A NEW
WEEK AND MORE NEW ADDITIONS
Another week of football gets underway
tonight…and that means more additions to
the LSN family!
We are pleased and proud to welcome the
Pine Tree Pirates, the Port Arthur
Memorial Titans and Pasadena ISD into
Legacy fold…and this week you can hear
them all right here!
This week marks the season opener for
the Pine Tree Pirates out of district
14-4A against Henderson from district
16-3A (dropped from 4A in the UIL
reclassification). District 16-3A may
arguably be the toughest 3A district in
the state, with defending champs Gilmer
and Carthage, as well as Pittsburg, who
made a deep playoff run last year.
Henderson is 1-0 after beating Class 4A
Mount Pleasant last week, 47-19. The
game this week may be something of a
reunion. The Lions are coached by Dickey
Meeks who was formerly the head coach at
Pine Tree several years ago.
Expect the Pirates to play hard all
season with one key goal always at the
forefront: find a way to slow down the
other team. Observers say that just
about every team they play will be
bigger, faster and stronger. But Pine
Tree is trying to build momentum, so
they will try to make something good
happen and feed off that.
Huey Chancellor is the Pirates’ head
coach. He begins his second year after
coming over from Bellville, where he had
only one losing season in 13 years.
Speaking of no losing seasons, our
veteran Mark McLain calls all the Pine
Tree play-by-play this year for the LSN,
beginning Friday night at 7:00 PM.
Port Arthur Memorial had an exciting
team last year that produced an upset of
North Shore and gave The Woodlands a run
for their money. The Titans have bigger
expectations in a tough District 21-5A
this year. The realigned district will
still include state-ranked opponents in
Galena Park North Shore and Beaumont
West Brook, but the La Porte Bulldogs
have moved in as well, and the fight for
playoff seeds will be interesting every
week.
Memorial’s defense should be a strong
suit again this year, but they’ll look
to their offense to turn the ball over
less and turn more of their drives into
scores.
The Titans opened up last week with a
huge win over Beaumont Central, 38-0, at
home. Terrence Singleton rushed for 100
yards with two TDs and threw for another
114 yards on 9-of-14 passing. Nathan
Holmes added 124 rushing yards as
Memorial posted 467 yards of total
offense.
This week, they travel to Beaumont to
another District 20-4A squad, the Ozen
Panthers. Ozen lost to West Brook, 28-6,
in their opener last week.
LSN rolls out the Pasadena ISD Game of
the Week on Friday night. Each week, a
PISD school will be featured on the LSN.
This week, the South Houston Trojans
host the Baytown Sterling Rangers in a
Class 5A matchup.
Last week Sterling defeated cross-town
rival Baytown Lee, 28-20, in a contest
that formerly was a district game but
now will be a non-district grudge match
since Lee was reclassified as a Class 4A
school this year. South Houston will
have to figure out a way to put the
brakes on the Rangers’ rushing attack,
which amassed 244 yards against Lee.
South Houston, meanwhile, tries to
rebound from a tough opening-week loss
to Atascocita, 38-18. The Eagles, who
will be a very tough team out of
District 14-5A this year, took advantage
of some critical Trojan turnovers to
post 24 unanswered points in the second
quarter, which spelled the difference in
the game. Surprisingly, the Trojans’
offense outmatched Atascocita
yard-for-yard on offense, putting up 331
total yards of offense to 309 for the
Eagles. But four turnovers hurt them.
We’ll listen this week to see if South
Houston cuts down on them and picks up
their first win.
Of course, there are more than a dozen
other games this week on the LSN,
including our 1560 Game of the Week
between the Houston Memorial Mustangs
and the Westfield Mustangs. These two
schools are always in the mix when
playoff time rolls around and this year
should be no exception. This Friday’s
game should be a good early-season test
for both squads.
Still building the legacy one game at a
time…only a little quicker now!

