A rare mix of competitive races up and down the ballot has voters turning up to the polls in droves ahead of Tuesday’s primary election, which will set match-ups in the high-stakes midterms in November.
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Texas high school football scores: Austin-area UIL highlights from Week 4
Week 4 of the Texas high school football season has seen three schools take over our No. 1 spots in the Central Texas Class 6A, Class 5A and Class 4A polls. Those teams now are Lake Travis, which beat San Marcos 78-0 on Thursday night; Georgetown, which is off this week; and LBJ, which knocked out Wimberley last week and plays a Dallas private school this week.
Westlake at Cibolo Steele, Johnson at Dripping Springs, Converse Judson at Bowie and Round Rock at McNeil headline our top games tonight. Follow this thread throughout the evening as we update scores and games across Central Texas:
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Hutto cuts Manor lead in half
Hutto’s Kaden Stefek scored on a 1-yard keeper as the Hippos now trail the Mustangs 29-22 midway through the 3rd quarter.
Reese Wise hit Brody Wilhelm from 11 yards out for 6 and now Westlake has opened a 27-10 lead over Steele midway through the 3rd quarter.
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Bowie 21, Judson 10 (half)
Temple 38, Austin High 7 (half)
Westlake 20, Steele 10 (half)
Elgin 29, McCallum 6 (half)
Dallas Parish Episcopal 20, LBJ 18 (half)
Travis 7, Luling 0 (half)
Regents 54, Brownsville St. Joseph 14 (final)
Manor 29, Hutto 15 (3rd)
Stony Point 28, Vista Ridge 19 (3rd)
Round Rock 35, McNeil 14 (34d)
Cedar Ridge 28, Westwood 14 (3rd)
Dripping Springs 35, Johnson 20 (half)
Liberty Hill 35, Connally 10 (half)
Weiss 42, Lehman 0 (half)
Hendrickson 25, Lockhart 3 (half)
Hays 14, Cedar Creek 10 (half)
LaGrange 14, Taylor 0 (2nd)
Central Texas scoring updates
Brentwood Christian is all over Manor New Tech racing out to a 40-0 lead in the second quarter.
Comfort is still clinging to its 7-0 lead over Johnson City in a tilt that has reached the half.
In a 5A District 11 Division II contest, Liberty Hill leads Connally 14-7 in the first quarter.
Waco Live Oak has pitched a shutout so far and leads Hill Country 21-0 in the second quarter.
Thorndale is not having any trouble as the Bulldogs lead Achieve 47-0 in the second quarter.
Austin-area score updates
∙ La Grange has reached paydirt as the Leopards lead Taylor 7-0 in the first.
∙ Lampasas has rallied to take a 14-7 first quarter lead over Wimberley at home.
∙ Rockdale is up on Giddings in the opening stanza.
∙ LBJ has scored twice, the last one an Ali Scott-to-Louis HIckman Jr. 47-yard scoring pass. So Dallas Parish Episcopal leads 20-18 with 1:44 left in the half.
∙ And they have reached half in Cibolo. Westlake leads Steele 20-10.
Score updates: A kick catch interference leads to a Hutto TD
Manor leads Hutto 22-15 at halftime, but the Hippos got back into the game after a kick catch interference penalty gave them new life and Jaiden Fields hauled in a 15-yard pass from Kaden Stefak for a touchdown with less than a minute before the break.
Parish Episcopal has reached the end zone on all three possessions in taking a 20-6 lead over LBJ with 7:37 before intermission.
Westlake has taken a 13-10 lead over Cibolo Steele as Grady Bartlet scored on a 9-yard run.
Updates: Vista Ridge opens up 10-point lead
Vista Ridge has scored 10 unanswered as the Rangers lead Stony Point 17-7 in the second.
Cedar Ridge has rallied to tie Westwood 14-14 in the second.
Parish Episcopal leads LBJ 13-6 with more than 11 minutes left in the first half.
Austin-area updates: Westlake trails
Scores:
Steele leads Westlake: After Westlake’s field goal knotted the score, Oklahoma commit Jonathan Hatton burst free for a 75-yard scoring run as Cibolo Steele now leads the Chaps 10-3 late in the opening quarter.
Bowie on top: Bowie has reclaimed the lead as the Dawgs lead Judson 14-7 in the first.
LBJ pulls even: Ali Scott’s 6-yard keeper has brought LBJ to a 6-6 tie with Dallas Episcopal Parish.
Travis leads: Travis leads Luling 7-0 in the first.
Hutto closes to within 6: Hutto has capitalized on a short field to narrow the gap 15-9 in the second quarter. But Manor then converted on a third-and-26 play and Camden Huff hit Jahmir Johnson up the seam to give Manor a 22-9 lead with less than 5 minutes left in the half.
Central Texas first-half updates
∙ Comfort leads Johnson City 7-0 in the second quarter.
∙ Unbeaten Jarrell is leading Llano 14-7 in the second quarter.
∙ Manor has responded to Hutto’s field goal. Camden Huff hit Jordan Clark for a 23-yard scoring pass. Clark scored on the 2-point conversion and the Mustangs lead the Hippos 15-3 in the second quarter.
∙ Cibolo Steele scored first on a 26-yard field goal, but Westlake has evened the score on their own field goal with 1:53 in the opening quarter. It’s a 3-3 game.
∙ Dallas Episcopal Parish leads unbeaten LBJ as Sawyer Anderson hit Marcus Hanish from 7-yards out, but the extra point was no good, so it is 6-0 in the first.
In a battle of two 0-3 teams, Westwood takes the lead
∙ Westwood has taken a one-score lead as the Warriors lead Cedar Ridge 14-7 in the second quarter. Both teams are 0-3 to start the year.
∙ Stony Point has pulled even with Vista Ridge 7-7 in the opening quarter.
∙ And after suffering its first defeat in 27 regular season games last week, Wimberley leads unbeaten Lampasas 7-0 in the first quarter.
Hutto field goal puts Hippos on the board
∙ Manor’s defense stiffened after Hutto reached the Mustangs’ 10-yard line and the Hippos called on kicker Carlos Sorto to hit a 27-yard field goal. Manor leads 7-3 with less than a minute left in the opening stanza.
∙ Bowie is looking to stay unbeaten and the Bulldogs have scored first to take a 7-0 lead over Converse Judson at Burger Stadium.
∙ Thorndale is blanking Achieve 35-0 in the second quarter.
Updates from District 25-6A
∙ Vista Ridge has jumped out in front of Stony Point 7-0 in the opening quarter.
∙ Westwood and Cedar Ridge are deadlocked at 7 in the first.
∙ Jordan Clark’s 25-yard punt return set up a short scoring drive as Manor has taken a 7-0 lead over Hutto in Manor.
∙ Camden Huff hit Jonathan Behendwa on a 10-yard toss to give the Mustangs a lead.
TAPPS halftime scores
Hyde Park 44, San Angelo TLC Academy 0
Regents 42, Brownsville St. Joseph 7
Devine-to-Patson score adds to Regents lead
Jack Devine hit Roman Patson for the second time tonight, this time from 53 yards out as Regents has answered the Brownsville St. Joseph score and the Panthers lead the Bloodhounds 35-7 with 58 seconds remaining in the opening half.
Brownsville St. Joseph’s narrows the gap
Claudio Torres has scored on a 59 yard pass as the Bloodhounds have cut the Regents lead to 28-7 with just over 3 minutes left in the opening half in a matchup of two TAPPS ranked Division II squads.
Unbeaten area teams look to stay that way
There are 10 teams that remain unbeaten after the first three weeks of the high school football season. What they’re facing to move to 4-0:
∙ Last night Lake Travis and Pflugerville both earned their fourth wins. LT coasted past San Marcos 62-13 in a game that saw the Cavs’ starters on offense only run 22 plays before calling it a night in the third quarter. Those 22 plays were productive as QB Chaston Ditta hit 9 of 14 passes for 190 yards and 3 TDs, two of which were to WR Patrick Colby, who finished with 7 catches for 167 yards. Lake Travis will be looking to go 5-0 next week when the Cavs tackle unbeaten Bowie at Burger.
∙ Speaking of, Bowie will be looking to stay untarnished as the Dawgs host Converse Judson tonight.
∙ Pflugerville won for the fourth week in a row, slamming Navarro 73-0 in the District 11-5A DII opener last night. The Panthers will look for their fifth win next Friday taking on the Wildcats at Elgin.
∙ Johnson closes out non-district play tonight taking on former 6A district rival Dripping Springs. The Jaguars host San Marcos opening District 29-6A play next Friday.
∙ After starting last year 0-3, Round Rock has flipped the script starting 3-0 this fall. The Dragons look to stay on top of the District 25-6A standings tonight as they face McNeil.
∙ Georgetown is idle tonight and the Eagles will kick off District 8-5A DI play next Friday facing Leander at Bible Stadium.
∙ LBJ remains unbeaten after downing previously unbeaten Wimberley last week, but the Jaguars have a big task in front of them tonight as they take on private school powerhouse Dallas Parish Episcopal.
∙ Also unbeaten in 4A, Lampasas faces familiar foe Wimberley tonight.
∙ Jarrell is the last of the area Class 4A unbeatens. The Cougars travel to face the Yellowjackets in Llano this evening.
∙ And after blasting Eastside 56-0 last Friday, Thrall travels to face fellow 3-0 Troy tonight.
Some early TAPPS updates
Hyde Park is rolling: With 8:44 remaining in the second quarter Hyde Park is steamrolling San Angelo TLC Academy 44-0. Hyde Park evened its season record last week with a 46-3 win over St. Dominic Savio.
Regents shutting out Brownsville St. Joseph: In the second quarter, Regents is pitching a shutout as the Knights are dominating the Bloodhounds 28-0. Regents is looking to improve its record to 3-1.
District 25-6A standings and schedule
After one week, here are the district standings:
Hutto 1-0
Round Rock 1-0
McNeil 1-0
Vandegrift 1-0
Vista Ridge 0-1
Stony Point 0-1
Westwood 0-1
Cedar Ridge 0-1
Manor 0-0
Here are this weekend’s matchups:
Round Rock (3-0, 1-0) at McNeil (1-2, 1-0), 7 p.m.
Hutto (2-1, 1-0) at Manor (0-2), 7 p.m.
Westwood (0-3, 0-1) at Cedar Ridge (0-3, 0-1), 7 p.m.
Stony Point (1-2, 0-1) at Vista Ridge (1-2, 0-1), 7 p.m.
The Statesman’s top 5 area teams in Class 4A/others
This week’s Central Texas Class 4A/others top-five rankings:
No. 1 LBJ (2-0) hosts Dallas Parish Episcopal. Last season the Panthers beat the Jags 26-12.
No. 2 Lampasas (3-0) hosts 2-1 Wimberley in one of the area’s top matchups. The Badgers are averaging just under 51 points a game.
No. 3 Wimberley (2-1) is at Lampasas. The Texans look to rebound after having their 27-game regular-season winning streak was snapped last Friday by LBJ.
No. 4 Thrall (3-0) travels to take on unbeaten Troy.
No. 5 St. Michael’s (3-0) heads south on I-35 taking on 1-2 Antonian Prep.
The Statesman’s top 5 area teams in Class 5A
This week’s Central Texas Class 5A top-five rankings:
No. 1 Georgetown (3-0) is idle this week before opening up District 8-5A DI play next Friday at Leander.
No. 2 Pflugerville (4-0) crushed Navarro 78-0 last night in the District 11-5A DII lid-lifter. This is the first time this century that the Panthers have opened the season 4-0.
No. 3 Liberty Hill (2-1) hosts Connally in the District 11-5A DII opener. After falling to Class 6A Cibolo Steele in the opener, the Panthers have averaged 53 points in wins over Rouse and El Paso Eastlake.
No. 4 Anderson (2-1), after being doubled up by College Station last week 34-17, will get back into action next week hosting A&M Consolidated in a District 12-5A DI matchup.
No. 5 McCallum (2-1) hosts winless Elgin tonight to open the District 11-5A DII slate. McCallum has scored 42 and 71 points in the two victories since the season-opening Taco Bowl loss to Anderson.
The Statesman’s top 5 area teams in Class 6A
This week’s Central Texas Class 6A top-five rankings:
No. 1 Lake Travis (4-0) blasted San Marcos 62-13 last night to close non-district action. The Cavs open District 26-6A play next Friday against Bowie at Burger Stadium.
No. 2 Westlake (2-1) takes on 3-0 Cibolo Steele as the Chaps hope to avoid their first two-game regular season losing streak since September 2013 when they lost to Steele and Bowie in successive weeks.
No. 3 Bowie (3-0) hosts Converse Judson (1-2) in the Bulldogs’ non-district finale. Bowie’s seeking to start 4-0 for the first time since 2022.
No. 4 Round Rock (3-0) faces 1-2 McNeil in a District 25-6A tilt. The Dragons trounced Vista Ridge 33-7 last week while the Mavericks posted their first win, a 35-14 triumph over Westwood.
No. 5 Johnson faces Dripping Springs (2-1) in the final non-district tilt for both teams. The Jags open District 29-6A play next week taking on San Marcos, while Dripping Springs kicks off 26-6A play on Thursday when the Tigers travel across 290 to face Akins at Burger Stadium.
2 of the Austin area’s top 2025 recruits aren’t playing tonight
Weiss’ Adrian Wilson, an Arizona State commit, leads the Wolves with 226 yards on 10 catches and 3TDs through 3 games. Weiss (2-1, 0-1) is at Lehman (0-3, 0-1) tonight in District 11-5A Division I play.
Anderson’s multi-sport standout Ed Small, a TCU commit, has hauled in 22 passes for 368 yards and 6 TDs. The Trojans (2-1, 0-1) are off tonight.
Gus Cordova, a USC commit, led the Lake Travis defense last night in the Cavaliers’ 62-13 non-district win over San Marcos last night.
Thursday night’s scores from the Austin area
District 11-5A DII
Pflugerville 78, Navarro 0
Bastrop 69, Crockett 6
Non-district
Akins 53, Northeast 8
Lake Travis 62, San Marcos 13
Blanco 35, Ingram Moore 0
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas high school football scores, Tx updates Week 4
Austin, TX
Texas Primary: Breakdown of Texas races
Democrats tried to stop a mid-decade redistricting effort, but were unsuccessful. Now, we are starting to see some of the candidates emerging in those newly drawn districts. FOX 7 Austin’s Rudy Koski gives a full breakdown.
Austin, TX
Remembering Jorge Pederson: Minnesota MMA fighter killed in Austin, Texas, shooting
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – A shooting on West Sixth Street in Austin, Texas, early Sunday morning, killed three people and injured more than a dozen others, according to the Austin Police Department. APD confirmed one of the victims was 30-year-old Jorge Pederson, a Minnesota man who worked as an MMA fighter for the Med City Fighting Championships.
“You meet tons of fighters and there are people that stand above the rest that you find you enjoy or find the most amusing,” MCFC Co-Owner Matthew Vogt said. “He was definitely one of them.”
According to Vogt, Pederson was also the owner of a Minnesota business called Metro Movers. Vogt said the MMA competitor touched everyone’s hearts since his first day of fighting professionally in Rochester.
“As soon as we met him when it was the weighing time, we just loved the guy already because he had a great mission or spirit about him,” Vogt said. “He was a funny guy and great fighter.”
Vogt told KTTC when he first saw the news that Pederson was killed, he could not believe what he saw.
“I was looking, like, ‘Wait a minute. Is this one of his shenanigans or did something actually happen there?’” Vogt said, recalling the moment he saw a social media post regarding the shooting in Austin. “I confirmed with a few people and I’m just like, sometimes, some things happen that you don’t even like, you don’t even know how to respond to it because it’s just so out of left field that you don’t immediately have a response to it.”
MCFC confirmed there is an online fundraiser dedicated to supporting Pederson’s family. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than $10,000 has been raised.
“He was someone that always could make anybody laugh,” Vogt said. “Support his family through the fundraiser and take a look at his Instagram especially to see how funny he was.”
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Here are the major statewide and Austin-area races on the ballot Tuesday

A voter heads into the Ben Hur Shrine polling place in Austin as early voting begins for the March primary elections in Texas, Feb. 17, 2026. Voters can cast their ballots to decide who represents Republicans and Democrats in the November midterm elections.
Voters will decide if U.S. Sen. John Cornyn gets to keep the seat he’s held for more than two decades and which candidates will likely take a slew of redrawn congressional seats meant to give Republicans an edge. The races could decide control of Congress.
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TEXAS VOTER GUIDE 2026: What’s on the ballot in Austin on March 3?
Plus, there are multiple statewide office openings for the first time in more than a decade. And voters will decide who will challenge Gov. Greg Abbott as he seeks a record fourth term in office.
U.S. Senate
After more than two decades in the U.S. Senate, John Cornyn’s political career hangs in the balance.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has led most of the public polling leading into the election, as he campaigns on a Make America Great Again platform that seeks to paint the more establishment Cornyn as out of touch. Further complicating Cornyn’s path to reelection is U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt of Houston, whose campaign has focused attention on Cornyn’s 74-years of age.
The primary is expected to be one of the tightest statewide races in recent history, with most political observers predicting it will go to a runoff.
On the Democratic side, two of the party’s fastest-rising stars are facing off in a race that has largely been a contrast of styles.
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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a 44-year-old former public defender, has cast herself as a partisan fighter who is unafraid to go toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
State Rep. James Talarico, a 36-year-old former middle school teacher in San Antonio, skyrocketed to national fame last year by leaning into his Christian faith and warning that Republicans are trying to use religion as a wedge by pushing such legislation as requiring public schools to post placards of the Ten Commandments.
Attorney General
The race for attorney general has become one of the most closely watched elections this cycle after Ken Paxton opted to leave the job to run for U.S. Senate, opening up the seat for the first time in more than a decade.
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A crowded field of candidates is vying for the job and raising eye-popping totals. It’s become the second-most expensive race for political ad spending in Texas after the contest for U.S. Senate.
On the Republican side, state Sens. Joan Huffman and Mayes Middleton, former DOJ official and former Paxton aide Aaron Reitz, and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy are competing.
Public polling has shown Roy ahead, but more recent surveys indicate Middleton is gaining ground.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, for whom both Roy and Reitz worked as chief of staff, is backing Roy, while Reitz nabbed his own major endorsement from Paxton.
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The Democrats gunning for a chance to be the state’s top lawyer include former federal prosecutor and FBI agent Tony Box; lawyer, mediator and former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski; and lawyer and state Sen. Nathan Johnson.
Jaworski and Johnson have emerged as early leaders, but many voters were still undecided, public polling showed.
Comptroller
The fight to run Texas’ top financial agency features an expensive GOP brawl. Gov. Greg Abbott is backing his ally Kelly Hancock, who is currently serving as acting comptroller, against former state Sen. Don Huffines, an antagonist of the governor’s who has lined up support from grassroots activists. Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick is running, as well, with support from the oil and gas industries.
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Democratic state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt of Austin appears to be the favorite for her party’s nomination and faces former Houston ISD trustee Savant Moore and Houston resident Michael Lange.
The winner will have an outsized role in Abbott’s property tax-slashing agenda should he win a fourth term in office. They will also oversee the state’s new $1 billion private school voucher program.
Agriculture Commissioner
Three-term incumbent Sid Miller is battling beekeeper and entrepreneur Nate Sheets, who has the endorsement of Gov. Greg Abbott and several Republican lawmakers.
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Miller, a onetime rodeo champion, has won the endorsement of President Donald Trump, who made his choice known in a social media post after his visit to Corpus Christi on Friday.
Congressional District 31
U.S. Rep. John Carter of Georgetown is facing a crowded field of Republican primary challengers, including a one-time TV pitchman as he pushes for a 13th term in Congress.
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Carter has President Donald Trump’s “complete and total” endorsement.
His GOP challengers are: businessman Abhiram Garapati, who has challenged Carter three times before; Army veteran William Abel, who was among Carter’s 2024 opponents; Elvis Lossa, an Army veteran who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq; Steven Dowell, a former member of the Army’s military police; Vince “Shamwow” Shlomi, who hosted offbeat infomercials for cleaning products; and Valentina Gomez, a former collegiate swimmer who two years ago made an unsuccessful bid for the GOP nomination for Missouri secretary of state.
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