{"id":59069,"date":"2025-11-21T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59069\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:31:11","slug":"estacado-braces-for-unbeaten-brock-in-area-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59069\/","title":{"rendered":"Estacado braces for unbeaten Brock in area round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Estacado Matadors (8-3) are no stranger to elite competition. They\u2019ve already faced Tuscola Jim Ned, West Plains, and Lubbock-Cooper Liberty- all of which have a 10-1 record. Come Friday night, they take on the unbeaten No. 4 Brock Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re feeling ready. We feel pretty good. We know what we\u2019re up against. We played them last year and we\u2019re ready to play,\u201d said Estacado head coach Eric Ward. \u201cIt has been a long season, but we\u2019re feeling good. We are healthy. We\u2019re ready to go out there and showcase what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In last week\u2019s 31-17 comeback win over Fort Stockton, WR\/RB Cedric Ross returned two kickoffs for touchdowns. Another astonishing stat is the ten pancake blocks registered by OT Vershaunndrick Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think the ceiling has still not have been reached. I think we still have more we can do. We just got to take care of the ball and go out there and play mistake-free football the best way we can and just take care of the time of possession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kickoff set for 7 p.m. at San Angelo Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Estacado Matadors (8-3) are no stranger to elite competition. They\u2019ve already faced Tuscola&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[590,586,168,3192,170,169,20446],"class_list":["post-59069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-4a-football","tag-high-school-football","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-football","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-metroplex-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59069","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=59069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}