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I was wondering who the young man is that picthed the first 3 innings against Orangefield, and what grade he is in.  He is one of the best pitchers I have seen this year.  I was sitting behind a scout friday at BC that was clocking Hayden Guidry at 84, and the Big Sandy pitcher appeared to be noticably faster.  Very impressive off speed pitches also.

Jake Best senior Orangefield hit one against West Orange Stark

[quote name="bobcat4life" post="1202470" timestamp="1332854000"] Not sure how long you've been in the OF area, but I will say this. Many of the folks that got up and spoke don't have kids in the program.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but here are the facts; I don't remember when our numbers were so low in athletics, and that includes football.  For the first time in forever we had no JV team last year.  Only 22 suited out during Varsity games.  I have 6 kids, 3 of whom have graduated, and 3 that are still there.  Someone is building this hysteria around jumping on a band wagon acting like the school board is on a witch hunt. I would suggest that everyone actually get facts before they make comments.  There are so many issues with your post, that I would almost prefer you contact a school board member, rather than make judgements on some people that I've known all my life. I can tell you that every one of them, in my opinion, whether they support Huck or not, are doing what they feel is best for all of the kids in the district. [/quote] Have spoken to 4 of them and what I put in my post is my opinion.  We did have a JV football team last year I watched them play 3 games.  As far as the numbers of Varsity players we started the year with 26 dressed out and lost some to injury,  that is the same number of kids plus or minus 2 that have suited out for varsity for the last 4 or 5 years.  If the school board thinks getting rid of Huckabay is the best thing for ALL of the kids in the district, they are mistaken in my opinion.

Went to the board meeting last night, and it seems like the only parents who dont support Huckabay are the ones on the school board whose kids have got in trouble and have been held to the same standards as the rest of our kids.  What a shame it will be if we lose Huck.  What great comments from OF athletes Luke Johnson and Jake Best.  The only parents not happy with Huckabay are the ones who think their kids should not be held accountable for their actions, or the ones who do not think their kids should have to do the same work outs as the football players.  Huckabay has run the program in exactly the same way for 3 years and every thing was fine until last year when the school board members kids got in trouble. 

I was at the game and the one thing I didnt understand was the trainer issue.  The trainer does not follow the player home or around in class, he could have stayed on the field while the player went to the field house.  It was certainly the umpires ego causing most of the problems, and I thought the first player he ejected was for wearing jewlery after they gave them the warning in the first inning.  That was a first for me.  I though the Kelly parents (with the one exception handled) the situation well, I am pretty sure if it would have been our kids tossed there would have been a lot more of an roar.  George Coit has always been a class act.

I got to watch most of one of HJ's games in Lumberton tournament, and they appear to be much improved from last year.  They are better than WOS (starting 4 fresh and 3 soph) and will compete against OF and HF.

Braxton Smith (soph) Orangefield hit one Friday against Buna.

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[quote name="venom33" post="1070606" timestamp="1317439907"] great win cats!!! [color=blue]on a side note,i was at the game and when jasper scored their first td i heard some orangefield fans standing right behind me say "jaspers gonna put 60 or 70 points on us!" at that point orangefield hasnt touched the ball yet! sad....  :-\[/color] [/quote] Come on Venom it was homecoming a quater of those folks were not even watching the game.  If you would have been at the Coldsprings game and saw the number of fans there till the end of the game you would not be worried about the Bobcats fan base.  What a great game by Desalatte and Wiley, cant say enough about those two.  You can really see the boys coming together out there.

Do any of the ColdSprings fans out there know what the weights are on the offensive linemen?  That has to be the biggest line I have ever seen.  The only difference I see in ColdSprings team this year from last years team is that they dont have as many back up players.  They should go far.  Good job Bobcats, you never gave up!

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[color=blue]Liberty is looking good. A effective offense and a stingy defense.  I have a few Libery county folks filling me in on the Liberty games and couple with the box scores I seriously believe that Liberty is a serious option to win district. Wouldn't that be something that Liberty AND Dayton win their respective districts.[/color][/quote] I hope your boss doesn't know your screen name or you might get tested for cause on Monday. ;D

[quote name="Cat22" post="1048113" timestamp="1315020736"] [color=blue]The key to the game was the OF fumble on the first drive of the 3rd quarter.  Buna is big and physical, where did those boys come from?  They may be the biggest team OF faces all season!  Another fun game in this series.  Best of luck to the Cougars this season.  I hope they go on and win district![/color][/quote] You better take a look at Coldsprings first and second teams, but Buna does have some men on the line #74 was a monster.

Great game by both teams, Buna has a tremdous offense and defensive line.  Good job Cats coming out to play in the second half showed plenty of heart!

Yeah our kicker drug up during two a days and it does not look like we have found a good replacemnet yet.  We do have one that can kick extra points not sure why we did not use him.