The Lamb County Leader-News’ annual Football Contest has just four weeks left, as Week 8 is now in the books.
This week, Charlie Smith finished this week with a mark of 16-4 to claim the top spot this week, while Brenda Herrell and Mark Grace tied for second place, finishing 15-5 this week.
The tie-breaker this week was the combined score of the Wyoming and San Jose State, which was 29 points.
Brenda Herrell took second place with a guess of 29 points on the tie-breaker, while Grace finished third with a guess of 39 points.
In the high school ranks, Idalou took down Littlefield, 38-20, while Olton went on the road to take down Floydada, 21-8, and Sudan took down Seagraves on the road, 26-7. Amherst forfeited their game against Anton, while Plains blasted Smyer, 61-20, and Denver City throttled Brownfield, 50-14.
Seminole took down Big Spring, 43-16, while Clyde defeated Lamesa, 86-26, and Post took down Abernathy, 43-8. West Plains edged out Canyon, 18-16.
In the College ranks, it was a wild weekend, as Auburn stunned Georgia, 27-24, while Tennessee defeated Alabama, 26-10, and Texas Tech took down Arizona State, 53-25. Florida upset Texas, 27-24, while B YU upset Notre Dame, 28-24.
In the NFL, the Patriots took down the Jets, 26-19, while the Cardinals edged out the Rams, 18-16, and the Chiefs defeated the Chargers, 22-6. the Bills slipped by the Raiders, 33-30, while the Packers defeated the Cowboys, 23-13.
Individual results are as follows: Those who finished 14-6 were David Neinast, Thomas Blackstone, Johnny Rosemond, Lonnie Neinast, Micky Orozco, Richard Orozco, Scott Rojas and Tim Walker.
Those who finished 13-7 this week were Alma Castillo, Jan Smith, JC Orozco, John Hernandez, Juan Garza, Martin Duran, Oscar Sanchez, Robin Elliott and Sam Castillo. 12-8 finishers this week, were, Dewayne Hayes, Ed Dabrowski, JR Herrell, Maria Pinon, Moe Castillo, Sonja Robey, Stephanie Dabrowski and Stevy Smith.
11 -9 finishers were Hilaria Saenz, Jimmy Garcia, Larry Ashley, Stetson Sedberry and Teresa Dabrowski, while Donna Neinast finished 10-10 this week.
In the overall standings, Hernandez and Hayes share the top spot with 114 points, while David Neinast, Rosemond and Lonnie Neinast are tied for second with 113 points and JR Herrell, Raney and Stevy Smith are tied for third with 111 points. Jan Smith and JC Orozco are tied for fourth with 110 points, while Richard Orozco, Alma Castillo, Blackstone and Elliott are tied for fifth with 109 points.
Micky Orozco, Walker, Duran and Donna Neinast are tied for sixth with 108 points, while Brenda Herrell and Grace are tied for seventh with 107 points, and Sam Castillo is in eighth with 106 points. Garza is in ninth with 102 points and Sanchez rounds out the top 10 with 101 points.
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