Pete’s Pigskin Preview: New Deal Lions
2025: 6-4-1, made playoffs
NEW DEAL, Texas (KCBD) - The New Deal Lions finished 2025 with a 6-4-1 record and shared the district title with New Home and Post. They survived a contentious district with a 34-20 win at state-ranked Post and then escaped Abernathy with a 26-24 victory that following week. Head coach Matt Hill says this year’s team is well-aware of the Lions’ winning standards.
“Every year we come out and New Deal has a great tradition in football and a great tradition in all athletics, and so our expectations are to be one of the teams we’re talking about at the end of the season and hopefully make the playoffs and make a good playoff run,” he said.
“I think it’s just to be sound on both sides of the ball and make sure that we’re, doing right by kids and making sure we put them in the right spots. Hopefully at the end of the season, they’re talking about you, and if you can make those things happen, I think it’s a success.”
Key returners include: QB Colt Ramsey, Nathan Alderson, Jackson Attebury, Michael Beck, Heath Chenault, Jacob Creek, Kylan Galindo, Israel Juarez, Chris Lewis, Ethan Maham, Jax Malone, Rudy Martinez, Josiah Mendoza, Austin Murphy, Lane Proctor, Austin Rodriguez, and Dylan Saldana.
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2026 schedule is listed below. Kickoff times set for 7 p.m.
- 8/28 @ Farwell
- 9/4 Roosevelt
- 9/11 Slaton
- 9/18 @ Seagraves
- 9/25 Ropes
- 10/2 @ Sunray
- 10/9 @ Abernathy*
- 10/16 New Home*
- 10/23 Sundown*
- 10/30 BYE
- 11/6 Post*
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