FOOTBALL: Silsbee-PNG among Fox Sports SW’s Aug. 31 ‘look-in’ games
Published 4:00 pm Monday, July 23, 2018
- Quarterback Roschon Johnson led PNG to a win over Silsbee two seasons ago in his first varsity game. The two teams will meet again Aug. 31 in Port Neches with Fox Sports Southwest showing live “look-ins” of the game. (The News file photo)
The Aug. 31 football season opener between Silsbee and Port Neches-Groves will air as one of 10 live “look-in” games on Fox Sports Southwest.
This is scheduled to be the second time in the last three years the two programs have met. They were to open the 2017 season against each other when Tropical Storm Harvey forced both teams to cancel. PNG won the 2016 game 54-27 in Silsbee.
The “look-in” will air momentarily during coverage of Fox Sports Southwest’s doubleheader of Brock at Brownwood (5:30 p.m.) and Lufkin at Longview (8:30 p.m.). Other games FSSW will cut to include Euless Trinity at Waco Midway, North Shore at Katy, The Woodlands at Cy-Fair, Lubbock Coronado vs. Lubbock Estacado, Gilmer at Atlanta, Sherman at Denison, El Paso Parkland at El Paso Burges, DeSoto at Odessa Permian and Stephenville at Argyle.
Commemorative “Texas Football Days” footballs will be awarded to Silsbee and PNG as they face off in one of 10 Aug. 31 live “look-in” games to air on Fox Sports Southwest. The winner of the Brock-Brownwood and Lufkin-Longview games that evening will receive the pictured “Texas Football Days” trophy. (Courtesy Fox Sports Southwest)
The regional sports network is presenting a commemorative football to each team playing in the “look-in” games. The broadcasts are part of Fox Sports Southwest’s “Texas Football Days” promotion, which begins with the hourlong “Texas High School Football Season Preview” at 7 p.m. Aug. 26 and runs through Saturday’s college football slate.
The Brock-Brownwood winner and Lufkin-Longview winner each will receive a “Texas Football Days” trophy from Fox Sports Southwest.
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