Thursday Night Lights 2024 Game 1 -San Antonio-

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] This is Taco Cabana Thursday Night Lights presented by Gamez law firm. Under the light. You are looking live at Farris Stadium on San Antonio's north side. We're kicking off a new season of high school football. The 16th season Taco Cabana, Thursday Night Lights, and what a rivalry. It's Brandeis and O'Connor to get it all started. Good evening everybody. I'm Don Harris, as always with my broadcast partner Chuck nicotinic. Chuck, we know for the last decade or more, I guess since 2008, when Brandeis opened. This is as good as it gets when it comes to rivalries. If you're going to have an opening night for TNL, it may as well be this ballgame, right? You've got two schools that are separated by 4.1 miles. Some of these kids want the middle school together. Don. Some of these kids actually started their career at one school and are now at the other. Both of these teams looking to get past what happened last year to move on. It's a fresh slate and it's going to be a heck of a ballgame tonight. And the fans are fired up. You can hear them outside the gates waiting to get in. And when we talk about the Brandeis Broncos, they've got some returning guys. And this is one of them a big time playmaker Jalen Bate yeah they've got some really good receivers I almost feel like this is a career achievement award for Jalen Baker. Three year letterman. And the one thing you remember about last year's Broncos team is this guy. You can play him outside. You can play him inside. You can get vertical on you. This guy has been a playmaker for these Broncos. Look he stepped onto the campus looking for a big year out of him. Now that he's a senior. If you're an O'Connor fan you may be familiar with Eric Castillo All-District performer, but they've moved him from the offensive line to the defensive line, where he will anchor the front four. So they've got an interesting conundrum going on at O'Connor right now. They feel like the strength of their ballclub is offensive line. Well, this guy was one of the best offensive linemen in the league last year. But they feel like his nasty is going to translate right there in the middle of that D-line. I'm really looking forward to seeing what kind of year Eric Castillo is going to have, especially now that he's making the position switch. But this guy's a heck of a football player. I expect him to be absolutely elite this year. Man, the excitement is real, y'all. Football season this year when we come back, it's our gamez law firm. Keys to the game Thursday Night Lights just minutes away from kickoff. You're watching Taco Cabana Thursday night lights, presented by the Gamez law firm. Closing in on kickoff here at Farris Stadium. Right now, it's time for our Gamez law firm. Keys to the game. First up, the keys for coach Kimi Lewis in his first year with those Brandeis Broncos. Yeah, he's walking into a really good situation, Don. Kimmy said this is his dream job. And so what he wants to do first and foremost is take advantage of the experience he's been afforded. He's got eight returners coming back on offense, eight on defense. When you're playing O'Connor's, you better be ready for anything. When you go up against David Malesky, a guy that likes to play chess. So got to be on point pretty much from start to finish. And then basically it's game one. Keep it simple. Do what you do best. Don't go into business for yourself. Here's what coach Kimi Lewis told us earlier in the week. We just got to make sure that we focus on the game itself and do the right thing. So we're not going to make this game bigger than what it is. It's going to be big for the community, but for us, just focus on the fine details and what we've been practicing. Focus on not training. Meanwhile, for the O'Connor Panthers coach David Malesky, he's a long time veteran and he's got a young squad. Yeah. And you know, if you talk to David Malesky for one of these games every year, it's pretty much the same things. He doesn't want any turnovers. He doesn't want any penalties. And he wants to capitalize on the opportunities his team is afforded when they can create some. So I'm gonna add one more be great on special teams because that is a Malesky staple, especially early in the season. Here's coach David Malesky. Our ultimate deal is is when we start district play being ready. And you know, our first two games are called Non-District because they don't have any relevance in terms of getting into the playoffs. However, they have everything to do with helping us to get there. And it's a, you know, we're going to be playing two really good teams, and so it's going to give us a good, good barometer of where we are, as a team and the things that we need to continue to get better at. And then also building on what we do. Well, all right. When we come back, it's our national anthem. 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Weather is sponsored by Air and Plumbing. Today. All right. It is time for our air and plumbing today. Game time. Whether it is 93 degrees in the shade. It's pretty nice out there with the wind blowing east southeast at seven miles an hour. And the O'Connor Panthers will kick off to the Brandeis Broncos. So Brandeis will have the ball first in our first half kickoff. Brought to you by Rhino Roofers. As you take a look at Kimi Lewis in his first year there at Brandeis. And Jackie's an interesting story coming over late from Harlem brought a number of the Harlan assistant with him to Brandeis and experienced coach. And as you said, he's inherited a nice squad he has. And then you look at David Malesky. You know, Dan, both of these coaches, both of these programs trying to turn the page on last year, both teams just besieged by injuries last season from Malesky and his crew. Don by week three they were down eight starters. Both of these programs lost their quarterback last year. These are prideful programs and I expect them to both do great things this year. Let's kick it off, Lane Rigby with the kick off goes out of bounds. That'll be a penalty. Rigby. By the way, we will see him tonight for O'Connor, one of the best kickers in the country. Highly recruited young man and the Broncos without an opportunity to return. And it looks like they have decided to make him kick it again. So Rigby had a 49 yarder, a TNL record, during his career. And Chuck, they said during the spring game he kicked one, what, 5557? Yeah, it was in the 50s, that's for sure. And he's definitely got a leg and make him kick it again. That's cool. You get to watch him do it again. The number one ranked kicker in the state of Texas. Number 14 in the country. And back to receive for the Broncos is Ian Luna. And that is Darren Hall you're looking at right there. So they'll back it up to the 35. With both of these teams with the eyeball test very large football players. These teams are huge. Here's a big kick from Rigby backing him up halfway into the end zone. It's Hall bringing it out and he's got some room. Watch out Darren Hall across the 41 man to beat. And he did not beat him. The O'Connor Panthers Chris Esparza saved some touchdown but it's great field position for the Broncos on their first possession. Yeah I get a big explosive year to start the game. Opening kick seven sees a seam and one man to beat. But what a great return. Great set up blocking. And just like that, the Broncos are going to start their season on the other team's side of the field. Right at midfield. They will spot it. And here comes Trey Pepito the senior quarterback 510 145. Not a big guy, but he is quick. He's experienced and he's the captain of this squad. Had some injury issues last year but looking forward to a senior season injury free. It's our San Antonio Zoo. First down and on first down he hands off to the running back. And nice pickup down the sidelines breaking free all the way inside the red zone. And that is Noah Logsdon the senior running back. Two huge plays for the Broncos indeed just a little busted outside and then start bustin over people. Does Noah Logsdon this kid coming off a season where he was averaging about four and a half per carry. It's a good start for him. For Pito keeps, he's brought down after a nice gain of about 4 or 5. Haven't even had time to set the starting lineups because the Broncos are on the move. Here's a look at that lineup. Christopher Valenzuela, the big senior captain. He's anchors the offensive line, Brandon Williams big left tackle as well. And then their explosive player is Jalen J.B. Baker. We told you about him in the pregame. Their top receiver who's got an offer already from Murray State. Got a timeout on the field. And Don you know we were talking to David Malesky before the game. And he said you know this rivalry opening night got a lot of new guys on this. O'Connor football team seeing the lights for the first time. He goes, it's going to be like an explosion goes off. When these two teams hit that opening play, the biggest key tonight will be who's going to sustain that level of intensity for the longest. And he said you know, as a coach, it's probably the hardest thing you can try to teach a kid is intensity. At any level of football. You know you're going to teach them the X's and O's, how to do the right things and how to train and all that other stuff. But when you dial it up and you get under the lights, who's going to be the nastiest for the longest? And he feels like that's going to be a huge factor tonight. Well, you know that Malesky coach team will be intense and they will play hard. The issue he's got tonight is inexperience. And they've been punched in the mouth here on the first two plays from scrimmage. So it'll be second down and about three to go. They will scrimmage from the 13. And here's the with Logsdon back next to him to Beto. Kicks once to corner. Has it. Nice edge coming up to make the tackle for the Panthers. And that is Caden Nami. And he saw that was coming his way and he embraced it. Ethan Soto the safety is also a very highly regarded player. But of course, as we talked about in the pregame, it all starts with Eric Castillo up front. It's a first down and Pepito is wrangled. I thought he may have lost the ball. He did not. And a good tackle there. Coming up from the safety position, Ethan Soto and Jason ask. I'm going to go. So it's second and goal as O'Connor's defense settling in here over two good tackles on the last two plays aboard. And you get a little stiff there in the middle. Did you got to do here. Let's see what they got here. As they try to keep the Broncos from out of the end zone. Second and goal. They're going to throw it quick. Slant route. It's broken up and incomplete but low for the intended receiver. That was Christopher Pender who threw it to yeah O'Connor all over that. He had the safety coming over the top corner. Catches the inside route. Look at that. Tough to squeeze that one in. Nice play by Jason Mask. And that'll set up third down and goal. So after an explosive kickoff return and first play from scrimmage O'Connor perhaps get off the field with a couple of nice plays with a jet sweep fake reverse. Here's Baker. He's got the corner. He's got the touchdown. Jalen Jabe Baker gets on the board first. And Brandeis is on top. Oh Conner had a guy there. And he was really kicking himself for not making the play. But Jalen Baker is a heck of a football player I mean one man to beat. And then that was it. We tough angle to Baker getting outside. And once he got an inch he was going to take a mile. It's coming back. See what they it's coming back late flag and Gerald Green familiar face on Thursday night lights making the call. It'll back him up to the 11 yard line but not see what the call was. But they'll replay third and goal blank out the scoreboard and it'll be third and goal from the 11. All right. So let's see what Brandeis has to draw up here. And instead they'll take a timeout. And we will take it with him. All right. Interesting call. Third and goal from the 11. When we come back. Boy, it is a full house here at Farris Stadium. The stands are absolutely packed on both sides. When we heard sellout out, he kind of a little skeptical because high school football these days, you don't normally see the stands full. And it is full on both sides. Again much credit to this rivalry here in San Antonio on so far. Exciting times. Setting up a third and goal from the 11. We got a big play early going yet and a new quarterback in. That's Matthew McClennan the junior who take this snap. And he looks and fires and he throws to Papito the other quarterback not going to get there inside the ten. Down to about the eight to go. And let's see what they decide to do here on fourth down. Looks like they're going to run out the kick team. And that'll be Ryan Villa senior. The senior who was 34 of 36 on extra points a year ago. Only two of seven on field goals. But this is about an extra point variety. You know, it's a 25 yarder. Snap a little high, but it's may have been blocked right at the line of scrimmage. And it may have been Castillo. This is big number seven. Who got a bit on that thing. Got a mulligan if he blocked it. He's the happiest guy in town for O'Connor, man. How about that. Taking some serious punches on this first drive. But it off the edge. Yeah. It looks like somebody came off the edge. That's right. Was that 20? Yes, sir. And that is Brandon Martinez. Very nice. You might be the fastest guy on the field. No wonder he got in there so quick. He lines up at running back now for the Panthers. And he's got the football. And he's been tackled behind the line of scrimmage. Good play coming up from the linebacker position is Tyler Romney all district player from a year ago. Also a 4.0 GPA to go zero eight tackles for loss last season. And he's got one tonight. Yeah Kenny Lewis likes his defensive line too. Those are some big dudes that can move Jake Garza is the quarterback he hands to Martinez. You're not going to catch him if he breaks free. And he's still on his feet across midfield down to about the 47 yard line. He's a track star. Regional 100 meter finalist a year ago yeah. Just find a crease and let them zip. Oh stop playing bully ball at the end of this thing. Get off me! He's the one who blocked the field goal attempt. And it's a San Antonio zoo. First down for the Panthers. Again, it's Jake Garza, the junior quarterback who wants to throw here. One of the heaving thought better and runs. It's going to be a 15 extra as there was a late hit coming up there by the Bronco defense. Jacob Gomez and Ian McKinnon both got their. One of them got him late. First. Then marked that off. And then all of a sudden, O'Connor will have good field position here on their first drive. So this interesting ballgame, right, Don? I mean, Brandeis gets the opening kick. Do great job with the return. And it was bam bam bam on the run. They get down there. And then all of a sudden they get turned away O'Connor stiffens up on defense. And then here they are marching down the field with their first time with the San Antonio Zoo. First down with a jet sweep, turning it inside and gaining about four on the play is number four Chris Esparza. As we take a look at the O'Connor starting lineup. Center Joe Fernandez is the anchor up front. He had eight starts for this team last year. We told you it's a very young team. Brandon Martinez, the big play threat with his speed. We might see Jace. He's a backup quarterback in Riley. Easton number one is the favorite target of Jake Garcia. He too is capable of making big plays as there's a flag down in Gerald Green will explain. Personal foul last time by Heffernan from the 20. First, that's a couple of personal fouls. That one on Martinez on the blindside. Block to the back and back up to the Brandeis 40 yard line. And it'll be first in a mile. Yeah, he put yourself behind the chains. Seriously, after that penalty. The head linesman blowing the whistle to make sure they get the spot right in 2020 at the 41. So it's a first down and 23. Here's Martinez trying to get outside. Gets the corner coming up to make the tackle is number 22 for those Brandeis Broncos. That's Jam Austin the senior. He's part of that defensive line or defensive outfit that's led by Darren Hall, the senior free safety who has committed to Fordham. So all district performer last year. He's the captain in Luna also an all district player. The safeties are where their strength is. Second and 17. And Garza on a boot. Fires and it's caught. Nice completion over the middle. He's waiting for that play to develop and hit that Godby team captain. And the tight end. Yeah is that Godby gets some college looks too. This guy's as good a tight end as there is in the entire area. Good job this week two speaking in front of the camera as we take a look at some of his accolades IBEW Player Profile All-District tight end, two year starter and another guy with a 4.0 GPA. It's third down and about five and there's some movement up front. This might be a free play as Garza chucks it towards the end zone. It's going to be offsides against Brandeis and. That's going to put him real close to the first down. One. Third down. Really good play there. You know we got the flags flying. All that was a tendency to kind of watch what's going on up front. But Kai Luna from Brandeis doing a really nice job staying with his receiver and running him right up the sideline. He said third down. But I guess that's going to move the chains. So it'll be first down San Antonio zone first down right there at the 17 yard line. And the Panthers are on the move. Here's Garza in the shotgun to Martinez. Good penetration up front 48 Deon Edwards making the play. He was the first one there along with Jacob Gomez. And good penetration there by the Bronco defensive front. Yeah. Look like a page out of the old orange Crush right. Let's see code Orange. Give it up for the new heavy metal band. What's up man. Why don't you guys getting through penetrating and gang tackle. Inside the central med red zone. Little fake to Martinez and throws the slant and I tell you what. I do not blame Riley Easton because he's he saw coming at him and that just kind of alligator armed it because he's getting ready to get his head taken off. Yeah that was a darn good throw though. I mean, sometimes you got to just go out and make a play in traffic to see if they can work that play again in at some point. Right. And you're going to get hit anyway. You may as well catch it. He got it anyway. He is. Luna made him rethink of business decision. All right. So it's third down and 12 as the Panthers drive seems to stall out a little bit here. Garza has got to split to his left hands inside the Martinez. Martinez balling his way inside the five down to the four. And that's going to be a San Antonio zone. First down. And the Panthers want to go quickly. What a luxury to have a guy with this kind of speed and agility. On third and long. Everybody's thinking throw him. Look how quickly he gets into the hole and picking up the sticks to boot. Look at this quarterback sneak Jake Garza on the carry as Jake Garza. Picked up a couple possessions. Want to go quick here. See if he can catch two. The Brandeis Broncos napping. But equal to the task. Now looking at a second and goal for the O'Connor Panthers is Jake Garza waits for the play to be called in. And Eric Castillo, who we talked about the nose guard who played offensive line, comes in and is playing right guard. So don't be surprised at all if they run 20 right behind the right guard. Here. They snap it instead. They counter the other way. And Martinez is in for the first score of the game. It's O'Connor that takes the first lead and the fans on the Panthers sidelines going crazy. Well, what a great way to start for the O'Connor Panthers, right? I mean your numbers are a little down. Your team is super young. And you know, Coach Malesky was saying, you know, he really liked the way his team played in their scrimmage against Smithson Valley. And it's very complementary to how good they're going to be this year. And he goes, you know we just can't make any mistakes and grow up a little quickly here. They have a pretty good little team. Extra point is good. But I think who's going to flag down. They did by the way run behind Castillo. They just pulled him to the left side. And that was another thing that Coach Malesky talked about ad nauseum all week was the strength of this team, especially early on. Well, kids are trying to figure things out is up front. Talking it over with David Malesky, you know, it looks like it's going to be penalized on the kickoff. Personal foul. So they'll move it up because that should be the pretty easy for Lane Rigsby to kick it out of the end zone. When we come back. It's O'Connor seven Brandeis zero as the Panthers dodge a bullet on defense and then march down and score. Well, welcome back to Taco Cabana. Thursday Night Lights, presented by the Gamez law firm. Emphasis on the Gamez law firm. Because I'm lucky enough to have Vincent Vasquez here with us. Vincent, how are you today? Good. Yourself? Doing well, doing well. It's always. It's always great when there's, football on, you know? I mean, there's a special scent in the air. I think it's nacho cheese, but. Right, right. But the reason that, we're all here tonight, obviously, is football. But you guys do so much in the community. Why is it that you guys continue to try and help out in the community, especially with Thursday Night Lights every year? Well, we strongly believe in the community at the Gamez Law firm, and especially when it comes to students. So we do things like donate school supplies, provide scholarships to students, and then support programs like Thursday night Lights. You guys don't just support athletes as well, though. You do a lot with education. Why does, Mr. Gomez feel the need and feel the desire to give back scholarships as well to non-Apple? Because Mr. Gomez is a product of San Antonio, like many of our lawyers, and we know that the students are our future and we want to support that. Mr. Gomez, in practicing law for 50 years, you guys have been doing so much in the community, getting thousands and thousands of dollars for people who need the help. Really, why is it that you guys, what sets you apart? So we're a San Antonio firm. We have ten lawyers. 100% of our work is focused on defending individuals that have been hurt by the negligence of somebody else, and that's all we do. Thank you so much for being here, Gomez Lafite. Yes, sir. That's right. Thank you. All right. Send it back to you guys. Man. Oh, we were talking about this on all week. What was the over under on onside kicks with Malesky week. Well we said two. Well there's one right there for you. And they've got the football and it went ten yards. And that's the number one kicker in the state of Texas. Pulling it off a couple points. And. Oh that's fantastic. You got to love a little Trickeration here to get things going. And I'll tell you what. You better be ready when you're playing the O'Connor Panthers. When it comes to special teams. So here we go O'Connor with the football right back on the Brandeis 34 yard line. They do it again. No but Garza a little option. Look there. Pitch that forward doesn't matter. It's legal to Martinez. Give him a completed pass. It was step block. Yeah. That's not a carry. That's a reception for. The San Antonio Zoo first down. Look at their through with his wrong hand to even better Barry Switzer must be coaching him. Right. That option pitch. You talked about it earlier, Chuck. The speed and how quickly Martinez hits that gear. Garza throws. Riley's got it across the 20 inside the central red zone. It's Riley Eason only 571 50. But he's quick like Martinez as we tick down inside five minutes here in the first quarter. And after taking an initial punch in the mouth where it looked like Brandeis was going to go right down the field and score, they get a big block kick touchdown on their first drive onside kick. And here they go. Whistle here. Stops play and get down. We had a big play when Matt was talking about the game. As law firm all star for. The second half you know and hats off to them too for not only what they're doing for here or for us here tonight and what they've done for us here over the years. But you know, I mean, they're everywhere where they're sponsoring boxers up and coming boxers, young reporters out in the field, you know, all kinds of social media influencers. I mean, they're doing a lot of different things that really, I don't know, they're getting enough credit for how much they're spreading the love around San Antonio, for sure. Second down and 11 going nowhere. Martinez is stopped. And again, 21 is showing up tonight. That's Jacob Gomez, the linebacker. Ty Romney, two men, six feet, 200 pounds. Another all league guy goes 32. What a stud. How much this is square up and down you go. So it's third down and long. You third and 14. Garza looking over the middle. Now he's going to run. It makes a nice move. Breaks a tackle inside the 20 short of the first down. But it'll give him a shot here on fourth down if they want to go for it Tyrone Hall gets a big hit right here at the end of this. But Jake Garza setting up everybody with his shoulders and his feet. They pick up the first down as Garza keeps it and keeps this drive alive with another San Antonio Zoo. First down just takes the snap and 11 this Jake Garza surveying the field. Okey doke. And then bam takes a licking. Keeps on ticking down. Able to bounce right off that tackle. So it's first down at the 11.5. Still pick up the first down. Thought we might have a pre-snap penalty as Martinez carries inside the ten a little move but not enough to draw a flag. The second down. Yet. To your point about the the Gomez family a chance to meet Mr. Gorman and his wife a couple of different times. You know, you said it. They just love San Antonio. Love everything about the town and just have a distinguished air about both of them. Very classy individuals. And we certainly appreciate it here at two know. Well, Mr. Garza, he's a big dude. You can tell he's an old sportsman himself. Jake Garza, take it down at the ten Jake Caldwell on the carry. That'll bring up third down. And so things getting a little interesting here. See if they put it up in the air Riley Easton his favorite target Tyler Romney again bearing down on the ball carrier. We've already seen him go once. Did Zack God be the big tight end. So let's see what David Malesky Son-In-Law draws up here. Very interesting dynamic over there. You could be in the doghouse with your father in law if you don't call direct play here. Derek Tash is the offensive coordinator married to Laura. He was molest his daughter was on the play. He might have to sit at the kid's table at Thanksgiving dinner if you don't make the right call there, right. Another false start for O'Connor. That'll back him up even further in the third and long situation. But again, that onside kick steal a possession early in the game. You feel like that's going to be a huge thing. He's got a really good kick or two. So careful with the football here boys. Coach Malesky also very proud of his grandsons. One of them was introduced at the pep rally last night and loved it a little bit. Guys back to pass guards. A little bubble screen is complete to Martinez. What a great catch to the ten inside the five all the way down to the one. And that might get them a first down inside the one. I give up a new set of downs rig Look at them take advantage in this big offensive line. What a great play. You're right. By Brandon Martinez I mean he hits him in stride. He might be able to score but he was able to corral the football gather himself and look at the blocking downfield. Ealy gets inside the one. Good to move the chains first and go. Quarterback sneak touchdown Jake Garza and the O'Connor Panthers have a two touchdown lead here on the experienced Brandeis Broncos. Yeah, you steal a possession and then third and long pick up key. First down to keep the drive alive. Next play you get a rugby scrum touchdown the old fashioned way. Oh Bush push there by. The tight end. Yeah Zach Godby doing his bit. Lane Rigby's extra point is good. Almost goes over the basketball gym with 32 seconds to go here in the first quarter. It's O'Connor 14 Brandeis nothing. to live in Texas and what that means to the. By the Gamez Law firm. I'm here with one of our sponsors from Beluga Air. Joe. How are you today? Good sir. How are you doing? Well, Alejandro and Alejandro has been a little shy. It's all right. 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Oh, 102 little baby beluga over there. First down, ten yards to go for the brand. 25. Wow. What a starter. O'Connor Hudson Harris. Yeah. And you know, it seems like it's been forever since Brandeis. His offense has been on the field. And we talked about this. You and I probably thought with when we prepare for these games, this this could be a mismatch because of the experience level. Of course, we know that David Malesky is squad is always going to be well prepared even though they're young. But there's eight returners on both sides of the ball for for Brandeis. So we thought you know they might be the favorite in this game. And all of a sudden this has got to give this young O'Connor team a lot of confidence. And that will two on first down as they bow up and come in and make a big play behind the line of scrimmage in on the tackle is Jacob Lopez VC. He they think it could be a power five football player. His dad played in the NFL. He's six 4235. They think if he stays healthy he's only a junior. If this kid is on the radar of, UTSA and some other big time, not not Group of five, but power four, I guess it is now, big 12 SEC tech schools. All right, that's the end of one. Look at that crowd. Oh, we're having fun here at Farris Stadium. It's 14. Nothing. We'll switch it. Come back with the second quarter when we return. It's time for our San Antonio. Ready to work? First quarter highlights. It was those Panthers getting on the board first. Martinez going in to make it seven. Nothing. And then they had the onside kick move right down the field. And then Jake Garza did it himself. It's 14 to nothing. And Brandeis will finally get the ball back since they haven't touched in a while after that onside kick. David Malesky his team's always well prepared and boy pull it off that onside. Kick it. Like I said check before the break. They got to be feeling very confident now after getting off to this start you got to back it up. You know David Malesky talking about how well his team played in that scrimmage against Smithson Valley. Pepito running for his life now fires deep has a man down there and almost completes it. Overthrown just a bit for his it did receiver Landon Miller. Yeah just to capitalize on what you were saying I mean you you got five kids returning on offense. Does O'Connor. They got three on defense. And what Malesky said that meant was three of those guys started at least one game. As it is, this is as young a team as he's had in recent memory. But you can't get caught up in experience. You know, you can live too much with the experience and not be really good. I mean, sometimes being experienced over these kids, ignorance is bliss. Fire it out here into the flat. Nice little completion and gain is that will continue to be number 94. Nick Barber. What's the one thing about Brandeis that really stands out? Speaking about big Nick Barber, correct. That huddle he's in right now. Everybody's big. Brandon Williams is 255. College draft is 250. And they mass substitution here still punt it away on fourth down. The punter is Nate Green. He was all district two years ago. Riley Easton back to receive. But first we got time out on the field Kenny Lewis wants to talk it over. And we're back in 15 seconds. Do you know a San Antonio teen in seventh to 12th grade looking for ways to get involved in the community? They can apply to be a Project Worth Teen Ambassador today. For more information, visit our website or call 210 207 8850. I already had one little special teams hiccup when their field goal attempt was blocked, so Kimi just might want to make sure everybody's good on the assignments. Yep, read your keys and got a really zero win because these O'Connor boys are crafty when it comes to special teams play. I could sit here and watch this all night. I wonder if you're going to see something new. There was no surprise that Brandon Martinez got through and blocked the kick. I mean, the dude had four of them the season ago, but. Just a fascinating deal to watch these dudes play special teams. Riley is back to receive the punt from the foot of Nate. And it's blocked. You called it Chuck scooped up by the same man who blocked it, Jonah Marino, the senior and something about those David Volesky special teams. Chuck, you call, he gets right off the edge, gets in, blocks it in and tracks it down for the recovery. It was an easy subject to talk about right on the onset. David Malesky makes no bones about it. You know, this early in the year, you're trying to figure some things out. You know, you're going to prepare and you're going to build your team as you go on through the course of the year. But special teams, he really feels like you can make some hay early on in the season. And I mean, this thing is in its head a lot here tonight. We're barely scratching the surface in the second quarter. It's a county wide service company, first down for the Panthers, who have blocked a field goal attempt and blocked a punt here tonight. They're in business again after only four plays for that Bronco defense. And Martinez has a nice gain on first down mirroring the central red zone right there at the 2500. Nothing simple. Taking advantage of the big boys over there on the left side. Got Williams and Graf and that one Zoeller in the middle. Going to check that Chuck. There's still Statler and Joe Hernandez. Yeah. Now you just get those guys going over there and let 20 do the rest 77th Sage Walker is 633 25. He's a high snap. It's back to Martinez. And good penetration again by that Bronco front Tyler Romney continues to pop on tape. And we've got an IBEW player profile. That young man in the kid in who is A66, 200 pound defensive lineman. He plays both basketball and football and is an academic. All district performer for the Broncos. Yeah. Third down in about five. Amazing ballplayer. And you better believe it with that size and quickness. Lot of teams a lot of schools looking at him. Garza heads off. Martinez stopped short and really just a gain of about one. So they're going to run on Brandon the best kicker in the state of Texas for a field goal attempt here. More special teams play. Had a little hole there but four yards to go. Nice job for the Broncos to close it down. And guess who Ty Romney. Guy's been all over the field tonight. That hole did close in a hurry. All right so here's Rigby and it looks like he's standing at about the 29. So this will be a 39 yarder. Well within his range. Of course he had a TNL record of 49. He's got plenty of leg good snap, good hold, good kick, plenty of leg right down Main Street. And the Panthers score again. It's 17. Nothing O'Connor here in second quarter action. I snap, got it down. Kicks got plenty of leg is good. Wave. Rigby's got a rocket for a right leg. That's a TNL record. And this one was ten yards short of that. But it was good as golden. Sure, man. You're going to be watching him on television someday playing on Saturdays. And as we get ready for Rhino, roofers kick off as the Panthers lead 17 to nothing on the schedule or talk about things you did not think you were going to see here tonight, right? You can see O'Connor maybe leading this football game, but not 17. ZIP. Brandeis needs a spark like they got to start this game. You better be aware that onside kick, though Darren Hall back to receive. He gave it to him early. But we're back about 45 yards. And kick it away from him. You're going to read it. Be fair. Caught right at the 22 yard line and we're back in 15 seconds. Hey San Antonio teens, are you looking for ways to share your voice, creativity and ideas on ways to positively impact the community? Become a Project Worth Teen Ambassador. For more information, visit our website or call 210 207 8850. So we haven't seen this Bronco offense much at all here in this first half. They had four snaps on the last possession. They only had about five on the first possession. It's been all O'Connor. And on first down Joe will throw it. That was intended on the slant 15 for 30 for tall, long lanky receiver there Christopher Pender just out in front of it. And there was only one catch. So it'll be second down and ten. Pender, also a three year starter so got athletes. Good looking ones too, but they've just not gotten into any sort of rhythm. And some of that, Don, is to your point, they just haven't been on the field very much. All right. So here we go. 911 left in the half. But. Back straight drop under pressure. Throws a little bubble screen here. Nice move to avoid the first tackler. Getting close to the 30 yard line is Noah Logsdon. So that'll put him in position to convert here. It'll be third down and about five. Yeah. Once again you're catching early on for Connor with a man right where he needs to be. And it's the tackle there. But basically clean it there. Clean it up there on the back end. But Coach Muskie not happy with some of the tackle you've seen here. Early 20s players know about it. Five wide split for pizza. Three to his right to his left. Malesky doesn't look the looks at it. And he's moving pretty quick for closing in on 60. Yeah it looks like it could still go right. Yeah. Hey, by the way, all season long we're going to highlight teams that are making a difference in our communities with the Beyond the Game program. Here's Ginny cards from San Antonio Sports and Valero. San Antonio Sports has teamed up with Valero once again to recognize our high school and middle school teams that exhibit key values through their actions and efforts within their schools and their communities. We are thrilled to have Valero on our team. 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He made a couple of plays in this ballgame. And he had done your right just a little underthrown. But you know let it all be known that Trey Pepito the Brandeis quarterback is coming off a nasty and I mean nasty hip injury from a season ago. I was told Don it was like Bo Jackson. Oh. And he was able to make a pretty amazing and pretty quick recovery even to get back on this football field. So, you know, he's probably going to take him a little bit here to kind of get the feel of what it's like to play under the lights. But yeah, he got hurt pretty much towards midseason last year and that was one of the blows that really set the Broncos back last year as an organization. All right. Time out on the field will take it with the 17 nothing. Oh come. Welcome back to Farris Stadium. As you can see, it's a packed house. Here is O'Connor leads Brandeis. The Broncos having punted away Nate Green going to kick it away to Riley Easton if he can get one off without being blocked Easton fair catch called for and has it at the 29. You go down to the sidelines and Matt Roy Madonna found the superintendent John Kraft down here on the sidelines. Superintendent how are you today? I'm good Matt it's good to see you. Good to see you. It's the it's it really feels like school has started now that football has started. How is the beginning of the school year going for you guys? And how happy are you that football back on Thursday night. So we're back into the second week. So we're off and rolling iron and wrinkles out. But it's been a good start really has. And of course this is an electrifying environment. This is what we hope Thursday Friday and Saturday. Football is throughout the entire season. Just so appreciative of the fans, the patrons and of course our students that are just amazing. I gotta ask you, it's a it's really lit on my right side because there does seem to be a new video board here. Tell us about the new video board here at Gus and here at Ferris and over a Gus and and how it's improving. The experience is here. Yeah. So we had the conversation with the board. We introduced the idea of, you know, let's let's introduce sports broadcasting and bringing more students in. Of course, they're great to watch replays, but really there's a whole nother element involved which involves a curriculum the board just recently approved, along with the video boards, that we're going to start sports broadcasting, where the students are actually going to produce a lot of the highlight reels, a lot of the coaches and players interviews, and they're going to run the cameras. So we're pretty excited about it. That's pretty awesome. I'm sure that we'd all be willing to help it, help everybody that needs to learn, especially in the NASD. So, Don wanted me to ask you guys have abandoned cell phones on the O'Connor campus. Tell me a little bit about that. Yeah, well, you know, you seen where the Surgeon general has talked about the adverse effects, particularly in the learning environment. And so we're easing into this. Our middle schools don't have cell phones during structural time. O'Connor. The principal is communicated with the parents. Hey, this is the rationale. This is what we want to try. And so far it's going really, really well. So we're not locking the cell phones up, but we're definitely not allowing them to be used for instructional time, which I think is really what the parents and teachers feel like is so important, so that the kids can actually focus on what's most important. And that's learning. You guys help hoping that that helps with student outcomes as well. Absolutely. Not having that social media distraction seven hours a day, I think it's good for, first, personally, just students emotional health, but also their focus on academia. The last thing I want to ask you, obviously, Brandeis and O'Connor, one of the best rivalries we have around here, was that is that special to you? I mean, I know they're not in the same district anymore, but that they still get to play every year and that we still get to see the fans pack the stands like we have right now. Well, man, you see what color shirt I'm wearing right now, so I have to remain completely neutral. Now when I see a great play or student do something awesome, yes, I'll applaud, but I'm pretty neutral and I just hope that they have a fair competition. They demonstrate sportsmanship and they're learning lifelong lessons out here. Awesome. Superintendent Kraft, thank you so much for the time. Back to you guys up in studio. Thanks, Matt. Big play there. Big break up by that Bronco defense. Chuck I think that's great. I was talking to Mark, Robert Martinez, the principal at O'Connor, about that cell phone thing. He says already you could tell drastic changes in the morale of the student body. Kids are talking to one another again, and I think it's a trend that's just going to this is just the beginning. I think I remember back in the day when they said we couldn't text and drive and everybody was like, what? Well, then you realize how dangerous it was, and now it's just nobody texting driver. You shouldn't. Right. And I think that's the way it's going to be with these kids in school, putting the cell phones away, learning to talk, to look up from the screens and look each other in the eyes again, make relationships and and have fun. They are. Kudos to Kimi Lewis and his special teams. They're snuffing out the fake punt. But I'm with you Don. I think it's really cool that somebody in authority is saying that this is a bad idea to have these things on 24 and seven. I wish somebody would ban you, me, from these phones. I mean, I mean, think how much better we would be if somebody took these things out of our hands. I mean, well done. Northside. Yeah. Great job. O'Connor. All right. Here we go. First down the PTO on the keeper running for his life, trying to dodge that O'Connor defense was brought down after a gain of about two as it's seven minutes to go here. At least Brandeis now on the O'Connor sideline as you take a look at Trey Pepito one of our IBEW local 60 player profiles on the Leadership Council runs track as well as academic all district 4.0 GPA. And as you said, came back from tough hip injury. Yeah. And to think that he was ahead of schedule this ahead of schedule I mean he was playing seven on seven football. He's so hard to believe he got the hit the ball into the hands of Baker there. And that'll move the sticks for a first down and wide service company first down. Yeah 12. Can't touch the ball enough right. Find him. Trips to the right hand side. They move another man in motion here at the 23. It's first down and we've got a pre-snap whistle as Malesky defense wants to talk this over. And they take a timeout. Timeout on the third and final. You know Robert Martinez the principal it at O'Connor was telling me that they've yeah it's really worked out pretty well. And taking these cell phones away, they get them during lunch time or something. But during the instruction period, he said, we had an assembly the other day and we caught a kid passing a note and he goes, you haven't seen that one? And they picked up the note and they opened it up and it was tic tac toe. Yeah. Nice little throwback going on during the assembly. It's like yeah. Ex no. And hand it down the road. That's good clean fun. And we've seen just so much bullying and negativity on these social media apps, especially with middle school and high school kids who are still trying to figure it all out. There's so much peer pressure and, so much damage that can be done through either bullying or exclusion. And so that's a it's a refreshing, thing to hear. First, down here, 641 to go inside the 25 counter draw. It's on his feet inside the five. He's going to score a touchdown. Brandeis is on the board Noah Logsdon just would not be denied. Here's another guy coming back from injury Noah Logsdon. This kid was averaging about 100 yards a game before he got hurt. But it just kind of lost sight of him, right? A little delayed handoff. And then he broke a tack on. Then. See you later. That's good too for playing touch after he broke that first hit. By the way our guy Brandon Martinez playing a little safety now too. Now doing it all wrap up though. Extra point attempt by Ryan Senior high snap. Good hold and the kick is up and good. So Brandeis is on the board. Cuts the deficit to ten as Noah Logsdon just picked his way through. Broke a big tackle and hit paydirt. And the Broncos got to be feeling good after getting off the schneid there with 632 to go. And speaking of that, as always out at the TNL pep rallies every day and Broncos had theirs outside. They just love this rivalry. Lots of folks out there yesterday. Even more here today. We're going to hear from both bands coming up at halftime. Always a great halftime show, especially with these schools. With these big six marching bands that are always, always very talented. One school's doing well in a lot of different areas, in a lot of different sports. Let's play. Martinez is back along with Riley Easton for the kickoff here. Don't forget about our $5,000 Band. Band grant, brought to you by the Christian children's people. Thank you again for being with us here on TNL and the little Scam Code. So if you like what you see, like what you hear, give them a vote. $5,000 Band grant as always, sponsored by Christmas Children's. Whoo boy, they've been doing that for years. It's fantastic. The bands love it. People love voting for it. And you'll get a chance to hear both bands and vote coming up a little later at halftime. Let's see if Brandeis gets a little tricky with the kickoff. That much ado about nothing. We'll see. Yeah, don't relax man. We've seen a little bit of everything already in this first half. He looks like it's onside. He doesn't have a good run here for pooch instead. And it's only towards the sideline. It'll be out of bounds. That'll draw a flag. And malesky is going to want to have him kick it again. Just like they did to start the game. Curtis must be feeling it on special teams tonight. If you're just joining us O'Connor lead 17 to 7 after going up 17 to nothing. Special teams blocked early field goal, then blocked the punt. And they've had possession most of the first half. Brandeis putting together their first drive on their last possession to cut it to a ten point lead first time. And they've also had an onside kick which they successfully recovered. And they faked a punt that didn't work to their benefit. We'll take possession here. Won't make them kick it again. And it's Jake Garza running out the O'Connor offense trying to put it in the end zone one more time before the half. Inside handoff to Martinez. Breaks the first tackle. But he's wrangled down there by Ian Luna the all district captain and safety for the Broncos. Yeah Deon Edwards and company as well in on the play and looks like Brandeis has ramped it up a little bit here in the box. Starting to get a little bit more of a push. And second line of the defense also filling in nicely. Second down and nine straight drop to Garza. Wants to throw over the middle. Intercept it right at the 40 yard line. Coming up to make a very athletic play was Gabe Leffler the senior safety working? Well, it looked for a while there that they were going to have plenty of time to throw the football. Jake Garza standing tall in the pocket. And then they got a big push from the six 591. And I think he had to get rid of it just a tick before he wanted to. And Leffler coming up with a huge play. And all of a sudden Brandeis is back in business and maybe able to make this a one score game. All right, so here we go. The Broncos taking over in Panther territory. It's Trey Pepito and company. First down and ten. Pepito swarmed for a loss of about five on the play as Jacob Lopez VC. We talked about him earlier 642 35. Division one prospect comes off the edge and he had some help from Martinez who play a defense. Now with that speed, he's already blocked the field goal. He's already scored a touchdown as a running back and now he's making plays coming off the edge as a pass rusher. Yeah you know I think you wanted a mulligan too on that last touc made the quick adjustment. Now he's coming up with a big play. He's too quick for everybody no matter what he's doing. He is the quickest guy out there. So second down and 16. Low snap. He didn't hit balls out. And let's see who got it. It's O'Connor football. The Panthers recovering on defense. That's Jonah Marino coming up with the football. Let's see who knocked it out Jonah. It was a low snap I thought they might blow it dead when he bent over to pick it up. But his knee was not down. And then he lost the football. And Jonah Marino is going to be our scholar athlete at halftime. And he was very scholarly here. It's Jacob Lopez VC, knocking it out with his left hand. And he's a wide body dude. You know you're looking at O'Connor on the sideline from up in the box here and their numbers are down. But they've still got a bunch of big kids in third. He's one of them. So first down for the Panthers on their own 48. Little bootleg for Jake Garza wants to throw does completed near the 42 yard line. And he completed that to Chris Esparza, the five eight, 165 pound senior. We've got a flag down. And here's Gerald Green you know for receiver downfield. Often five-yard penalty first down. So March that would be down for the first down and 15. That was a nice bounce back play right there for Jake Garza. The words coming back. Great job sliding and gliding and waiting for his guy to come clean back and delivered on time and on target David Malesky. And as O'Connor a long time spent eight years as the coordinator and then ten years as the head coach. Inside handoff. That goes to Devin Conroy. I haven't seen much of a running game other than Martinez who's going to come back in. I'm sure he needed a bit of a rest. After playing the defensive series last. He checks in. Convoy comes out to go back to back shots there. Ty Romney and Brandon Martinez. Don, I know the San Antonio High School All-Star game is half a year away, but Jeepers Creepers, are you going to have these guys on the field for sure right. Look like all stars to me. Garza going down the sideline. Got a man down there just off the fingertips of his favorite receiver Riley Easton. Good ball from Jake Garcia. Could have been caught and almost was. Yeah that was a dime right there. You could not have put it any better down the sideline there. And yeah it was actually not too bad a coverage there by Jane Austin the senior. You know, I think he kicked it out of his own hands with his knee as he was stumbling forward to Garza on third and long was sacked. And there's their Ian McKinnon. You talked about that big young man six six 200 pounds. He's got offers from him Kingsville Howard Payne and Millsaps. And you can see why they really like the defensive line. They're super strong outside and explosive. And then six five off the edge and got a really good nose tackle. It's a good job getting around and getting in. High punt fielded and fair caught at the 30 from Lane Rigby. So with 316 to go O'Connor puts it back into the hands of the Broncos, who dodged a bullet after that fumble by Pepito. And he'll try to drive his team down the field and make this maybe a three point game by halftime. Yeah, Noah Logsdon kind of seizing control of the huddle right there trying to get his guys fired up. I mean he couldn't have had more things go wrong on the first 3 or 4 possessions of this football game. And now here you are. You got a chance to get the ball right back after you turn it over. With a chance to make this a ballgame again right before halftime. Here's the Brandeis schedule coming up. You saw Sotomayor and Steele the next two for them and breaking free across midfield is the young man who scored the first touchdown for the Brandeis Broncos. And he just I'm telling you, there's no locks until his determined career. Well we just talked about him seizing control of the huddle. Practice what you preach. The last give me the ball and let me loose. And a great job by Ortega and Gutierrez on the right side. Clearance space. Pato fires to the outside. That's caught across the 45 or the 35, rather down to about the 32 yard line. And that's Jalen Baker, their star from a year ago. And now you get a little rhythm right a long run. And all of a sudden you pop one outside to JB. Here you go. Second down and about three long to the Pito fires back again to the outside still on his feet. Stumble is brought down inside the center, made red zone down there near the 15. Look at the respect they are giving Jalen Baker on the outside in the middle, giving him a good seven yards off the line of scrimmage. Check that Bill spotted at the 21. Two minutes to go. Here he throws it out of his way again. Give it to your best player. And they do. And he's got a wide service company. First down and that far sideline. The cell phone lights are out and in the Brandeis student section they're fired up. Here's a carry to the outside to the five. Touchdown Brandeis. We've got a football game with two minutes to go here in the first half. Six. But he's coming off a busted hip gone I mean he just barely got the outside there. And look at him just blow by everybody. See you. So Trey Pepito moves the Broncos right down the field with a couple of good completions to his favorite target Baker. The extra point is up and good by Ryan Vasey. Senor we've got ourselves a football game here on week one Thursday night lights. You know way to bounce back. Brandeis finally got some energy into this offense. And Tre Pido picking him up and putting him down. This has the makings of a good one here tonight on Thursday Night Lights. We always look forward to the matchup because of the rivalry and in the stands being packed. But the football is living up to it. We got a good win next week. Look at that. Look at the crowd sizes here Burbank and Veterans Memorial. And before you go, Veterans Memorial. You know, really, really good. Burbank. Not so much. Burbank's turning it around. Dude. They got a quarterback. They got 150 kids in their program. Yeah. Go to sleep on Burbank. I dare you. I guarantee you Veterans Memorial will have all eyes on what they're coming up against next week. Looking forward to that one. So Riley Easton is back with Martinez to receive the kick from a senior. And let's see if Malesky crew can put up some more points here before halftime. When? We've got another flag this time. We got a few of those tonight. Right. But I don't know what. You might have been expecting. Somebody cross the line of scrimmage on their little juke move. There, or is he just going to pick it up a foul on the play. No foul. Yeah. Officials get a freebie. Their first game of the year. Unless he's not happy about whatever was picked up. Nice kick all the way through the end zone. So David Malesky offense 152 to go here. Coming. Possession first and you know they'd love to answer here to take the momentum back after they dominated the first quarter led 17 to nothing. And then watched as Brandeis has scored the next 14 points. Let's flash back to 2022 Sharon. High snap. Got it down. Kicks got plenty of leg is good. Lane Rigby's got a rocket for a right leg. But bombs away. Like seeing it again A play a kick. So nice. We saw it twice as Riley getting into some trouble here inside the 20 a loss on the play action hobby Hernandez and friends. All of a sudden this Brandeis defense and its speed really showing itself. You can understand why. You know very early on in this football game O'Connor really wanted to stay between the tackles. I mean, you stretch out these Brandeis defenders and you might pay the price. And now David Malesky might be thinking, you know what, I just may run this clock out here getting to the half and regroup after a loss of five on first night, I'll hand it to Martinez, who gets back to the line of scrimmage. But that's about all. And Javier Hernandez coming up to make a couple of good plays. One of the do you burn some timeouts here if you're Kenny Lewis to go you know I think they're all out. It's been that kind of a half right. But Brandeis no doubt someone out there packing the box reminds me of Alice in Chains Down. If you say so. I did not get the reference. Okay, there you go, Nikki six. Got it. Third down and 15. They'll be glad to just run it out here. Oh, man. Still got some moves. Martinez is so quick. He's capable of busting it on the carry. Yeah, I think somebody is grateful. They call it an ankle right there and held on for dear life. This guy is shifting. That's going to take us to halftime. It's going to be 17 to 14 O'Connor here at the half. Make sure you stick around for the halftime show. We'll hear both bands on the far sideline. The Bronco faithful very very excited about the way they've come back to make this a ballgame. We'll go down to Matt Roy here on the sidelines for our halftime coach's interview. But what a second half is setting up to be rivalry game. Throw everything out the window. And again we talked about this on the onset Don two programs that had losing records last year. Both besieged by injuries but looking good here in the clean slate. To open it up. Here's Matt with David Malesky. All right. Coach Steve Malesky is here with us. Coach you pretty special teams all the time. You guys have had huge special teams plays in this first half. What was the mentality coming in. Why leave anything at home I mean we're going to come out here and do everything we can to win the football game. And we're making plenty of mistakes right now. So if we can figure out how not how to stop those, we'll be in a lot better shape. What's the message for your team in the second half as you lead by three in this rivalry game? I'm going to go tell them do you think this is going to be easy? And secondly, stop shooting our foot off because mine hurts right now. All right. Good luck coach. I love coaches. Oh don't shoot yourself in the foot. Yeah the first half was great. Halftime is going to be just as good. Will come back with the Bronco band and our halftime show right after this. Tonight's broadcast of Thursday Night Lights is sponsored by Taco Cabana. The Gomez law firm, Beluga Air, central men in Roll S.A., San Antonio Sports, Valero San Antonio Zoo, county wide service company, Christmas Children's AC now and se.com Rhino roofers San Antonio ready to work air and plumbing today. Living Way Church, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Premiere Pro's IBEW Vietnam Army, Grub Museum and Monarch Trophy Studio. Welcome to the Centro Med Halftime Report. Welcome back to Farris Stadium. Here on the north side of San Antonio for the 16th edition of Thursday Night Lights. We have a fantastic game going on. O'Connor 17, Brandeis 14. Everything you could want, and more from special teams, offense and defense. If you hear those soothing sounds behind me, that's the Brandeis marching Band on the field right now. We got to talk to their band director a little bit earlier today. My name is Patrick McGuire. I'm the director of band that Louis de Brandeis High School and Northside I-s-d. This is my third year as director of band after High school. Oh man, I am so pumped about this year. I'm super excited about our show. It's called In the Shadows. Our featuring an electric violinist that's coming from our orchestra program. Wonderful player and all pay the musician. Additionally, some of the the selections that we're playing are after Pia dodos live or tango. We have some tango choreography on the bill, including the ballad Ice Dance, which comes from Edward Scissorhands by Danny Elfman, and they were finished off with, Paul Duke The Sorcerer's Apprentice music with for featuring a trombone quartet. The students are thrilled. The community was really high. Better showcase the Black Friday, I would say we have mostly upperclassmen in our band. I mean, it's a good mix up. Those, about 5050, really. I mean, we have a strong freshman class coming in the band every retained from last year. We're comprised of 210 total band members, which include our visual ensemble. So it's going to be a great crowd to see our Thursday Night Lights against O'Connor. We're really excited about it. Fans of America, they are starting their first contact at Benchmarking Marker at Texas State University. So we have a couple, a couple of assistant directors here. Our alumni of Texas. So they were really eager and enthusiastic about going to the contest and really pulling out all the stops to make sure that we have a reputable run through over there. But that's a contest on September 28th. After that, on October 5th will be a rocket review and Rutledge Stadium. Then we go over to Texas Marching Classic over in round Rock, Texas at Kelly Reef Stadium. Then we have a U-I-L region marching on October 19th. Then we go over to our U-I-L area contest at Rutledge Stadium on November 2nd. It'll be pretty nonstop, but I'm really, anticipating success for all of our students. The Brandeis Bronco Band is it thrives with our really supportive booster club and parents in general. The parents here at the Bennett community are just 1 in 1,000,000. And they just really about their students and our thriving program. Additionally, I want to recognize our new principal, Dana Gilbert Perry has been phenomenal in supporting the fine art. And then I also want to recognize our newly appointed, amazing director of Fine Arts. We have met with a little bit of anticipated at, at the helm for Northside, and they're really looking out for our. And it's going to be a wonderful year. All right. It's time to vote for the Christmas children's $5,000 Band. Grant the vocal Brandeis High School marching band. Scan the QR code on your screen for the CW 35.com/station/contest. Must be 18 years old and live in our viewing area. San Antonio middle and high school athletes are doing great things for our community. San Antonio Sports and Valero are shining a light on teams and individuals who on key values through their actions. This week, we salute two schools whose community projects demonstrate beyond the game values. 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This is what they had to say. Bobby DeLeon. I'm the director of bands here at O'Connor High School. This is my six year in teaching. But my first year with the program, I was originally at Harlan High School for about five years, and so super excited to be here now at the Big Oak. I'm extremely excited just because it's year one for myself. And so it's always very enjoyable to come into a a program and see what we can do. The kids have been phenomenal. The community is extremely supportive. And it's just been very, very welcoming experience here so far. So it's been great. We're, we're pretty senior heavy. We've got about 50 seniors this year. I look really great. Leadership team. They have been working extremely hard all summer. Calling their own sectionals. It's been very, rewarding for us as a program. We're about 230 to 240, members in the band program this year. So we're super excited to still kind of be in that big band, era. The show is called Color of Sound. And so eventually we are going to bring a lot of vibrant colors to the end of our show. And we started with a grayscale, and then we introduce green, as our first movement. Then we introduce red and then we introduce yellow. Then we end with blue. A very, very, famous band piece, Blue Shade by Frank de Kelly. So the kids are extremely excited. They've been working very hard on the music. And so we hope to kind of bring this an intense, colorful, spectrum to everyone, in our audience, beginning at the end of September, we're going to be at the Capital City marching contest in Austin. Then we got the rocket review here in San Antonio, then the Texas Music Classic Festival. I'm in Austin, u-i-l U-I-L area and then hopefully state, but definitely to kind of cap the season off, we'll be performing at the San Antonio, in November. I just love to thank, our other assistant directors, here with O'Connor, we have Gabriel Valdez, Eric Gomez, Foster Martin and Mandy King. They've been super phenomenal. And helping myself kind of get my feet planted here with the program. And they've just been, honestly, the best. And definitely to our our O'Connor Boot Band booster program. They have just been phenomenal. We couldn't do without them. And, and, obviously to the O'Connor administration and our principal, Robert Martinez, he has just been, like I said, just like the staff, he has been very supportive, with this transition over here to O'Connor. And so I couldn't thank them enough to vote for the O'Connor High School marching Band. Scan the QR code on your screen or visit CW 35.com/station/contest. Must be 18 years old and live in our viewing area. Thanks again to Christus Children's for sponsoring this year's $5,000 Band grant. You're watching the Centro Med Halftime Report. Every week on TNL, we showcase amazing student athletes. At the end of the year, Beluga Air will present a $10,000 scholarship to one of the students. We feature this season on TNL. Our David Chancellor introduces us to this week's scholar athletes from O'Connor and Brandeis. Jonah Marino is a big, tough guy with a big soft heart. Growing up, I was, I was influenced by both parents, my dad and Hugh. He grew up in this environment where he he wanted us to be the strongest and the best. We could be in, like any other sport. My mom, she raised us to be ambassadors of Christ. So we got to show, like, grace to other people. We got to be helpful and I really think both my mom and dad put a huge role into how we're doing. He's a linebacker and a track star at O'Connor, but he's also part of the school's Panther Powell program, which means he mentors students at nearby elementary schools. One of the kids I was helping mentor, they didn't come from the best home, so I really had I really felt like connected with them. I felt like I could be that getaway for them to feel happy at school, making the few like 3040 mins we were with him, make him feel like special and make him feel like he really enjoyed doing stuff. Jonah's education goes beyond math and English. He is part of the AST program which includes raising pigs. He's got a 98 GPA. He's made all academic teams in both football and track, but his real genius is realizing you have to earn the right to be a student athlete. You need a pass to play, and I feel like in order to do that at a higher level, you need to really put your focus on to the Mia question makes Brandeis volleyball player Perla Ramirez blush. How good are you at volleyball? I'm, I think I'm I'm pretty good. I mean, excellent is more like it. She's a three year starter for a team that is a back to back district champs. My coach had faith in me to put me on varsity, my sophomore year. And I think I really tried to focus on just making sure that my teammates know that they're successful as well. Simply put, she's a winner. She has a 102 GPA, academic All-District, Honor Society, student council. She's even won the National Hispanic Recognition Award. Her key time management. You really have to stay on top of your work and making sure that even if it's due in three days, getting it done as soon as you can so that you don't have to stress about it at the last minute, is super important. Perla is a self-described army brat whose family finally put down roots three years ago in San Antonio, and that is when she discovered a love for helping others, including with the nonprofit Connecticut's. I was always taught that, you know, if you think you have it worse, there's a lot of people who have it worse than you. I just think that making sure that you can put yourself aside sometimes and look beyond yourself and care for something beyond yourself is super important. Her dream is to go to UT, become a nurse and help others. Bottom line once a winner, always a winner. You're watching the Centro Med Halftime Report. Welcome back to the Centro Man halftime show. We are at Farris Stadium, where O'Connor leads Brandeis 17 to 14 at the half. It's been a thrilling first half. Here's our San Antonio ready to work. First half highlights after a blocked field goal, O'Connor drove right down the field. Martinez made it seven nothing. They didn't had an onside kick and that led to a touchdown by quarterback Ryan Garza. Sneak made it 14 to nothing and they took a 17 nothing lead after a lane. Rigsby 39 yard field goal. The 17 to nothing. But here come the Brandeis Broncos. Pepito scored a touchdown. Noah Logsdon scored that touchdown. That made it 1714. And that's where we stand as we get ready for second half action. The field, the teams rather about ready to come back here on to the field. The sold out crowd. Nobody has gone home. And we've got a great second half straight ahead on Taco Cabana Thursday Night Lights. Thanks for watching the Centro Med Halftime Report. Stay tuned for the second half kickoff. Welcome back, coach David Malesky, getting his O'Connor Panthers ready for our Reno roofers. Second half kickoff. What an exciting first half. It was. This Panthers use special teams to take a 17 to nothing lead. And in the second quarter it was all Brandeis Broncos. As they rally hard to come from behind in. You can see right now that they're running out to return kicking the kick and 80 to Martinez who's their star running back and kick returner Brandon Martinez is not out there. He may have suffered a ankle sprain or something coming out on the field. He just maybe he's just cramping up. But there he is right there. It looks like we'll probably see him in the second half, just not right now. As Brandeis will kick it away. To Riley and now in for Martinez to receive back there as well is number 15 Evan. Valpo and Valpo is going to watch it go through the end zone. So it'll be first down and ten for the Panthers. And we'll see if David Malesky who's message got through quick. Quit shooting ourselves in the foot. And I think there's a flag down in the meantime will be down to Matt Roy who talked to Kelly Lewis at halftime and get his thoughts on his team's resurgence in the second quarter. Matt. Well done. Kimi Lewis thought that they were, shooting themselves in the foot. He said that they were kind of blindsided and taken aback by this atmosphere. The sold out crowd, the rivalry game. Obviously no one has left the stands yet. And even though they weren't surprised by, Dave Malesky antics, let's just say they were taken aback by it a little bit. But you saw them settle in in that second quarter, and now you're going to see them settle in a little bit more, he said. The second half adjustments they need to make settle down, play their game and don't get wrapped up in the moment and they're going to try and come back and win this thing. You better believe it. All right. Thanks, Matt. It's setting up to be a really good second half as we're trying to figure out what's going on. Thought they might re kick instead. It'll be first and ten from the 30. As the officials have sorted it out. And now the O'Connor offense runs back out there with Jake Garza the quarterback who had a productive first half. For tonight one interception. And he'll hand off inside again. Martinez not there. So that's Devon and Cornwall the backup running back senior. He had a carry on the first half. That's down the line of scrimmage. Maybe a yard. Go go back Mr. Wonderful Tyler Romney big night for Tyler Romney telling you man there's some fires in the hole going on right now here to start the second half. Second and nine. Garza pressured running for his life. And he's going to be dropped for a loss of about five. And there he is again. Chuck Tyler Romney I'll tell you they are really doing a good job now on defense. Just there's just nowhere to go with the football right here. We've been having a hard time picking up any of these orange jerseys. Just a lot of guys around the ball and their main weapon sidelined with what looks to be a leg cramp right now. So it's third down and 13. Jake Garza hadn't put it up much tonight rolling right fires and that's picked off at the 30 yard line seeing it reading it. Ian Luna the all district safety broke on the ball and made a play on the. We got a man down two after you see the interception here just. Receiver and quarterback not on the same page. And big number 91 Ian McKinnon is down. See Jimmy Lewis and the concerned Brandeis coaching staff. And why they attend to him. We'll take a break and come back with 1043 left. It will be Brandeis football. Ian MacKinnon walking off with a little bit of help there. Good to see him walk off the field. And the peace and Brandeis fans. Glad that he's okay. And then in the meantime, they've got the football after a turnover down three. And it's Trey Bebeto on a San Antonio zoo. First down from the 30 fires to Baker. It's off his hands and incomplete. That ball had some spice on it. Baker was unable to bring it down. Second down to go at the Panthers 31. You don't even see the injury. You just saw Ian McKinnon weighing there. You always get a little worried, especially when you see the opposing sideline motioning over to get over there quickly. And I mean our eyes were going with the ball and the interception obviously was a huge play in the ballgame. But you McKinnon's in the tent and we'll hope everything turns out all right there. The Pito keeps right up the middle. He's dropped a nice solo tackle by Jeremy Maldonado. The nickelback for the Vikings O'Connor I mean you talk about a huge play in the ballgame too right. And the Panther Landis gets your hands right back on the ball. And now they're trying to see if they can get one down the field to take the lead to. Baker is one on one. He makes the catch. And he's got a first down the San Antonio Zoo first down. They're just isolating their best player getting him the ball in space and watch him Baker make a play. And he's into the central mid red zone. Such a handful. Darn I mean they're giving up all kinds of room over there. And now they're trying to hide him over there with the trips on the right side. Instead they come back this way on a slant and he's solo covered down to the ten yard line is Christopher Pender. I got this guy who's. One of those big bodied receivers who's really, really electric on the other side, and they're making O'Connor cover the entire field on this drive. It's second and one Saint look just flipped it deep, and Pepito is going to try to get to the corner. Gets a block from Baker and gets the first down. Nice job with Baker out there by himself making a block. And he may have injured one of those Panthers in doing so. Here on the carry. Kaden Varshney is going to limp off. He's a big ball game too. Let's see what happens here. Just one on one with Baker. Tripped up. Outstanding young player. His team by 90. He's a senior. He's a captain. That 12 tackles a year ago. They really like his leadership on this defense. Meanwhile here come the Broncos at the five yard line with a first and goal. After trailing the entire game. They're knocking on the door to take the lead. At least Brandon Martinez is back in there for O'Connor. Number 20 is he continues to do yeoman's work on both sides of the ball. Nice coming right down the field here to start the third quarter. They'll need him to make a play. That's Baker on the right hand side soloed up. Let's see if they look his way. Instead Pepino keeps an is dropped by Maldonado makes another nice tackle after a short run to be second and goal for North Providence. Sinking down four to go and Pepito comes out and Matthew McClennan, the backup, comes in and they switch out a lot of personnel here. On second and goal. McLennan looking over for the signal. He's a junior. Played a lot last year. Had 44 completions as a sophomore. Quarterback attempts rather including 207 yards a touchdown. Good baseball player two. So let's see if he puts it up. Here's a whistle. And they call a timeout. They were getting deep in the clock and we'll take it with them. Kimmy Lewis will talk it over as his squad looks to take their first lead of the game. Third quarter action here on game one. Week one Thursday Night Lights. Closed captioning for tonight's game is sponsored by Premiere Pro. Oh. Oh. For the antlers. Throwing in the endzone and it is caught. Touchdown! How about Intel's throws a jump ball for Creighton and he comes down with it. He gave the receiver a chance to make a play. And Creighton certainly did a. Whoa whoa whoa. The great dean read law and color commentary. Yeah. Bigger and McCracken rocking the mic. It's great to see eyes, man. It's great to see this crowd. What a game. Second and goal. Brandeis trying to take their first lead of the game. Here's Bebeto inside handoff. This young man's already scored once, and he gets in again. It's Noah Logsdon. And the Broncos have the lead for the first time tonight. Complementary football. As Mike McCarthy would say capitalizing off the turnover. Brandeis goes right down the field. And what a comeback I mean down 17 to nothing. No panic. Finally got some rhythm on offense. And now we'll see if O'Connor can answer back. Ryan via Senoras kick shanked no good, and the lead is but 320 to 17 after another touchdown by Noah Logsdon. Don't forget. After Thursday night lights state. Keep it right here to tune in to the the Connors on USA. So you're going to have O'Connor followed by the Connors. There you go. That's what we call very nice program continuity. Got to like it. Got to like what two has done so far in this ball game. Two with a big assist from the fellows up front. Brennan Williams calling Graf, Christopher Valenzuela, Alex Ortega and Izzy Gutierrez down. They got two guys returning from last year. Of course Valenzuela was one of their captains but really high on big 71 two Izzy Gutierrez just a sophomore. So you know these guys have really found themselves up front here, especially after that first quarter. Really doing a nice job helping to give Noah Logsdon some space and do that. Noah Logsdon knows what to do with the rest of what he's afforded. Right. And good news is Brianna martinez is back on the field for the O'Connor Panthers to return this kick along with Riley, Ethan. Yes. For the first time tonight, O'Connor finds themselves on the short end of this 2217 score, 826 to go. Fun game here tonight, as we knew it would be to kick off our 16th anniversary season of Taco Cabana Thursday Night Lights. Straight away, Kick's going to get to the goal line and Martinez thought about it. Takes a knee inside the end zone. So that's a touchback. And here we go. Let's see if David Malesky offense can generate something here in the third quarter. Jumped out to that 17 to nothing lead. And all of a sudden Brandeis has thrown up 20 straight. Yeah it's been a remarkable turnaround. We just kind of settled in I mean Kenny telling Matt Roy it may have been a little overwhelmed by the size of this crowd and energy here in week one. And the Muskies team coming in and smacking him down right away. But they've settled in nicely and right now it's their ballgame to win and go to Martinez. On first down he picks up 3 or 4. Ball came out at the end of the play. It's recovered by Brandeis and the officials are pointing it as Brandeis football. Okay I didn't see anybody blow it. Yeah but it's pretty loud in here. So we shall see. While he was struggling towards the ground and it came out at the end and it was recovered by big number 89, Robert Spears, the junior. And sure enough it's Brandeis football. And just a tough turn of events for O'Connor here in the second half. And all of a sudden the Broncos looking to pad the lead. Yeah. You know we were thinking about doing a hair segment this year because we talked so often about it or I know I do Robert Spears that's the elite level flow. Here's Pepito firing on first down completing to Pindar. And he's inside the central mad red zone. Well, you can't say enough about what this Brandeis defense has done. Help its offense here tonight, right. Come out here and create these turnovers like they have. And they flip the script pretty quickly. It's not a new set of downs for the Broncos inside the red zone. Pepito keeping it all the way breaking it across the ten down to about the five a nice gain on first down by Martinez. All the momentum now riding with the Broncos. Just death by a thousand paper cuts right now with this inside game that Brandeis has got working. And you know the quick feet of both Noah Logsdon and Trey Pepito really lethal in small spaces. It's got Logsdon in the backfield, Pindar to his left, Baker to the top of the screen to the right, and steady hands to Logsdon. He just won't be denied his third touchdown of the game. Right Noah Logsdon right up the gut. My kid loves contact and he just won't go down. We're just going right. Oh, God. Again, those big fellows up front plowing the way. And then Noah Logsdon until tell this guy likes contact. Yeah. And on all three of his touchdown runs, he had to break some serious contact to keep his feet. It's 2717, 27 straight by the Brandeis Broncos. Logsdon is averaging 15.5 yards a carry. Let's go down to the sidelines. And Matt Roy all right guys just a quick update on senior Ian MacKinnon. Number 91 over on Brandeis. He did get evaluated. Spoke to his mom. They took his helmet away. He looked he does appear out for this contest. Yeah. It looked like he got his bell rung. Was easiest way to say it. I think they, Chuck, when you made that observation of the O'Connor coach saying run out here I think is because he knew he was asleep, didn't last long. But yeah, he may have been concussed. Taking a look at our monarch trophies. We're going to give those away at the end of the game. Our thanks to Monarch Trophy. They've been with us from the very beginning. You have needs for your business, sports teams, whatever the award you need. They've got it at Monarch Trophy right there at three, four, four, three, seven, seven, seven. Well, that is a big blow for Brandeis here in this ballgame. I hope for the best for McKinnon because man that guy is one heck of a football player. And he was a basketball player first. You can just see the talent he has on the football field to he's something special and hopefully bounces back quickly from what it was that got him tonight. All right. So O'Connor has been punched repeatedly here in this second half. They've seen a 17 point lead wilt away and now find themselves down by ten. Can they rekindle that magic that they found in the first quarter when they punched the Broncos in the mouth? They hand it off to Martinez, who fumbled on his last carry, plunges ahead for a yard and a half. Good interior defensive line play there again by the Broncos. Know. I definitely want to try to get to the football as often as you can. Right. And Brandeis is making it awfully hard. I mean, look at how many dudes it got in the box. Garza Conroy's got it. He's got a nice gain of about four to set up. Third down and short. He'll have a chance to convert this about third and three. And down here for Daniels. What kind of possession. About two yards to go. And the Panther 33 Jake Garza getting the play call in from his OC Derek Tesh. And it's a handoff inside. Bouncing it outside for the first down is a nice play by number seven Marcus Fink. You see Marcus Fink playing on both sides of the ball tonight too. So the carry brought down utilizing this ball game in a lot of ways to see what guys can do, maybe in some different spots. Nice first down there San Antonio Zoo, first down for the Panthers. They'll go back to Fink, and he dances his way across the line of scrimmage for a gain of about two. We got to like his feet after watching him for two carries right? This could be a little quicker getting it upfield. Easy for me to say. Hey, look at the size of those Bronco defenders. Giving Martinez a little bit of a rest here on this series. Doing a nice job. Second down and eight. Guards is going to throw it over into the flat. And good swarming defense by the Brandeis Broncos who saw that one coming in. You got some help over there in the defensive backfield. He had Luna Don. There wasn't even his guy. He had the inside guy and still got over there and made a play. Great job by him coming up from his safety spot. Of course. He's a Hall district captain from a season ago and had 89 tackles. Really looked the part. This Duke seven sacks and four picks a year ago on third down. We'll still call it eight. It's a draw to Martinez. Martinez popping it and again staying at home making a nice tackle is Ian Luna. And Martinez going to limp off again. Tap on his helmet. He wants out. To go. Did you take a look at our smile? Cam. The O'Connor Panther cheerleaders having a good day. Who's not having a good time out here tonight? No matter what the score is? It's a fun football game. Fourth down, though, in their own territory. Might be a free play. Guards is going deep. Going to be picked off. But I think that's going to be a first down for O'Connor because Deon Edwards, the defensive end for the Broncos, jumped into the neutral zone right as the ball was snapped. And that's going to be offsides. And a first down for O'Connor of the corner for the first. You can see him jump right there on the edge to go the risk play all the way. Yeah Deon coming off a great season a year ago Don he had ten tackles for loss a season ago. Yeah he's one of the one of the guys they talked about this week. Senior leader up there on the defensive end very quick. Ball spotted right at midfield. And it's Martinez. It's on the reverse this time. And we're trying to get guys in space. And that's not going to happen for Riley Easton. Fly it up. Guess who he and Luna. That's right. Yeah he can come up and make a play and some guys blocking it. He still did it. Check it out on the possession. Take that one yards to go. Yeah. Luna's a football player. All district performance from a year ago. Had 89 tackles, seven sacks, two pick sixes and a blocked punt. Last year as a junior. So this is not a surprise for Bronco fans. Inside is Martinez. He gets a yard and a half. Brendan Martinez jamming that thing up and got a little help there to you know this year Hernandez Bronco defense has really settled down since the first quarter, no doubt. And they've got some really good athletes size and speed too. I mean, just look at some of the Valley of the Giants we're looking at over here. Tyler Romney's made great plays Edwards McKinnon Luna Darren Hall and playmakers all over the field for this defensive unit. Garza fires over the middle. That's caught. Nice ball. Nice catch. And Luna makes a big hit but able to hang on. Is that tight end who was so special in the first half Zach Godby. Godby took a look but man that's a man. Saw his catch and traffic go up and get one for your boys. He came right off the field and you get a lot of out of boys in the locker there when they're in their film session next week. Well done San Antonio Zoo. First down. Here's Martinez again. He can pop it. He's on his way inside the 30. Inside the central men red zone. He points to first down. And maybe that'll provide a spark to the O'Connor offense as they try to get back in this football game. And look how quick it was. And there wasn't much daylight there and you'd never know it. By the way, 20 finds him another San Antonio zoo. First down. Here he is again a little bit of a bust there as the quarterback ran into, but he's still able to punch forward for positive yardage. Early on. He is good on this game tonight at the end of this 117 all year Hernandez coming in and really laying the wood. Substitution delay here. It's second down and nine. It right back to Martinez. Right up the gut again. It's got another two but that's about it. Trying to run behind that big offensive line and break it. Martinez Conner has the size advantage there up front. But what a good quickness from the Bronco defense. And we've got a timeout on the field as we got an injury. Timeout. And this is a cramp all the way. As you can tell. Yeah big number 96 Lucas Wheeler also in on the play on defense. That was just. Men against men standing each other up right there. Not a whole lot of daylight to try to do anything with the football. But. It's a nice bounce back drive for O'Connor. He's getting a little rhythm now back into their offense. You see if they can take a shot right here on third down. Third down and long called. It's an eight here as they scrimmage from the 17 yard line. Trips to the left hand side for Jake Garza. Looking left all the way. Fire the slant over the middle. It's almost intercepted. Went off the hands of the intended receiver, Mauricio Galvan. And right through the hands of Darren Hall. This was a lazy or being by Jake Garza right on target. But almost caught and then almost picked. On fourth down. All right. So it's fourth down after the illegal formation penalty was declined to go out of it. So in this ten point game David Malesky will run out his number one kicker in the state of Texas. He's already got a 39 yarder tonight and then will kick another one here from the right hash lane Ricky two year varsity starter. And again this is a kicker who should play big time college football. Good snap good hold kick is good as well. And we've got ourselves a one possession game 27 to 20 with only one second left here in the third quarter. And it's really a luxury of the high school level when you have a kicker like that, no doubt. And it seems like O'Connor just can't catch a break right there. Best player Zach God, he's still on the sideline trying to shake off what happened to him on that last series. And you know, I guess at the end of this at least you got three points. Make this a one score game. Yeah. What a fantastic way to start the TNL season. Right on. I mean we got two really incredibly gifted teams. Well-coached I mean, think how good these guys are going to be mid-season when they get this thing ramped up. All right. They they took us to the end of the quarter. It'll be the fourth quarter when we come back. Here we go. Brandeis and O'Connor a one score game, fourth quarter action straight ahead. Welcome back. We promised you a great atmosphere for tonight's game. We didn't know that it was going to be a great game on the scoreboard, but it is. It's 27 to 21 possession game as the hottest rivalry in town kicking off TNL. And it has lived up to the hype packed house, two good teams and both doing very well for the first game of the season. Pretty clean game. Started out all in O'Connor's favor. Brandeis came back and scored 27 straight and the Panthers answer there at the end of the third. So it's a touchdown lead for Brandeis as we kick off the fourth quarter. Rigby's kick is going to be into the end zone. And we go down to Matt Roy who's having some fun at this atmosphere. Matthew. Well, guys, we've told you about the rivalry all all game long. Obviously fans are about it. These schools, these schools are separated by just four miles. So you guys know a lot of people on the other side. Yes we do. We know everyone. We all go into middle school with you. Yeah, they're all our middle school friends. But tonight they're our rival. What is the win over the win against this team? Oh, everything. It's the biggest right after years years. Oh you guys are seven points away and 12 minutes away from a win. We need a loud cheer right now. Let's hear it. Give us your best year. Oh, save! Oh, oh, there you go. Oh! All right, back to you guys. Thanks, Matt. Here's an inside handoff. Long since had a big day. And he gets about eight on that carry. Nice open field tackle. And Maldonado who's come on here in the second half Jeremy Maldonado to have a nice game for the O'Connor defense 33 sets up second and short. Pedro keep his up this time by himself and scurries to the outside. Gets the corner, gets out of bounds and he's got a first down. He's got more cramping going on as exhausted players from both sides are down. And that's Nick Martinez again. And it's not an injury. But boy does it. Few things hurt more. Chuck. You and I know that the older we get when you wake up in the middle of the night with that baseball being stuffed into your calf muscle, even number 20 five-yard penalty. Yeah. Roger that. You got a Brandeis guy down two. So, you know, Don, this has been a really a fantastic ball game and give us a chance to kind of laud both of these coaches for what they've been able to do in a short period of time. I mean, you know, first off, Coach Malesky. He's got a new defensive coordinator and a new offensive coordinator this year. You know, we talked about his numbers being down and the challenges he trying to overcome. You know a lot of the injuries that they had last year and the newness to a lot of the guys that he has on the field. And then you got Kimmy Lewis on the other side. You know, gets to Brandeis late. And you know we talked to him and he said a lot of this felt like drinking water from a fire hose. And he's such a great communicator. And such a friendly guy. You know, he really is good with team building. You know, he said the biggest thing that he wanted to achieve early was get in front of as many of these players and their parents as humanly possible, and try to build some connections as quickly as he could. You know, given the time parameters and much of the summer, obviously. And it was hard trying to chase a lot of these kids down, you know, they're in camps or on vacation, but, you know, let's not forget, Kimi Lewis is seven years removed from being the five a state coach of the year. This guy, legitimately a solid coach. You know, we're talking about his short time here at Brandeis already says it's his dream job. I mean, he's got great players, great parents, great organization and he's got his team looking pretty good here in game one as they come up with a big play, there on the O'Conner side. Yeah, it's going to be second in a mile as Ethan Davila made a great play for the O'Connor defense, not just a sophomore. And so it's second and 19 for Jimmy Lewis's Broncos and his backup quarterback Matthew McClennan in here. This time goes to Logsdon. Logsdon breaks free again. Logsdon just won't go down easy. And he picks up about half of it back and it'll be third down and barely manageable considering it was second and 19 right yards. Just keep giving it to him. And again, it's just down the road there in the middle of the field. McClendon throws the slant. That was almost picked off as there was a little bit of a miscommunication on the route. So it'll be fourth down or they're right at that questionable area of the field whether you go forward or not. There's some discussion going on on the sidelines. And now Lewis is more comfortable with a one school game of not giving O'Connor great field position there. So they'll punt it away. Yeah. And I think this is probably the right move. Although with both of these coaches you never know when the next gadget plays hanging around. But you know you got a seven point game. You've got the lead. It's fourth and five. Your defense has played really well past the first quarter. Maybe you'll make make O'Connor go down and see if they can tie this thing and make them have as much of the field as possible to have to then go do it. So here's Nate Green to punt it away. Good kick angling towards the sideline. And it's out of bounds right around the 25 yard line. They'll spot it about the 36. Walk it up 31 yard line. And that's where O'Connor will have it in business. When we come back down 27 to 20. Welcome back to our version, Antonio. Ready to work? Third quarter highlights. It was the Brandeis Broncos. Get back in this football game with turnovers. Luna with an interception that led to a Noah Logsdon touchdown, his third of the game. We had a fumble. Martinez of O'Connor. And that led to another score. That's how Brandeis took the lead. Here's Logsdon. And we've got ourselves a player of the game nominee O'Connor, trying to get back in it. And it's a completion on first down as Jake Garza goes to his favorite target, Riley Eason. And that's a good gain on first down here for O'Connor. Picks up about five. They'll be second and five from their own 35. And we've got Brandon Martinez number 20 on the stationary bike on the sideline. So hopefully he can come back in this ballgame because they're going to need him some pickle juice for that young man. Inside handoff. As Deon Edwards is up by Deon Edwards doesn't want to come out. Of to put it down six yards third down and 635. Martinez tries to work out that cramp. Boy they need him on the field right now. Big play right here. Straight drop. Look, it has nothing now he's trying to make something out of it. Will fire across the middle in the double coverage. And good job trying to make a play. But that just nothing. There. Looking for Evan Balboa, the sophomore. You'll have to punt it away. And they've got one of the best lane. Rigby. We'll kick it away deep for 35. Luna will be back to receive it. All I know is if Robert Spears of Brandeis wasn't wreaking havoc in that backfield, they probably would have been able to complete that pass. Short kick. Luna will let it bounce, and it takes an O'Connor roll and will bounce inside the 30 down to the 25 yard line of Brandeis. The Broncos will have a bear with the lead 2720 at 904 to play here on Thursday Night Lights. Welcome back to O'Connor pep rally this morning. Going strong. Were there every week on Thursday night lights. You can tell the kids had the school spirit, and so did the communities as they packed in here like sardines tonight. It's kind of thinned out a little bit since. But yeah, what a great atmosphere. That ball goes across the 30 yard line. Noah Logsdon ten. Big night carries. There certainly has been anything can happen though with 842 at the Broncos 32. And we'll see what happens. Still a lot of football to be played here. Yeah. If you're Brandeis you're really comfortable with these handoffs to Noah Logsdon. Let him do his thing. The goal here now is to eat clock and then see if he can go down and get some points with Logsdon again up the middle. And fighting for a first down. County wide service company first down as he moves the chains again. Just what they're doing up front is just ridiculous at this point. Collins, Whalen, Ortega. Graf. Right there. The guard center guard, left or right? 38. Winning the line of scrimmage here in the second half. On first down. Pump fake to lob Logsdon and the completed out to Pindar on the outside for possession. Second down with Penders. Had a nice night. The other side of Jalen Baker. He's got two targets on the outside that are both explosive players. Look at how much room they're giving Baker down here at the bottom. You're going to look his way. And he just took his eyes off. You know he was thinking touchdown. On the second he lined up outside. Had a couple of drops tonight where he was just his head was in front of his body. And an outstanding young player of. US sets up third down and six. And for O'Connor more beneficially stopped the clock. Got a chance to get off the field here. I'm looking for 12 all the way here. Now they're going to try to jam. Instead they go to Logsdon. He's not going to go anywhere. It's going to be fourth and six at the same part of the field. Jimmy Lewis didn't even think about it. He runs is punting. Mark O'Connor's going to get the football back with about seven minutes to go at the end. A chance to tie it up. They can get something going offensively. Yes Sean Thornhill 15 for O'Connor came down and Jim Baker up. Brandeis decided to stick it on the ground and kill clock and then kick it away. Riley Easton back to receive the punt from the foot of Nate Green who gets it off. Gets a nice punt up. Fair catch. Called for and taken the 30 yard line. So here we go down a score. Can O'Connor drive 70 and tie this thing up? We got 6.5 minutes. When we come back. Welcome back. It's our AC now. A.com collision of the game. And it was big. Ian McKinnon. Later he went out. But on this play he was delivering the damage. Ian McKeon with a collision. Oh, the game. O'Connor fans trying to get energized. Only a couple of series left if they're lucky. Jake Garza trying to lead this team 70 yards down the field for the tying score in this great rivalry of a football game. Brandeis and O'Connor. It's first and ten. Here's the handoff inside. It's not Martin Martinez breaking it outside the box is the back up by. And a nice run there by Marcus Finke I like the way this Marcus Finke plays football down I mean this guy obviously came over from the defensive side because they need a playmaker right now with 20 on the sideline I mean this dude's really fast really quick and saw right there really tough man. Spring back up after he got drilled by three guys out there on the sideline. Second down and four. Good start to this drive on the six yard carry. It's a nice fake by Garza. He may want a little 15 yarder. Muskies ask him for it. Not going to get it. So it's still going to be a first down. I don't think Jake Garza wants to win a football game, but there was some extracurricular there that was called. Nice tough play by Jake Garza. County wide service company. First down. No Connors inspired here. 549 to go. New set of downs near midfield. It's fake right up the middle. He's got space fake for a good nine. Right at the stick yard. Short second down and one. And again you see you know Malesky just doing his magic right. It's going to get the ball to his best player at this point. See if he can make something happen. And right now think is equal to the task. Look at this guy coming in and giving his team spark. Second down and one Garza trying to bait the Bronco defense now goes back under center. Had a touchdown earlier on the snake. Maybe tries to sneak in here for first down. Instead he goes to Finke and changes direction nicely. Watch it push the pile forward. But not only the first down, but 5 or 6 more. Journeyman Bernard, just put on your back and go kid possession. Nice. Broncos 40 big guys up front talked about. This is Walker 77, 325 pounds. You know Statler Hernandez is Dukes and Walker on the outside. Nice job. Throws on this drive. Now under five minutes. Play action. Garza going to the outside. You chased gets to third. He gets the 27. Jake and he has to come out of snap. Lost his helmet you know so it's kind of Jace Keyser come in for at least one play loss. The other piece of equipment. One of the nice guys. That's Carlos Garcia. Wow. Staying after it. Big guy. Showing some speed. All right, so here's Keyser just a sophomore in for this snap. And there was a little miscommunication. And he'll blow it dead. Play on the play. The kind of stuff that happens when often the backup comes in. Now not sure it counts as a play, but either way Garza is going to come back in the first down 15 yards to go at the 32. Just the cadence can throw you off. If you've been listening to the one guy all game long. So it's first down and 15 with 345 to go on the potential game tying drive. Garcia will keep across the 30. It's that five yards back. It'll be second down and ten. Picking up the. As we watch what's going on on the sideline to Brandon Martinez he's bit around I'm not so sure he had a cramp on that last one. He had some cramps come on the locker room. But the corner doing a nice job finding ways to fill in for their dude. Second and nine Garza's thinking run. He does. It's back to the line of scrimmage that's going to be about it. It's going to be third down at home. It's definitely two down territory for the Panthers. A two. Third down will call it eight with 235 to go. Give me. Got two plays to get eight yards. And there's going. Not going to be any panic with Jake Garza. For David West. What a run. Run to throw Garza pressure coming from behind. And that ball was batted down. And it's going to come down to one play. Fourth down and eight Jake cars are doing a really nice job setting up the defenders right here. Kicks it outside because he's got a man. But yeah rejected at the line of scrimmage. Great job there. Watching the quarterback's eyes was Carlos Garcia right. So it all comes down to this fourth down and eight for Jake Garcia. He's got his favorite target Riley Eastwood at the top of your screen. You've been successful with Zach Godby across the middle of the tight end. He's been nicked up here. Garcia running for his life gets behind the line. Scrimmage goes to the end zone up for grabs. And that ball was incomplete. May have been picked off late. They're going to call it incomplete. Ball hit the ground but doesn't matter. It's going to be Brandeis fall. And they'll be able to run out the clock here with two minutes to go. Well Jake Garza doing a magnificent job extending this play throws back across his body hoping to hit a home run there at the end. Who it might have been caught. I think he got it way. It's going to come out to the 22. No weapon. We want to give him credit and we're back in 15 seconds. Do you know a San Antonio teen in seventh to 12th grade looking for ways to get involved in the community? They can apply to be a Project Worth Teen ambassador today. For more information, visit our website or call 210 207 8850. So the Brandeis Broncos will look to run out the clock here as they go to Logsdon up the middle for some tough yards. David Malesky has all three timeouts. Barry Hoban one of them right here. Yeah, it's opening night. Don. We've talked about the amount of dings that David Malesky team has already suffered. I mean, this was the bugaboo that got them last year. They were down eight starters by week three and they only got one of those guys back. So you hope that at the end of this you know they're able to survive some of these bumps and bruises that they picked up here tonight. Because that's the one thing about playing a rivalry game to open things up right. You got guys selling out. Not that they wouldn't sell out. Obviously week to week, but it's just an extra ramp up when you're talking about having a game like this in week one, the whole district slate is running. Now you can see the strategy playing out right in front of you. Jimmy Lewis looked at his guys and said, one first down, fellas. That's all we need. And on the other side of the ball, David Malesky knows if with three timeouts or two left now, if you can get stops and burn and use those timeouts, you can stop the clock and get the football back through. Maybe one more series with about a minute to go if you can stop Noah Logsdon, who has been quite honestly our player of the game tonight, I would think that he is a tough horse to bring down. So we'll see. We'll come down to a run game, we'll come down to Logsdon who gets that first down and that should do it. No one is going to carry that. By Jonah Marino okay. What a luxury to have. This guy's a running back right? I'm already been thinking one play ahead. It's like now if they stop here, would Kimmy put the ball up on third down and you got guys like 12 on the outside? I would, but you don't have to worry about it because no, a Logsdon is handling this business tonight. They've got 17 seconds to snap it. You would think they would run it all the way down and. Volesky kind of waving the white flag, hereby knowing that the math just doesn't add up. Now. Oh, that might change after that play. Try to blow it, Daniel. Take time out. Number two. But it's still second down. Yeah. There was some confusion on the offensive line on that play and that really cost him some yards. And the nemesis though was the clock. Time clock for the second time and still got one left. What a ballgame. And the way that O'Connor plays special teams. Do you want to be putting the ball here. Is it not me man I'm no mathematician, but it seems like there's a chance they could get it back with about 20s to go. This is super fascinating how Kimmy's going to have to pay for it. Yeah, you get a first down, you win the ball game. But it is second and some distance. Looks like it's about second and 17. So. I don't know number one more time after second. Yeah. Right. And you wouldn't be able to stop it after third down they would run. They got 40s. So by the time you kick it away you've got 18 20s to go. If you're a. Come on, you lucky. Log running into traffic. Unless you use this third right here. You're back in 15 seconds of that by Zach Chernus. Brandon. Hey, San Antonio teens, are you looking for ways to share your voice, creativity, and ideas on ways to positively impact the community? Become a Project Worth Teen Ambassador. For more information, visit our website or call 210 207 8850. So we'll be third down and 12 for the Broncos. And it's all just clock management now. Strategy and we know they're not going to put it up. They're going to hand it off to most likely log stick. They don't want to throw the ball and have an incompletion. Stop the clock with a minute seven and you can run the football. And then not snap it on fourth down and let the clock play. Clock run down another 30s or so. What a great game for week one of Thursday Night Lights. As always, we appreciate everybody who puts this one on, including our producer extraordinaire Chris Curtis. Brian Lots and his whole crew in the truck photography. People who bring this to you, they do a great job. Indeed they do. And let's hope this is the start of what we're going to see week to week. I can't wait for next week, but man, this is a heck of an opener. Training 3230 fourth, third and 12 Logsdon gets about six and they'll start the play clock at 40. So very kind of 17 16 seconds here. And that wasn't too bad. After all. They said 18 to 20. There's going to be about 17. Now. What do you do. You run around running out of the back of the end zone. Well no you call timeout with right. No one on on the clock. And then I think you just have to punt it away. I'm telling you, dude, I'm not putting the ball with these O'Connor Panthers in the way they play special teams. No way am I doing that. Well, you can't run around for 17. No, you can't, but you can run around for a little bit and run out to the back of the end zone. And maybe they don't come after you. I mean, I would do anything but punt the ball right here. Kimmy's a lot better coach than I am. Let's see what he does. He got to get the ball the other end of the field. I mean, even if it's a quick take or some. If this was a weak one, you maybe had a chance to work on some extra things and, you know, play specifically designed for end of game and not saying that they haven't because they probably have. But man, this is slicing and dicing at at your finest right here. And you know you have to go. But you might be you know, if you're really worried about another blocked punt, you might just run logs and again you might get five yards. And then they would have to go 45 yards up and 17. I would actually feel more comfortable doing that than lining up the punt and having one of those speedy O'Connor dudes slip through and get a mid on a ball. Then you're really going to have some problems. And we've seen it here tonight already. Well, but that was Martinez and he's out of the game. He's the quickest guy out there and he's just I don't think he's a threat right now 30 made a play two on yeah special teams. All right well they're going to they're going to go against you Chuck. Well it would have been a squad better than me. Who would it be. But look at there's Logsdon lined up as to blocking back. He can snap it to him. They get it away. It's a squib with 16 seconds. Easton's down the sidelines and out of bounds. And with 10s to go return flags on the play, there is a flag that might be at the end of this, and either it's coming back, it does look like it's coming back of which thrown. Dude, I'm telling you, my my throat. I'm having to pull my heart out of my chest right now. Think this is the one team Don you don't want to be messing with on special teams? 50 yard penalty. Oh, that's going to kill them though. They're going to back it. Yeah, it does. And it's time for our living way. Play of the night Ian Moon has had a big night for the Broncos defense. His interception early in the game or early in their comeback rather helped spark the comeback. Ian Luna making a play. He made a lot of the night, but that one right there is our living with church. Play of the game. Maybe a snap, maybe two left Max for the O'Connor Panthers here. And let's see if they got any hooking ladders or anything special. Seven's got to touch the football. Because it throws and it's incomplete. It was a hook and ladder going to Ethan had it developed for, but it didn't fall. Was dropped. And so it's down to one snap. Second down for the O'Connor Panthers. And Seven's not even in the ballgame. So it's not going to him. Well let's see what they got. What a ballgame. We were on the last play of the game with a chance to really, really see something special. That's a third. Brandeis will we'll take a timeout. They're just going to put everybody back okay. Everybody that gives us time to don't forget to vote for our Christmas children's band. Grant. You scan the QR code there or go to the CW 35.com/station smart contest. And remember the band grant is those is based on the votes and all year long we'll get a chance to vote for the bands all season long. The band that gets the most votes gets the 5000 bucks. Easy. It's SpongeBob on the big board. The ultra never gets old. Prevent defense here. You drop five way back off the line of scrimmage. And here's the last play of the game. And again, it's a little hook and ladder. But he doesn't have anywhere to go down the sideline. And that'll do it. The Brandeis Broncos spot O'Connor 17 points. And they give Kimmy Lewis the Gatorade bath I think it was water for his first. You know as coach of the Brandeis program. They stormed back scored 20 straight 27 straight in the fourth and should be five and end up with the W in this great rivalry. When we come back, we'll head out the hardware, our monarch trophies to the player of the game and the coach, Kimmy Lewis and the victorious Brandeis Broncos. Our final score 27 to 20. Tonight's broadcast of Thursday Night Lights is sponsored by Taco Cabana, the Gamez law firm. Beluga Air Centro men enroll S.A., San Antonio Sports Valero San Antonio Zoo, county wide service company Christmas Children's AC now esa.com Rhino roofers San Antonio ready to work, air and plumbing today. Living Way Church, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Premiere Pro's IBEW, Vietnam Army Group Museum and Monarch Trophy Studio. Welcome to the Taco Cabana. Thursday Night Lights postgame show presented by the Gomez law firm. Welcome back. The Brandeis Broncos victorious, 27 to 20. Chuck, all night long, you talked about the size of those Brandeis football players. Trust me, none is bigger than our Matt Roy, who is a mountain of a man who is down there. Now. Those guys are all taking a knee. Hey, let's not make this about me here, all right? Let's make this about this successful winning football team, the Brandeis Broncos. One and, oh, to start the year. And I know it's important because one to know against their rival. Let's hear it against O'Connor. Let's hear it one more time. All right I want to call up the player of the game right now. I need to trade your trophies here. Noah. Noah Logsdon, player of the game. No trade. Yeah, I'll take this one out of your way. All right. We got 14 rushes, 143 yards, three touchdowns. But honestly, there was a lot of candidates. There was a lot of candidates. It was there was plays being made all over the field is one of the more wild first halves I've ever seen. So no, I got to ask when you guys go down 17, oh what was the mindset to come all the way back and end up winning this thing? I mean, ain't nothing we ever done before. We've we've been down plenty of games played. Marshall last year we've been down. We came back second half. This is what we do which is what we do. It's the obvious. Obviously Coach Malesky does a lot of, he does a lot of special teams, antics. I'll just say it that way. Did how was this moment like, for you playing against your rival, playing the first game of the season, playing under the lights. And what was this whole thing like? It's a blessing and a dream, man. Ever since we was kids, we were sitting in the stands seventh grade, and now we're here now, man, this what we do, I love it. Congratulations. Congratulations, coach. Let me get you up here. Congratulations. No. All right, I have oh. Of. Actually. Sorry. One more thing, coach. I forgot my most important thing. Mason, come up here real quick. We got. You're going to the zoom. I'm in there. We got. We got four tickets to the zoo for you from our friends at the San Antonio Zoo that belongs to you now. Plus the player of the game. Thank you. Mason, I apologize, I just got caught up in the moment. Now, coach. Come here. We have a slightly damp Coach Lewis here. Coach, what was the. What was the Gatorade bath like for you? Man, it was unexpected, but it was cold. But you know what? I love my team. And I love this effort that they gave. And we came back with the second half. We just dominated. It felt good and always been hot outside. So I felt really good today. Did it feel even better that it was against the rival? And welcome to the rivalry. Oh yeah. So it's my first win as a head coach. Kudos to my guys right here, man. They wanted to win for me and our community. We did today. How does this, kind of set you to go forth for the rest of the season? The last nine games? Well, it shows that we started slow in the first half. We came back and been resilient. So it just could also our guys for understanding like you got to play for quarters. And that's what we did today. They had us in the first half. Not going to lie. Second half though belongs to the Brandeis Broncos. And so does this trophy. Here we go. Here on time. All right. We what is in the books. Brandeis the victors in this big rivalry. We'll wrap it up when we come back here to Ferris State. Here. All right. Noah Logsdon, your TNL player of the game. What are you going to do now? We'll go to the zoo, man. Oh, yeah. All right. Congratulations, Noah. The final score, 27 to 20. Brandeis over O'Connor in a game that lived up to all the billing and more, with it being the hottest rivalry in town. Finally, it's our San Antonio ready to work. Game highlights. As we told you earlier, it was all O'Connor early as Martinez and company had some special teams play that sparked them to go up front 17 to nothing, including that onside kick that was masterfully, perfected. Garza went in for a touchdown 14 to nothing. And then Chuck, it was just a deluge of Brandeis Broncos after that. 27 straight points. Yeah. And Neal launched a lot of his runs. If not all of them seemed to come right up the gut. I mean, he really did a nice job paring open some holes and then, you know, you don't have to give this guy a whole lot, though obviously. Is another guy too happy to see how well he's moving, coming back from that nasty hip injury. But a lot of this stuff was just dirty yard, dirty yard. Touchdown. You see, O'Connor no quitting these guys as you knew that they wouldn't had a chance to tie the game one possession prior to the last possession. But in a desperate situation had to throw it up for grabs and couldn't come down with the football. Their shot. Next week, a very improved Burbank Bulldogs football program goes to converse to meet the Veterans Memorial Patriots at Rutledge Stadium. That's week two of Taco Cabana Thursday Night Lights for our producer extraordinaire Chris Cutler's, our director Brian Watson, his whole crew, and our executive producer Dean Radler. For Chuck telling Nikki Sixx, party Cold Medina and statistician up here in the booth, Matt Roy and a cast of thousands. We'll see you next week on Taco Cabana Thursday night like so long, everybody.