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Lufkin blanked Dayton 10-0 on the at home tonight. Pack are now 11-5 and 4-0 in district play. Panthers will be at home against Kingwood Park on Friday.

Still no week #3 game on the Panther football schedule. The try for someone from Louisiana did not pan out. Most teams schedules are full, may have to reach out for someone further away and meet them half way. That two week wait for the appeal process caused a wrinkle in securing that extra game. Don't understand many things about this, probably should have signed up a full schedule on realignment day, then readjusted things after the appeal approval. Hope they get it worked out soon.

Lufkin Baseball with a big 4-0 win in Lufkin over a ranked New Caney Porter team to move to 3-0 in district play and 10-5 on the year. Complete game shut out by Austin Linsey.

This how I wish our O Line would play. That is one big kid, and just a junior. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/bHpvKcRektMnDNVs/?mibextid=ZdeZu0

What happen to make Cobb having a change of heart to not to step down after Ditsworth-Flores and Co. graduated? I can hardly watch them, the pitch taking with runners on base??, not taking opportunities to drive runs is so frustrating for me to watch. Then again they have won a lot of games playing that conservative style. So what do I know?

SCHEDULE CHANGE...tomorrow night. Lp vs Porter Baseball game has been moved to Lufkin. 1st pitch scheduled for 6:00pm. We'll have LIVE Video coverage on the Lufkin Gametime App or at www.lufkingametime.com

One thing not mentioned here are the number of players who not only excel on the field, they also excel in the classroom. Lufkin has had several of them. When you see some these guys over the years headed to Notre Dame, Washington, Texas, TCU or West Point on scholarships, there are some good academics to go with their athletic ability. I still believe that players exercise a set of rules to abide by within their own group, by holding each other accountable. No player group wants to deal with bad apples either because it affects them all as a whole. That is where Senior leadership should come in to keep level chemistry within the group.

Yea, that's one area I'm confident Quick handles the proper way IMO. Parents??? Ehh, thankfully I'm not in that position, whew, wouldn't want to deal with some of it. Remember when I coached those youth years, most parents were real good, a few were real horses rears. I asked an ump to kick out my assistant coach one time, and had him escorted out of the park one game. His 12 year old son was pitching and complained to me his arm was hurting, so I was going to removed him from the game. His father, my assistant, stormed the field and told him to suck it up and stay in the game. The kid was crying in pain, his dad shook him and call him a wimp. So I told the ump he wasn't suppose to be on the field berating his son. He was kicked out, but he removed his son from the team, and then petitioned to go to the best team in the league. He was denied and then went out to Hudson. The worst I've ever witnessed. We called the game, both teams and parents were too shocked to finish.

The Lufkin Panthers spent the tournament portion of their schedule looking for consistency in the lineup. If the last two days of the Integra Classic are any indication, they may be hitting their stride at the right time as the Panthers closed their own tournament with a 7-0 win over the New Caney Eagles Saturday afternoon. Panthers (8-5) have a pair of road district games over spring break as they travel to Huntsville at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday before playing at New Caney Porter at 6 p.m. Friday.

What is the hidden message here?, don't hire an Alumni as your coach? LOL SMH, I've grown not to have any feeling about it one way or another. That's how far I've been pulled down. The past and present board has allowed this once credible football program to slide into nothing special to talk about in Texas football. Lufkin ISD honors and talks about, and just about lives on the John Outlaw way and his legend. Well, what we have now was never his way!!!!! Everything this program has been the past 5 or 6 years runs contrary to, and you might say obliterates everything John Outlaw tried to build here IMO. I guarantee HE would not have wanted to be part of where this program exist today. No matter what happens, whether someone new comes in here or not someday, it would take a good 4 or 5 years to turn around the complacent lack of winning mentality that exist today. These kids do not know what it takes to win big games. They try to blame it on COVID, or playing in an extremely tough district the past two or three years, I call BS. In the 83 year history of Lufkin Panther football before Coach Outlaw arrived, the Panthers had won a total of 14 playoff games. In his 17 years as the leader of the Pack, the program added an additional 27 playoff victories against 14 losses. Coach’s record in Lufkin was 174-45-1 for a 79% winning record. He overcame most any obstacle or for that matter any highly competitive district he was a part of coaching against. No excuses from him. Since Outlaw passed away in 2011. Lufkin has won 6 playoff games and lost 9 under Quick (85-50) in 12 year. Even with what Outlaw did accomplish here some may say it pales in comparison to other coaches like Todd Dodge, Scott Surrat and Randy Allen. Maybe even John King. In all honesty, what he accomplished here was remarkable since football had such few playoff successes before he arrived, or since his time here. Pretty special football coach for sure, could sure use another one like him.

Lufkin Baseball (7-5, 1-0 district) picked up a big 4-0 win over Brazoswood in the Integra Baseball Classic Friday evening. The Pack will play New Caney on Saturday at 2 PM.

Lady Pack Softball routed Rusk 11-1 on Friday evening. Lufkin 11-7 will host A&M Consolidated on Monday at 1:30 PM.

Lufkin Soccer (8-4-8 and 4-2-4 district) dropped a 3-2 decision at Nacogdoches. The Pack finished in 3rd place and will next host Tyler Legacy in a playoff tune up game on March 18th.

Lady Pack Soccer (8-9-1, 7-3 district) scored two goals late to defeat Nacogdoches 2-0. They now enter the playoffs as the 2nd place team in district behind Kingwood Park.

The Panthers pick up a 4-3 win over Port Neches - Groves on a bases loaded walk this afternoon after some early morning delays. Brazoswood vs. Lufkin coming up this evening.

How did UIL allow Oak Cliff Faith Family to participate? A private church school??? They beat Lancaster and played a ton of Nationally Ranked private schools. These 4A teams are no match for them.

That's about the way I figure too. Not bad road trips overall. Tyler or possible Longview on the road is tough. PAM is a big district game. I figure Beaumont United and Barbers Hill are huge too. Don't know enough about everyone else.

ONE THING I HAVE NOTICED about these teams playing at the State Championships, they all make their FREE THROWS and DON"T turn the ball over much. The little things that make a difference over and above talent.

This is the best 2024 Lufkin Football schedule I can put together from some research of other schedules. Aug 30th - vs Longview TBA Sept 6th - vs Nacogdoches - Home https://www.nacisd.org/o/nac-isd/page/football Sept 13 - TBD Still searching around, possibly a Louisiana team. Sept 20th - @ Tyler - Away https://twitter.com/TylerLionsFB/status/1760037349738627214/photo/1 Sept 27th - vs Barbers Hill - Home * :https://twitter.com/abseckbhfb/status/1760748788589707487/photo/1 Oct 4th - @ Beaumont West Brook* - Away https://twitter.com/football_brook/status/1762891999567315264/photo/1 Oct 11th - Oct 18th - vs Baytown Sterling - Home * https://twitter.com/RSS_RangersFB/status/1760711062167376246/photo/1 Oct 25th - Nov 1st - vs Beaumont United - Home * https://twitter.com/BmtUnitedFtbl/status/1760460367380037816/photo/1 Nov 8th - @ Galveston Ball - Away* https://twitter.com/GalvestonFB/status/1762146996893225251/photo/1 The only other district schedule not out there is Port Arthur Memorial, this to determine that game date and our off week. I'm putting my money on an away game to PAM on 10/25 and an OPEN WEEK for 10/11.

Lufkin bats couldn’t string hits together as Lufkin dropped a 4-3 eight-inning decision to Bullard in the opening game of the Integra Classic at Lufkin High School Thursday. The tournament will resume at Lufkin and Nacogdoches today. Following is the schedule for today’s action. Lufkin High School: Lufkin vs. Port Neches-Groves, 9:30 a.m.; Port Neches-Groves vs. New Caney, 11:45 a.m.; New Caney vs. Bullard, 2 p.m.; Bullard vs. Brazoswood, 4:15 p.m.; Brazoswood vs. Lufkin, 6:30 p.m.

No news that I can find. LHS last day of school is May 22nd, 2024 so I assume the Spring Game would be the week before, somewhere around May 15th or 16th. Depends on certain things panning out. My hope is we open at home against Longview on August 30th, Tyler has us scheduled game #4 , on Sept 20th at MF Rose. Nacogdoches will be on Sept 13th, it was on the road last year but that is no bearer of where it will fall on the schedule in 2024. That game three location is probably a road game, just guessing at this point. Stuff like getting schedule information out around here quickly has never been a priority. I do know we play at Galveston Ball on Nov. 9th, which is last game on the schedule.

2024 Integra Baseball Classic

Kaleb Hillis throws a 7 inning shut out, helping the Pack take the District Opener 7-0 over Nacogdoches. Lufkin will co-host the Integra Classic with Nacogdoches Thursday through Saturday. Lufkin (5-4) will play Bullard at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Port Neches-Groves at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Brazoswood at 6:30 p.m. Friday and New Caney at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Lady Pack Softball gets it done with an 8-2 win against Jacksonville. Lufkin girls (11-7) will host Rusk at 6:30 p.m. Friday.