Lions Pride 2021

Y'all had some hits that weren't called. A kid launching himself headfirst, a DDT, a few late hits on our sideline. I wasn't gonna make an issue of it until y'all did. And the no class of your band starting to play when we're playing our school song, who does that? Of all the years I've watched the sport, the bands showed respect to the other schools playing it's song at the end of the game. So spare me the dirty play. And who cares if you had people out. We did too and it's not an excuse. You play with the people you got. You're not as good as you think you are. It's going to be alright.

You're just being obtuse because you didn't get the blowout you expected. Lumberton said it was a real contender for the district championship. It's not. Livingston was looking for improvement after losing 19 straight games. We've already won 2, been competitive in all but one and have stood toe to toe in district. Had we took care of the ball, we'd be 1-1 in district and y'all would be looking for a new coach. No I'm not happy about the loss, a game we could have won, but after the past couple of years, there's light at the end of the tunnel. For Lumberton, it seems to be that this may be your best and it ain't gonna be good enough to reach your goals.

We're a work in progress. Lumberton said it was a contender for the district championship. Different expectations. That why this is worse for you.

Yeah. Y'all gonna crush them. Or should I say we. I'm an alum after all.

I think the Bears are gonna kick the fire out of Lumberton and the Bears might be a live shot to win District. Had to win tonight cause I know Livingston ain't ready to play on the road.

Y'all won tonight, but no one should be scared to play against the Raiders. This was more about Livingston not executing than Lumberton being good. I have serious questions whether y'all can beat Bridge City. Good luck from here on out and pray y'all don't move to 5A. You're team is too slow and dare I say lumbering to do much of anything against a half decent team. 21-9 final. Be safe on the way home.

I could say the same about y'all but I haven't...

TD Lumberton, ughhhhh!!!!!! 20-3 raiders 1153 to go pending the extra point

End of Q3 14-3 Lumberton Third and 5 at the Livingston 8 to start the quarter. A parade of personal foul flags has fueled this drive.

14-3 Lumberton 305 left in Q3. 36 yard fg for the Lions.

14-0 Lumberton. End Q2. Very bad offense by the Lions. Livingston gets the ball to start the half. Maybe they'll come out a different team.

14-0 Lumberton. 328 left. Livingston must take care of the ball. The defense has done its job tonight considering the bad situations it's been put in.

Consecutive possessions that end in in a turnover. Lumberton threatening again. Darn it!

Lumberton breaks through. 6-0 Raiders. 458 left in Q2.

We're all tied at 0 at the end of Q1. Both teams threatened to score but we're stopped in the red zone on outstanding fourth down defense. Lumberton to start at it's 30. First down.

75 degrees and a slight breeze. Let's see which Lions team shows up tonight. Im expecting the competitive one that plays all four quarters.

There's also a Sakura if you're into sushi. Next to Patrons. Patrons is the place if you want a good margarita. Happy hour ends at 6.

Is this how Lumberton hypes itself up for games; by beating each other up? Y'all are insane.

Splendora is very good but they put the ball on the ground every drive against Livingston and only lost the ball once. So there's a chance for turnovers. Word of advice, use entrance A for parking or else you have to walk all the way around the stadium to get to the visitor side.

West Brook looks fine to me. They're playing schools with 1000-1500 more kids to pull from. Imagine if PNG, Nederland and PAM just combined teams. And they're winning. It's an accomplishment and they'll look better once they play schools closer to their size in the playoffs. They're ranked appropriately and if they keep it close to decent against North Shore they won't fall too far in the rankings. NS makes everyone look bad.

The kids have nothing to do with the non district schedule. Coaches on both sides want competitive games so they look for qualities that will help them come district and hopefully beyond. Sometimes you think it's going to be competitive and you're just a little better than you thought you would be and the other teams are not as good as you thought. Two years ago, the Splendora non district schedule looked competitive but they ended up with the best team in their school history. Their program is on the upswing and I'm happy for them. The only thing that matters is they won their first district game and they move on towards their goal of making a playoff run.

The stadium is not to bad. It's an antique, but it's been maintained, is clean and they made updates to the bathrooms and concessions, which are nice. It's the parking that's bad. It's smack dab in downtown with no big lots nearby. But they have basically saved visitor parking next to the stadium for y'all so there's that. Hit a local happy hour, and enjoy some East Texas hospitality.

Pink Out game in Livingston. Both teams are coming off loses and didn't perform as well as expected. Who ya got? I'm on record saying Livingston is going to win 2 district games, and this one being at home, I'd have to take the Lions here. But they would have to execute much better than last week and show some awareness of where the ball is. Splendora put the ball on the ground at least 7 times and only got it once is not going to cut it. 26-24 Livingston.

I would imagine some of this is some other the programs playing bigger schools or highly ranked teams as a way to get ready for district. You could take Silsbee the past two seasons as an example.

They put the ball on the ground every possession and only lost the ball once. What are the odds? They're a solid team and they deserved to win. They just don't look like the wrecking crew they were last year.