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After a tumultuous season, the Brazos Cougars captured their first district win, defeating the Industrial Cobras 31-9. It was a perfect storm for Brazos, everything on offense started clicking at the right time and the Cobras couldn’t do anything about it.

On Friday night, the Sealy Tigers xperienced a breath of fresh air that’s been missing for the past few weeks. It came in the form of its starting quarterback Kane Killough; he’s been injured for the past couple of weeks with a shoulder injury suffered against Giddings.

In the second round of the playoffs, the Sealy Lady Tigers lost to Gateway College Prep 3-0 at Luling High School. This caps off a magical season where the girls went undefeated in district with a 14-0 record, won the bi-district championship and finished with a 32-14 overall record.

The Sealy Tigers are playoff bound as they are set to face off against the Robinson Rockets Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at Bryan High School. Quarterback Kane Killough, wide receiver/ defensive back Noah Washington and wide receiver/defensive back Elijah Sanders will lead the Tigers to its second playoff appearance in consecutive years Killough has 25 total touchdowns, 1392 passing yards for the year along with 535 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on the ground. Elijah Sanders leads all wide receivers with nine touchdowns and leads the team with three interceptions on defense. There was even a point in the season where Sanders recorded a touchdown and an interception in back-to-back games.

The Buccaneers will now turn their attention to the NJCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Half Marathon Championships on Nov. 12 The Blinn College men’s and women’s cross country teams continued their program relaunch at the NJCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, Va.

The Faith Academy Knights hosted Bryan St Joseph for the District Championship, Friday night, Nov. 1, at SAB Stadium.

This past weekend the Sealy Tigers competed in the UILCrossCountryStatemeet. Many schools were included such as Canyon, Sunnyvale, Salado, and Gainesville, the Tigers ended up placing 12th overall which is one their best placement in years.

Sealy Football has dealt with its fair share of turmoil this past week, injury bug affecting Kane Killough, navigating a new offense filling multiple holes left untouched, losing to Madisonville in shocking fashion.