The Lamb County Leader- News’ annual Football Contest has just four weeks left, as we just wrapped up Week 7.
This week, we had six contestants tie for the top spot with a mark of 14-6: Dewayne Hayes, Donna Neinast, JR Herrell, Martin Duran, Alma Castillo and Robin Elliott.
The tie-breaker this week was the combined score of the 49’ers and Seahawks, which was 61 points.
Alma Castillo took first place with a guess of 50 points, while Donna Neinast and Duran tied for second with a guess of 47 points, splitting the second and third place prizes evenly, edging out JR Herrell, who guessed of 46 points, Hayes, who guessed 45 points and Elliott, who guessed 40 points.
In the high school ranks, Littlefield blasted Muleshoe, 62-15, to open district play, while Olton suffered their first loss of the season against Tulia, 54-36. Sudan shutout Smyer in their district- opener, 47-0, while Happy defeated Springlake- Earth, 62-14. Roscoe defeated Ralls, 48-6, while Tahoka took down Crosbyton, 42-12, and Abernathy defeated New Deal, The Anton vs Cotton Center game was not played, therefore was free for everybody, and Amherst and Miami had to forfeit their games to Lazbuddie and McLean.
In the College ranks, Tennessee took down Arkansas, 24-17, while California took down Virginia Tech, 25-20, and USC edged out Penn State, 3123. Notre Dame blasted Stanford, 58-7, and Oklahoma upset Texas, 27-24.
In the NFL, the Vikings took down the Saints, 2313, while the Giants and Commanders went into overtime, but ended in a tie, 27-27, so noone received credit for this game. The Texans took downt he Titans, 26-3, while the Ravens defeated the Falcons in overtime, 30-23, and the Packers took down the Bears, 31-7.
Individual results are as follows: Those who finished 13-7 this week were David Neinast, John Hernandez, Maria Pinon, Moe Castillo, Steve Raney, Stevy Smith, Tim Walker, JC Orozco and Richard Orozco. Contestants who went 12-8 this week were Brenda Herrell, Johnny Rosemond, Juan Garza, Lonnie Neinast, Oscar Sanchez, Thomas Blackstone, Micky Orozco and Sam Castillo.
11-9 finishers this week were Jan Smith, Larry Ashley and Mark Grace, while Hilaria Saenz, Scott Rojas, Sonja Robey, Stephanie Dabrowski and Teresa Dabrowski all finished 10-10, and Ed Dabrowski finished 9-11 this week. Jimmy Garcia and Stetson Sedberry rounded out the field going 8-12 this week.
In the overall standings 10 points separates the top 10, led by Hayes with 102 points. He is followed closely by Hernandez with 101 points and JR Herrell, David Neinast, Stevy Smith, Rosemond and Lonnie Neinast are tied for third with 99 points.
Donna Neinast and Raney are tied for fourth with 98 points, while JC Orozco and Jan Smith are tied for fifth with 97 points.
Elliott and Alma Castillo are tied for sixth with 96 points, while Duran, Richard Orozco and Blackstone are tied for seventh with 95 points, and Walker and Micky Orozco are tied for eighth with 94 points.
Sam Castillo is in ninth with 93 points and Brenda Herrell and Grace round out the top 10 with 92 points.
We would like to give a big thank you to our sponsors, whom without this contest would not be possible: Rowe Abstract & Title Co., Wellington State Bank, Food King, Food King Pharmacy and Ace Hardware, McDonald’s of Littlefield and the Lamb County Leader-News.