{"id":420105,"date":"2026-08-29T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:18:23","slug":"special-teams-propel-lubbock-christian-to-17-15-win-at-lovington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420105\/","title":{"rendered":"Special teams propel Lubbock Christian to 17-15 win at Lovington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LOVINGTON, N.M. (KCBD) &#8211; The Sam Collins era is off to a successful start! On Friday, the Lubbock Christian Eagles were able to overcome the Lovington Wildcats (last week\u2019s End Zone \u201cTeam of the Week\u201d) 17-15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The game was tied 8-8 heading into the fourth. When the Wildcats attempted the go-ahead FG, Brylan Cunningham returned the blocked attempt all the way in for the Eagles\u2019 touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With minutes left to play, Wildcat Jude Madrid scored at the goal line as Lovington took a 15-14 lead. However, too much time was left on the clock as Levi Patton hit the game-winner from 37 yards out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Coach Collins is replacing Chris Softley, who is now the head coach at UT Permian Basin. Next week, the Eagles will host the Slaton Tigers who opened the season with a 35-14 win over New Home. The Wildcats will host the unbeaten Carlsbad Cavemen.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOVINGTON, N.M. (KCBD) &#8211; The Sam Collins era is off to a successful start! On Friday, the Lubbock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[586,168,3192,170,169,596,146335,595],"class_list":["post-420105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-high-school-football","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-football","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-new-mexico-football","tag-nmaa-4a-football","tag-tapps-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420105","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=420105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}