{"id":11875,"date":"2020-07-16T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2020-07-16T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:01:30","slug":"team-zap-holds-their-own-at-7on7-texas-showdown-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11875","title":{"rendered":"Team ZAP holds their own at 7on7 Texas Showdown Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sharyland Pioneer\u2019s Tristan Castillo celebrates after a touchdown at the 7on7 Texas Showdown Championships, which were held this past weekend in Round Rock. <\/em><\/strong>Photo: Billy Watson \/ RSL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By BILLY WATSON
<\/strong>RSL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROUND ROCK \u2013 Team ZAP entered this weekend\u2019s 7on7 Texas Showdown Championships with hopes to be heading into the championship bracket undefeated. Things did not exactly go their way, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZAP went 2-4 this past weekend at the Multipurpose Complex Saturday afternoon in Round Rock. ZAP won their play-in game against Sooner7 on Sunday morning, 19-18, before falling to Elite House in the first round of bracket play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After posting a 1-3 record for pool play, the day proved to be tough for Team ZAP heading into Sunday\u2019s championship bracket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday was tough,\u201d ZAP head coach Jorge Mata said on Saturday. \u201cLike I\u2019ve said, it always comes down to discipline and technique, and that\u2019s what kills us. Little things matter for us because we are never going to have the size; we\u2019re never going to have the speed. So, we have to be perfect in order to keep our games close. Unfortunately, today, we lost our heads at the end of the games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the absence of high-grade players, a couple players had to step up and pick up the slack. Zap relied on their veterans in Brownsville Porter\u2019s Kevin Garcia, San Benito\u2019s Kyler Castilleja and Sharyland Pioneer\u2019s Tristian Castillo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose guys balled out,\u201d Mata said. \u201cAny opportunity we have to give (the football) to them we\u2019ve got to take full advantage of it. Hats off to the quarterbacks for delivering the ball to where it needed it to be. They made plays. They\u2019re going to continue making those plays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia and Castilleja were essential in the offensive workload. Garcia talked about the effort his team put in, although they lost three tough games in the final minutes or final possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur effort was good, it wasn\u2019t bad,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cThe third or fourth game we came back to play. Our effort was good, as a team. It wasn\u2019t what we expected, but, hey, we have to get it for tomorrow (Sunday).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZAP lost their opening pool game against King Football Academy 20-18 followed by a 25-9 loss to College Station PFOB. ZAP regained some momentum as they slipped by Bryan High 10-9 and wrapped up pool play with a 21-20 loss to Texas Smoke, who scored in the final minute to tie the game and converted on the extra point for the go-ahead score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZAP faced some tough competition, including an up-and-coming quarterback from College Station, a quarterback committed to the University of Texas, and another gunslinger headed to the University of Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s some great competition right there,\u201d Brownsville Hanna\u2019s Diego Escovar said. \u201cBeing able to go up against those guys, it\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of things were learned over the weekend, but one thing was for certain, and that was the Valley can hang with the big boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Valley can compete,\u201d Escovar said. \u201cGoing back to (Arkansas commit Lucas Coley), he told us, \u2018you all earned my respect. You balled out.\u2019 That\u2019s coming from a D-1 commit and being Valley kids, we can compete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By BILLY WATSONRSL ROUND ROCK \u2013 Team ZAP entered this weekend\u2019s 7on7 Texas Showdown Championships with hopes to be heading into the championship bracket undefeated. Things did not exactly go their way, unfortunately. ZAP went 2-4 this past weekend at the Multipurpose Complex Saturday afternoon in Round Rock. ZAP won their play-in game against Sooner7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11876,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions\/11876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}