Football Expert Gets Paid

Javier Torres of Flatonia was the first winner this season in our reader Pick-It contest. He is shown here, right, getting $300 (we bumped up the prize money over the last few weeks as nobody won) from Kyle Janda of Fayette Savings Bank, the sponsor of the contest. Torres correctly picked all 10 winners last week along with four other people. But his 35-21 prediction of the Navasota/La Grange score (it was 33-21) in the tiebreaker won him the money. Torres said he looked closely at previous game outcomes before making his picks.

The other four people who correctly predicted all 10 winners last week and were oh-so-close to the money were:

• Brian Cox

• Larry Zbranek

• Walter Newcomb

• Jason Vela