Here To Prove.

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i know ya got wet when teambuilder dropped

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updated previous game with new pics and info

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FOOTBALL
Lake Travis stomps Austin to clinch playoff spot
Jay Plotkin American-Statesman Correspondent
Published 11:46 a.m. CT Oct. 29, 2022


KADYN LEON LETS THE AUSTIN CROWD KNOW HE CAN'T HEAR THEM AFTER SCORING IN LAKE TRAVIS' 56-13 WIN

AUSTIN — With a playoff spot on the line Lake Travis (5-4) left nothing to chance as they dominated Austin (2-7) by a score of 56-13 to secure a playoff spot.

Junior QB Cam Fitzpatrick looked very comfortable in his second start, connecting on nine of ten pass attempts for 204 yards and five touchdowns.

"Just looking settled in back there." Coach Hank Carter said of Fitzpatrick's performance. "Made good reads, put up points early and protected the ball. Let the line and the backs take care of business in the second half."

Nico Hamilton ran for 244 yards and a pair of scores on 18 carries while backup Aiden Albright picked up 53 yards and a score on seven carries.


LAKE TRAVIS WR KADYN LEON CELEBRATES A TD LESS THAN A MINUTE INTO THE GAME

The game was somewhat close through the first quarter with Lake Travis holding a 14-10 lead. Fitzpatrick and Kadyn Leon connected for a ten yard TD pass less than a minute into the game. After a field goal by Austin it was Hamilton scoring on a 74 yard run on Lake Travis' second play. Austin RB Bryson Batts scored from a yard out before the end of the quarter.


LAKE TRAVIS' NICO HAMILTON RAN FOR 244 YARDS AND A PAIR OF SCORES

Lake Travis exploded in the second quarter and all but put the game away as Fitzpatrick connected with Cole Munnerlyn for scores of 26 and 12 yards with a 70 yard bomb to Niko Triant in between. Austin could only add a field goal, making it a lopsided 35-13 at the break.

Lake Travis took their foot off the gas in the second half, primarily running the ball. Hamilton scored from a yard out and Fitzpatrick found Leon again in the third quarter.


LEON LOOKS IN HIS SECOND SCORE OF THE NIGHT

Coach Carter sent in reserves for the last quarter plus with Albright's score coming early in the third.

Lake Travis will have a week off while they wait for other schools to wrap up their regular season and discover who their first round playoff opponent will be.

[Agent]

Only 10 pass attempts? They ran tf out of the football

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Only 10 pass attempts? They ran tf out of the football

Elite RB and the QBs second start

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5 TDs on 9 passes. That boy a sniper

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Looking nice

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Glad I put the time and effort into the teambuilders. IRL this game was 55-7 so I think I got the ratings pretty close

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Purple Gas and White Lightning

Do you ever stop and think about the chain of events that had to transpire just for you to come to exist?

The staggeringly long biological and physical odds of you being born are enough to make your head spin, but when you add in the stars that had to align for your parents to meet and intertwine themselves with each other?

It's hard to believe any of us exists at all.

For me there's no need to travel too far up the family tree to see a scenario in which I'm not here today.

On the surface it may seem like my ancestors had a lot in common as both sides have strong ties to farming.

My mother's family were successful Canadian wheat farmers dating back to the 1920's and all signs pointed to her parents continuing that tradition until my grandfather felt the pull of something more and moved to Virginia to attend James Madison University.

Eventually he found his way north to Pocahontas county in West Virginia eventually starting the bed and breakfast that my mother grew up in.

Things went a bit differently on my father's side.

As owners of what was once one of the largest cattle farming operations in Texas they were hit extremely hard by the drought of the 1950s, leading to my great grandfather heading east, looking for work in the mines.

When that proved to be difficult and not very prosperous he turned to the other side of the law in search of a way to make a more lucrative living, honest or not. Apparently that was a trait he passed down.

Bootlegging was good to him until it wasn't. My great grandmother was left with five mouths to feed and no good way to do it. My grandfather, the oldest child, struck out on his own in search of any way to make a buck.

Fast forward a couple decades and history repeats itself with my grandmother down and out with kids to raise. Moving in with family led them to a house just down the road from my mother.

Mom was focused on school, family and the bed and breakfast. She could usually be found at the family business helping in any way she could, once her homework and studying were done.

My father learned early on that if you excelled in sports you could get by on the bare minimum elsewhere.

Their paths eventually intertwined and now I'm here.

Here to prove I'm better than my father was and where he came from too.

Here to Prove.

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