Boys’ soccer regional semifinal roundup: Southlake Carroll gets past Haltom, more

The Texas high school UIL boys soccer regional semifinal round is here. See how Fort Worth-area teams fared on their playoff runs.

Southlake Carroll gets past Haltom

The Southlake Carroll boys soccer team jumped out to an early lead and then held off Haltom 3-1 in a Class 6A Division 2 regional semifinal on Friday, March 28 at Crowley ISD Multi-Purpose Stadium.

Carroll (17-3-4) advances to the regional final and will face Dallas Jesuit (20-1-0). Jesuit downed Trophy Club Nelson 2-0 in overtime to move on.

“All credit to Haltom,” said Carroll coach Chris Padilla. “They’re a really, really organized bunch with really hard workers, strong in a tackle. There’s just a lot of passion and desire with them.”

Townes Hargrove got things rolling for the Dragons in the 11th minute when he curled in a corner kick that just sneaked inside the near post off a block from a teammate and a fortunate bounce away from the Haltom keeper.

“We practice that every day before games,” said Hargrove. “We’ve been working on that from corner kicks and I just basically just try to score from the corner. I had a better angle there and it went it.”

Carroll made it 2-0 in the 38th minute when John Skiermont pushed a nice cross from in deep on the left side and centered over to Tyson Lipp in the middle who found the back of the net from five yards out.

Hargrove scored his second goal of the game from eight yards out when Fife Adeyemo delivered a perfect cross to make it 3-0 in the 53rd minute.

“He’s a hell of a player,” said Hargrove of Adeyemo. “He dribbled down the line and took a couple of players on and slotted it back to me.

“We’re working hard every day and it’s paying off in the playoffs. We’re peaking at the right time.”

Carroll controlled much of match, but Haltom (11-3-9) finally got on the board in the 63rd minute with a header by Omar Gutierrez off a nice cross.

“It’s such a cliche, but this is a special group,” said Haltom coach Frank Cordova. “It’s a very close knit group. It’s more, it’s family. They do everything together and tonight they’re going to cry together.”

Cordova added that, to his knowledge, that this group of Buffalos have advanced further than any boys soccer team in school history.

Carroll won state titles in 2001 and 2011, but the Dragons haven’t been back to a regional semifinal since 2013 and haven’t played in a regional final since 2011.

“We’re a program with a lot of history, but we just couldn’t seem to get over the hump for the last decade or so,” said Padilla. “For this group to break that threshold is really, really special. It’s a group with a strong belief and a strong love for one another.

“When you get to the postseason, teams that have built strong relationships with one another tend to make it pretty deep. We have an entire roster who are willing to battle for each other.”

Saginaw explodes in overtime to down El Paso Burges

The Saginaw boys soccer team scored three times in the final seven minutes of the second 10-minute overtime period to pull away from El Paso Burges 4-1 in a Class 5A Division 2 regional semifinal on Friday, March 28 at Ratliff Stadium in Odessa.

Saginaw (13-9-2) moves on to face El Paso Bel Air (21-2-2) in the regional final next week. Bel Air downed Argyle 3-0 on Friday.

Burges finishes its season at 18-4-2.

The match was tied 1-1 after regulation play and it looked as if the teams were headed for a shootout, but the Rough Riders weren’t done. Valente Gallardo headed in a corner kick in the 93rd minute of the second OT period to give Saginaw a 2-1 lead.

Conrad Torp put the game on ice with goals in the 95th and 98th minutes. The final goal was assisted by Saul Ruiz.

Castleberry blanks Decatur to advance

The River Oaks Castleberry boys soccer team got a pair of goals from Ethan Padilla and a stellar effort in goal from Caleb Castaneda as the Lions downed Decatur 3-0 in a Class 4A Division 1 regional semifinal on Friday, March 28 at Fort Worth Eagle Mountain High School.

Castleberry (20-1-3) will face Lake Dallas (18-4-2) in the regional final early next week tentatively set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday back at Eagle Mountain HS. Lake Dallas defeated defending 4A champion San Elizario 2-1 in a shootout on Friday.

Decatur suffered its first loss of the season, ending a 20-1-2 campaign which included a 1-0 win over Lake Dallas in early January.

Padilla started the scoring for Castleberry when Fernando Hernandez sends a ball from 20 yards away from Padilla who headed it in from 10 yards out in the 7th minute.

A take away by the Lions just inside the Decatur led to a long outlet pass to Jose Chairez who out raced his man for 30 yards before slipping one past the oncoming Eagle goalkeeper to make it 2-0 in the 37th minute.

Padilla put the nail in the coffin in the 69th minute when his corner kick curved in and was ruled to have broken the goal line to make 3-0.

Diamond Hill-Jarvis defeats El Paso Bowie, advances to regional final

Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis got a first-half goal from Edgar Resendiz and the Eagles made it stand up in a 1-0 win over El Paso Bowie in a Class 4A Division 2 regional semifinal on Friday, March 28 at Astound Stadium in Midland.

Diamond Hill-Jarvis (23-2-0) moves on to the regional final where they’ll meet the Bridgeport (12-6-0)-Brownwood (7-11-2) winner early next week.

Senior Alex Ibarra assisted on the goal that lifted the Eagles to the same round that they’ve lost in the past two seasons. DH-J reached the state championship game in 2021 but has never taken home a state title in boys’ soccer.

Bowie’s season ends at 17-7-1.

Byron Nelson falls in overtime to Dallas Jesuit

The Trophy Club Byron Nelson boys soccer team battled to a scoreless tie through regulation, but Dallas Jesuit scored twice in the first 10-minute overtime period to oust the Bobcats 2-0 in a Class 6A Division 2 regional semifinal on Friday, March 28 at Coppell High School.

Jesuit (20-1-0) will now face Southlake Carroll (17-3-4) in the regional final. Carroll downed Haltom 3-1 on Friday.

Drew Koshakji got things rolling for the Rangers in the 83rd minute, taking a pass off a rebounded shot and finding the top right corner of the net from 20 yards out. Zane Roland followed that with a goal two minutes later.

Roland broke free before having to juke a defender with a stop and a spin, then beating the Nelson keeper from 12 yards away. Byron Nelson (10-7-5) just couldn’t get anything going after that and into the second overtime period.

Friday’s results

Coppell 2, El Paso Pebble Hills 0

Plano West 1, Hurst L.D. Bell 0 (SO 3-2)

El Paso Americas 3, NRH Richland 1

El Paso El Dorado 3, FW Chisholm Trial 2 (SO 4-3)

El Paso Bel Air 3, Argyle 0

Lake Dallas 2, San Elizario 1 (SO)

Bridgeport 7, Brownwood 2

This story was originally published March 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM.