{"id":27356,"date":"2025-10-30T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27356\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:41:07","slug":"libertys-sexton-estacados-ward-excited-for-the-upcoming-tnt-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27356\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty\u2019s Sexton, Estacado\u2019s Ward excited for the upcoming TNT matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; This week\u2019s \u201cThursday Night Throwdown\u201d could likely decide the district champion as Estacado (7-2, 3-0) hosts Lubbock-Cooper Liberty (7-1, 2-0).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe can\u2019t wait. When you get to play a quality team like Estacado on Thursday night on TV, it\u2019s something that all of our kids have been looking forward to, coaches are excited, and this game is going to be no different. Coach Ward does a great job over there, and he\u2019s going to have his guys ready to go. It\u2019s going to be a playoff atmosphere over there,\u201d said Liberty head coach Joe Sexton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cVery solid program, credit to (Liberty\u2019s) coaches, but you know our preparation and our practice style determines how well we\u2019re going to play, and that\u2019s the emphasis is practicing hard and going out there and playing as hard as we can, so it would mean a lot for our program to continue that trend in terms of going out there and competing for another district championship and coming away with it,\u201d Estacado head coach Eric Ward said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tonight\u2019s showdown gets underway 7 p.m. at Lowrey Field. KLCW Lubbock\u2019s CW is free antenna channel 22.1, Optimum 4, Dish Network 22, DirecTV 22, UVerse 1022, Vexus 709. It is also available on YouTube TV and Hulu Live. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; This week\u2019s \u201cThursday Night Throwdown\u201d could likely decide the district champion as Estacado (7-2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[590,586,168,3192,170,169],"class_list":["post-27356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-4a-football","tag-high-school-football","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-football","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356","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=27356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}