Game one, win one
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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.
Sports
Sealy alum earns first collegiate win
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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 lifters compete
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Brazos High School hosted a last-chance qualifying powerlifting meet Feb. 20 and had eight lifters win their weight class.
Sealy holds off Rice 3-0
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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.
VARSITY SPORTS RESULTS & SCHEDULE
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RESULTS Area varsity results for the week starting Jan. 25: GIRLS’ BASKETBALL THURSDAY, FEB.11 • Kashmere 62, Bellville 49 BOYS’ BASKETBALL TUESDAY, FEB.9 • Hempstead 77, Brazos 38 • Sealy 74, Royal 65 • Wharton 70, Bellville 44 FRIDAY, FEB.12 • Sealy 43, Bellville 30 • Van Vleck 60, Brazos 40 GIRLS’ SOCCER Wednesday, Feb.
PLAYOFF BOUND
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With a pair of wins to close the regular season last week, the Sealy Tiger basketball squad locked up the No. 4 seed from District 24-4A and will compete in the postseason nearly eight years to the day since its last appearance.
Sealy downs Royal 4-0 to end round one
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Following the Sealy Lady Tigers’ lone defeat of play within District 20-4A, the team collected a 4-0 win over Royal last Friday at home to close the first round of district play with a 6-1 record. Sealy fell to Bellville earlier in the week by a 4-1 score but head coach Adrian Rocha didn’t see it as a setback.
Tiger football honored
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The 1978 Sealy Tiger football team that won the town’s first state championship was recently honored as one of the top 100 teams from the last 100 years of University Interscholastic League competition. Cole McNanna
Tigers ready for round two
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Although the Sealy Tiger soccer team fell in its final two contests of round one of play within District 20-4A, head coach Juan Perez didn’t see them as a hindrance to the team’s playoff hopes. “The thing is, I was expecting something like this,” Perez said after last Friday’s home loss.
Blinn softball splits games in season-opener
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The Blinn College Buccaneers softball team opened its season with a doubleheader split Friday at the Galveston College Invitational. Blinn took an 8-5 win over Temple College in its first game, but fell 12-4 to Louisiana State University Eunice in the second game.
