{"id":69354,"date":"2025-11-29T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69354\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:55:07","slug":"pirates-playoff-run-ends-in-loss-to-cuero-rockport-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69354\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates’ playoff run ends in loss to Cuero | Rockport Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pirates\u2019 Kam Alston (9) and teammates bring down a Cuero ball carrier. (Photo by Larry Doonan)<\/p>\n

Larry Doonan<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cuero Gobblers pulled away from the Rockport-Fulton Pirates in the fourth quarter to take a 48-27 victory in their Class 4A Division II regional semifinal game on Friday at Corpus Christi\u2019s Buccaneer Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Pirates ended the season with an 8-5 record, while the Gobblers (12-1) advanced to face the Sinton Pirates (12-1) in the Region IV final Friday at 7 p.m. at San Antonio\u2019s Heroes Stadium.<\/p>\n

Rockport-Fulton trailed 21-14 at halftime and tied the game at 21-all on Traey Alvarado\u2019s 53-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Cuero answered with a pair of touchdowns to take a 34-21 lead before Alvarado\u2019s 13-yard TD run pulled the Pirates within 34-27 midway in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

But the Gobblers, who lost 57-56 earlier in the season to Rockport-Fulton, answered with a pair of touchdowns in the final four minutes to seal the victory.<\/p>\n

Cuero jumped out to a 14-0 lead before Jaxon Keown\u2019s 8-yard TD run midway in the second quarter cut the Gobblers\u2019 lead to 14-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates\u2019 Kam Alston (9) and teammates bring down a Cuero ball carrier. (Photo by Larry Doonan) Larry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,35393,157,156,35394,35389,35392,33442,82,35390,35391],"class_list":{"0":"post-69354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-day","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-corpus-christis-buccaneer-stadium","13":"tag-cuero","14":"tag-jaxon-keown","15":"tag-rockport","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-san-antonios-heroes-stadium","18":"tag-traey-alvarado"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354","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=69354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}