{"id":255338,"date":"2026-04-18T05:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:33:13","slug":"texas-high-holds-off-lufkin-5-3-in-pivotal-district-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255338\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas High holds off Lufkin 5-3 in pivotal district showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketk.com\/sports\/local-sports\/texas-high-holds-off-lufkin-5-3-in-pivotal-district-showdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KETK;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KETK&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KETK<\/a>) \u2014 With one week left in the regular season, the Texas High Tigers and the Lufkin Panthers faced off, battling for the final spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/texas-high-continues-dominance-bi-044322303.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas High continues dominance with bi-district win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas High continues dominance with bi-district win&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Texas High continues dominance with bi-district win <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers jumped out early, scoring four runs in the first, and were able to hold on down the stretch, taking this contest on the road, 5-3.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketk.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUFKIN, Texas (KETK) \u2014 With one week left in the regular season, the Texas High Tigers and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2608,12298,96215,9954,27,29,28,16324],"class_list":{"0":"post-255338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ketk","9":"tag-lufkin","10":"tag-lufkin-panthers","11":"tag-regular-season","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tigers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255338","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=255338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}