Lions Pride 2021

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.

I don't think they're as good as last year. We left 2, maybe 3 TDs on the field. Not saying that if we got those we would have won, but it would have been a much more competitive game. I think the Bears would have a good chance against Splendora.

48-15 Splendora final. Good game wildcats. Had our chances didn't execute.

41-0 Splendora end Q 3. Livingston at the Wildcat 4 to start the fourth.

41-0 Splendora end Q 3. Livingston at the Wildcat 4 to start the fourth.

27-0 Splendora at the half. Had opportunities to get back in this game and didn't execute. Hats of to the wildcats. Very disappointed tonight. Still got a half to work on our game and improve for next week. Wasn't expecting a win but I did expect a competitive game. Splendora to get the ball to start Q3.

14-0 Splendora end Q1. Livingston at the Splendora 13 for first down.

Mid 50s for kickoff. Ought to be fun!

I don't know if Splendora will be in 4A next year. But tonight ought to be fun.

Trinity is awesome. They have smoked sausage on a stick from Talent Meat Market in Riverside. Orangefield usually has pretty good options too. Darn now I'm hungry.

That's why we play. Livingston is much better this year. No one in the district is infallible, so overlook the Lions at your own peril. They're not an automatic win this year and won't be over the next few years.

Livingston is going to win at least 2 games. Bridge City I'm willing to Crayola in; the other victim, I'm still working out. Lumberton comes north, and LCM doesn't play to win so I would guess one of the two if they overlook the Lions. I don't think Livingston beats Splendora or Hargrave on the road and it's between those schools for the district title. The L schools are going to fight for the last two spots and tie breakers are going to be important. It ought to be fun.