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With less than a minute left to play in a tie ballgame against Wharton, Sealy senior Jacob Gajewski broke the press defense with a half-court pass to classmate Lane Holley who drove to the basket and scored a layup through contact. Holley sank his free throw with only 33.87 seconds remaining to give the host Tigers a three-point lead and all of the momentum.

The Sealy Lady Tiger soccer team emphatically won its district home opener against Houston Harmony School of Discovery by a 10-0 score last Friday on Mark A. Chapman Field at T.J.

The Sealy Lady Tiger basketball squad dropped another close game to the Bellville Brahmanettes, this one at home last Wednesday by a 53-49 final score at Sealy High School. Bellville took the teams’ first meeting on a gamewinning shot in the final seconds from Neelie Schiel and the second matchup was similarly close throughout but Lady Tiger head coach Anthony Branch said the shots didn’t fall when they needed them to.

The Sealy Tiger team tennis squad traveled to Brazosport last Friday and returned with two first-place finishers, a second-place player and two more thirdplace pairs. Eric Wilson grabbed first place from the boys’ singles bracket and Rebecca Kins earned first place in the consolation bracket of the girls’ singles circuit.

The Sealy Tiger soccer team secured its third district win in as many tries after it secured a 4-0 win in its first home contest within District 20-4A against Houston Harmony School of Discovery last Friday on Mark A. Chapman Field at T.J.

The Sealy Tiger golf teams opened their season last week with a two-day tournament and followed that up with another singleday tournament earlier this week. In both contests, the boys’ team grabbed a thirdplace finish in the team competition.

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.

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.