Sundown ISD

Message to Students and Community Sundown ISD Family Due to inclement weather, we are going to have a 10 AM start. Please be careful traveling to school.

Tuesday HS Basketball Game Changes due to Anticipated Weather… Tuesday’s Games, January 24th at Post, will begin at 4 PM with Varsity Girls, followed by Varsity Boys. JV Girls and Boys Games have been Cancelled. We are anticipating weather tomorrow and want to be as safe as possible for travel. MS Games tonight will resume as normal. Girls in the Game Gym. Boys in the Back Gym.

MS Robotics in Midland - 1st Place - Comeback for 2nd - Celebratory Ice Cream - Blowout - Good Samaritan Sundown Middle School students competed at the TCEA Robotics competition held at Abell Middle School in Midland today. Students arrived at 6 AM in order to travel, and arrived back home around 8:30 PM. It was an action packed day to say the least! Our 7th Grade students Blevin Petrick, Avy McGlasson, Maddy Medrano, and JC Jenkins were the Champion Inventors in the Intermediate Class with their Assistant Vital Checker (AVC) invention. The afternoon was jam packed with robotics competition, and our students competed with integrity and class. Camden Bufe and Drew Igo started off strong, and were the 3rd Place team going into the finals. They partnered with a team from another school and came up short in the 1st round of the finals on account of something out of their control (heartbreaking for our kids as they worked so hard). Eli Keen & Zane Perez chose to partner with Ryder Bufe and Brock Bufe (Brock was a substitute for Braxie Albus), and their team came back from the 7th place team in the pre-lims to finish 2nd Place overall in the Intermediate Robotics Competition! Our students were complimented by the directors and judges in charge, and as the day progressed, the judges openly began to root for our students from Sundown! Mrs. Ashley Bufe was the local expert in all things robotics, and was looked to for help in answering all the questions that continued to arise throughout the day! After receiving our medals, and loading up the van, we found our way over to Marble Slab Creamery for some celebratory ice cream! The ice cream was great, but it may have added some extra weight on our students as we encountered a minor hiccup on our drive home... a blowout! The added weight seemed to be too much for our van to handle! Students oddly enjoyed the experience of having a blowout... in the middle of nowhere... making a long day longer.... in pitch black darkness! We were lucky to have Greg Harms, from Seminole, stop and lend a helping hand with an impact wrench and an extra car jack! He was very kind to drive by and check on us, and even agreed to have his picture taken with our students. He congratulated our students on a job well done for the day, and went on about his way once he knew we were safe and back on the road. It is great to share the news of good people out in this world, and we are thankful to have crossed paths with Mr. Harms! If you know him, please let him know that we appreciate him! As we arrived home, students even managed to keep some hardware from out trip.... in addition to the medals and trophies they received... the hardware they seemed most excited about was the piece of rubber they cut from the blown tire that they took home as a keepsake! Gotta love Middle School Kids! #GreatDayToBeASundownRoughneck #WeAreSundownSmart #WeHaveSundownHeart #WeAreSundownStrong

Kind gesture from Roosevelt Cheer! They wore purple in honor of Kennedi at their latest basketball game! Continue to keep the Diaz family, friends of Kennedi and the community of Sundown in your prayers! #KennediStrong

Roughnecks complete the sweep of Ropes with a 60-51 victory! Great night of Sundown hoops!!

After 3 the Roughnecks lead Ropes 46-32. Finish!!

Roughnecks lead 40-21 at the half. Let’s finish men!!!

Roughnecks lead Ropes 20-15 after 1.

Huge win for the Roughettes! 60-36 over Ropes! Great job ladies!!!

After 3 the Roughettes lead Ropes 49-30. Let’s finish ladies!!!

We are at the half: Roughettes 29 Lady Eagles 18 The gym is packed tonight!

Roughettes are up 1, 8-7 on Ropes after 1.

JV finals against Ropes. Girls won 32-20 Boys won 49-29 Great job boys and girls!

Both JV games with Ropes are at the half. Boys lead 23-14 Girls down 14-12

Today, 21 members of our Roughneck Band competed for a spot in the Region 16 A/AA All-Region Band. Everyone competed very well! The following band members have earned a spot and will participate in the All-Region clinics and concerts on January 27th and 28th at the Lubbock Civic Center: Makenzie Mulloy - 5th Chair Flute Anastasia Robinson - 21st Chair Clarinet Karizma Hoover - 1st Alternate, Bass Clarinet Easton Smith - 1st Chair Contrabass Clarinet Shea Beadles - 15th Chair Cornet Lizzie Corley - 4th Chair Horn Brayden Carr - 1st Chair Euphonium Noah Peralez - 1st Chair Tuba Watson Evans - 5th Chair Tuba Hunter Russell - 8th Chair Tuba Madison Nations - 5th Chair Percussion 1 Congratulations to all who competed today…we are SO proud of all 21 students who worked toward this goal! Some of the rooms had as many as 86 students in one section, so to place near the top is to be commended. Way to go! Thanks to Mr. Mauldin, Mrs. Blount and Mr. Bibb for working so diligently with our students!

Roughnecks fall to Plains 72-52.

At the half Sundown 24 Plains 33.

Roughnecks trail Plains 15-10 after 1.

72-38 Roughettes win! Greta job ladies!

Roughettes lead 57-27 after 3.