Sports

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.

The Sealy Tiger basketball squad ran into a buzzsaw in their first postseason appearance in eight years where the Yates Lions ended Sealy’s season with a 95-71 final score in the bi-district round of the playoffs last Saturday.

The Sealy Tiger baseball team played their first regularseason game in 346 days after last season got cut short due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and last week’s cancellations due to Winter Storm Uri.

Sealy High School alum Garret Zaskoda earned his first collegiate win on the pitcher’s mound to help the Rice Owl baseball team collect their first victory of the season in bounce-back fashion over Houston Baptist Sunday at Reckling Park in Houston.

Brazos High School hosted a last-chance qualifying powerlifting meet Feb. 20 and had eight lifters win their weight class.

Not even a minute into the Sealy Lady Tigers’ first soccer game of the second round of district play against Rice Monday at home, Sealy earned a 1-0 lead thanks to freshman Rebeca Garza’s goal 45 seconds into the contest.