Pete’s Pigskin Preview: Sands Mustangs
2025: 7-5, made playoffs
ACKERLY, Texas (KCBD) - With five returners on offense, and all six on defense from last year’s 7-5 team, the Sands Mustangs appear ready to compete in one of the toughest districts in Texas. This year, they are led by Billy Grumbles, who has served as the long-time girls’ basketball coach there in Ackerly. Along with Jayton and Klondike, the Mustangs are moving up to 1AD1 competition.
“We’ve got a lot of kids back from last year, almost the whole team. We’re going to be fast, we’re going to play hard,” Grumbles says, “We’ll be multiple offensively and we got Coach Wayne Henderson back as a defensive coordinator, and so I hope we’re extremely disciplined. I hope we play hard every down and that’s what you’re going to see.”
Their biggest wins in 2025 were a 69-60 win at Motley County in week seven, and an 82-48 victory against Whitharral to start the postseason.
Key returners include: Cookie Bracamonte, Kane Ferguson, Caleb Mathis, Noah Mathis, Bray Shofner, Easton Sandlin, and Gordo Soliz.
Pete’s Pigskin Previews are sponsored by Grid Iron Bells.
2026 schedule, kickoff times are set for 7 p.m. unless noted otherwise.
- 8/29 Valley @ Jayton, 5:30 p.m.
- 9/4 Kress
- 9/11 @ Water Valley
- 9/18 Garden City, 7:30 p.m.
- 9/25 Whitharral
- 10/2 BYE
- 10/9 @ Ira*
- 10/16 @ O’Donnell*
- 10/23 Westbrook*
- 10/30 @ Klondike*
- 11/6 Borden County*
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