Katy just keeps improving.

The Tigers have continued to grow as the season has gone along and it has shown in their performances.

After starting off District 19-6A play with two close games, the Tigers kicked it into gear, blowing out Mayde Creek, Jordan and Paetow.

But the Tigers (8-0, 6-0) may have saved their best district performance for Friday night, as the Tigers took down a very talented Cinco Ranch (6-3, 5-2) team 56-28, keeping the Tigers undefeated on the season and sealing a district championship for the team with two weeks remaining in the district season.

“It was a good test for us tonight,” said Katy head coach Gary Joseph. “You don’t see that many teams before the playoffs that can sling it around like they can, so it’s really good to experience that and play against that. Our guys played well tonight, but we could have cleaned up a few things as well, but the main things is playing against a good team like that. Anytime you play a really good opponent like that it’s going to help you.”

Katy was dominant in every phase of the game in the win. The Tigers limited the Cinco Ranch offense until the game was out of reach while rushing for 348 yards and passing for 158 yards as a team.

Katy got things going early, easily going down the field on the games first drive and scoring on a 1-yard run by Seth Davis. Katy then forced a turnover on downs and Davis did it again, scoring on a 13-yard run as Katy took control in the first quarter.

Katy added on early in the second quarter, as Caleb Koger threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Oliver Ginn, before Cinco Ranch finally got on the board with a 72-yard pass from Gavin Rutherford to Sam McKnight. Katy though got right back into it with a 9-yard pass form Koger to Chase Johnsey. Cinco scored once more shortly before the half, but Katy only needed 30 seconds to go 65 yards and capped things off with a 29-yard pass from Koger to Micah Koenig right before halftime as the Tigers took a 35-14 lead into the locker room.

“We had a good game today, but we could have done better at the same time,” said senior safety Jonathan Hall. “The biggest thing that made us successful tonight was our communication defensively. We communicated well and we needed to because there was lots of switching, they run lots of different combinations of routes that you have to be ready for and it made communication key. We really focused on that the past two weeks and it paid off.”

Cinco got another score to open the second half on an eight yard pass from Rutherford to Seth Salverino, but Katy quickly put any thoughts of a touchdown to bed. Davis ran in another touchdown from 6-yards out and after Cinco scored again Dallas Glass game back and scored on a 35-yard run.

Glass relieved Davis the rest of the way as both had extremely good nights, with Davis rushing for 147 yards and three touchdowns and Glass rushing for 120 yards and two scores.

“That’s part of what we preach from the time the kids get here is you have to be unselfish with one another and those two really get that,” Joseph said. “It doesn’t matter who scored the touchdowns, what matters is who had the most points at the end of the game. They’ve bought into that and it’s a great thing to have two seniors that are so unselfish. It makes you a much better football team in the long run.”

Cinco and Katy traded scored the rest of the way, with the Tigers holding on to a strong lead until the end of the game, as Katy clinched the district title for the second straight season.

With that title clinched, the Tigers focus goes to improving these last two weeks of district ant remaining unbeaten through heading into the playoffs, and the Tigers know that they need to continue to improve if they want to make a run.

“We know that we’re going to face some really good teams,” Hall said. “This was a good team, but if we want to make a run, it won’t be the best team we play. We have to go back in to film, back into practice and get better and keep improving every day, that’s how you become champions.”

Katy 56, Cinco Ranch 28

First quarter

K: Seth Davis 1 run (Hunter Ondrusch kick) 8:36

K: Davis 13 run (Ondruch kick) 2:03

Second quarter

K: Caleb Koger 17 pass to Oliver Ginn (Ondrusch kick) 9:11

CR: Gavin Rutherford 72 pass to Sam McKnight (Santiago Taborda kick) 8:19

K: Koger 9 pass to Chase Johnsey (Ondrusch kick)

CR: Rutherford 8 pass to Seth Salverino (Taborda kick) 0:45

K: Koger 29 pass to Micah Koenig (Ondrusch kick) 0:06

Third quarter

K: Davis 6 run (Ondrusch kick) 8:18

CR: McKnight 1 run (Taborda kick) 3:50

Fourth quarter

K: Dallas Glass 5 run (Ondrusch kick) 11:49

CR: Rutherford 48 pass to Noah Abboud (Taborda kick) 9:51

K: Glass 28 run (Ondrusch kick) 5:56

Team stats

Individual Statistics

Rushing – Katy: Seth Davis, 16-147-3; Dallas Glass, 12-120-2; Chase Johnsey, 5-39; Micah Koenig, 2-22; Romarian Tillman, 4-13; Jared Kelly, 1-7; Donye Lake, 1-7; Cinco Ranch: Sam McKnight, 5-48-1; Gavin Rutherford, 11-25; Eric Eckstrom, 9-18; Seth Salverino, 1-3;

Passing – Katy: Caleb Koger, 9-16-133-3-1; Elijah Bowman, 1-1-25-0-0; Cinco Ranch: Gavin Rutherford, 17-27-273-3-2;

Receiving – Katy: Micah Koenig, 3-56-1; Oliver Ginn, 3-34-1; Adam Jackson, 2-34; Romarian Tillman, 1-25; Chase Johnsey, 1-9-1; Cinco Ranch: Noah Abboud, 6-109-1; Sam McKnight, 2-88-1; Seth Salverino, 2-24-1; Jack McCall, 3-18; Gavin Beavers, 2-16; Eric Eckstrom, 1-14; Aadi Patel, 1-4