Sports

The Sealy boys’ and girls’ varsity cross country teams continued their hot starts to the 2023 season by capturing first place at the Bellville Cross Country meet Saturday, Sept. 2.

Now the games really count. Sealy will begin its push for a playoff berth this Friday when the Tigers travel to West Columbia to take on the Roughnecks at 7 p.m.

Jarvse Dickerson rushed for 192 yards and three touchdowns in leading Brazos to a 26-20 overtime win over Nixon-Smiley last Friday in the final tune-up before the start of a rigorous district schedule. Nixon-Smiley ran out to a 14-0 halftime lead over Brazos and held a 20-7 lead as the two teams headed for the fourth quarter.

The Brazos Cougars cross country team competed in the Shiner Comanche Cross Country Meet on Saturday in Shiner. Individually, in the 3A-4A Varsity Girls race, Stephaniah Phillips placed 31st, Lily Bertrand finished 58th, and Hannah Gonzalez was 75th.

Take away the first half of the Sealy-Stafford matchup and the Tigers would be sitting at 3-0 heading into this week’s contest. But the first half did count and everything that could go wrong in the first half did for Sealy and Stafford took advantage to take a 28-0 halftime lead en route to a 44-24 victory over Sealy Friday night.