{"id":419001,"date":"2026-08-28T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419001\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:58:08","slug":"tnl-sa-veterans-memorial-dominates-stevens-hs-in-first-matchup-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419001\/","title":{"rendered":"TNL: SA Veterans Memorial dominates Stevens HS in first matchup of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/ZIZODbFvLgI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE GAME LIVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio Veterans Memorial High School opened the season with an incredible performance against Stevens High Shcool.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the major weather delay, the Patriots took to the field and commanded the first half, preventing the Falcons from even scoring a single point in the first half, securing a major lead of 37 points in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens High School attempted to rally in the second half, securing two touchdowns, but Veterans Memorial didn&#8217;t let up on the offensive play, bringing their score up to 57 points by the ebnd of the game, securing their first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/sports\/high-school\/stevens-falcons-look-to-take-next-step-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stevens Falcons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/sports\/high-school\/veterans-memorial-set-for-thursday-night-lights-opener-against-stevens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veterans Memorial Patriots<\/a> opened their football seasons Thursday night at Rutledge Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams entered the matchup 0-0, making it the first game of the 2026 season for each program. Kickoff was delayed by about an hour, with the showdown kicking off around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s matchup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mybelugaair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sponsored by Beluga Air<\/a>, marked the first meeting between Stevens and Veterans Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE GAME LIVE SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio Veterans Memorial High School opened the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-419001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419001","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=419001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}