Friday night football: Week 7 matchups
It’s Week 7 for Highland Lakes high school football teams. Marble Falls and Burnet begin district play with the over-century-old Battle of Burnet County. Elsewhere, Faith Academy of Marble Falls plays its last non-district game of the season, and Llano hits the road for its second district contest.
Here are the Oct. 10 matchups:
Marble Falls Mustangs at Burnet Bulldogs
KICKOFF: 7:30 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Bulldog Stadium, 1401 N. Main St. in Burnet
LISTEN/WATCH: Listen to the contest on KBEY 103.9 FM Radio Picayune or at KBEYFM.com starting with a 7 p.m. pregame show. Watch a livestream of the game at DailyTrib.com.
PREVIEW: Listen to a special interview with KBEY 103.9 FM Operation Manager Ben Shields and the head coaches for the Mustangs and Bulldogs on the KBEY website.
LAST WEEK:
- Marble Falls 36, Devine 14
- Burnet 46, Lake View 36
Marble Falls (3-3) travels to Burnet (2-4) for the Battle of Burnet County on Friday night. This is also the first District 4-4A Division I game of the season, raising the stakes.
The teams have a longstanding rivalry, and Friday will be the 111th time they have faced off. Mustangs head coach Keri Timmerman and Burnet head coach Ben Speer will be opponents on the field, but they are close friends off the field and hope to keep the game fun.
The Mustangs fell to the Bulldogs 43-7 in the 2024 Battle of Burnet County.
“Burnet and Marble Falls are both really special places to live and to be a part of,” Timmerman told KBEY’s Ben Shields in a tandem interview with Speer. “We want to make it a fun rivalry, and we want to be able to say ‘congrats’ at the end.”
Speer agreed.
“It’s not so much ‘us versus them’ or ‘Burnet versus Marble’, it’s us helping each other,” the Bulldogs coach said. “It’s so valuable these days to find somebody you respect and who does things the right way.”
Marble Falls is coming off its third win this season, which puts them over their 2024 overall record of 2-8. Burnet has struggled this year, holding a current record of 2-4 compared to last year’s non-district tally of 4-2.
Faith Academy Flames vs. Founders Classical Academy Archers
KICKOFF: 7 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Faith Academy, 3151 RR 1431 East in Marble Falls
LAST WEEK: Faith Academy 76, Medina 55
The Flames (5-1) take on the undefeated Archers (6-0) on Friday night. This is Faith Academy’s last non-district game of the season. The Texas Association of Private and Parochial six-man team is coming off a win over the Medina Bobcats (5-1) in Week 6.
The Flames did not play Founders in 2024.
Llano Yellowjackets at Luling Eagles
KICKOFF: 7 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Eagle Field, 112 E. Travis St. in Luling
LAST WEEK: Llano 58, Florence 7
Llano (5-1) faces Luling (0-5) on Friday after the Yellowjackets’ dominant 58-7 win in the District 13-3A Division I opener Oct. 3 against the Florence Buffaloes (0-6).
Llano shut out Luling 49-0 when the two teams played in 2024.