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I am a Fairfield alumni, We (Tarkington) played East Chambers, these teams are extremely similar. This might truly be a pickem game. If someone can "break serve" so to speak and get a couple defensive stops the pressure is going to mount greatly on the other team. Might be one of the best first round games in the state.

Location matters… It should be obvious that murder or any crime can happen anywhere. Certainly a horrific crime can happen anywhere at any time. But…. The odds or frequency are sometimes heavily skewed to some locations. The Mid-County cities of Nederland, Port Neches and Groves have a population of about 50,000 people. Beaumont is about 2.3 times the size of Mid-County. According to FBI statistics, in the last 5 years Mid-County has had 6 murders. Going by size and on a 1 to 1 ratio, Beaumont should have had 14 murders in the same time period of 5 years. Beaumont has had 79 murders in that time frame and a person has an almost 600% more likely chance of being a victim of a murder in Beaumont. So in comparison to size, Beaumont has had an additional 65 more murders than would have occurred in Mid-County in 5 years. That doesn’t mean that the people in Beaumont are bad because 113,000 people in Beaumont didn’t commit a murder last year. Some people have a difficult time with the fact that some areas have a much higher rate of violent crime and the average person has a much higher percentage of being a victim in those areas. Statements like, “crime can happen anywhere” are 100% correct. It’s also a fact that some areas have a many times higher likelihood of it happening.

We are in the process of putting together a Playoff Central thread that will include our coverage area teams, opponents, date, time and place and what team they would face the next round. We will do this for each round of the playoffs like what we already are doing with our Weekly schedule and Scoreboard. This will likely be posted Monday. We will also continue to do game threads for each of our coverage area games. Please be patient while we put this together. Thanks

winner will win 96 to 89 in a toss up.

Friday, Nov. 13 Crosby at Woodlands College Park 7pm Channelview at Goose Creek Memorial 7pm Humble at Cypress Falls 7pm Summer Creek at Houston Heights 7pm Fort Bend Ridge Point at Kingwood 7pm Houston Northbrook at Baytown Sterling 7pm Tomball Memorial at Kingwood Park 7pm El Campo at Spring Woods 7pm Porter at Dayton 7pm Cleveland at Baytown Lee 7pm Jasper at Groveton Centerville 6pm Lumberton at Buna 6pm Vidor at Anahuac 6pm Huffman at Caney Creek 7pm High Island at Liberty 7pm Warren at Huntington 6pm Onalaska at Pineywoods CA 6pm Central Heights at MP Chapel Hill 6pm Timpson at Pollok Central 6pm Chireno at Lufkin Hudson 6pm Gary at Woden 7pm Brookeland at Hemphill 6pm Leggett at Laneville 6pm Goodrich at Broaddus 7pm Sabine Pass at Spurger 7pm Saturday, Nov. 14 Atascocita vs. Houston Heights at MO Campbell Center 5pm North Shore vs. Cypress Falls at MO Campbell Center 6:30pm Humble vs. Houston Christian at MO Campbell Center 8pm Beaumont West Brook vs. Summer Creek at MO Campbell Center 3:30pm CE King at A&M Consolidated 1pm Splendora at Montgomery 1pm Goose Creek Memorial at Spring DeKaney 1pm Baytown Lee at Fort Bend Dulles 2pm Port Arthur Memorial at Hardin-Jefferson 1pm Beaumont Legacy at Little Cypress-Mauriceville 2pm Houston Kashmere at Kountze 12pm Big Sandy vs. Longview Spring Hill at Neches HS 7:30pm Brookeland at Neches 6pm

I grew up in a football first household. Indians, Cowboys and Oilers.. In that order. My first year of School at Ridgewood was an election year. We had to choose what party we were. I chose Independent so I could wear a purple I on my shirt all day. Basically I thought it was Indian! I used to ride my bike to school, steal a random Port Arthur News off a driveway to go over district stats for the weeks game. The 8os were rough for PNG. We could only beat Nederland it seemed like! My freshman year at PNG I had English first period, first Friday of football I got sent to the office for reading the paper! I needed my stats and info, and I always made sure I had my “I beat Bob West” pics sent in on time. And yes I beat him several times and had proof! I have been lucky enough to see 3 PNG state championship games. As well as 3 quarterfinal games. Not bad for a school that uses home grown talent. Small towns and Friday night lights are always and will always be the best times of your life. Times have changed, I used to get on this site religiously, even won the pick ems one year. Was even a pollster. What I will say is this. Even with the times changing, SETX HS Football is the funnest and most die hard in the state of Texas. This board shows the enthusiasm and the desire from so many. It’s what’s makes SETX what it is. So congrats to all the playoff teams. Much luck in the playoffs. And to my Nederland fans, it’s been rough since Uncle Larry left, but I can’t say it upsets me…… Once little brother, always little brother. And to my Indians. Once again, we are district champs, and hopeful to make a playoff push! So this morning I decided I would dedicate a post to Bob West. He covered sports in the area better than anyone… Tom Halliburton as well. So with a no nonsense post, and I’m known for not being a rah rah… Times have changed, but one thing hasn’t. PNG is still on top of the mountain. Old school is for hardware, new school plays for participant ribbons….. Happy Saturday folks!! I’m still bleeding purple till my last breathe!! I won’t bore you will all of it.. 4 time state champs……. PNG….. Enough Said!!

Ha! I remember the same thing in high school. I always had to read the sports page and on Wednesday get my paper to beat Bob West. I also beat him many of times. Back in them days they always had good stats on high school baseball and football. They even covered middle school football. I always looked forward to seeing if I was one of the 3 players of the game on offense or defense. I'd always cut the stats out where I scored TD's. I wish I could have remembered other topics like I could remember those sports pages. I can still go back and remember lots of sports information but I can't remember a person's name after just meeting them. I guess that newspaper sports page helped me with my reading skills today, lol!

Montgomery's #8, L. Piro, torched Huntsville's secondary. Why can't Nederland's #8 do the same thing? Similar size and skill set for both of those kids. Montgomery's RB Keldric Ben ran up and down the field. Ned's #10 can do the same. Be coachable and compete. Huntsville doesn't have anything that Nederland hasn't already seen from West Brook, WOS, Silsbee, Crawford, PN-G, TXC, and Dayton. Get prepared, be excited to go play, and play your tail off. Do that and you can win. If you do all those things and the other team still beats you, tip your cap, and enjoy life.

Thank you UIL, Dave Campbell Texas High School Football, NFHS, and whoever else made it possible for NDN Press to broadcast the game. The more students we have involved with the playoffs, the better it is for PN-GISD---football team, band, cheer, dance, twrilers, Indian Spirit, Geronimo's Crew, flag crew, and NDN Press. Active students encourages success inside and outside of the classroom. If they earn some money, great. Invest it in the kids and NDN Press. GO INDIANS!!!

Madisonville is better than HJ and Shepherd. If Madisonville brings their A game, they certainly can win.

I wasn't going to comment but after reading some of these before and after game comment s I'm going to weigh in. Big Ned won the game and good luck going forward. You don't hear anyone from Dayton crying or complaining about the game. I think Ned is ranked 23rd and Dayton 60ish in the State and all of the Big boys had Ned pre-picked with a relative easy win. ( only one fan in the pickems choose Dayton- one) So to get on here and say Ned was flat ,uninspired and let Dayton get a 20 point lead in the first quarter is a little disingenuous not to give Dayton their accolades. The real reason for the anomaly - you got punched in the face and underestimated a team that was alot better than you thought. Let's be honest saying things like we finally finished a game - ?when Dayton had 50 yards of penalties ( and this was all on Dayton being stupid) in their last two drives-odds on Dayton probably would of won. After being in the cellar for years Dayton is climbing out and getting more formidable every season so don't sleep on us.

My sources are telling me Abseck may be out. He was given an ultimatum on firing his OC by the end of the week or he will need to seek employment elsewhere. This stems from fallout of discipline issues in game with La Porte and the OC having words with admins about it. Word on the street has Abseck seeking job opportunity in Austin area and some Lufkin folks meeting with Pflugerville Weiss HC a couple of weeks ago. Interesting situation. Stay tuned.

At this point I think it’s time to move on from Abseck too. This is just wild and not the first incident this season from what I hear. Will the relationship with him even be worth moving forward on? We have so much talent in the pipeline, the wrong decision will waste it. I was big on what he was building here, don’t get me wrong, but this OC is the reason he’s out at barbers hill too. He seems to sink with this guy. Rather than see the issue and fix it, he lets it come to this. Check out barbers hill, they don’t appear to be missing this staff at all.

I agree there are different rumbling going around today, hard to keep the talk quite in a small town. For my part I can confirm the OC Kuykendall was released his position this morning for the reasons you mentioned. Anything else that has transpired further involving Coach Abseck is unknown to me. I'm personally not in the market for change in HC, I think the two men have coached together 16 years, so we'll see which option he takes. Personally, I hope he stays in Lufkin. It's a lot easier to hire a new OC. In fact there's an assistant on staff now that could handle the OC position.

Friday HF vs Athens in Bryan. Likely just a simple trip to the Texas Roadhouse in College Station after an oh so important shopping stop for the daughter. Wish my credit card luck.

Thursday Bellville vs Houston Worthing Pridgeon Stadium Houston, TX pre game meal Crust Pizza Co.

19 consecutive for Silsbee.

35-28 Madisonville

Just a great job of coaching by the PN-G staff. Since we came back after the bye week, no matter the opponent, the intensity, energy and effort have stepped up even more than the non-district schedule. None of Coach Joseph's teams have ever lacked effort but this team has upped their game since then and the undefeated district championship was one of the rewards. Each team writes their own story, and this one is writing another good chapter in the Coach Joseph book. This team has an excellent opportunity to get back to where we have been twice since 2022.

Tep got his mind right in the 2nd broadcast about Port Arthur Memorial......amongst the other folks speaking. ☕ @Austin1985

WOS SCRIMMAGE 11/10 4:30 West Orange – Stark vs Hamshire - Fannett 5:00 Buna vs Iowa (LA) 5:30 West Orange – Stark vs Iowa (LA) 6:00 Hamshire – Fannett vs Buna 6:30 Hamshire-Fannett vs Iowa (LA) 7:00 West Orange – Stark vs Buna

This past Saturday was the largest crowd at LU since 2015 11,126! That’s amazing, let’s pack the stadium again this Saturday for the seniors and last regular season game at LU

Stats Poll showed Lamar and SFA tied for 7th with UIW 22nd. Coaches showed SFA 7th and Lamar 8th

Here is a temporary composite schedule of all our 1st round games: Thursday, November 12 6A DI Deer Park at North Shore 7pm (winner faces Alief Taylor/Pearland winner) 5A DI Houston Northbrook at La Porte 7pm (winner faces Friendswood/College Station winner) Goose Creek Memorial at Houston Milby at Barnett Stadium 7pm (winner faces A&M Consolidated/Richmond Randle winner) 3A DI Palestine Westwood vs. Anahuac at Mustang Stadium, Madisonville 7pm (winner faces Little River Academy/Columbus winner) 3A DII Newton vs. Elkhart at Eakin Stadium, Timpson 7pm (winner faces Troup/DeKalb winner) 2A DI San Augustine vs. Union Grove at Lion Stadium, Henderson 7pm (winner faces Hawkins/Tom Bean winner) 2A DII West Hardin vs. Grapeland at Yates Stadium, Willis 7pm (winner faces Quinlan Boles/Clarksville winner) Evadale vs. Overton at Lumberjack Stadium, Diboll 7pm (winner faces Era/Detroit winner) 1A DII Calvert vs. Runge at Eagle Field, Luling 7pm (winner faces Iredell/Mount Calm winner) Friday, November 13 6A DI Summer Creek at Dickinson 7pm (winner faces Houston Lamar/Pearland Dawson winner) 6A DII Clear Springs at CE King 7pm (winner faces Shadow Creek/Houston Heights winner) Atascocita at Barbers Hill 7pm (winner faces Houston Memorial/Manvel winner) 5A DI Beaumont United at Houston Madison at Butler Stadium 7pm (winner faces Angleton/Georgetown winner) Houston Waltrip at Port Arthur Memorial 7pm (winner faces Pflugerville Weiss/Iowa Colony winner) 5A DII Dayton at Montgomery 7pm (winner faces Pflugerville/Richmond Tomas winner) New Caney West Fork at Port Neches-Groves 7pm (winner faces Fort Bend Marshall/Austin Crockett winner) Montgomery Lake Creek at Texas City 7pm (winner faces Fort Bend Crawford/Elgin winner) Nederland at Huntsville 7pm (winner faces Bastrop/Victoria West winner) 4A DI Little Cypress-Mauriceville vs. Houston Austin at Doggett Stadium, Beaumont 7:30pm (winner faces Jarrell/El Campo winner) Bridge City vs. Stafford at Abshier Stadium, Deer Park 7:30pm (winner faces Sealy/China Spring winner) Huffman vs. Fort Bend Willowridge at Maddrey Stadium, Channelview 7pm (winner faces Bay City/Lampasas winner) Vidor vs. Houston Sterling at Stallworth Stadium, Baytown 7pm (winner faces Stephenville/Navasota winner) 4A DII Shepherd vs. Canton at Mustang Stadium, Madisonville 7pm (winner faces LaMarque/Houston North Forest winner) West Orange-Stark vs. Van at Randall Reed Stadium, New Caney 7:30pm (winner faces Houston Wheatley/Hitchcock winner) Silsbee vs. Madisonville at Abe Martin Stadium, Lufkin 7:30pm (winner faces Houston Yates/La Grange winner) Hamshire-Fannett vs. Athens at Green Stadium, Bryan 7:30pm (winner faces Bellville/Houston Worthing winner) 3A DI Diboll vs. Buna at Bulldog Stadium, Jasper 7pm (winner faces Lorena/Sweeny winner) Trinity vs. Orangefield at Cougar Stadium, Crosby 7:30pm (winner faces Edna/Cameron Yoe winner) Fairfield vs. East Chambers at Yates Stadium, Willis 7pm (winner faces Franklin/Hempstead winner) 3A DII New Waverly vs. Buffalo at Tiger Stadium, Centerville 7pm (winner faces Hooks/Arp winner) Hardin vs. Teague at Dragon Stadium, Nacogdoches 7pm (winner faces Jefferson/Redwater winner) Woodville vs. Mildred at Eagle Stadium, Rusk 7pm (winner faces West Rusk/New Boston winner) 2A DI Shelbyville vs. Waskom at Bulldog Stadium, Carthage 7pm (winner faces Cooper/Como-Pickton winner) Garrison vs. Beckville at Lion Stadium, Henderson 7pm (winner faces Price Carlisle/Honey Grove winner) Joaquin vs. Omaha Pewitt at Panther Stadium, Longview 7pm (winner faces Frankston/Whitewright winner) 2A DII Colmesneil vs. Cushing at Roughrider Stadium, Center 7pm (winner faces Collinsville/Maud winner) West Sabine vs. Tenaha at Wolf Stadium, San Augustine 7pm (winner faces Lindsay/Simms Bowie winner) 1A DI Union Hill vs. Abbott at Bulldog Stadium, Eustace 7pm (winner faces Knippa/Oglesby winner) Chester vs. Aquilla at Sandies Stadium, Grapeland 7pm (winner faces Jonesboro/Medina winner) Saturday, November 14 Apple Springs vs. Benavides at Ingram Stadium, San Marcos 2pm (winner faces Fannindel/Three Way winner)

Doesn't Dayton have like 12 sophomore's and a couple freshman starting on varsity, they will be fine, I think they are just getting started

[Hidden Content] Coverage area teams in this week's rankings: 6A #4 CE King #8 North Shore #24 Summer Creek 5A DI #10 La Porte 5A DII #9 Montgomery 4A DII #8 West Orange-Stark 3A DII #6 Newton 1A DI #1 Union Hill

Hope EC can put it on Fairfield. This Bobcat will be rootin for EC.

Massey projections has this one 42-28 Silsbee.

Liberty is hosting High Island Friday now, they are no longer playing West Fork.

7pm Friday.

Not sure if this is the appropriate place, but prayers to the family and BU football team for #22 who lost his life on yesterday.

I havr been saying Dayton is on the way back up for 2 seasons. I believe. I am happy for Dayton. I see the future coming bck around.

Hudson Hosted a scrimmage I know PCA was there not sure who else. Big Sandy hosted one as well. Livingston, Lumberton and Brookeland Scrimmaged Saturday. I haven't heard or seen how that went. Brenham hosted one where Onalaska and PNG were there. PNG without their football kids looked good against Waller and Victoria East. Onalaska played ok against Brenham and Caney Creek. Onalaska goes down to Sugarland in a closed scrimmage with a couple of the schools down there. Iowa Colony, Clements and Klein Forest.

You are correct sir. No matter the opponent next round will also be a 1st. We've never played Canton or North Forest. LaMarque from the 90s was a beast. Most memorable was at the Dome in 95 with future NFL player WR Chris Cole, QB Eric Anderson, and Toby Foreman.

And in that case they will be compensated I am sure that $ can go back into the program

Should we start a poll about THE pole?

Bullets13 Jr. nails a 45 yard FG with room to spare as time expires for the W! I will be chanting junior, junior, junior as the HF crowd stares and wonders what is wrong with me.

According to Massey and NFHS, Hardin-Jefferson is playing Athens and not Hamshire-Fannett. 😉 Currently, Massey has Athens beating Hardin-Jeff by a score of 48-14.

Linear broadcast rules are regular season only..which the schools themselves own the rights to...playoff rules arent changing

Yup. Always enjoyed the drive on my way to my 2nd hometown of Wichita Falls.

WOS will win like 49-14… but then we will have to listen to fans lose their minds over one unsportsmanlike conduct call that happened in the 2nd quarter 🤣🤣

Wouldnt his eligibility be problem?

EXCELLENT POST!

3A D2 Region III Hardin vs. Teague Friday, November 13 7pm Dragon Stadium, Nacogdoches

The best interpretation of this game is it was two good teams who took it down to the wire. Someone had to lose. Anyone trying to make it mean more than that for either team is ignoring a lot of good and bad on both sides. Neither will be favored next week, but both can win.

Congratulations @prepballfan for winning the regular season contest. This was the first time we've had so many perfect scores since I've been keeping track. 10 in total We still have 6 more weeks to go to crown the playoff and overall winners.

Count some real points out there

The reason I said loser’s mentality - West Brook lead late in game - choked, PNG lead late in game - choked, Texas City lead late in game - choked, Dayton lead late in game - tried to choke. In everyone of those games they were looking for a way to lose. I would call that a loser’s mentality why - last year 3-7 and most of same players back. I think their minds revert to last season. On the bright side they won 3 more games this season and will have a 6-5 winning record thanks to BL, GP, and SF

What I’m hoping for from this game: get a huge lead by half like 35-0 AND PULL MOST STARTERS!! NO INJURIES!!! Lets get these JV dudes and second teamers some quality playing time, ESPECIALLY OFFENSE. i assume we will wear the traditional red jump man uniform, do a red out?? my view on Robert’s has changed completely. I still think his passing needs work, BUT it’s much improved since the start of the season. Hopefully next year we see a taller, stronger, more accurate version of him… kid gonna be good come senior year. If the 8th grade prodigy is what everyone is saying he is, we will be fine at QB for the next 4 years.