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SAN ANGELO – Central High School’s festivities capped off the week with its annual homecoming parade, pep rally, and the District 2-6A opener between the San Angelo Bobcats vs the Midland Rebels played at San Angelo Stadium.
First up was CHS’ 6 p.m. Homecoming Parade (HOCO) Parade of Walt Disney characters, ranging from Sleeping Beauty, Pirates of the Caribbean, Peter “the boy who refused to grow up” Pan, The Mickey Mouse Club, a Central High School female dressed up as Minnie Mouse, other CHS students dressed in Hawaiian Aloha shirts with lei (wreath made of flowers worn around the neck) with a sign that read Teen Beach Movie, The Princess, and the Frog, the Tex-Anns, Central Mighty Bobcat Band, The Lady Cats Soccer team, Bobcats’ football team, and the 12 king and queen nominees, etc.
Central’s 2025 theme for HOCO was Disney’s “Once Upon a Time”.
Central High School Duke nominees
Brady Billingsley
Sutton Cole
Cooper Collier
Drew Dotson
Talmadge Taylor
Mason Van Sickle
Van Sickle was crowned the king during Central’s 7 p.m. pep rally held at San Angelo Stadium on Thursday, October 9, 2025.
Central High School Duchess nominees
Jaylee Brinlee
Adelyn Cardenas
Addison Gentry was crowned this year’s CHS queen before the football game on Friday, October 10, 2025.
Adison Gonzales
Maddie Rios
Briana Trevino
San Angelo Central High School Bobcats (3-3, 0-1) (vs Midland Rebels (2-4, 1-0) District 2-6A opener offered everything from fantasy scoring 100 combined points, to “flag city” penalties galore (Cats 12 for 70 yards) “no huddle” quick explosive offenses that produced 1200 yards, 652 total yards. In contrast, Central’s offense totaled nearly 600 yards.
Both quarterbacks, JP Reyes and Micah Smith, combined for 854 passing yards and nine touchdowns.
Reyes completed 25 of 40 passes for 473 yards, five TD passes, and an interception. Smith threw for 381 yards passing, went 22-37 with four touchdowns and one interception.
The Rebels’ quick strike “no huddle” offense scored on its first series when quarterback JP Reyes threw a 24-yard pass to receiver Ja’Braylen Anders, who beat a Bobcats’ defensive back for the touchdown. Midland led San Angelo Central 7-0 with 7:04 left in the first quarter.
Central responded on its first drive, going 74 yards in six plays. Facing third down and eight from the Rebels’ 15-yard line, Micah Smith finds Colton Hill in the endzone for six points to tie the game 7-7.
When the Bobcats’ special teams kicked off, Midland’s Nic Moore caught it at the five-yard line, went straight up the middle, veered to the right side, and raced down the sideline untouched by the special teams’ unit. The Rebels led 14-7 at the end of the first quarter.
When Cats’ quarterback Smith’s pass was tipped by a Rebels defensive back, it was intercepted by Moore. Midland’s quarterback JP Reyes threw a short pass to Caden Ellis, who shook off a Central defender and then turned on the jets to score on an 80-yard touchdown run. After the PAT, Midland led Central High 21-7.
Bobcats respond with a 48-yard drive in nine plays as Smith throws a five-yard touchdown to Hill to cut the Rebels’ lead, 21-14, at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Central goes 36 yards in four plays, culminating in a 12-yard touchdown by Smith; the PAT makes it Cats 21, Rebels 21. Midland comes back with a 7-play 69-yard drive to go ahead 28-21.
Bobcats even the score on an 84-yard drive, capped off by a 12-yard pass as Smith finds Hill for another touchdown. The game is tied 28-28. In this shootout, Hill caught 12 passes for 270 yards.
The Rebels then go 79 yards in 10 plays to retake the lead, 35-28. Central ties the game when the offense goes eight plays, 79 yards, this on a 3-yard touchdown run by Zeyvion Johnson to make it 35-35.
Midland scores quickly on an 8-play 57-yard drive to make it 38-35 when the kicker, Steven Verastegui, bangs in a 27-yard field goal at the end of the half.
The Rebels’ offense at the start of the third quarter goes 70 yards in 7 plays to make it 41-35. Midland adds another touchdown on a 10-play, 79-yard drive to take a 13-point lead, 48-35, when Reyes throws a 9-yard TD pass to Cisco Rodriguez in the third quarter.
The Bobcats close out the third quarter when Smith throws a 13-yard pass to Gabriel Garcia to make it 48-42.
The Rebels’ offense tacks on 10 points, and its defense shuts out the Bobcats’ offense to ruin Central’s homecoming opener, 58-42.
Central travels to Odessa, Texas, to play the Permian Panthers at Ratliff Stadium on Friday, October 17, 2025.