Category: Lytle Pirates & Lady Pirates Sports

Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
   Lytle improved to 15-6 in its Tuesday night 57-39 victory over Poth in front of what Head Coach Lori Wilson called a “great home crowd.”  Lytle upped their win total to 16 with their 63-19 annihilation of Nixon-Smiley last Friday.
    The Lady Pirates get a little time to refresh themselves as the Christmas break is now upon them.
    “Merry Christmas from the Basketball Girls and Coaches!” was Wilson’s shoutout to Lytle Hoops Nation.
vs Poth
    “We started out slow and at the end of the 1st quarter it…

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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
   The JV Lady Pirates took a hard loss last week as they fell 27-17 to San Antonio Cole.  Genesis Martinez scored 6 points and Claire Canales pulled down 10 rebounds in defeat.
    “The game didn’t go as we hoped for,” stated Coach Freddie Martinez.  “It was a very hard-fought, physical…

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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
The Lady Pirates downed Randolph 46-36 last Tuesday in San Antonio as Calyssa Sevier poured in 24 points for Lytle in the victory. Katara Whitfield and and Arianna Garcia notched double digits on the glass with 14 and 12 respectively.
“We picked up our 13th win of the season in spite of only shooting 28% from the floor (15 of 53),” said relieved head coach Lori Wilson. “We have to get more…

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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Most Lytle High School students had a nice little break from school during the Thanksgiving Holiday, but the Lady Pirates hit the hardwood running by picking two more victories to bump their record to 8-3 on the season prior to last night’s contest against the Devine Arabians.
The Monday prior to Thanksgiving, the Lady Pirates took down the…

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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
There are always bumps in the road to success. Just as the juggernaut 2022-2023 season proved beneficial to that team’s success, so will the schedule Head Coach Lori Wilson crafted for this season.
“This group is going to be good once we can get everyone here and get the chemistry…

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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Lytle’s Cross Country programs have enjoyed tremendous success under the tutelage of Head Coach Gilbert Ruiz over the last 21 seasons. This season saw the Pirate runners Abel Sanchez, Bryan Montes, Johnny Alvarez, Tristan Lopez, Yandel Esquivez, Brandon Obando, and Lucas Salazar finish as State Runner-up…

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Eric Smith
Staff Writer
They sharpened their shovel, they dug deep, they leaned on one another and they didn’t allow a little adversity to slow them down during a homecoming game 2023 last Friday Night at Walter Joyce Stadium. What the black and gold did do, was finish what they started under 1st year Head Coach Mike Trevino and that was with an impressive 28-7 win over the Crystal City Javelina…

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Eric Smith
Staff Writing

The Lytle Pirates will welcome back Pirate Nation to Walter Joyce Stadium this coming Friday Night for Homecoming 2023. Aside from that, this will also make the final home- regular season district game of the year, as 3rd place will be up for grabs…

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Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches heaped some preseason praise the Lady Pirate way as they released their poll just as the new season is about to begin.
Lytle comes in at #11 in the state to start the year, but, like Head Coach Lori Wilson said last week, “It’s not where we start, it’s where we finish!”

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