{"id":67336,"date":"2025-11-27T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/67336\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:00:07","slug":"gamez-breaks-calallens-single-game-pick-6-record-defense-preps-for-la-vernia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/67336\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamez breaks Calallen’s single-game pick 6 record, defense preps for La Vernia"},"content":{"rendered":"

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Calallen Wildcats are back in the third round of Texas UIL high school football playoffs. They’re coming off a strong second round playoff win over Canyon Lake 42-14. The offense scored points, but even the defense found the endzone. Being a complete team has been the key to their recent success.<\/p>\n

“Our coaches are putting our players in positions to make those plays, but our defense has been a unit that has continued to get better throughout the year and I think we’re peaking at the right time,” said Calallen football head coach Charlie Reeve. “We’re playing with confidence right now.”<\/p>\n

Calallen’s defense dominated the line of scrimmage against Canyon Lake. 10 total sacks led by Josh Norval and Tristian Luna who each had 2. That created chaos, which led to 3 interceptions. Drayson Gamez secured 2 of those passes for pick 6’s. According to Caller Times’ Quinton Martinez<\/a>, it was the first time in Calallen history that a single player took 2 interceptions to the house in the same game.<\/p>\n

“There wasn’t really much to it,” Gamez said. “Just caught the ball and ran, but to see all my guys come to celebrate with me that means a lot to me.”<\/p>\n

Gamez scored on a pick 6 one other time during preseason.<\/p>\n

Calallen (10-2) and La Vernia (11-1) kick off the UIL 4A-DI Regional Semifinal on Friday at 7 p.m. at Dub Farris Stadium in San Antonio. This week, Calallen’s defense will be challenged with stopping the run game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Calallen Wildcats are back in the third round of Texas UIL high school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3804,6440,6442,155,157,156,4017,34715,300,9092,6658,6446,34716],"class_list":["post-67336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-3804","tag-calallen","tag-charlie-reeve","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-defense","tag-drayson-gamez","tag-football","tag-interception","tag-kris-6","tag-larissa-liska","tag-pick-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67336","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=67336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}