{"id":238768,"date":"2025-10-25T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238768\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:35:08","slug":"westlake-vs-lake-travis-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238768\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlake vs Lake Travis live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Travis (7-0, 3-0 District 26-6A) will all but lock up the district title with the win while\u00a0Westlake (6-1, 3-0) still has to play Dripping Springs. Both teams have impressive defenses. Lake Travis\u2019 starters have only given up more than one touchdown twice.\u00a0Westlake, which is missing\u00a0TCU commit\/DL Maddox Flynt due to injury, gave up significant points and yardage to the explosive offenses of Prosper and Humble Atascocita, yet has shut down everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the fifth time\u00a0Westlake QB Rees Wise has faced Lake Travis, and the Chaps are looking for their seventh straight win in the series.\u00a0Expect a second-half turnover by either team to be the difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow along here for live updates and scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And follow our season-long high school coverage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/high-school\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Statesman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vann Hopping sprints 20 yards up the middle untouched for the game&#8217;s first TD. The extra point is good to give the Cavs a 7-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After forcing a three-and-out, the Cavs get the ball at the Westlake 45. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chaps force an incompletion on third down and get the ball back at their own 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defenses dominated the first quarter. Lake Travis faces a third-and-15 to start the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs sacked Westlake quarterback Rees Wise for the\u00a0second straight third down to force a Westlake punt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Bennett intercepts Lake Travis quarterback Luke McBride for the game&#8217;s first turnover. Westlake takes over at its own 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lake Travis goes three-and-out on the opening possession. Westlake makes one first down but quickly punts the ball back to the Cavs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lake Travis will receive the kickoff. The &#8220;Battle of the Lakes&#8221; is underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Westlake retires the No. 15 of Drew Brees prior to the coin toss. Brees gives a brief speech thanking the community he grew up in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love what we&#8217;ve built here and I love the legacy,&#8221;\u00a0Brees said. &#8220;We won the first state title and there&#8217;s going to be a lot more &#8212; no pressure Coach Salazar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who:\u00a0Lake Travis Cavaliers vs Westlake Chaparrals<\/p>\n<p>What:\u00a0Class 6A UIL football<\/p>\n<p>When: 7:00\u00a0p.m. Friday, Week 9<\/p>\n<p>Where: Chaparral Stadium in Austin<\/p>\n<p>The will also be a ceremony honoring former Westlake star Drew Brees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Travis (7-0, 3-0 District 26-6A) will all but lock up the district title with the win while\u00a0Westlake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,40058,596,44098,34956,22143,142828,85,59232,24354,142827],"class_list":{"0":"post-238768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-drew-brees","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-high-school-football","13":"tag-high-school-sports","14":"tag-high-schools","15":"tag-lake-travis-cavaliers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas-high-school-football","18":"tag-ttp-live-blog","19":"tag-westlake-chaparrals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}