{"id":296211,"date":"2026-05-16T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296211\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:59:05","slug":"lubbock-matadors-to-open-season-at-fort-worth-watch-party-at-two-docs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296211\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Matadors to open season at Fort Worth, watch party at Two Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Matadors will kick off the 2026 season Saturday afternoon in Fort Worth, facing the Vaqueros. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Head Coach David Ormiston is returning to lead the Matadors. Lubbock\u2019s team has moved up to a new league, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uslleaguetwo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uslleaguetwo.com\/\">USL 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hear from Ormiston in the video above. He previously coached Brazos Valley Cavalry FC in USL 2. And Ormiston is a back-to-back Lone Star Conference Champion with two different clubs, and a back to back National Coach of the Year nominee in the NPSL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Saturday\u2019s game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Doskocil Stadium in Fort Worth. Two Docs in Lubbock will be hosting a watch party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Win tickets to home opener<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Matadors will open their home slate 7 p.m. Friday, May 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/05\/08\/lubbock-matador-ticket-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/05\/08\/lubbock-matador-ticket-giveaway\/\">Click here<\/a> &#8211; to enter KCBD\u2019s contest to win a family 4-pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Matadors will again play at Lowrey Field at Plains Capital Park this season.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Matadors will kick off the 2026 season Saturday afternoon in Fort Worth,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,38330,169],"class_list":["post-296211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-matadors","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296211","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=296211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}