar took first in the 100-meter high hurdles and 300-meter intermediate hurdles.

After Sealy took down Rice 3-0 to start last week, the Lady Tigers rattled off three more wins to close a four-game homestand undefeated and maintain its second-place position with only one loss. Sealy earned wins over Hempstead (4-1) last Wednesday, Discovery (7-0) last Friday and Columbus (7-1) earlier this week and although the latter two scores look lopsided, it was only because of a strong second-half effort that opened the games up.

After Winter Storm Uri canceled the Sealy Tigers’ lone soccer contest of last week, the team picked up a win to start a week that will feature three games, the first of which kicked off the second round of play within District 20-4A.