Hats off to the Mustangs

Trivia Question: What team was the last to defeat Galena Park North Shore during the regular season? Think about it before seeing answer below.

The Galena Park North Shore Mustangs had not played a football game in almost a month due to Hurricane IKE and their assault on Southlake Carroll's state record 72 game regular season win streak was put on hold. Ironically the Mustangs were scheduled to play Carroll last week, but North Shore was still recovering from the effects of IKE.

In their place, came the Lufkin Panthers, a proud program with great tradition, who had not lost a home game since 2002.

Lufkin jumped out to a 7-0 lead, but the Mustangs used an opportune defense that created six turnovers and scored three times on fumble recoveries.

Despite an obvious battle with conditioning, North Shore reached deep late in the game after Lufkin had rallied to tie the game at 21 all. Lufkin's defense had held the Mustangs offense to only 135 yards before they mounted an 85 yard drive and scored on a 26 yard pass with 26 seconds remaining.

The Mustangs snapped Lufkin's 27 game home winning streak and sent them to their third consecutive loss for the first time since 1996. Some may say that North Shore faces a perenially weak regular season schedule, but on this night they earned number 73. Hats off to the Mustangs!

Trivia Question Answer: In 2000, North Shore lost to the Drew Tate led Baytown Lee Ganders, 34-31 in the season's last regular season game.