STORY BY: TIM SCHNETTLER – WACO - To say Friday night’s Class 3A Division I quarterfinal between the Navasota Rattlers and the Chapel Hill Bulldogs was entertaining would be an understatement. The Rattlers and the top-ranked Bulldogs thrilled and delighted the crowd at Floyd Casey Stadium, keeping them on the edge of their seats in a [...]
STORY BY: TIM SCHNETTLER – NAVASOTA - The old saying goes, “the third time is the charm.” The Navasota Rattler football team will be looking to change that saying Friday night as it takes on the Chapel Hill Bulldogs in the Class 3A Division I Region 3 quarterfinals at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco at 7 [...]
STORY BY: TIM SCHNETTLER – SHENENDOAH - It didn’t take the Navasota Rattlers long to show the Huffman-Hargrave Falcons they were in for a long night Friday. Navasota scored in its first possession, then added four more scores in the first half to build a 32-point cushion at the half, on the way to a [...]
STORY BY: TIM SCHNETTLER – NAVASOTA – The great Yogi Berra, once quipped, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” For the Navasota Rattler football team the saying holds true for a second consecutive week of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. After facing the Sealy Tigers last week in the first round of the [...]
STORY BY: BOB WRIGHT – DESOTO - The state-ranked Desoto Eagles, champions of District 11-5A, stamped their ranking without doubt as one of Texas’ elite football teams Friday night at their Eagle Field by ushering the A&M Consolidated Tigers from the 2011 playoffs. The Eagles did it in convincing fashion, a 54-10 walloping of the Tigers, [...]
STORY BY: TIM SCHNETTLER – WALLER – Last season when the Navasota Rattlers and the Sealy Tigers met in the first round of the playoffs, the Rattlers took a 10-point lead into the half, then failed to score in the third quarter before pulling away with a solid fourth quarter. This year the Rattlers again [...]
STORY BY: BOB WRIGHT – COLLEGE STATION – Both teams are coming off regular season-ending losses as the A&M Consolidated Tigers face their toughest opponent of the season in Friday night’s Bi-District football game at DeSoto. A&M Consolidated lost 26-23 at Belton to wrap up the regular season in District 12-5A action, while the DeSoto [...]
STORY BY: TIM SCHNETTLER -NAVASOTA- There are things in life that just seem to go great together: peanut butter and jelly, cheese and crackers and baseball and hotdogs. The Navasota Rattlers and the high school football playoffs are another pairing that just seems to go great together, and Friday night the pairing will once again [...]
STORY BY: BOB WRIGHT – BELTON - A late field goal by the Belton Tigers, a missed field goal and extra point by A&M Consolidated, along with Consol’s inability to move the football in the waning seconds combined to send Consolidated to a 26-23 defeat Friday night at Belton. It wasn’t the kind of tuneup for [...]
STORY BY: JORDAN MESEROLE – BRYAN - The Rudder Ranger defense held its end of the battle Friday night against the Elgin Wildcats at Merrill Green Stadium as long as it could – but offensive woes cost the Rangers a chance at winning its only district game this season, as they lost 49-21 to the Wildcats [...]
