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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
The vote is a show of strength for Texas Republican leadership after several members of the Senate Democratic Caucus sought to block Justin Berry’s nomination.
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With one Democrat giving Republicans the margin they needed to advance a controversial nomination, the Texas Senate narrowly confirmed the appointment of a previously indicted Austin law enforcement officer to the state agency that governs police conduct in Texas.
Just reaching the two-thirds threshold, the 21-10 Senate vote Wednesday evening was a show of strength for Texas Republican leadership after Democrat Caucus members in the upper chamber sought to block Justin Berry’s nomination to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the state regulatory agency that sets standards for peace officers. Berry, an active-duty Austin Police Department senior patrol officer, was indicted alongside several colleagues in 2022 for shooting less-lethal munitions at racial justice protesters in 2020. The charges were later dropped.
State Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa of McAllen was the sole Democratic senator to vote for Berry’s appointment.
Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock said the police union “wholeheartedly supports Officer Berry’s nomination to TCOLE,” sending records of Berry’s commendations and performance evaluations to back up his support of the “dedicated” officer.
“He has led community policing efforts, built relationships, and helped his fellow officers all across the state in times of need,” Bullock wrote in an email to the American-Statesman on Wednesday.
But several lawmakers felt Berry’s actions during the social justice protests nearly five years ago were too damning. During the Senate floor debate before the vote, Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, warned that Gov. Greg Abbott’s choice to tap Berry for the commission is “evidence of a growing intolerance to dissent” in state government.
“The symbolism of Officer Berry’s nomination is unmistakable. Of the more than 8,000 peace officers in Texas, the governor chooses Officer Berry not in spite of the fact that he shot into protesters, but because he shot protesters,” Eckhardt said.
The senator invoked Abbott’s recent pardon of Officer Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murdering Austin racial justice protester Garrett Foster in 2020, and his support of Kyle Rittenhouse as similarly symbolic. She also cited several other allegations of excessive use of force or misconduct against Berry as reasons why another candidate would have been better suited for the role. Ultimately, Berry’s charges were dropped.
Sen. Borris Miles, a Houston Democrat and former police officer, drew on his commonalities with Berry to explain his opposition to the cop’s appointment.
“We all took an oath to protect the welfare of our citizens,” Miles said on the Senate floor. “I cannot, in good conscience, support the appointment of Justin Berry to the commission … whose motto is ‘ethical law enforcement’ when he has been shown to be unethical.”
‘A political victory’
A Travis County grand jury indicted Berry in February 2022 for aggravated assault against racial justice protesters. The investigation determined that either Berry or one other officer shot a demonstrator in the face with a less-lethal munition, fracturing her jaw. The protester, wildlife biologist Christen Warkoczewski, later won $850,000 in a settlement with the city of Austin.
In 2023, Austin district attorney Jose Garza dropped the charges against Berry and 18 other officers who were indicted over their conduct during the May 2020 protests. Bullock, the Austin police union president, said the dismissal should have taken Berry’s indictment off the table when considering his confirmation.
“The fact that an incident investigated by the Austin Police Department and the Travis County District Attorney, where both said no policy or law was violated, is now being used against him for political purposes is alarming and disappointing,” Bullock said.
No Republicans gave remarks on Berry’s confirmation during the debate. Hinojosa, the lone Democratic senator to vote for Berry, did not respond to the Statesman’s requests for comment Wednesday but told the Texas Tribune that he felt voting against Berry’s confirmation would make him a “scapegoat” for the officer’s superiors’ failures. An attorney for eight of the indicted officers, Ken Ervin, told the Statesman in 2022 that the order to use beanbag munitions came from “the highest levels of APD command.”
“I didn’t feel there was any criminal behavior that would rise to the level of rejecting his nomination,” Hinojosa told the Tribune.
Berry has already served on the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement for nearly two years but had avoided confirmation until Wednesday. Abbott first appointed him in September 2022, while the officer was still under indictment, but Berry resigned in May 2023 after senators signaled he would not be confirmed before a deadline.
Berry — who has unsuccessfully run as a Republican candidate in two Texas House primary races — then served 14 more months as a TCOLE commissioner after Abbott reappointed him in January 2024. The officer’s term is set to end in August 2027.
Wednesday’s debate touched on held-over tension over Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s decision to deny Democrats’ request to question Berry during a Nominations Committee hearing, a move that Eckhardt said was unprecedented as far as she knew.
“Minority senators should have the same rights and rules as majority senators,” Eckhardt told her colleagues on the floor Wednesday.
While the Austin Democrat’s effort to block the nomination did not succeed, Eckhardt can still “claim this as a political victory,” said Brian Smith, a professor of political science at St. Edward’s University who specializes in Texas politics.
“If you’re in the minority party … you’re not going to win a lot of legislation, but you want to make sure that the other party is going to have to be held accountable for their vote,” Smith said in a phone interview with the Statesman.
Wednesday’s vote also reflected a decision on the part of lawmakers about whether this was a “hill worth dying on,” Smith said.
“Democrats have to look and say, ‘Is there something that I’m going to want later in the session where I’m going to need Republican support?’” Smith said. “It’s a very important position, but it’s not a very visible position.”
Berry did not immediately respond to the Statesman’s request for comment.
The brokerage founded by reality TV personality Washington Ho is planting a flag in the Texas capital.
White House Global Properties, a Houston-based commercial and residential real estate firm founded in 2023, has expanded into Austin, with plans to hire 30 to 50 agents over the next few years, the Austin Business Journal reported.
The office is operating out of The Malin, a coworking space at 1515 East Cesar Chavez Street in East Austin, and will be led by managing partner Aaron Brandom.
The brokerage tends toward luxury listings, but it intends to represent all sectors of the Austin market, including lower-cost residential, commercial, industrial and development properties.
The firm is in talks with developers to secure listings for over 60 units across undisclosed locations in the Austin area, CEO Angelica Smart said.
Commercial targets include hotels, restaurants and retail sites. Ho said he sees each major market as uniquely challenging and is treating Austin as its own ecosystem.
Ho is known for starring in HBO Max’s “House of Ho,” a show about his family’s multigenerational wealth and business empire. He grabbed attention last year for listing Houston’s “Darth Vader” house at 3201 University Boulevard, which asked nearly $4 million before it was taken off the market last month.
He has pitched White House Global Properties as an ambitious real estate venture that aims to disrupt traditional brokerages by way of training agents that can move between residential and commercial sectors with ease.
The firm has a 40-person team in Houston — 32 residential and 8 commercial agents — and sees Austin as the next logical step in its regional push. He imagines looking into a Dallas-Fort Worth expansion next.
Ho co-founded the brokerage with Smart after leaving eXp Realty in 2023 over disagreements with its commission structure.
The duo launched White House Global Properties with a tiered fee model designed to better reward top-producing agents and to keep more of the brokerage share for themselves. Ho is also behind a THC seltzer startup called HoBuzz.
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