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Week 10 of Galveston County high school football saw postseason-bound teams make their playoff pictures clearer as the regular season begins to wind down. Some notable notes from the past week’s games include:

Slowing down the ‘Cats

While Clear Creek’s potent offense is pretty much impossible to stop, the Dickinson Gators defense did the best job of any District 24-6A team, so far, in slowing the Wildcats down in Saturday’s 42-20 win.

“Defense has been carrying us all year long,” Gators head coach John Snelson said after the game. “The offense has been hot and cold, but the defense has been stellar all year long.”

The Wildcats were held to their lowest scoring output (by two touchdowns) in their district schedule, and with an interception, a fumble and a recovered blocked punt, Dickinson forced more turnovers against Clear Creek than any other 24-6A team.

The Gators also were only the second district team (Friendswood being the other) to hold Clear Creek quarterback Chase Hildreth to less than 250 passing yards and running back Jaiden Woodson to less than 150 rushing yards in the same game.

Defensive treats, offensive tricks

The Friendswood Mustang defense bent but never broke in Friday night’s 35-11 win, holding the Falcons offense to one-for-five on fourth down conversion attempts. Going for it on fourth down proved costly for the Falcons as the failed conversions set Friendswood up in prime field position in the first half.

Was it maybe the spirit of Halloween that possessed the Mustang offense to flash tricks in the game?

Receiver Joey Crespo, who hauled in five catches during the game also attempted a pass on a trick play to sophomore Reed Roher for 28 yards. Defensive back Sean White also got in on the offense action at running back, carrying the ball five times for 31 yards.

Giving up the big plays

La Marque head coach Mike Jackson was incensed with his defense’s performance after Thursday’s 51-38 win over Houston Worthing and with good cause.

The Cougars gave up six plays of 30 yards or more with four of those plays going for touchdowns.

Remarkably, the uncharacteristic defensive performance came against a Worthing team that La Marque dominated just three weeks prior.

In that 59-6 win for the Cougars, the defense gave up only 86 total yards (compared to 403 yards on Thursday), 67 rushing yards (compared to 209) and 19 passing yards (compared to 194).

In the game three weeks ago, La Marque limited Worthing to 1.93 yards per rush (compared to 5.97) and held Worthing’s standout quarterback Alfred Robertson to 63 total yards (compared to 382).

Playoff picture

With one week remaining in the regular season, the postseason matchups are pretty much set for most local teams.

For the District 24-6A teams, Dickinson will be the No. 1 seed and Clear Springs will be the No. 2 seed in Division I. That will mean first round playoff matchups with Alief Taylor, most likely, for Dickinson and Alief Elsik for Clear Springs.

Clear Creek will be 24-6A’s No. 1 seed in Division II with Friendswood snagging the No. 2 spot.

 That will give the Wildcats a likely date with Fort Bend Austin, while Friendswood will face Fort Bend Hightower.

Texas City will enter the Class 5A playoffs as a No. 2 seed in Division II unless the Stings can upset state power Ridge Point and Fort Bend Marshall is topped by lowly Fort Bend Willowridge this week.

Should Texas City hold that No. 2 seed in Division II, the Stings will meet Angleton in the first round of the playoffs.

The La Marque Cougars ended their regular season Thursday at District 10-4A-II champions and will meet the fourth-place team out of District 9-4A-II, which will be the loser of this week’s Orangefield versus Hamshire-Fannett game.

A win over winless Vanderbilt Industrial this week will wrap up a third place playoff berth for the Hitchcock Bulldogs. That spot will mean a likely playoff date with the loser of this week’s District 13-3A-I matchup between the Ingram Tom Moore Warriors and the Comfort Bobcats.