Sports

Both Sealy Tiger soccer teams finished the first round of play within District 20-4A with their six wins good enough to top the standings entering play this week. Last week, the Lady Tigers took down Bellville 1-0 Monday and beat Royal 4-1 Friday to move into a tie for first place with Navasota and Bellville with identical 6-1 district records.

The Sealy Tiger powerlifting team competed in the Weimar Invitational Feb. 9 and came away with a class championship and a second-place finish as a team.

The Sealy Lady Tiger softball team was set to open the regular season earlier this week at home against Hallettsville. Before that, Sealy faced Rice and Bay City in scrimmage action last week and Head Coach Brittney Whitehead was already starting to see improvements from the first scrimmage of the preseason Feb.

Sealy High School’s Wyatt Martinez was named the first-chair trumpet for the Association of Texas Small School Bands’ Class 4A All-State Band. It is Martinez’ second time qualifying for the all-state band and it marks Sealy’s second first-chair all-state honor in program history.

Sealy’s Connor Krenek (utility) and Thomas Clark (linebacker) were honorable mentions on the Texas Sports Writers Association’s Class 4A All-State team released Friday morning.

Krenek was District 12-4A’s utility player of the year and Clark was a first-team all-district wide receiver and linebacker for the Tigers. Krenek represented Sealy on the THSCA first-team academic all-state and Thomas Clark landed on the second-team academic all-state.

Sealy senior Evelyn Harrington led a Lady Tiger comeback with 11 fourth-quarter points to help her team take down rival Bellville 43-39 in its final home game last Friday. It was merely the cherry on top after Sealy punched its ticket back to the postseason for the first time since the 2017-2018 season with a 36-23 win over El Campo last Tuesday.

The University Interscholastic League announced its biennial district realignment for football, volleyball and basketball Thursday morning, Feb. 3.