By Allan Jamail
Houston, TX. ~ At the GPISD stadium on November 5, 2026, on Seniors Night the North Shore Mustangs Eastside Boys football team scored 56 points and held the visiting Kingwood Mustangs to 7. After the team’s regular season’s final district game Nshore ended with a 9 – 1 record, Kingwood dropped to 3 – 7.
Nshore’s Head Coach Willie Gaston’s team now begins Thursday, November 13th @ 7pm at home against the Deer Park Deer in their Bi-District playoff game. The winner will then play the following week the winner of the 9 – 1 Pearland Oilers and the 7 – 3 Alief Taylor Lions also playing this week.
The 2026 – 2027 Texas UIL High School Football State Championship Contests has five playoff games before the final State Championship game. A playoff loss sends the loser home ending their season.
This will be Coach Gaston’s third consecutive state championship contest as head coach. Last season he brought home the 2025 – 2026 state championship trophy when the Mustangs edged the Duncanville Panthers 10 – 7 in the UIL Class 6A Division I state championship game, securing their sixth state title.
This past Thursday’s matchup between the two Mustangs’s proved Kingwood’s Mustangs didn’t have enough horsepower
to compete against the to compete against the powerful Nshore’s Mustangs.
Since it was Seniors Night and a 41 – 0 halftime lead Gaston was able to play lots seniors for the hundreds of senior’s parents who were at the game. To the thrill of those parents all of the 8 Mustangs touchdowns were made by seniors.
Nshore scorers: #5 Kaden Brandley, 2 td’s, #20 Amari Louisville, 2 td’s, #8 La’Damian Defreeze, 1 td, #7 Dante Mays, 1 td and #83 Jordan Barfield, 1 td.
#81 junior kicker Rey Amezquita had his second consecutive perfect kicking performance making 8 kicks in this game and 11 in the previous game. It’s astonishing to know that just last season he wasn’t on the football team, he was band member. Linda Jamail statistician.
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