The Hornets boys got out to a 16 point lead before holding off a furious Eagles rally. The Flour Bluff girls used a big third quarter to pull away from Vets.<\/p>\n
The “Yorktown Showdown” always provides fireworks between Flour Bluff and Veterans Memorial and Tuesday was no exception.<\/p>\n
The Hornets and Eagles faced off in separate first place match-ups on the basketball court.<\/p>\n
The Flour Bluff girls used a big third quarter to pull away from Veterans Memorial 59-39. The Hornets improved to 10-1 in District 29-5A, good for first place in the standings with two wins over the Eagles, who dropped to 9-2.<\/p>\n
The Hornets boys got out to a hot start at 16-2 begore having to hold off a big Eagles rally. Flour Bluff would hold off Vets 51-49 to earn a season split with the Eagles. The Hornets improved to 8-1 in district while Vets drops to third place at 7-2.<\/p>\n
The Ray Texans had the night off and are 7-1 in district, a half game behind Flour Bluff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hornets boys got out to a 16 point lead before holding off a furious Eagles rally. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-131754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}