{"id":419879,"date":"2026-08-29T04:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:16:16","slug":"wave-of-week-1-high-school-football-games-canceled-due-to-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419879\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave of Week 1 high school football games canceled due to weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thunderstorm rolled through the San Antonio area Friday, forcing delays because of lightning and pouring rain. Southwest led Victoria East 14-0 late in the second quarter when officials called the game. That was the first among many games in the San Antonio area to be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>School officials at East Central and Harlan elected to suspend their game and resume at 10 a.m. Saturday at Gustafson Stadium. Harlan leads East Central 10-0 with 49 seconds left in the first quarter, when play is set to resume.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at Brennan-Austin Vandegrift, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/sports\/high-school\/article\/brennan-austin-vandegrift-clash-first-e-n-game-22404889.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Express-News Game of the Week<\/a>, decided to resume play after a lightning delay of nearly three hours. The game is expected to resume around 10:50 p.m. with the Vipers leading the Bears 3-0 at the end of the first quarter. The initial lightning delay was called shortly after 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s thunderstorm came a day after rain and lightning forced weather delays in several games in the San Antonio area Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Legacy and Marshall suspended their season opener Thursday night and completed it Friday morning at Gustafson Stadium, resuming play in the second quarter. The Titans finished off a 33-14 win over the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>These are games moved or canceled because of inclement weather Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Smithson Valley-Katy Cinco Ranch<\/p>\n<p>East Central-Harlan (10 a.m. Saturday at Gustafson Stadium)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A thunderstorm rolled through the San Antonio area Friday, forcing delays because of lightning and pouring rain. Southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-419879","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\/419879","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=419879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}