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Lytle Pirates and Lady Pirates Sports
The Lytle Pirates celebrated after receiving the trophy for winning the Bi District Title beating the San Antonio West Cougars. They will face Hallettsville on Saturday.
With a playoff game on the line, Lytle rose to the challenge on Thursday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the South San Antonio West Cougars a 17-0 shutout. Considering Lytle has won 12 contests by more than five runs this season, Thursday’s blowout was nothing new.
Nicholas Pacheco and Jair Flores made a big impact while hitting and pitching. On the mound, Pacheco pitched two innings while giving up no…
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Calyssa Sevier PR’d and placed 6th at State in the 400m run.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Lady Pirate Calyssa Sevier placed sixth in the 400m Dash at the State Track Meet in Austin at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the campus on the University of Texas.
Head Coach Gilbert Ruiz stated that Calyssa was “competing against a very fast field. Five of the nine were returning from last year’s 400m race.”
Even with all of that experience, Sevier was up for the task as she set her…
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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Lytle senior student-athletes Samantha Mujica and Katara Whitfield made the KSAT 12 News Sunday night edition for all the right reasons as they were selected their Instant Replay Scholar Athletes of the Week.
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The Lytle Pirates beat the Natalia Mustangs winning District, they will go on to face West Campus in the Bi-District playoffs.
The Pirates defeated Natalia at home last Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 4 – 2 on great pitching from Jair Flores. Flores threw a complete game and allowed 2 unearned runs while striking out 8.
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Lytle is 9-0-1 against Natalia since February of 2018, and they’ll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Lytle Pirates will be playing in front of their home fans against the Natalia Mustangs at 7:00 p.m. Lytle will be looking to keep their 13-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Last Friday, Lytle sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a…
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Lytle was the 21-11 winner over Hondo when they last played one another back in March, but their luck changed this time around. The Lytle Pirates’ tough 21-12 defeat to the Hondo Owls on Tuesday might stick with them for a while. Lytle has now taken an ‘L’ in back-to-back games.
Lytle got a massive…
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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Class 3A and Class 1A hold their annual Regional Track Meet in Seguin at Matador Stadium Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20. The top two finishers in each event move on to the State Meet, which is Thursday, May 2 for Class 3A.
Rodolfo cepeda, Sebastian Garcia and Brandon Obando run in the 400m run.
Alvarez, Cepeda, Davalos, Garcia, Guevara, Montes-Rodriguez, Obando, & Sanchez are Regional Qualifiers
Jerel Beaty, Staff Writer
Johnny Alvarez, Rudy Cepeda, William Davalos, Sebastian Garcia, Chase Guevara, Bryan Montes-Rodriguez, Brandon Obando, and Abel Sanchez represent Pirate Track and Field at this weekend’s Regional Meet in Seguin at Matador Stadium. At Regional, the top two finishers from each event advance to the State Meet in Austin Thursday, May 2.
The Pirates placed third as a team with 94 points, trailing only champion Jourdanton who posted 134 and Poth who netted 102.
Sanchez and Montes-Rodriguez tied for fourth place as far as total points scored for their team as each raked in 20 points each. Alvarez was right behind those two as he tallied 18 points to tie for…
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Regional Qualifiers from Lytle and Natalia 4x400m relay proudly stand with medals. The 4x100m relay was won by lytle. Natalia took 4th.
Cook, Lopez, Reveira, Scotello, & Sevier are Regional Qualifiers
Jerel Beaty, Staff Writer
Klayre Cook, Svetlana Lopez, Laleina Reveira, Frances Scotello, and Calyssa Sevier represent Lady Pirate Track at this weekend’s Regional Meet at Matador Stadium in Seguin. At Regional, the top two spots advance to State in Austin Thursday, May 2.
The Lady Pirates placed fourth as a team with 63 points at last week’s Area Meet in Jourdanton as they trailed only champion Poth, runner-up Hondo, and third place Crystal City.
Amazingly, Lytle did this with the lowest number of participants between each of the top four teams.
“We took only six athletes and still managed…
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Lady Pirate Calyssa Sevier shows her gold-medal winning effort. She won the 200m and 400m at district, advancing to Area.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
The Lady Pirates had a heckuva showing in Natalia Wednesday, April 3 at the District 28-3A Track and Field Meet as they finished third place with only eight varsity members comprising the team.
Lytle scored 102 points to place behind champion Hondo who tallied 153 and runner-up Crystal City who scored 151 points.
Head Coach Gilbert Ruiz was more than pleased with what he saw from his young team as there was one senior, one junior, four sophomores, and two freshman battling their way to that triple-digit point total.
“The varsity girls…
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Lytle Track- Lady Pirate Addison Criado heads for the finish line.
