{"id":142425,"date":"2026-01-29T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/142425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:33:09","slug":"calallen-wildcats-vs-zapata-hawks-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/142425\/","title":{"rendered":"Calallen Wildcats vs. Zapata Hawks + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/corpus-christi\/calallen-wildcats\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Calallen<\/a> has gone 7-2 against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/zapata\/zapata-hawks\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zapata<\/a> recently and they&#8217;ll look to pad the win column further  on Friday. The Wildcats will look to defend their home court  against the Hawks  at 7:30  p.m. One thing working in Calallen&#8217;s favor is that they have posted at least 55  points  in their last six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">On Tuesday, Calallen blew past King, posting  an  85-40 victory. The Wildcats have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 13  contests by 20  points or more this season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDa7309d54994f48c0ac670aaaff330cf3\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769675589_284_33698666-bc11-4091-8af6-4cd3c6c944cf.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"IDde36a59137e44384ba15dd4723beb43d\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\"> Sam Cecava<\/p>\n<p>01\/27\/26 @ King2701\/23\/26 vs Harmony School of Excellence1601\/20\/26 @ Robstown2101\/16\/26 vs Tuloso-Midway2601\/10\/26 @ Sinton3401\/06\/26 vs Ingleside22<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/corpus-christi\/calallen-wildcats\/athletes\/sam-cecava\/?careerid=3osgndr14qfdd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Sam Cecava<\/a> was  his usual excellent self,  dropping  a double-double with 27 points and ten  rebounds. The  matchup was  his sixth in a row with at least 16  points. The team also got some help courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/corpus-christi\/calallen-wildcats\/athletes\/payton-tennill\/?careerid=ap16c9l981100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Payton Tennill<\/a>, who  went 6-for-11  en route to 15  points in addition to six  steals and five  assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Calallen  smashed the offensive glass and  finished the game with 18  offensive rebounds. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they&#8217;ve now  pulled down at least eight  offensive boards in 13 consecutive  games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Meanwhile, Zapata was fully in charge on Tuesday, breezing past Robstown 68-39. The Hawks haven&#8217;t had any issues with the Cottonpickers recently, as the game was their third consecutive  win against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:6\"> Calallen&#8217;s victory bumped their record up to 21-8. As for Zapata, their win bumped their record up to 8-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:7\"> Calallen strolled past Zapata in their previous matchup  back in February of 2025 by a score of  66-50. Do  the Wildcats have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Hawks turn the tables on them?  We&#8217;ll have the answer soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calallen has gone 7-2 against Zapata recently and they&#8217;ll look to pad the win column further on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-142425","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\/142425","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=142425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}