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We are in the process of putting together a Playoff Central thread that will include our coverage area teams, opponents, date, time and place and what team they would face the next round. We will do this for each round of the playoffs like what we already are doing with our Weekly schedule and Scoreboard. This will likely be posted Monday. We will also continue to do game threads for each of our coverage area games. Please be patient while we put this together. Thanks

Finished 6-4 and made the playoffs for the first time in school history. Hope they hold on to this coach for as long as they possibly can [Hidden Content]

I grew up in a football first household. Indians, Cowboys and Oilers.. In that order. My first year of School at Ridgewood was an election year. We had to choose what party we were. I chose Independent so I could wear a purple I on my shirt all day. Basically I thought it was Indian! I used to ride my bike to school, steal a random Port Arthur News off a driveway to go over district stats for the weeks game. The 8os were rough for PNG. We could only beat Nederland it seemed like! My freshman year at PNG I had English first period, first Friday of football I got sent to the office for reading the paper! I needed my stats and info, and I always made sure I had my “I beat Bob West” pics sent in on time. And yes I beat him several times and had proof! I have been lucky enough to see 3 PNG state championship games. As well as 3 quarterfinal games. Not bad for a school that uses home grown talent. Small towns and Friday night lights are always and will always be the best times of your life. Times have changed, I used to get on this site religiously, even won the pick ems one year. Was even a pollster. What I will say is this. Even with the times changing, SETX HS Football is the funnest and most die hard in the state of Texas. This board shows the enthusiasm and the desire from so many. It’s what’s makes SETX what it is. So congrats to all the playoff teams. Much luck in the playoffs. And to my Nederland fans, it’s been rough since Uncle Larry left, but I can’t say it upsets me…… Once little brother, always little brother. And to my Indians. Once again, we are district champs, and hopeful to make a playoff push! So this morning I decided I would dedicate a post to Bob West. He covered sports in the area better than anyone… Tom Halliburton as well. So with a no nonsense post, and I’m known for not being a rah rah… Times have changed, but one thing hasn’t. PNG is still on top of the mountain. Old school is for hardware, new school plays for participant ribbons….. Happy Saturday folks!! I’m still bleeding purple till my last breathe!! I won’t bore you will all of it.. 4 time state champs……. PNG….. Enough Said!!

We operate like a small town. The circle of news only runs in about 5,000 of that. The other 30 are just here and don’t care 😂

I wasn't going to comment but after reading some of these before and after game comment s I'm going to weigh in. Big Ned won the game and good luck going forward. You don't hear anyone from Dayton crying or complaining about the game. I think Ned is ranked 23rd and Dayton 60ish in the State and all of the Big boys had Ned pre-picked with a relative easy win. ( only one fan in the pickems choose Dayton- one) So to get on here and say Ned was flat ,uninspired and let Dayton get a 20 point lead in the first quarter is a little disingenuous not to give Dayton their accolades. The real reason for the anomaly - you got punched in the face and underestimated a team that was alot better than you thought. Let's be honest saying things like we finally finished a game - ?when Dayton had 50 yards of penalties ( and this was all on Dayton being stupid) in their last two drives-odds on Dayton probably would of won. After being in the cellar for years Dayton is climbing out and getting more formidable every season so don't sleep on us.

Last night was a reminder that political power is borrowed from voters, not owned by politicians.

6A/5A 1. Atascocita 2. Beaumont West Brook 3. North Shore 4. Humble 5. Beaumont United 6. Baytown Sterling 7. Goose Creek Memorial 8. Summer Creek 9. CE King 10. Port Neches-Groves Others Considered: Barbers Hill, Kingwood, Kingwood Park, West Fork, Nederland 4A/3A 1. Onalaska 2. Hardin-Jefferson 3. Orangefield 4. Huntington 5. Trinity 6. Diboll 7. East Chambers 8. Huffman 9. Silsbee 10. Bridge City Others Considered: Livingston, Central Heights, Pineywoods CA, Warren, Vidor, West Orange-Stark 2A/1A/Private 1. San Augustine 2. Brookeland 3. Chireno 4. Big Sandy 5. Chester 6. Beaumont Legacy 7. Hemphill 8. Sabine Pass 9. Shelbyville 10. Evadale Others Considered: Beaumont Kelly, Spurger, Hull-Daisetta, West Hardin, Woden

Lufkin is ran by idiots and entitled parents. Literally seen a parent celebrating the coaching change on FB. His kid was literally one of the ones ejected against LaPorte. Lost count of the number of drops he had on the season too. Like this whole situation over spilled because of the personal fouls by Lufkin from that game. Earlier in the year they dont like the way the OC talks to the kids but after last week they want the coaches to rip the kids off the field by the face mask. Good riddance with this current SR class and their parents. If you're getting your head bashed in by 40 as freshmen its probably not going to change when you're SRs. They blame everyone but themselves for their kids being bad a football and then acting like punks because their kid is a sore loser. Abseck had the program going in the right direction..The new coach Will have a lot of pieces and talent to work with in the 9th and 10th grade classes. Oh well this is my rant. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Great win for Lamar!! Cards axed em

Congratulations @prepballfan for winning the regular season contest. This was the first time we've had so many perfect scores since I've been keeping track. 10 in total We still have 6 more weeks to go to crown the playoff and overall winners.

Maybe Nederland plays like they did vs. Crawford and gets a road win @ Huntsville? These are 14-18 year old kids. Focus on what they did well. Down 20-7 and they keep competing for a road win. Find the positive. #10, #8, the defense getting a stop of 4th down to seal the win. This team could give you a bucket of gold and you would complain about the bucket.

Some of you adult men should be ashamed of yourselves. These are teenagers and they have fought to get back into this game. Embarrassing.

Thursday watching Huntsville vs Montgomery on the back porch cooking chili. Friday eating at Lercy’s Dinner West in Mont Belvieu then Nederland vs Dayton Saturday Lamar vs SFA tailgating. Menu is Fajitas and Tacos, margs, queso, hot sauce. Then 2$ beers at the game. Please come out and support LU!! Huge game!!!

Region 1 and 2 - Metroplex Region 3 and 4 Houston State - San Antonio

And anyone who distanced themselves from Trump was criticized and not nominated. Leading to awful candidates running in races and a lot of them are going to lose seats the right should’ve easily been able to hold.

Trump and the GOP own the results tonight. They had 2 years to show how awesome they were and they failed miserably! Affordability and Accountability is all the people that voted for Trump wanted and he failed miserably. I have zero sympathy for him and his cohorts.

Nor on your list and not SETX but North Shore will be making it's 31st consecutive playoff appearance Thursday night. 94'-26'

Big loss for Lufkin in my opinion, but there was no parting with his OC who was the issue with the district. Abseck complicity to not control his OC interactions, player discipline and laments with administrative people was the main downfall. Abseck did a lot of good getting the Lufkin program back on track, especially at the sub-varsity levels. He implemented other facilities improvements and was instrumental in helping to pass the bond for the Lufkin new stadium. Hard to figure the connection he has with his OC, because the two come across as polar opposites. I liked Abseck but keeping the OC around did not help this outcome. This OC scenario will replicate itself wherever he lands, the old saying "it's hard to change a leopards spots". No need to say more. I do wish Carl Abseck all the best success in the future.

winner will win 96 to 89 in a toss up.

I am a Fairfield alumni, We (Tarkington) played East Chambers, these teams are extremely similar. This might truly be a pickem game. If someone can "break serve" so to speak and get a couple defensive stops the pressure is going to mount greatly on the other team. Might be one of the best first round games in the state.

Location matters… It should be obvious that murder or any crime can happen anywhere. Certainly a horrific crime can happen anywhere at any time. But…. The odds or frequency are sometimes heavily skewed to some locations. The Mid-County cities of Nederland, Port Neches and Groves have a population of about 50,000 people. Beaumont is about 2.3 times the size of Mid-County. According to FBI statistics, in the last 5 years Mid-County has had 6 murders. Going by size and on a 1 to 1 ratio, Beaumont should have had 14 murders in the same time period of 5 years. Beaumont has had 79 murders in that time frame and a person has an almost 600% more likely chance of being a victim of a murder in Beaumont. So in comparison to size, Beaumont has had an additional 65 more murders than would have occurred in Mid-County in 5 years. That doesn’t mean that the people in Beaumont are bad because 113,000 people in Beaumont didn’t commit a murder last year. Some people have a difficult time with the fact that some areas have a much higher rate of violent crime and the average person has a much higher percentage of being a victim in those areas. Statements like, “crime can happen anywhere” are 100% correct. It’s also a fact that some areas have a many times higher likelihood of it happening.

The best interpretation of this game is it was two good teams who took it down to the wire. Someone had to lose. Anyone trying to make it mean more than that for either team is ignoring a lot of good and bad on both sides. Neither will be favored next week, but both can win.

Good dub for ole LU. Overall a fun game to watch. 😎

Disagree strongly. He had all night to do it. Do it in the first half against kids who haven’t played both ways all night against a superior opponent. The game was never in doubt. He put his starters back in up 50 when Warren was on the goal line trying to score. You want to throw the ball with your backup QB don’t do it with 2 minutes on the game clock. His team may be full of winners but they didn’t learn sportsmanship from him last night.

Here are the playoff seeds and their opponents for our coverage area districts: 17-6A D1 #1 North Shore vs. Deer Park D1 #2 Summer Creek vs. Dickinson D2 #1 CE King vs. Clear Springs D2 #2 Atascocita vs. Barbers Hill 9-5A D1 #1 La Porte vs. Houston Northbrook #2 PA Memorial vs. Houston Waltrip #3 Goose Creek Memorial vs. Houston Milby #4 Beaumont United vs. Houston Madison 9-5A D2 #1 Montgomery vs. Dayton #2 Huntsville vs. Nederland #3 Lake Creek vs. Texas City #4 West Fork vs. PN-G 10-5A D2 #1 PN-G vs. West Fork #2 Texas City vs. Lake Creek #3 Nederland vs. Huntsville #4 Dayton vs. Montgomery 9-4A D1 #1 LC-M vs. Houston Austin #2 Vidor vs. Houston Sterling/FB Willowridge loser #3 Huffman vs. Houston Sterling/FB Willowridge winner #4 Bridge City vs. Stafford 10-4A D2 #1 WO-S vs. Van #2 Silsbee vs. Madisonville #3 Hamshire-Fannett vs. Athens #4 Shepherd vs. Canton 9-3A D1 #1 Diboll vs. Buna #2 Fairfield vs. East Chambers #3 Palestine Westwood vs. Anahuac #4 Trinity vs. Orangefield 10-3A D1 #1 Orangefield vs. Trinity #2 Anahuac vs. Palestine Westwood #3 East Chambers vs. Fairfield #4 Buna vs. Diboll 12-3A D2 #1 Newton vs. Elkhart #2 New Waverly vs. Buffalo #3 Hardin vs. Teague #4 Woodville vs. Mildred 12-2A D1 #1 San Augustine vs. Union Grove #2 Shelbyville vs. Waskom #3 Garrison vs. Beckville #4 Joaquin vs. Pewitt 12-2A D2 #1 West Sabine vs. Tenaha #2 Colmesneil vs. Cushing #3 West Hardin vs. Grapeland #4 Evadale vs. Overton 1A D1 #1 Union Hill vs. Abbott #2 Chester vs. Aquilla 1A D2 #1 Apple Springs vs. Benavides #2 Calvert vs. Runge

2morehourslol might've been a better choice of name.

I would make Athens or Canton a favorite but HF certainly is capable of winning the game against either team. Again, I think it's ridiculous to say they can't win.

No team in SETX has a chance, you haven't heard??? 🤦🏾‍♂️

As concerning as I find it that Texas has a democrat for a governor, I'm behind just about everything she's pushing when it comes to public schools. If she can accomplish what she's trying to in that regard then some good will come out of all of this. Ending STAAR Firing Morath Auditing no-bid vendor contracts Ending the voucher program Pausing the accountability rating system 4/5 I'm 100% behind, and as for the accountability system, it needs a major overhaul if we're going to keep using it.

Ehh heard they had some poor coaching so idk 🙃🤣

I'm good with that. Let me get on the phone.

He already has. Said Abbott being a RHINO is why he lost. SMH That dude never takes any blame. Always passing the buck.

I know not part of your rankings but don’t sleep on Good Samaritan. I have seen them in one game and two scrimmages so far this year and look very good.

True statement!! I'm from Warren and if you don't want to get embarrassed get better !!

Montgomery's #8, L. Piro, torched Huntsville's secondary. Why can't Nederland's #8 do the same thing? Similar size and skill set for both of those kids. Montgomery's RB Keldric Ben ran up and down the field. Ned's #10 can do the same. Be coachable and compete. Huntsville doesn't have anything that Nederland hasn't already seen from West Brook, WOS, Silsbee, Crawford, PN-G, TXC, and Dayton. Get prepared, be excited to go play, and play your tail off. Do that and you can win. If you do all those things and the other team still beats you, tip your cap, and enjoy life.

Thank you UIL, Dave Campbell Texas High School Football, NFHS, and whoever else made it possible for NDN Press to broadcast the game. The more students we have involved with the playoffs, the better it is for PN-GISD---football team, band, cheer, dance, twrilers, Indian Spirit, Geronimo's Crew, flag crew, and NDN Press. Active students encourages success inside and outside of the classroom. If they earn some money, great. Invest it in the kids and NDN Press. GO INDIANS!!!

They keep telling me im good luck. Havnt been to a loss yet

Silsbee defense is very beat up. But credit to Shepherd for hitting those big plays.

We were down 20-0 at one point we truly looked uninspired out there but we didn't quit and came back and won it...onto Huntsville next week

Good job dogs. Huntsville next?

This team as a whole has never had the talent like so many have said. We have played piss poor talent all season and the selfishness from so many of these players and their parents have caught up to them. No leadership and it’s all about me mentality by so many. Karma is real and hopefully most of the parents on this Team will learn to stay to stay in their lanes and quit trying to recreate their own personal agenda.

I also liked when he just dropped and fell instead of taking on a tackle…

Trump (MAGA) is so bad and toxic that Texas flipped entirely blue. Abbott lost by a million votes. MAGA didn’t even try to cry about voter fraud this time, that’s how bad it really was

Shots fired!!! 🤣🤣🤣

They was like that the whole game… any flag against them surprise surprise. Commentator said something like I knew we had to play against both opponents coming into tonight blah blah blah. Talked about the fumble for a long time. Said something about refs seem to be flag happy against Huntsville. Just bad..

Oh well.., that will give him plenty of time to polish his Gold Trump Coins.

I admit that I am not happy about our state turning blue but I always thought it needed some purple shade. I believe as far as the state of Texas goes, the Democrats didn't win this election. The Republicans lost it. Republicans turned the ball over too many times, both inside the opponent 10 and near their own goal line. Costly TO's that lost them the game. One of those cases of the "better team lost".

Been saying this…… more company growth more people = more liberal = more problems Hollywood is already trying to move here Florida may be next good thing my ultimate kingdom is not this place