{"id":418463,"date":"2026-08-27T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:58:30","slug":"thursday-night-throwdown-kicks-off-tonight-on-kcbd-estacado-vs-lubbock-high-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418463\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThursday Night Throwdown\u201d kicks off tonight on KCBD, Estacado vs. Lubbock High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The 2026 high school football season, and second year of \u201cThursday Night Throwdown\u201d gets underway this evening in a cross-town matchup as the Lubbock High Westerners take on the Estacado Matadors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mats will be led by sophomore QB Jayric Ward, son of head coach and former Texas Tech WR Eric Ward, and the Westerners will rely on their star RB Anthony Boyd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/08\/24\/petes-pigskin-preview-estacado-matadors\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/08\/24\/petes-pigskin-preview-estacado-matadors\/\">Pete\u2019s Pigskin Preview: Estacado Matadors<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/08\/25\/petes-pigskin-preview-lubbock-high-westerners\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/08\/25\/petes-pigskin-preview-lubbock-high-westerners\/\">Pete\u2019s Pigskin Preview: Lubbock High Westerners<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both teams had success on TNT last year. In Week Three, Lubbock High gained its first victory with a 48-21 blowout over Snyder. Estacado had three Thursday Night wins, 14-7 over Randall, 28-20 against Andrews, and a 58-51 shootout win over Perryton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tonight\u2019s season opener kicks off 7 p.m at PlainsCapital Park. The game is airing on KCBD, KCBD 11.1, Optimum 34, DirecTV 34, UVERSE 1034, and SIMULCAST KJ-CD 32.1. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The 2026 high school football season, and second year of \u201cThursday Night Throwdown\u201d gets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[590,589,586,168,3192,170,169,6813],"class_list":["post-418463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-4a-football","tag-5a-football","tag-high-school-football","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-football","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-thursday-night-throwdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418463","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=418463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}