SHERMAN, Texas — The Sherman Shadowcats beat the Brazos Valley Bombers at Veterans Field, the club's home park, in late July in what the team's published schedule listed as its final home game of the season. The Texas Collegiate League's official game log for Sherman records the outcome of the series, and the win counts among four the club has taken across its last six games, according to that log.
Sherman's schedule set the late-July date with Brazos Valley as the last home game of the year at Veterans Field. The league's game log tracks the club's late-season series results and is the record used to confirm both its season win total and the four-in-six run. Read together, the schedule and the log place the home win inside a six-game span in which the team won four times. Those two records stand as the club's primary published account of the home finale.
Source: Texas Collegiate League official Sherman Shadowcats game log
The game closed the home portion of Sherman's first year in the Texas Collegiate League, which the club is playing as its debut season. Before the season, the league announced it had welcomed Sherman and Abilene, bringing the circuit to eight franchises. In a separate release tied to the 2026 schedule, the league again presented the two clubs as expansion franchises, describing them as additions meant to broaden regional play and competition across the state.
The 2026 season was structured as 48 games over seven weeks, according to material published by the Abilene franchise, the other club new to the league this year. Sherman's stretch of four wins in six games fell near the close of that schedule.
Brazos Valley entered the game with a longer documented history than first-year Sherman. The Bombers' team history page dates the current club to August 25, 2006, and connects the franchise name to the Bryan Bombers of 1947. Brazos Valley was among the opponents listed on Sherman's home schedule for the season.
A first-year club meets a two-decade franchise
Sherman Shadowcats
Playing 2026 as their first season in the Texas Collegiate League.
Brazos Valley Bombers
Modern club dates to August 25, 2006, with the name tied to the 1947 Bryan Bombers.
Source: Brazos Valley Bombers team history; Texas Collegiate League 2026 expansion announcement
Jason Della Rosa is identified on his public profile as sports editor of the Herald Democrat.
The late-July meeting with Brazos Valley marked the last home game of Sherman's opening season at Veterans Field, according to the team schedule.
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