Sports

Five Sealy Tiger football players were honored on the Padilla Poll Coaches 2020 All-State Team for Class 4A-D2, three on defense and two on offense: Clayton Prazak (1st team defense), Kade Killough (1st team offense), Lane Holley (2nd team defense), Tyler Hennessey (2nd team defense) and Draper Parker (2nd team offense). Sealy finished as outright district champions and earned two playoff wins for the second time in three years and head football coach Shane Mobley said the honors from both sides of the ball spoke volumes to the quality of this brand of Tiger football.

The Faith Academy Knights basketball squad fell in its three games last week and will play two more contests at the end of this week before closing out the season on Feb. 9 at home.

The Faith Academy Lady Knights fell to the Fayetteville Lady Lions on the road last Tuesday, Jan. 26, by a 65-19 final score.

After the last spring sports season was cut short due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the baseball season got underway at the end of last week when tryouts opened at Aubrey “Mutt” Stuessel Stadium to create the Sealy Tigers’ 2021 roster.

Softball teams competing in the University Interscholastic League hit the practice fields a week before their baseball counterparts and the Sealy Lady Tigers’ preseason opener on Feb. 2 is quickly approaching.

Sealy High School and Texas A&M alum Ricky Seals-Jones is headed to the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs after they defeated the Buffalo Bills, 38-24, in the AFC Championship game last Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. Seals-Jones is the first Sealy-born NFL player to make a Super Bowl, and the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will kick off on Feb. 7 at 5:30 p.m. CST. The Buccaneers will become the first team in NFL history to play a Super Bowl in its home stadium.

The Sealy Tiger soccer team opened play within District 20-4A with a 4-1 win on the road over Hempstead last Friday. Earlier in the week, Sealy traveled to Altair to face the Rice Raiders before it hosts the Harmony School of Discovery Tigers to end this week on Friday night for the first home district game of the season.

The Sealy Lady Tiger basketball squad opened the second round of district play with a 54-39 loss to the Royal Lady Falcons last Friday evening at home. The loss dropped Sealy to 1-5 within District 24-4A with only four games remaining in the regular season.

In their fifth regular-season game of the year, the Faith Academy Knights fell to the Cornerstone Christian Academy Cougars 64-38. The visiting Cougars held a 34-17 lead at the halftime intermission and outscored the Knights 30-21 in the second half despite a 20-point night from Faith Academy junior Kaleb Shepherd.