{"id":145517,"date":"2026-01-31T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145517\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:00:10","slug":"make-it-seven-in-a-row-for-calallen-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145517\/","title":{"rendered":"Make It Seven in a Row for Calallen + 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> had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 39.7 points) and they went ahead and made it seven on Friday. They took down the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/zapata\/zapata-hawks\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zapata Hawks<\/a> 54-39. Given the Wildcats&#8217; advantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 566th, while the Hawks are ranked 1351st) , the result wasn&#8217;t entirely unexpected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID37a6f002c50343229f2a71d6e7c5f16f\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769878810_52_33698666-bc11-4091-8af6-4cd3c6c944cf.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"IDe8d99e3a75b1468baa07362be2a1d6c1\" 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\/30\/26 vs Zapata2201\/27\/26 @ King2701\/23\/26 vs Harmony School of Excellence1601\/20\/26 @ Robstown2101\/16\/26 vs Tuloso-Midway26<a id=\"IDd5204309ae8544eea7b2ca0476ecb9ba\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/corpus-christi\/calallen-wildcats\/athletes\/sam-cecava\/?careerid=3osgndr14qfdd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 2 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Leading Calallen to victory were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/corpus-christi\/calallen-wildcats\/athletes\/payton-tennill\/?careerid=ap16c9l981100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Payton Tennill<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/corpus-christi\/calallen-wildcats\/athletes\/sam-cecava\/?careerid=3osgndr14qfdd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Sam Cecava<\/a>.  Tennill  shot 73% from the field en route to 18 points and six  steals, while  Cecava  almost  dropped  a double-double with 22  points and nine  boards. Cecava&#8217;s evening made it seven games in a row in which  he has scored 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\/dylan-aquino\/?careerid=g9ialrdv84pk4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Dylan Aquino<\/a>, who  posted six points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Calallen&#8217;s record now sits at 22-8. As for Zapata, their loss dropped their record down to 8-22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> We&#8217;ve got plenty of inter-district action coming up soon. Calallen is set to  take on  their familiar foe Tuloso-Midway  at 7:30  p.m.  on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Zapata will  challenge  rival King  at 7:45  p.m.  on Tuesday.<\/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 had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-145517","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\/145517","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=145517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}