The Bastrop Bears may have got the final nail in their playoff hopes thanks to the Anderson Trojans.
Bastrop  fell to the Trojans 1-0 at BISD Memorial Stadium Monday night, putting them nine points behind Pflugerville for the final playoff spot.
What that means for the Bears (5-10-3, 2-7-2 District 25-5A) is they would have to win their remaining three district games and hope Connally, Akins and Pflugerville all lose their remaining district games.
That’s not too far fetched.
Bastrop went 2-0-1 against their three remaining district opponents — Akins, Austin and Bowie — in the first round of district play.
Unfortunately for the Bears, however, their fate isn’t in their own hands.
“We have three games left… we may be out of the race, but right now we are playing for pride,” Watson said. “If the boys have any pride at all, they will come out, work hard, and try to finish this season off with some wins. (Monday) I saw that the fire wasn’t in our eyes… we didn’t have intensity, we weren’t moving. They took the game to us, as opposed to us taking the game to them.”
On Monday, Bastrop played much of the game tangled and trapped in its own defensive half.
Anderson would score the lone goal of the match early in the first half on a 2-on-1 breakaway run that caught goalkeeper Daniel Rivera between a rock and a hard place.
For one brilliant moment when Bastrop opened up second half play it seemed the match would be a game of two halves.
It was as though the Bears were able to shed their first half dull-drums, and the game would turn in their favor.
But that moment was soon snuffed and Bastrop, to the disappointment of the handful of freezing Bear faithful present, would end the second half much like it did the first, on its heels, trying to repel a relentless Anderson attack.
The Trojans had 12 shots, eight of them on goal, while Bastrop on the other hand only had one shot on goal for the entire evening thanks to Kris Desaulnier.
The score, honestly, should have been a blow-out considering Anderson hit Bastrop’s wood work three times throughout the evening; luckily Bastrop’s keeper, Daniel Rivera, was in top-form though his defense routinely crumbled around him.
The Bears travel to Burger Stadium Saturday to meet Austin High.

— Marcus Vela