October 27th, Tuesday night football. Cold. Rainy. What a mess. I would be remised if I didn’t talk about our Seniors. Starting with the guy that we asked a lot of last night, Mark Cantu. Last night was his 30th Varsity game…..but his first taking snaps as our quarterback. We have been getting him snaps at practice since August 3rd as a just in case scenario. Last night was that scenario, fellow Senior Carson Aldridge was out as he had a season ending injury last Thursday at Cole. To ask an 18-year-old to step in and lead the offense in his last home game on two days of practice is a tough ask, he did a commendable job and we are all proud of his effort. Our offensive line and defensive line were led by Seniors. Roberson Harold, Kody Villarreal, Brenham Sevier, Jonathan Cantu, James Black, Diego Garcia-Hernandez all have done a great job on both sides of the ball. Rylan Wagner over the course of the last three seasons has accumulated over 300 tackles, and is the Captain of the team. Rylan is like having a coach on the field getting our defense lined up. Our offensive skill players were Carson Aldridge, Logan Wilson, Vince Cassanova, and Quen Syma. This group battled injuries, extreme bumps and bruises, and still found a way to put points on the board. Last but certainly not least Santiago Garcia. Santi has been dealing with a leg injury since week 3, but continues to find a way to contribute every game.
These 13 young men have been a pleasure to coach over the past 6 years since they started in Junior High football. We will miss them dearly. So now we wait, our record is 5-5, 3-3 in District. Randolph has two more games remaining. If they lose one of these games our guys will have made the playoffs as the 4th place team.
A small miracle in and of itself, we played 10 games this year. We played 10 games in crazy 2020, not every team can say that. I’m proud our guys. Thank you to everyone that made this possible, Administration, Transportation, Custodial, Cafeteria, and the Coaching staff.
JHS - 49
LHS - 21
See photos in Google Album: Varsity Football vs. Jourdanton 10-27-2020
Rewatch the LiveStream: Lytle Pirate Football vs. Jourdanton Indians