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Texas high school football scores: Austin-area UIL replay updates, highlights from Week 8
As expected, Lake Travis dispatched Dripping Springs and Westlake throttled Bowie in a pair of marquee matchups Friday night in District 26-6A, setting up next week’s area showdown between the Cavaliers and Chaparrals.
Those were the highlight victories from Week 8 of the Central Texas high school season, which also saw Cedar Park rally past Glenn, Liberty Hill hold off Pflugerville and Hutto beat Stony Point.
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This was our thread Friday night as we updated games and scores from across Central Texas:
Tomball Concordia Lutheran 62, St. Dominic Savio 6
Vandegrift 56, Manor 6
Cedar Park 34, Glenn 28
Rouse 53, Killeen Chaparral 7
Georgetown 58, East View 14
Regents 42, Brentwood Christian 14
Bellville 63, La Grange 20
Somerville 32, Granger 15
Blanco 51, Thrall 21
Wimberley 42, Jarrell 8
Hutto 35, Stony Point 21
Round Rock 37, Westwood 7
Anderson 59, Cedar Creek 14
Vista Ridge 29, Cedar Ridge 19
Weiss 42, Lockhart 0
Converse Judson 55, San Marcos 3
Bastrop 70, Navarro 0
Lake Travis 49, Dripping Springs 21
Austin High 49, Akins 7
Elgin 84, Crockett 0
Hyde Park 31, Dallas Bishop Dunne 6
San Saba 36, Thorndale 28
Lampasas 42, Burnet 38
Holland 45, Johnson City 14
Stephenville 63, Marble Falls 0
Lake Belton 29, Leander 15
Liberty Hill 35, Pflugerville 28
Liberty Hill inches ahead
Liberty Hill has gone ahead of Pflugerville 21-20 in the third quarter at The Pfield.
Connally continues to lead McCallum, 42-33 in the 3rd.
Weiss is blanking Lockhart 42-0 in the final stanza.
Westlake’s 48-7 win over Bowie sets up a possible 26-6A showdown of unbeatens. Lake Travis leads Dripping Springs 49-14 in the fourth.
Austin High leads Akins 35-7 in the 3rd.
Elgin is waltzing past Crockett 77-0 in the 3rd.
Wimberley rips Jarrell 42-8
Blanco pasted Thrall 51-21.
Somerville dumped Granger 32-15
Bellville trounced La Grange 63-20.
Timberwolves take first lead; holds on for win
Cedar Park has taken its first lead, 34-28 over Glenn with under 4 minutes left in the contest.
On the ensuing kick off, Cedar Park forced a fumble and has taken over on the Grizzlies’ 36.
Anderson is not having any problem as the Trojans lead Cedar Creek 59-7 in the 4th.
Liberty Hill and Pflugerville are even at 14 at half.
Vista Ridge leads Cedar Ridge 29-19 in the 4th.
Hutto is up by 14, 35-21 over Stony Point in the final quarter.
Round Rock is 30 better than Westwood 37-7 in the final quarter
Vandegrift dumped Manor 56-6.
Ross Sorrell has picked off a Glenn 4th-and-14 to go pass as Cedar Park rallied to take the district 8-5A contest 34-28.
Georgetown leads East View 58-14 with just over 3 minutes remaining.
Lake Belton leads Leander 27-15 in the 4th.
Rouse finished off a 53-7 win over Killeen Chaparral.
Bowie dents scoreboard
Cruz Tello hits Rowen Wells for a 16-yard scoring connection for the Bulldogs. Westlake still leads 28-7 in the third quarter.
They are deep in the fourth quarter and Glenn and Cedar Park are all even at 28.
Westlake has responded as Rees Wise hits Cal Livengood with a 16-yard scoring pass. Chaps 35, Bowie 7.
Chaston Ditta connected on a 35-yard scoring pass as Lake Travis leads Dripping Springs 35-7 early in the 3rd.
Gordon puts Glenn back up
Keaton Gordon has scored from 5 yards as Glenn has reclaimed the lead 28-21 over Cedar Park with 3:33 left in the 3rd.
Vista Ridge leads Cedar Ridge 19-16 in the 3rd.
Hutto leads 28-21 in the 3rd.
Round Rock leads Westwood 20-7 in thee 3rd.
Vandegrift leads Manor 56-6 in the 4th.
Cougars up on Hawks
Defending 5A Division I state champs College Station leads Hays 24-12 in the second quarter.
Bastrop leads Navarro 35-0 in the second while Anderson is blanking Cedar Creek 28-0.
At the half, Lake Travis is three scores better than Dripping Springs 28-7.
Westlake is dominating Bowie 28-0 at half. Jay Plotkin has stated that the punting unit of Bowie has been abject disaster. Here are the first 4 Bowie punt attempts:
5-yard punt
4-yard punt
snap hits personal protector
blocked punt
Scores
Georgetown 45, East View 7 (half)
Weiss 7, Lockhart 0 (half)
Austin High 21, Akins 0 (2nd)
Anderson 28, Cedar Creek 0 (2nd)
Bastrop 35, Navarro 0 (2nd)
Elgin 42, Crockett 0 (2nd)
McCallum 18, Connally 15 (2nd)
Regents 21, Brentwood Christian 14 (half)
Hyde Park 17, Dallas Bishop Dunne 6 (half)
Lago Vista 7, Smithville 0 (2nd)
Blanco 38, Thrall 14 (half)
Stephenville 42, Marble Falls 0 (2nd)
Bellville 28, La Grange 14 (2nd)
San Saba 21, Thorndale 0 (half)
Lampasas 21, Burnet 14 (2nd)
Wimberley 27, Jarrell 8 (half)
Rouse 30, Killeen Chaparra 0(half)
Glenn 14, Cedar Park 14 (half)
Lake Belton 20, Leander 15 (half)
Judson rockets to an early lead
Judson leads San Marcos 21-0 in the second.
Weiss leads Lockhart 7-0 at the half.
Pflugerville leads Liberty Hill 14-7, while Connally leads McCallum 15-10 in the second.
Westlake’s Rees Wise scored form 6 yards out as the Chaps now lead Bowie 28-0 in the second.
25-6A scores
Vandegrift 42, Manor (half)
Cedar Ridge 12, Vista Ridge 10 (half)
Hutto 21, Stony Point 21 (2nd)
Round Rock 13,, Westwood 7 (2nd)
Georgetown reaches into its bag of tricks
Georgetown uses trickeration to move up 32-7 over East View. Kaden Scherer, the left tackle, took a backward pass 11 yards to paydirt to score. The scoring drive was set up by a second Eagle interception of Ty Blair.
After forcing a punt, Georgetown responded with a long drive capped by an Xavier Warren run as the Eages now lead 39-7.
Westlake now leads Bowie 21-0 early in the second as Brandon Clark returns an interception for 6.
Meanwhile Lake Travis’ Vann Hopping has found the end zone a second time as the Cavs lead Dripping Springs 21-0
Westlake up early
Westlake has struck quickly on Grady Bartlett’s 7-yard scoring run and the Chaps lead Bowie 7-0 in the first.
Chaston Ditta’s TD’s pass gives Lake Travis a 7-0 lead over Dripping Springs with 7:12 left in the opening quarter.
Jett Walker has scored again and now Georgetown leads East View 25-7 early in the second.
Walker jets 10 yards for 6
Georgetown’s junior stalwart Jett Walker took a handoff 10 yards up the middle has Georgetown responded with a 70-yard scoring drive to take an 18-7 lead over East View.
Leander leads Lake Belton 8-7 at the end of one.
Stony Point leads Hutto 21-14 in the second.
Connally leads McCallum 7-0 in the opening quarter.
Rouse leads 8-0; Timberwolves pull even
In district 8-5A action, Rouse has taken an 8-0 lead over Killeen Chaparral while Cedar Park responded to Glenn’s opening score with a long drive of its own as it is now 7-7 late in the opening stanza.
Luke Holley’s long interception return has put Georgetown deep into Eastview’s territory and the Eagles kicked a field goal to extend its lead to 11-0 in the first.
Blanco leads Thrall 13-7 in the opening stanza.
Holland is shutting out Johnson City 22-0 in the opening quarter.
Even in Hutto
After Hutto raced to a 7-0 lead on its first possession, Stony Point responded with a score and the score is 7-7 in the first.
Ortiz gives Glenn the lead
JJ Ortiz plunged 5 yards up the middle as the Grizzlies took advantage of a Cedar Park fumble as Glenn has taken a 7-0 lead at Monroe Stadium.
Georgetown has jumped out to an early 8-0 lead over Eastview at Birkelbach Stadium. Xavier Warren hauled in a 75-yard pass from Kaleb McDougle on the second snap of the game.
4-4A Division I Standings
Burnet 1-0
Lampasas 1-1
Stephenville 0-0
Brownwood 0-1
Marble Falls 0-1
13-4A Division I Standings
Taylor 3-0
LBJ 3-0
Travis 2-1
Eastside 2-2
Northeast 1-2
Manor New Tech 1-3
Achieve 0-4
11-4A Division II Standings
Bellville 1-0
Giddings 1-0
Madisonville 1-0
Sealy 0-1
Caldwell 0-1
La Grange 0-1
13-4A Division II Standings
Wimberley 2-0
Jarrell 2-1
Lago Vista 2-1
Gonzalez 1-1
Salado 1-2
Geronimo Navarro 1-2
Smithville 0-2
13-3A Division I Standings
Llano 2-0
Marion 2-0
Universal City Randolph 1-1
Ingram Moore 1-1
Florence 0-2
Luling 0-2
13-3A Division II Standings
Lexington 1-0
Blanco 1-0
Comfort 0-0
Rogers 0-1
Thrall 0-1
14-2A Division I Standings
Mason 1-0
Holland 1-0
San Saba 1-0
Johnson City 0-1
Harper 0-1
Thorndale 0-1
13-2A Division II Standings
Granger 3-0
Somerville 3-0
Burton 2-1
Bartlett 2-1
Iola 1-2
Milano 1-2
McDade 0-3
Snook 0-3
8-5A Division I Standings
Cedar Park 3-0
Leander 3-0
Georgetown 2-1
Lake Belton 2-1
Rouse 1-2
East View 1-2
Killeen Chaparral 0-3
Glenn 0-3
12-5A Division I Standings
A&M Consolidated 5-0
College Station 4-1
Weiss 4-1
Hays 2-2
Lockhart 2-2
Anderson 2-2
Hendrickson 2-4
Cedar Creek 0-4
Lehman 0-5
11-5A Division II Standings
Liberty Hill 3-0
Bastrop 3-0
Elgin 2-1
Pflugerville 2-1
Connally 1-2
Navarro 1-2
McCallum 0-3
Crockett 0-3
Entering week 8 of the high school football seasons, the push for the playoffs has begun.
Here are the district standings
25-6A Standings
Vandegrift 4-0
Round Rock 4-1
Cedar Ridge 3-2
Vista Ridge 2-2
Hutto 2-2
McNeil 2-3
Westwood 1-3
Manor 1-3
Stony Point 1-4
26-5A Standings
Dripping Springs 3-0
Westlake 2-0
Lake Travis 2-0
Bowie 1-2
Austin High 1-2
Del Valle 0-3
Akins 0-3
29-6A Standings
Cibolo Steele 3-0
NB Canyon 2-0
SA East Central 2-1
Johnson 2-1
Schertz Clemens 1-3
Judson 0-2
San Marcos 0-3
Thursday night results
A&M Consolidated 55, Hendrickson 15
LBJ 72, Achieve 0
Travis 48, Manor New Tech 0
Eastside 42, Northeast 14
Johnson 42, Schertz Clemons 21
Area teams among state-ranked teams
Several area teams are ranked in the latest polls of Texas high school football.
Lake Travis sits at #6, while 26-6A district foe Westlake sits at 8. If both teams win tonight, next week’s Battle of the Lakes will be a meeting of top 10 teams.
Out of district 25-6A Vandegrift and Round Rock check in at 21 and 25 respectively.
In the Class 5A rankings, Weiss in entrenched in the 6th spot, while Liberty Hill holds down #9.
Weiss travels to face Lockhart tonight before hosting College Station on Halloween. Liberty Hill brings its vaunted slot-T to The Pfield taking on Pflugerville in a matchup of likely playoff qualifiers.
LBJ holds down the top spot in 4A, while Lampasas sits at #10.
Statesman’s Fab Five rankings
6A
#1 Lake Travis (6-0, 2-0) at Dripping Springs
#2 Westlake (5-1, 2-0) hosts Bowie
#3 Vandegrift (5-1, 4-0) at Manor
#4 Dripping Springs (6-1, 3-0) hosts Lake Travis
#5 Round Rock (6-1, 4-1) at Westwood
5A
#1 Weiss (6-1, 4-1) at Lockhart
#2 Liberty Hill (5-1, 3-0) at Pflugerville
#3 Georgetown (5-1, 2-1) hosts Eastview
#4 Pflugerville (5-1, 2-1) hosts Liberty Hill
#5 Cedar Park (4-2, 3-0)
4A/Others
#1 LBJ (7-0, 3-0) beat Achieve 72-0 last night
#2 Lampasas (6-1, 1-0) at Burnet
#3 Wimberley (4-2, 2-0) at Jarrell
#4 Regents (6-1, 3-0) hosts Brentwood Christian
#5 St. Michael’s (5-1, 2-1) hosts San Antonio Central Catholic
Top games of the night
Despite losing to Dripping Springs the last two years, Lake Travis looks to remain unbeaten as the 6-0, 2-0 Cavaliers travel to face the 6-1, 3-0 Tigers.
In a 11-5A Division II clash, Liberty Hill (5-1, 3-0), whose slot-T offense amassed over 700 yards rushing in its win over Elgin last week, ventures to The Pfield to take on Plugerville.
Gerlich picks up multiple honors
After Anderson quarterback Max Gerlich threw for 413 yards and 5 touchdowns in the Trojans win over Hendrickson last week, Gerlich was named Dave Campbell Texas High School Magazine’s 5A quarterback of the week. Gerlich also topped the Statesman’s list of the midseason top 50 players of Central Texas.
AUSTIN, Texas — Self-driving cars have become a common sight on Austin streets, but a new Texas law is adding tougher requirements for the companies behind the wheelless vehicles.
Senate Bill 2807 imposes stricter rules on autonomous vehicle companies operating in the state, including state authorization, emergency response plans for law enforcement, and a public portal where residents can verify operators and file safety complaints.
The changes come as Austin continues to track incidents involving autonomous vehicles. The city’s autonomous vehicle dashboard shows 75 incidents in 2026, including a collision, eight near misses, and seven incidents of ignoring police direction.
Attorney Drew Gibbs, a partner at Slingshot Law, said one crash involved a Waymo vehicle.
“There was a T-bone collision. A pretty serious T-bone collision where a Waymo just crashed into the side of my client’s vehicle,” Gibbs said.
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One of the incidents of ignoring police direction happened during the mass shooting on West Sixth Street back in March, when three people died, and 15 others were injured.
Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock said autonomous vehicles can struggle in unusual situations.
“It didn’t impede on anything in the moment, but it’s not necessarily uncommon where these vehicles don’t quite know how to deal with these one-off scenarios,” Bullock said.
The new law requires autonomous vehicle companies to be authorized by the state, to provide an emergency response plan for law enforcement, and to participate in a public-facing portal that allows the public to verify operators and submit safety complaints.
Kara Kockelman, a professor of transportation and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, welcomed the added oversight.
“I’m glad that the state is taking this a bit more seriously now,” she said. “It’s important not to just let others slip in without kind of meeting those basic minimums.”
Bullock said the emergency planning requirement may not make a major difference in fast-moving situations. Asked how impactful it is to have a fully laid out emergency response plan, Bullock said, “These plans are great, but it takes time to work through all of those versus the immediacy of having someone behind the wheel.”
The four autonomous vehicle companies operating in Austin — Waymo, Zoox, AV-Ride, and Tesla — are all state-authorized.
The Texas DMV said an autonomous vehicle company can lose its authorization to operate in Texas if the agency deems the vehicles are operating in a way that endangers public safety.
Waymo was contacted for comment, but had not responded.
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said Tuesday she will leave the post next month.
What we know:
In a statement, Nelson said her resignation will be effective July 17 but did not provide a reason for the departure.
“It has been an honor to serve the people of Texas in this role,” Nelson said. “My time as Secretary came at an important moment for Texas, and I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish as an agency in under four years.”
Nelson has served in the role since 2023.
Among other things, the Secretary of State oversees elections and business filings in the state and serves as the chief diplomat of Texas.
View of Texas State Senator Jane Nelson, during the 80th Texas Legislature, on the floor of the Senate at the Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas, January 22, 2007. (John Anderson/The Austin Chronicle / Getty Images)
What they’re saying:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott described Nelson as extraordinary.
“I am deeply grateful for her long and loyal service and outstanding leadership. She has represented our state with grace and honor across the globe, and Texas is better because of it,” Abbott said. “Cecilia and I wish her all the best in the next chapter of her distinguished career.”
Dig deeper:
According to the Secretary of State’s office, Nelson has presided over seven statewide elections during her tenure with a cumulative 27 million ballots cast and broke a record with more than 3 million active business filers.
Nelson also served three decades in the Texas Senate, where she remains the longest-serving Republican in state history.
The Source: Information in this story came from the Texas Secretary of State’s office.
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Austin, Texas, is revving up to sell $2.35 billion of debt for a convention center and a wastewater treatment plant, while a legal battle continues over bonds to help finance a light rail system.
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The bond boom comes as the city council voted on Thursday to pursue the development of a $390 million baseline general obligation bond package for the November ballot despite a call by Mayor Kirk Watson to wait until 2028.
“I believe we can and we should bring forward significant investments in the future,” he said. “In fact, if we restore compliance with our financial policies and we maintain the discipline we actually will have greater future capacity to do more for this community in 2028.”
A bond election would
The city, which last held a successful GO bond election in 2022 for $350 million of debt for affordable housing, had $1.03 billion of unissued voter-approved GO bond authorization as of the Sept. 30 end of fiscal 2025. Last year,
On Thursday, the city council signed off on a $34.5 million wrongful prosecution and conviction settlement with four individuals to be financed through the sale of non-voter-approved GO bonds.
The council approved up to $1.35 billion of special tax revenue bonds on May 21 for a $1.6 billion project to replace the city’s now-demolished convention center with a facility that will increase rentable event space to 620,000 square feet from 365,000 square feet.
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The bonds are backed with revenue from certain city hotel occupancy taxes and incremental state tax revenue generated within a project finance zone the city established in 2024. Amounts and timings for issuing the debt are being determined, according to the city, which filed a petition with a Travis County District Court for an expedited validation of the bonds.
An ordinance approved in October
The city also plans to refund hotel occupancy tax-backed debt issued for the prior convention center in order to pledge a 4.5% hotel tax for the upcoming bonds.
“The refunding bonds are a separate, but related item to the expansion bonds and will only be secured by 2% venue HOT,” city documents said. “The 2% venue HOT will not be pledged to the expansion bonds and will cease to be collected upon final maturity or early payoff of (the refunding bonds).”
A petition drive that would have delayed the project fell 494 signatures short of a requirement for 20,000 valid signatures of registered voters, Austin City Clerk Erika Brady determined in November.
Petition backers are appealing a district court’s refusal to force validation in state appellate court after the Texas Supreme Court dismissed
The petition drive by Austin United PAC and others sought a ballot measure to stop the demolition and reconstruction of the convention center for seven years — or until the project was approved by voters — and prioritize city funding for local live music, arts, cultural, and outdoor tourism.
The Austin City Council also approved as much as $1 billion of water and wastewater system revenue bonds last month for the Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion and enhancement project. The bonds will be used to obtain a direct low-interest loan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program.
Other financing sources for the $1.5 billion project are $59 million from the Texas Water Development Board Clean Water State Revolving Fund program and funding from Austin Water.
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The plant, which serves more than 50% of Austin and operates at a treatment capacity of 75 million gallons per day, will have its capacity increased to 100 MGD, helping meet future demand and requirements set by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for Austin’s projected growth of 1.5 million by 2040, according to a city statement.
A legal logjam over a light rail system eased May 22 when the Texas Supreme Court finally ruled on a procedural issue related to an initial $150 million of bonds for the project. The high court ordered a Travis County Court judge to decide whether the bonds’ issuer, the Austin Transit Partnership, a nonprofit corporation created by the city and Capital Metro Transportation Authority, has standing to seek court validation for the debt.
City taxpayers who filed a lawsuit in 2023, along with the Texas Attorney General’s Office have been challenging the legality of the bonds, which would be paid off with a portion of Austin’s operation and maintenance property taxes
Escalating costs led ATP to downsize Project Connect to an initial less than 10-mile, 15-station system with a similar price tag. The completion of a federal environmental review in January allowed the project to continue a process
ATP said Project Connect is moving forward with construction scheduled to begin next year.
“We are confident in our case and look forward to our day in court,” ATP said in a statement. “The pending litigation has not slowed our progress advancing Austin light rail, which has hit major milestones in the federal funding process, design, and pre-construction work this year.”
Bill Aleshire, an attorney who filed the taxpayers’ lawsuit, cautioned that several issues remain before the court, including the legality of the downsized project and the ability to pay off bonds with property tax revenue that is supposed to be used for operations.
“Their federal funding is uncertain, their ability to issue bonds is uncertain, and they just stubbornly will not listen to us and say it’s time to pause Project Connect and rethink it, that maybe rail isn’t the best way to go at this time and maybe we can’t afford it at this time,” he said.
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