Celebrating 126 Years of Serving the communities of Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot, and Moore in Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties
Below, L to R are Zinthia Lara, Camilla Vega, Elijah Martinez, Brayden Morton, Lola Patino. Photo by Mikayla Perez-Martinez.
By Johnell Nemons II
Follow the Lytle Pirates High School Band down the Yellow Brick Road as they introduce their Fall Marching Band Show, “Tin Man” for the competitive 2023 marching season.
Continue reading “Lytle High School Band Goes to Land of Oz”
#23 Eli Contreras, #50 Riley Gutierrez, #88 Matt Gomez, and #19 Ayden Leal on defense for the Warhorses.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Alamo Stadium, aka the “Rock Pile” due to its primarily limestone construction, is the site for this season’s District 14-4A opener for the Devine Warhorses as they take on Young Men’s Leadership Academy Thursday night. Kickoff is set for 7pm.
#12 Skylar Blanton with the block on Pearsall. Photo by KK Calame
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Devine laid it all on the line in Floresville last Friday night but could not come up with a victory as the Tigerettes handed the Arabians their first defeat in District 29-4A action. The Arabians had breezed through their initial league competition leading up to the first-place showdown with Floresville.
Continue reading “Arabians 5-1 through 1st round of District 29-4A”
Lytle Pirates Travis Norton and Nico Pacheco rush toward the ball. Photo by Aliana Cardenas.
Eric Smith
Staff Writer
The Lytle Pirates (4-1, 0-0) will open 14-3A (Div.I) play this coming Friday in the Strawberry Capital as they face the Poteet Aggies (0-5, 0-0) at Aggie Field. Coach Mike Trevino and squad are hoping the Lytle faithful make the short trip over to Atascosa County and support the Black and Gold Friday night.
How did the open week go?
Continue reading “Lytle Football set for district opener in Poteet”
#20 Brayden Reyes and #60 Derek Traylor on defense.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Alamo Stadium, aka the “Rock Pile” due to its primarily limestone construction, is the site for this season’s District 14-4A opener for the Devine Warhorses as they take on Young Men’s Leadership Academy Thursday night. Kickoff is set for 7pm.
Devine went 3-3 during the preseason with wins against Crystal City (45-0), Natalia (49-14), and Uvalde (28-24). Pleasanton (24-13), Hondo (44-6), and Davenport (41-0) were the setbacks for the Warhorses.
No matter the record going into District, everyone is 0-0 with their sights set on a District Championship. Devine, along with YMLA, Carrizo Springs, Bandera, and Pearsall all believe they have just as much right as the next team to earn that number one seed.
Similar to Devine, YMLA enters the contest with a predistrict record of 3-3. The Lions picked up wins against Robstown (34-33), Manor New Tech (52-6), and Falfurrias (33-32) but went down in defeat to Sam Houston (18-12), Randolph (28-21), and Holy Cross (40-7).
The Lions are led by quarterback Matthew Kroger who has completed 36 of 64 attempts for 371 yards, 8 touchdowns, and two interceptions. His primary target is Jereiah Conaway who has 17 receptions for 261 yards and five touchdowns.
Javion Allen is Kroger’s next favorite receiver. Allen has 7 grabs for 68 yards and one score.
Raishaun Conaway leads YMLA’s rushing attack. His 78 attempts for 462 yards averages out to almost 6 yards a pop at 5.92. He has scored 6 touchdowns.
Anthony Ward has the next most attempts and yards with 29 carried for 105 yards. Ward has touched the end zone one time.
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Defensive Coordinator and tight end coach Evan Eads breaks down the Warhorse preseason schedule and outlook on district competition this way, saying, “I feel our tough pre-district schedule will be a benefit for our district run. We ran out of gas in the second half of Pleasanton, but that led to better focus at practice and improvement on skills.
The poor showing at Hondo was a wakeup call that we needed. It humbled us. We learned that we need to respect our opponents and the process.
Even though we lost against Davenport, we succeeded in taking away their ‘bread and butter’ as Davenport had previously scored 60 and 65 points against 5A teams. We held them to just over 100 yards receiving and did not allow a passing touchdown. The problem was we gave up 200 yards rushing and 5 rushing TDs.
Overall, we learned that we can take away the run and the pass, but we need to take away both if we are to win district. We have had success in creating stops and turnovers and now they all count. We must be the most aggressive team, the most disciplined team, and the most excited team.
Good luck Warhorses.”
2023 Warhorses
This year’s version of who Warhorse Nation is cheering on to capture yet another gold ball are: Wero Torres, Sam Guardiola, Anthony Saldivar, Mario Vicente, Gabe Esquibel, Edward Perez, Trinidad Hernandez, Karter Brown, Jacob Sollock, Edwin Belor, Alfredo Ramirez, Ayden Leal, Brayden Reyes, Aaron Bonilla, Eli Contreras, Ty Sadler, Christian Monreal, Seth DeLeon, Teotimo Stafford, Gavin Socarras, Riley Gutierrez, Corey Dirck, Wyatt Stevens, Derek Traylor, Israel Reyes, George Saenz, Tate Wisenbaker, Arthur Pegues, Wyatt LaFond, Trystan LaFond, Christian San Miguel, Nate Martinez, Jackson Hagdorn, Jordan Barton, Tyler Hinnant, and Matthew Gomez.
Horses bitten by Wolves in final predistrict tuneup
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Devine finished its predistrict schedule last Friday at Davenport High School as the Wolves ran away with the 41-0 victory. While the final score of 41-0 may appear that the game was never in doubt, the Warhorses gave the Wolves everything they wanted and more in a tight first half contest.
Missed opportunities on an opening Warhorse drive in the first quarter that had the ball inside the five yard line and a first and goal disintegrated into a fourth and long after two costly penalties and a loose ball on the ground.
Not capitalizing on that first drive after moving the ball seemingly easily throughout the first several plays of the game could have been a demoralizing start. However, Devine kept plugging along, moving the chains offensively, getting stops defensively, but not able to turn any of those great occurrences into points on the board.
Zero-to-zero entering the second quarter quickly turned into a 7-0 advantage for Davenport on a 38-yard run on the Wolves first play from scrimmage in the second frame. They went on to score once more then converted a 33-yard field goal as time expired going into halftime for a 17-0 lead.
Davenport scored four touchdowns in the second half and went on to win this contest dropping the Horses to 3-3 on the season. Devine moves into District 14-4A DII action Thursday at Alamo Stadium as they begin their drive for a championship against YMLA.
Bright spots for the Warhorses included Anthony Saldivar and Ayden Leal coming up with clutch interceptions to thwart two separate Wolves drives. The pass defense was solid most of the night, not allowing many of the deep ball attempts by Davenport to be caught for huge gains. All Davenport touchdowns came via their running game.
Warhorse Support team shoutout
Jerel Beaty-Staff Writer
It isn’t only players and coaches that put in long hours during football season. Devine’s support team of student trainers rack up just as much overtime as everyone else associated with making sure Friday night football goes as smoothly as possible and that players get the resources they need to stay hydrated and healthy.
A quick shout out to the irreplaceable, much needed and appreciated Warhorse student trainers: Reese Duncan, Zoe Ortiz, Ainsley Buvinghausen, Alyssa Zamora, Alexis Zamora, Aaliyah Zamora, Logan Davis, Savannah Parker, Darilynn Garcia, and Cameron Copeland.
Colts take down Navarro. Pictured are #1Jordan Beaver, #7 Israel Casas, and #2David Espinosa.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Devine’s middle school Colts took on the Navarro Panthers last Thursday with the Gold coming away with an 8-6 victory. The Maroon team fought hard until the final horn but their comeback bid fell short 24-14.
“The Gold group continues to play well together,” said Coach Zac Valenzuela after his squad ran their record to a perfect 3-0.
Valenzuela credited the win to “solid run contributions from Jack Wallace and David Espinosa.” Defensively, Aaron Frazier led the way with 3 tackles followed by Tommy Camarillo.
The Maroon team dug a hole too big to climb out of as they fell behind 24-0 midway through. Devine did not hang their heads though and came out swinging, and scoring, in the second half as they closed the gap to 24-14.
Unfortunately, the Colts could get no closer as they lost by that final score.
Jordan Beaver led the Maroon with 8 carries for 45 yards. He scored one touchdown and added a two-point conversion. Logan Alexander was next with 7 rushes for 55 yards and a score. Moses Contrares had one attempt for 5 yards.
Quarterback Nate Valle hit on 3 of four attempts with two completions going to Alexander for a total of 25 yards while the other went to Kash Esparza for a big 35-yard gain.
Defensively, Contreras led with four tackles. Valle added three tackles and had an interception while Esparza added a solo tackle and recovered a fumble.
Brody Poppe, Troy Guerra, Eli San Miguel, and Alexander each had two tackles while single tackles were made by Beaver, Espinosa, Jayden Rodriguez, Noah Garcia, and Israel Casas, Jr.
A drive down a country road off FM 1343 turned into a scary ordeal very quickly. According to the 911 caller, who was in his vehicle, approximately 10 men jumped off a stalled train and approached his vehicle near the intersection of CR 4514 and CR 562.
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*This building may look familiar, but if you went to school or lived in Devine between 1953 and 1972, you know exactly where this is located and probably know why it had this nickname!
The 1963 class of Devine High is holding a reunion brunch on Saturday, October 14th, of the full reunion. Brunch will be held at Charlie’s Daughter Restaurant at 10 AM. All whoever attended with our class are included and spouses. Please RSVP at maryruth3719@gmail.com or 512-415-8959.
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October 14, 10AM, at Charlie’s Daughter located at 116 Malone (at golf course). We hope to see you and your spouse. We will also honor our lost classmates.
DEVINE—The Devine Police Department is hosting “National Night Out” for all area Devine residents on Tuesday, October 3rd from 6 to 9 pm at the Devine Municipal Golf Course.
There will be live music by the Solis Brothers as well as free food and drinks! Other food items will be available for purchase. There will also be free entertainment for the kids.
Lytle Police Department hosts National Night Out Tuesday, October 3rd
The City of Lytle is celebrating “National Night Out” again this year in a big way. The event will take place at the Lytle Community Center at 19031 Priest Blvd, in Lytle. The event is open to the Community and Free! So plan to attend between 6 and 8 p.m. next Tuesday!
There will be lots of food including hotdogs, chips and drinks and snow cones as well as Music and tours of first responders vehicles, and the opportunity to meet people from local organizations and businesses as well as police officers.
For more information, go to lytlepolice@lytletx.org or call the police department at 830-709-0277
Natalia National Night Out Oct. 3–
On Tuesday, October 3, neighborhoods all over the United States are being invited to join forces with thousands of communities nationwide for the “40th Annual National Night Out” (NNO) crime and prevention event. National Night Out, which is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW) and co-sponsored by Natalia Police Department and City of Natalia, will involve over 16,790 communities from all 50 states, US territories, Canadian cities and military bases around the world. In all, over 38.6 million people are expected to participate in “America’s Night Out Against Crime.”
National Night Out is designed to; (1) Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; (2) Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime efforts; (3) Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and (4) Send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
From 6 to 8 p.m. on October 1st, residents in neighborhoods throughout Texas and across the nation are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police. We will be hosting National Night Out as in the past at the Natalia Police Department, 3rd Street. Along with entertainment and activities for the children, there will be free food, drinks and prizes.
We are asking residents to bring canned vegetables, peanut butter or can soup for donation to our local Food Pantry.
Any questions, please call Brenda Fernandez, NNO Coordinator at (830) 665-2131 or (210) 744-2204.
