SPORTS UPDATE #95

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*** Wednesday – November 14, 2007 ***

• WHS makes football coaching change  -  WILLIS – Declaring it was “time for a change,” Willis Independent School District Superintendent Brian Zemlicka reassigned head football coach Mack Malone days after the Wildkats completed their second consecutive 0-10 season.  Full Story

• Duncanville reassigns football coach Schreiber

• UIL football playoff pairings

• Volleyball playoff pairings

• High school football playoff preview (DFW)

• Jefferson quarterback has career day
  The Jefferson High School football team was fighting for the chance at a playoff berth on Friday night. 

• Frenship’s Hill thriving under center
  ate has been playing with the Frenship football team for the past three years.

• Area players of the week
  CLASS 3A Will Clay, Snyder

• Area team of the week
  Coronado Mustangs (9-1, 5-0 in District 2-5A)

• Area honor roll
  CLASS 5A (Lubbock)

• Pool, Merchant lead Frenship to win over LHS, 65-55
  Kyler Pool and Jordan Merchant scored a game-high 20 points each, with Merchant draining five 3-pointers, to lift Frenship to a season-opening victory, 65-55, over Lubbock High.

• HIGH SCHOOLS  -  N.B. Canyon setter finds comfort zone

• UIL state volleyball glance

• David Flores: Brack coach’s faith in players inspires team

• Basketball: Bronchos can’t keep up with Matadors (Odessa)

• Second Season: Teams getting ready for playoffs (Valley)

• Boys Basketball Report: November 13, 2007 (Valley)

• Offensive inconsistency plagued Cowboys
  When coach Bob Shipley looks back this football season, he will see few problems with his team scoring points. -  (Coppell)

• Coppell wins opener over Plano East
  With 6 seconds left and the Coppell basketball team leading by one, senior Davis Chun stepped to the line and made two free throws to push the lead to three. A last second three-pointer for Plano East didn’t fall, and Coppell left Plano East with a win in their season opener.

• Cowgirls lose to Allen
  The Cowgirls basketball team lost at Allen Tuesday night, 55-51.

• PRIVATE SCHOOL NOTES  Keith Gober is juggling a busier schedule than usual these days, but he took a moment to celebrate a big milestone Tuesday night.

• Playoff victory No. 1 is job No. 1  

• Dragons use height advantage to beat scrappy Wildcats in season opener
  ROUND ROCK – An ancient basketball sage once reasoned that a team that plays above the rim has a substantially better chance of winning than do mere mortals looking up at the peach basket.

• Cold shooting plagues Osborn’s Belton boys in opening loss to Lampasas
  BELTON – Belton first-year basketball coach John Osborn expects to have many low-scoring, defensive battles this season.

• Tem-Cats get balanced performance, bounce back by blasting McCallum
  Playing their seventh game in eight days, the Temple Tem-Cats were looking for a spring in their step and a refreshing taste on their palate.

• Lubbock High outlasts Snyder for first win of season
  In a game in which neither team shot well from the free-throw line, Lubbock High managed to get to the line more often and made more shots to notch its first victory of the season.

• Americas scores impressive victory over Coronado
  Slow and steady did not win the race Tuesday night at Trail Blazer Gymnasium — not even close. 

• Preview: Boys and Girls wrestling  (Houston)

• Runnin’ Roos win opener with defense
  The 12th-ranked Runnin’ Roos struggled with their shots in their season-opener Tuesday night, but the Killeen defense stifled Leander’s entire offense even more.

• Lady Knights make No. 17 Pflugerville work for 3-point win

• Fano foul shots help Lady Dawgs escape Ellison

• Boys Basketball: Short-handed Ellison boys upend No. 4 Connally; Knights win

• Bryan girls fall to Westfield 

• Consol boys run past Bears

• Warriors knock off Bears - State-ranked West Oso probably won’t suffer another loss like this all season. Tuloso-Midway senior guard Phillip Belford and his Warrior teammates certainly enjoyed Tuesday night’s season opener more than the undermanned Bears, as T-M stormed to an early lead en …

• Opening night shootout -  Troopers overcome 20-point deficit, win
  With Parkland High School up 26-16 after the first quarter against Eastwood, Matador scorekeeper Kimberle Clark joked if they could end the game right then.

• Hornets hang tough in opener  – TOMBALL — Draw up a coach’s recipe for the perfect season opener and Doug Anderson got just about everything he hoped for, and maybe a little more, Tuesday against Tomball. (Huntsville)

• It’s playoff time  
  Dogs travel to Humble to take on Splendora 
  All year long Jasper Head Football Coach Thomas Brooks said he aimed at putting the Bulldogs back into the playoffs. Hello playoffs. With Friday’s thrilling 40- 34 victory over Silsbee, the Bulldogs will advance to the playoffs to take on the Splendora Wildcats at 1 p.m.
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• Antlers open the season with a win
  High School Basketball: Lidiak leads the Antlers to victory with 19 points (Kerrville Tivy)

• 15-5A teams ready for postseason 

• Central opens with 67-46 win 

• Dragons rally to edge Lobos  -  Damian Lawson had a memorable varsity debut for Longview’s boys basketball team on Tuesday, making spectacular play after play.Unfortunately, he also made one key mistake.Full Story (Nacogdoches – Longview)

• Defense doesn’t rest as Lee nips Lady Pirates   (Tyler Lee – Pine Tree)

• ET Boys Basketball 

• Playoff digest   (East Texas)

• Football: Panthers glad to have the bell back

• Garrett excels in many ways for WO-S  – Getting busy.….more>>

• Hoop roundup  -  The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears got off to a 1-0 start Tuesday with a 73-47 victory over the Beaumont Kelly Bulldogs. 

• Lady Bears dart past Bridge City  – Amanda Ellerbee finally has the team speed she has been looking for in her two years at Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School.

• Tarkington eases past Bobcats in season opener  – Orangefield got off to a fast start in its season basketball opener but it was the Tarkington Longhorns that had the final answer

• Ozen holds off Memorial rally for 62-59 victory

• Hammond jumper sparks Nederland

• Unsung heroes
  HARLINGEN — By now, Sean Messick, Peter Maldonado, Phillip Fruge, Steve Mata and Joseph Bedford…

• 32-5A/32-3A notes: South-SB set for backyard brawlWhat better way to open the playoffs than a little backyard brawl?…

• Top-ranked Hawks win season openerELSA — Harlingen South head coach Brian Molina knew his season opener against Edcouch-Elsa would be a… Full Story

• Boys basketball: Quick starters

• Girls basketball: Hand nets 36 as Liberty outlasts Lady Raiders

• Boys basketball: Titans pull away from Raiders (Ryan – Frisco Centennial)

• Fort Worth Dunbar starts season off right with win   -  The Wildcats begin their bid for another trip to Austin with a 78-67 victory over DeSoto.

• Injury bug bites Lee, QB again
  It continues to be business as usual for the Ganders in an injury-riddled football season.

• Craft plays big part in Ganders offense
  Hurricane Katrina blew Kevin Craft to Baytown Lee two years ago and Baytown Lee’s not about to send him back.

• Different approach, same result
  The Baytown Christian Academy offense has evolved over the course of the last two seasons but one constant has remained.

• Lee girls end two-game losing streak
  Galena Park proved to be a good morale booster for the Lee girls’ basketball team.

• Brazosport knocks off Columbia
  FREEPORT — A dismal night from the charity stripe Tuesday almost did in the Lady Exporters.

• Yellowjackets too much for Manvel
  ALVIN — Facing its first varsity game on the hardwood, the Manvel Mavericks gave Alvin all it could handle in the season opener for both teams Tuesday night.

• Sweeny topples Van Vleck
  SWEENY — The Sweeny Lady Bulldogs overcame a rash of turnovers and finally flipped visiting Van Vleck with a 20-9 fourth-quarter run to win Tuesday night’s non-district encounter to the tune of 45-33.

• The time is now for Bay Area football
  LEAGUE CITY — The undefeated Broncos begin TAPPS playoffs Friday with their eyes on a state championship.

• Lady Mustangs are on a roll
  FRIENDSWOOD — The Lady Mustangs take a 19-match winning streak into the state tournament, which begins Thursday.

• Creek escapes Angleton
  Kortnee Pevehouse hit a last-second shot to give the Wildcats a road victory over Angleton.

• Marion runs past Blanco, 65-29
  MARION — It didn’t take long for the Marion girls basketball team to gain a stronghold on Tuesday’s game.
  

• Seguin narrowly missed playoffs
  SEGUIN — Nine points. That’s what separated the Seguin football team from the playoffs in 2007.
  

• Matadors open year victorious
  SMITHSON VALLEY — Perhaps Monday’s season opener will serve as an indicator of the Seguin boys basketball team’s season.

• Unicorns open by edging Austin High
  Area basketball: NB outscores Maroons 20-9 in the third quarter of eventual 58-56 victory.

• Cougarettes draw Friendswood
  The Canyon Cougarettes have a little more than two days to prepare for their first University Interscholastic League state volleyball tournament appearance since 2001.

• HS BASKETBALL: VAN 56, GRACE COMMUNITY 41

• HS BASKETBALL: WHITEHOUSE 79, IRVING MACARTHUR 60

• HS Basketball: Martins Mill 58, T.K. Gorman 39

• HS Basketball: Hallsville 51, Bullard Brook Hill 40

• Nov. 14 High school basketball scores   (Waco – Central Texas)

• HS Notebook: Kopperl ready for state title run 

• Tivy falls to Panthers by 10 in fifth loss
  The Tivy Antlers girls basketball team they came out on the wrong end of defensive battle, losing to O’Connor 42-32.

• Frenship seems primed for deep playoff run
  Think the Frenship football team isn’t ready for the playoffs?

• Boys basketball teams get seasons started
  The first full week of high school basketball involving both boys and girls teams gets started today as the boys tip off their season to join the girls squads. (Lubbock)

• High school football playoff preview (DFW)

• Wylie girls fall after second-half struggles

• Mustangs dial long distance to shoot down Eagles (Lubbock Coronado – Abilene High)

• Central Texas basketball season preview

• Dulles’ size, depth too much for Elkins — The Dulles Vikings figure to be the team to beat in District 23-5A this season. On Tuesday night at Hopson Fieldhouse, they showed why. Dulles beat Elkins 88-61, using its depth and size to get an early lead and never looking back. READ

• Mason-Griffin propels Marlins to road victory over Hightower  (Madison)

• District 22 produces girls wrestling’s cream of crop in region

• WRESTLERS TO WATCH  (Houston area)

• Friendswood ready second time around in state volleyball tourney

• FOOTBALL PLAYOFF PREVIEW: Elsik has tough task ahead

• State-ranked AHS ready to take on season’s final stage (Abilene High football)

• Area Basketball 11/13  (Nacogdoches)

• Lady Dragons fight past Diboll  (Nacogdoches – Diboll)

• Bowie gets its shot at revenge, 5 years later (Austin)

• When games get out of hand, many states show mercy 

• Estacado speeds past AHS  -  Abilene High got a textbook lesson in pressure defense at warp speed Tuesday.

• About Face: Gonzalez, Warriors claim 32-2A title

• Upon further review, Carroll wins 5A title   The UIL crowns Dragons champs after appeal of scoring error.

• BOX SCORES, POLLS, RESULTS, SCHEDULES (HIGH SCHOOLS) BOYS BASKETBALL (Ft. Worth)

• Nov. 13, 2007: Experienced Knights beat MHS in opener (Midland Classical – Midland High)

• Nov. 13, 2007: Monday’s Boys High School Basketball (West Texas)

• High School Volleyball State Tournament

• Athlete of the Week: Shane Hodge  (Amarillo)

• Athlete of the Week: Kayla McKinney  (Amarillo)

• Bushland a force to be reckoned with

• Battlin’ Billies bring an end to Boerne’s season

• Bryan, Consol feeling good about new season (Bkb)

• West says Huntsville game was turning point for Brenham - With the Brenham Cubs’ postseason set to begin with a 1 p.m. game against Austin LBJ in Bryan Saturday, Cubs head coach Glen West can point to the game he believes made the biggest difference in the Cubs’ perfect run through District 18-4A – Huntsville.

• Panthers look ahead to next season - Brady Conger’s Burton Panthers have hope for the future.

• Queens stay hot, win three of four – The Queens varsity basketball team placed third at this weekend’s Uvalde Basketball Tournament. (Del Rio)

• VOLLEYBALL: Second Baptist takes another title

• FOOTBALL: Houston Christian to start run at home

• High school football playoff games on the air (Nov. 15-17) (DFW)

• North Mesquite enters playoffs confident

• Boys Preview Capsules  -  High School Basketball: A look at the area teams. (Kerrville)

• Bright future; South ready to take on McAllen High - This time last year the United South Panthers football team was cleaning out their lockers as the coaches were taking inventory and collecting all the gear.  Full Story

• Robstown tops South The United South Lady Panther’s home debut was not the welcoming that they expected.

• All-District 21-3A volleyball team  -  Here is the All-District 21-3A volleyball as selected by the coaches.….more>>

• Dallas high school football coach dies after collapse

• Girls basketball roundup: Denton falls to Frisco

• Volleyball: Liberty falls short in state title defense 

• Runnin’ Tigers open season at John Tyler (Terrell)

• Lady Tigers place four on 11-4A volleyball team
  The Mount Pleasant Lady Tigers volleyball team placed four players on the 11-4A all-district volleyball team released Monday. Senior Natasha Amador was a first-team selection for the Lady Tigers, and senior Katara Wilson and junior Destiny Smith were placed on the second team. Senior Katy Webster was named as an honorable mention selection.

• Steed era begins at Paris tonight
  The Billy Mack Steed era officially begins at Paris High tonight when the Wildcats open the season at home against Forney.

• Bryan’s Friday Football Standouts

• Consol’s Friday Football Standouts

• Consol’s Holt helps keep team together

• Brazos Valley’s Top Performers