The Fox Box: county wide sports updates

As football season is still going strong for many east Texas schools, others are beginning their basketball season. All around, coaches and players are looking towards district games with hopes of ending with a stellar season.

Guard clips Eagles wings

Brook Hill celebrated homecoming Friday, Sept. 21, with a 21-3 win against the Trinity Christian Eagles.

Despite a slow start in the first quarter, in which neither team was able to make it into the end zone, Brook Hill came into the second quarter determined to light up the scoreboard.

Landry Lasseter completed a 27-yard field goal in the second quarter and ensured that the home team was the first to score, going into half-time with a score of 7-0.

A third quarter field goal for three points would be the only score the Eagles would see.

The Guard defense showed what they were made of by preventing the Eagles from making it across the plane.

Brook Hill answered back to the Eagles’ field goal with a 58-yard touchdown run in by Kirk Jean-Baptiste, followed by a good point after by Jake Shaffer.

The Guard didn’t stop there, in the fourth quarter Khalin Griffin completed a 38 yard touchdown run with another good PAT by Shaffer.

Friday night’s win left Brook Hill sitting at a 3-1 season record.

Brook Hill will take on the 0-4 Albany Lions in a home game on Saturday, Sept. 29. Kickoff will be at 2 p.m.

Panthers get bit by Bulldogs

The Bullard Panthers took on the Chapel Hill Bulldogs on Friday, Sept. 21, in what proved to be a close scoring game. The Bulldogs ended the game with a 20-19 win.

The first half of the game was slow in regards to scores, ending with a score of 7-0 in favor of Bullard.

It was the second half however, the teams went head to head and started to put numbers on the scoreboard.

With just two minutes left to go in the third quarter Bullard completed an 80-yard kick return touchdown, but missed the PAT, making the score 13-6.

Just as the third quarter ended, Bullard recovered a Chapel Hill fumble, but the game clock ran out before they could make good on the recovery.

With eight minutes in the fourth quarter, the Panthers completed a 31-yard touchdown pass and good point after to tie the score at 13-13.

The Panthers completed another long pass of 39 yards with just six minutes left in the game followed by a good PAT, which brought the score to 20-13 in Bullard’s favor.

The Bulldogs made a final push to even up the score with three minutes left in the game with a rushing touchdown.

Unfortunately the PAT was no good.

Bullard will take on Athens on Friday, Sept. 28 on their home turf as they celebrate homecoming.

Both team go into Friday’s game with just one win under their belt. Athens has proven to be a fourth quarter threat so far this season, scoring an average of 21 points in the final minutes of the game.

Troup Tigers on bye week

The Tigers had a bye week Friday, Sept. 21.

Troup will travel to take on Grand Saline, Friday, Sept. 28. Both teams go into the this week’s game pretty evenly matched, Troup with a 2-1 season record and Grand Saline 2-0.

Both teams are very strong in the fourth quarter; however, the Tigers have averaged just under 20 more points per game than Grand Saline.

Lady Hornets sting Lady Tigers

The New Summerfield Lady Hornets junior high basketball team defeated the Neches Lady Tigers, 24-16, on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

Karlee Andrade led in points for the Lady Hornets scoring 11 during Tuesday’s game.

Other top scorers were Juli Medellin with six points and Crystal Torres with four.