Lions Pride 2021

16-11 Hargrave Q1. Aggressive substitution by Livingston tonight. Very close and well played game.

I would love to be in the room when they vote on this. From what I heard, this is quite the 180 turn of Shepherd's previous stance. It's a funny and very petty story, the best kind.

37-29 Tarkington final. Good game plan by the Horns. Much improved from last year. It was a fun rivalry while it lasted.

29-18 Tarkington Q3. Tarkington has our number tonight. The way they control the pace, the lead feels like 25 pts. Ugh!!!!

17-12 Tarkington at the half. Good showing by the Horns. They continue to control the pace of the game. Livingston has two players in foul trouble. Will be interesting how they manage that in the second half.

8-2 Livingston Q1. No score for the first four minutes. Tarkington wants to slow the game down but Livingston is being aggressive.

The Livingston Lions visit the Tarkington Longhorns on the Prairie at 7:30 pm. The Horns (5-1l) got back to their winning ways with a 41-35 win at Splendora while the Lions (2-4) broke a 4-game skid by holding off a plucky Liberty Panthers squad at the Den. The first game was a close affair with Tarkington dictating the pace to win in Livingston. If the Lions have any designs on strengthening their playoff position, a win here is a must. If it's a low scoring affair, Tarkington got it. If it's a Track meet, the Lions have a shot. I have no clue. I was in Illinois the first time and the ball control by Tarkington sounded outstanding in the second half, along with timely shooting, was the difference. I'm rooting for chaos.

I was wondering why Livingston didn't schedule Shepherd. Then I opened the newspaper and it lays it all out. They're really small. I feel bad they didn't drop the 3A. Their travel sucks. But it sucks for all the small schools. High Island has to play leggett Goodrich, zavalla, burkeville, etc because there's no one around their size. There's just not a good way to do this where everyone is going to be happy, especially in football. I wish they would make the split after district like the old days. The basketball districts at least look plausible and makes it easier to follow the rivals all year long because you see them at basketball, track, baseball, etc. District games are barely above non district because you only see the school once every two years if you don't go to road games.

Free throw to put it away with 6 seconds left 58-51 Livingston. Lions move to 2-4, Liberty falls to 1-5

Two freethrows and a fast break has pushed the Lions lead to 55-47 with 2 minutes to play...

Liberty keeps fighting. 51-47. Lions less than 3 minutes to go.

40-31 Livingston. End Q3. After a slow start to the quarter, Livingston pushed it's lead to as large as 13 before Liberty closed out the quarter on a 4-0 run

Sorry I'm late. Livingston 27-Liberty 22 at the half. The Panthers have been able to keep it close. Not a lot of visitors here tonight. What a shame, they have just as good a chance as anyone for a playoff spot. No one is out off this race with three teams tied at 1-1 for the last spot. Probably will dig into tie breakers next week as we get closer to the end.

With Tarkington dropping down, Orangefield moving up, and Lumberton staying put, this was the logical conclusion. The districts will be fun. And nothing is stopping Silsbee and HJ from playing more than once in non district.

69-53 final. Good game by the Wildcats. No winless teams I. District play at the conclusion of the first round. Adios!

Game not over still one more quarter to go. 61-41 less than six minutes to go...

Good win. Hope everyone is feeling better heard the flu is bad out there

54-34 Splendora. I never bitch about refs because it's a hard job and so many other things go into winning and losing, but this is rediculous. This has got to be one of the sorriest crews I've seen. Totally took away Livingston chance to get back in the game with B's technical fouls after shitty calls.

41-19 Splendora at the half. Good shooting by the home team, sloppy play by the visitor.

Splendora has found a shooting touch. They hit a 3 to end the quarter and started q2 with one 22_13 with 640 left in the half

15-13 Splendora end Q1. Wildcats shook off early turnovers and the Lions got in some foul trouble which turned the tide.

Waiting out the end of the girls varsity game. Livingston girls basketball is going to move to 7-0 in district with a 42-33 win. Wish more districts would do the boys girls double headers, just makes for a good crowd and you don't have to miss a thing. I have no idea how this is going to go. Our coach said it plainly in the newspaper after the debacle on Tuesday, it's gotta be some of the worse offense being run in the great state of Texas right now. They have the right guy running the show. These boys will have no one to blame but themselves when they don't go as far as they could have because they'd rather play fortnite than go to all the open gyms this summer and fall to work on their games. Splendora had a unique situation last year. They had five sets of twins between the boys and girls varsity teams. Enough of the rants. Let's have a good game!

59-35 Shepherd. Good game Pirates. Pirates move to 2-2 and Livingston drops it's third straight game to fall to 1-3 with a road game at Splendora Friday. The Pirates host the Liberty Panthers. So long!

48-21 Shepherd end of Q3. Gotta play better at home. Silly me going against the line. Ughhh!

Livingston gut stomped WOS and gave East Chambers a game. But then they got beat by Hampshire Fanette, who I'm glad to see is much improved. Outside of Huffman, everyone of these teams is wildly inconsistent. Silsbee and HJ win their games handily but depending on who's number 2 and 3 and how they're feeling that night, a split is possible. If we played a bi district tournament, only Huffman would be in the gold bracket and 21-4a would be making up most of the bronze bracket. But in a one game scenerio, I like my chances at a split. But I wouldn't put more than a Florida's kitchen rib special on it!