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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, Texas — An Austin-based improv troupe is celebrating a major milestone with performances in Texas and on a national stage.
Jane Austin Improv celebrates third anniversary with Texas shows & a national NYC stage
Jane Austin Improv is marking its third anniversary with a series of shows, including a headlining performance at the Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre on June 6.
The award-winning group is known for blending Regency-era storytelling with improv comedy, bringing Jane Austen-inspired characters, costumes and courtship drama to life with quick wit and audience-driven humor.
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Following their Austin shows, the troupe will perform in New York City at the Del Close Marathon, one of the country’s premier improv comedy festivals.
Jane Austin Improv celebrates third anniversary with Texas shows & a national NYC stage
Jane Austin Improv has grown from local stages to performances across the U.S. and internationally, earning multiple nominations from the B. Iden Payne Awards, winning the 2023 Ethel Hinkley Award for Outstanding New Improv Troupe, and being named a “Best of Austin” finalist by the Austin Chronicle in 2025.
Organizers say the anniversary performances celebrate both the group’s growth and its mission to connect audiences through creative, accessible comedy.
Tickets for the June 6 performance at the Long Center can be found here: https://thelongcenter.org/events/janeaustinimprov/
After ranking as the third-best large U.S. city for starting a business last year, Austin took a surprising tumble into the 24th spot nationally for 2026.
WalletHub’s annual report, “Best Large Cities to Start a Business (2026)” compared 100 U.S. cities based on 19 relevant metrics across three key dimensions: business environment, access to resources, and costs. Factors that were analyzed include five-year business survival rates, job growth comparisons from 2020 and 2024, population growth of working-age individuals aged 16-64, office space affordability, and more.
Florida cities locked other states out of the top five best places in America for starting a new business: Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Hialeah, and St. Petersburg.
Austin’s business environment ranked 11th best in the country, and the city ranked ninth in the “access to resources” category. The city also tied with Boise, Idaho, and Fresno, California, for the highest average growth in the number of small businesses nationally.
Austin lagged behind in the “business costs” ranking, coming in at No. 80 overall. This category examined metrics such as the city’s working-age population growth, the share of college-educated individuals, financing accessibility, the prevalence of investors, venture investment amounts per capita, and more.
Earlier this year, WalletHub declared Texas the third-best state for starting a business in 2026, and several Houston-area cities have seen robust growth after being recognized among the best career hotspots in the U.S. WalletHub also ranked Austin on its top-10 list of the best U.S. cities to find a job. Entrepreneurial praise has also been extended to 15 Austin-based innovators that made Inc Magazine’s 2026 Female Founders 500 list.
Texas cities with strong environments for new businesses
Multiple cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex can claim bragging rights as the best Texas locales for starting a new business. Dallas ranked highest overall — appearing 11th nationally — and Irving landed a few spots behind in the 16th spot. Arlington (No. 23), Fort Worth (No. 30), Plano, (No. 35), and Garland (No. 65) followed behind.
Only six other Texas cities earned spots in the report: Houston (No. 26), Lubbock (No. 36), Corpus Christi (No. 39), San Antonio (No. 64), El Paso (No. 67), and Laredo (No. 76). Corpus Christi and Laredo also topped WalletHub’s list of the U.S. cities with the most accessible financing.
“From the Gold Rush and the Industrial Revolution to the Internet Age, periods of innovation have shaped our economy and driven major societal progress,” the report’s author wrote. “However, the past few years have been particularly challenging for business owners in the U.S., due to factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Resignation and high inflation.”
Austin, TX
‘I want to be louder’: Austin Drag King Bobby Pudrido refuses to be deterred by Texas ban
Jay Thomas grew up like any kid, laughing at silly things and making up funny names.
So in the ’90s, when Tejano superstar Bobby Pulido’s songs played on the radio, young Jay and his peers couldn’t help but rhyme his last name with the Spanish word pudrido (which means rotten in English).
“We grew up calling him that just because it was funny,” he told Austin Signal host Jerry Quijano.
When he was thinking of a name for his drag persona, Thomas created a list.
“I was thinking of some queer icons and some not queer icons,” he said. “This one just resonated because he is a Tejano star. And in the ’90s he was this really big heartthrob that everybody wanted to be or be with.”
And three years ago, Thomas became Drag King Bobby Pudrido.
He thought it would be fun to impersonate a masculine figure from the Latino community and perform for an audience attracted to that type of energy. He also wanted to bring his culture into his drag.
Pudrido’s name has new recognition these days: Tejano singer Pulido decided to retire from music and go into politics. He’s running for Congress in South Texas’ District 15 against incumbent Republican Monica De La Cruz.
Both in an out of drag, Pudrido is also politically vocal. He advocates for trans rights and against the drag ban that went into effect statewide in March. The law prohibits drag performances in public properties or in front of children. Venues that host these performances can be fined up to $10,000.
“As a drag artist, one of the things we need to do is get booked so we can pay our bills,” Pudrido said.
Even though it’s unclear whether the ban affects some venues, he said, he thinks certain business owners won’t book drag performers because of the risk of being fined.
But as a working-class artist, he doesn’t have the luxury to dwell on it.
“You have to go to work, because you need to pay your bills,” he said.
The law has taken an emotional toll on him, too.
“The way it chips away at a queer person to hear any type of anti-queer legislation pass is something that is really big for me,“ he said. “We are constantly — just as human beings — trying to maintain our mental health. “
But that doesn’t mean his love for performing has been diminished. In fact, quite the opposite is true.
“It has fueled me,” Pudrido said. “Right now I’m in the angry phase where I want to be louder.”
As a performer and producer, the drag king has put on shows in the Austin area and recently traveled back to his hometown in Laredo for a show.
“It’s hard for drag kings to get booked sometimes, so we are still far away from the perfect ideal world for [them],” he said. “But the fact that I have a platform at all is huge.”
Pudrido’s passion for performing comes from his drag ancestors, “who started the art form as a way of being political and of being against the systems that were oppressing queer people.”
Drag King Bobby Prudido is currently producing his second queer quinceañera, “Con Mucho Amor,” with an anticipated show date in the fall.
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