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nederland wont.

GCM will make the playoffs

I've been telling folks, starting this season the ndns will make some noise and it will continue for the next 5-6 years for sure. Alot of talent coming through for sure.

I've been telling folks, starting this season the ndns will make some noise and it will continue for the next 5-6 years for sure. Alot of talent coming through for sure.

I've been telling folks, starting this season the ndns will make some noise and it will continue for the next 5-6 years for sure. Alot of talent coming through for sure.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2080837-baseballs-pitching-dilemma-too-hard-too-fast-too-much-too-soon?is_shared=true

Ya'll better remember I was right there talking about PNG for the next 4-5 years. They are going to cause problems for teams. Very good group of athletes coming through.

Really don't go to many softball games since we have all boys, but I'm glad we attended the game last night. WOW! I don't know how many people that stadium holds, but they had people standing almost all of the way around the field and even standing on top of the football field stands watching this game. I would estimate 1,500 people. It was crazy! BHISD website said that GCM will take down the screens around the baselines for tonights game so people can bring lawn chairs and sit in those areas since there was no room in the stands last night. Good Luck BH Lady Eagles!

I'm not a guru on some of this, but I do remember as a kid, all of the pitchers would wrap their arms in ice after games. I'm 40 years old, so it was a while back. lol I don't ever see that nowadays. Do any of ya'll see that anymore? Just curious. Heck, we would put icy hot on our arms and it would numb the arm and we were good to go. No TJ during that time. Kids didn't warm up like Rake talked about either, kids threw curveballs in little league, etc.. Everything that we are all talking about was done in little league back in the 70's, and 80's with no issues. It was dad's coaching kids with minimal coaching experience or resume, but there no arm issues.  It's just interesting, the difference of today and yesterday and what the key element could be to the injuries.

I don't necassarily believe select ball is the cause of arm problems. I do think kids that are the "Ace" pitchers that throw for league games and select tournaments are the main one's hurting arms. That's way too much pitching. Now, one thing I don't like about select ball is the amount of games you play in one weekend. Teams that don't have much pitching do use kids way too much in a weekend. There's times where teams are playing 2 on Saturday and up to 3 to 4 games on Sunday. If you don't have 10-12 kids that can pitch on a team then someone is going to be pitching alot! They go by innings or outs depending on Nations or USSSA, but that could mean a kids threw 150 pitches that weekend, and if they play league ball too and pitched that week, now your talking 200+ pitches in a week. When my kid decided to play select, I told him to chose league or select, but not both for that very reason. JMO
 
I would like to add, I like how 19-4a does the district schedule where they play the same team twice in one week. I think it makes the high school teams use more then one or two pitchers and helps protect arms.

Emily Gunderson wins 1st in pole vault.  Kristen Johnston wins 6th place in 3200.

Really? We didn't know :wacko:

3-7 versus PNG and Nederland last 5 years. Checkmate! excuse me? :D

Ozen might surprise some teams, but the problem for Ozen and Central is they have a hard time beating the two mid county teams. I don't know what the overall record is between those teams, but if you want to make the playoffs, you have to atleast split with one of the mid county schools imo. Which team does Ozen beat?
 
2-8 versus mid county in last 5 years. They beat PNG and Nederland once in that time frame.

1. Dayton
2. KWP
3. CEK
4. Crosby
5. Galena Park
6. Humble
7. BH
8. New Caney
9. Porter
 
Hate to see this, but at this time, I think this will be the order.

1. PNG ( This is the start of several years (about 5-6 to be exact) where PNG is going to be stout)
2. Central ( The Jags have some good returners and second year for head coach to get things rolling)
3. Nederland (Neuman, enough said)
4. GCM  (Making the playoffs in one of the toughest region 3 districts last year is enough for me)
5. Ozen  ( A big question mark on what direction program will go, same song, same dance until proven wrong)
6. Vidor  ( Back to the drawing board until they get a couple of Q's to come through program)
7. Lumberton  (heart, but just not enough firepower, Shame they couldn't drop in new realignment)
8. Lee            (Hurting program that once was an area recruiting ground for QB's)

I remember that team. My son was on Port Neches LL team that played BC. They crushed us while Shugart threw a no-hitter. BC will be loaded for years to come. Great program.

BH in 3. Montgomery had an easy first round. Although BH struggled at the end of the year, they split with the top teams in district and got a tough series win against a good Nederland team. I think they take this series as well.

BH in 3. Montgomery had an easy first round. Although BH struggled at the end of the year, they split with the top teams in district and got a tough series win against a good Nederland team. I think they take this series as well.

Montgomery has strong pitching and swept Cedar Creek including a no-hitter Friday night. Cedar Creek appeared to be a weaker team, but BH will have their work cut out for them in round 2 no doubt. Good luck to the Eagles.

You can't reduce it to any one factor. There are several factors needed for the environment to be conducive to it.
 
First things first, you have to have the teachers sold on it. To this day, the kindergartners are marched into the music rooms at every elementary school in the district on the first day of the year to learn Cherokee. The first words I can remember learning to spell after my name were Indians, spirit, fight, and victory (these days, they're spelling conquest too, so I guess you could say they're faster learners than we were). Most of my teachers made wearing a purple shirt on Fridays a requirement during football season, and several made it extra credit after football season was over. There were pep rallies with the Indian Spirit present, and several of the teachers wrote exclusively in purple ink. My first grade teacher, Mrs. Cobb, drove a purple cadillac. While things kind of died off in middle school (probably a result of letting the pride in the middle school programs die off without a real replacement), in high school, we had been so indoctrinated at such a young age that all of the underlying groundwork was in place for the pride to come back with a vengeance. Just like in elementary school, all of the high school teachers were in their purple on Fridays.
 
Second, you have to sell the community on it. When I was a kid, there was a store in Central Mall called Purple Pizzazz that sold, among other things, PN-G memorabilia. I remember parents staying up all night to decorate Merriman Street my senior year so that the players, coaches, cheerleaders, Indianettes and band members could see their community behind them when they got on the buses to leave for a game. Every organization known to man had booths set up under the bleachers selling memorabilia to fans, keeping all of that money in the hands of the school district and ultimately, the students. 
 
Third, and most importantly, you have to have successful programs. In order for people to take pride in something, it has to be something to be proud of. PN-G has that. The success in athletics is well known and documented on this site. Our band program has a long and successful history as well, capped off by all three high school bands and both middle school bands taking sweepstakes last week (only one other district in the state had that happen this year). Our academic prominence is well publicized, too; we've now won the district crown in UIL academics fourteen of the last fifteen years, and we were recognized by the US Department of Education as a blue ribbon school several years consecutively in the late 90s and early 2000s.
 
When you provide those three factors, and you manage to keep them for an extended period of time, you start to build a history - the honor, the pride and the tradition become entrenched standards around which the school is built. You wind up with a pseudo-symbiotic relationship built between school and community that pervades in one way or another almost every facet of the lives of student, teacher, parent, administrator, and average citizen. And from there, it typically only grows. That's what results in your school being the centerpiece of an exhibit about Texas high school football at the Bullock Museum. That's what gets your purple letter jacket recognized all across the state and, to a lesser extent, even the country. That's what keeps both towns emptying out and all the alumni coming back with their families from wherever they are in the world to fill up the Astrodome, and the Alamodome, and Texas Stadium, and Kyle Field and hopefully Jerryworld one day to set national attendance records written in purple ink. That's why you get a stadium literally big enough to fit everyone who lives in your hometown with about four hundred seats to spare, and a Friday night radio broadcast with a viewership thousands of listeners strong - more than double that of the second most popular broadcast - that gets email responses from as far away as Siberia and Iraq.
 
And perhaps best of all, that's why you get fans of other schools who hate your fight song so much, that they know it better than their own.  :D

We moved to BH two years ago from PNG. My kids to this day want to move back. They told us that they would rather graduate from PNG than BH. They started in Kindergarten at PNG and we lived there for a long time. It's hard to get the purple blood out of your system. lol Alot of it is a close knit community between Port Neches and Groves. The majority of kids and parents are close friends, they buy into the traditions already in place with new ones being made every year. My kids learned "Cherokee" in kindergarten. They send players, cheerleaders, Indian Spirit to the elementary schools for pep ralleys. The schools play a huge part as well because they push the spirit from high school to elementary. Those kids are counting down the days that they will be able to play for the high school whether football, baseball, basketball, Indianettes, etc.. There is no school district that comes close to the spirit of PNG. I have people in Barbers Hill that tell me they can't stand when Cherokee is played, but they think it's neat to watch the Indian Spirit dance and all of the traditions of PNG. That says alot when other schools admire your spirit and traditions, although they wouldn't admit it on here. lol :D
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWE0sNntAQ

We moved to BH two years ago from PNG. My kids to this day want to move back. They told us that they would rather graduate from PNG than BH. They started in Kindergarten at PNG and we lived there for a long time. It's hard to get the purple blood out of your system. lol Alot of it is a close knit community between Port Neches and Groves. The majority of kids and parents are close friends, they buy into the traditions already in place with new ones being made every year. My kids learned "Cherokee" in kindergarten. They send players, cheerleaders, Indian Spirit to the elementary schools for pep ralleys. The schools play a huge part as well because they push the spirit from high school to elementary. Those kids are counting down the days that they will be able to play for the high school whether football, baseball, basketball, Indianettes, etc.. There is no school district that comes close to the spirit of PNG. I have people in Barbers Hill that tell me they can't stand when Cherokee is played, but they think it's neat to watch the Indian Spirit dance and all of the traditions of PNG. That says alot when other schools admire your spirit and traditions, although they wouldn't admit it on here. lol :D
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWE0sNntAQ

We moved to BH two years ago from PNG. My kids to this day want to move back. They told us that they would rather graduate from PNG than BH. They started in Kindergarten at PNG and we lived there for a long time. It's hard to get the purple blood out of your system. lol Alot of it is a close knit community between Port Neches and Groves. The majority of kids and parents are close friends, they buy into the traditions already in place with new ones being made every year. My kids learned "Cherokee" in kindergarten. They send players, cheerleaders, Indian Spirit to the elementary schools for pep ralleys. The schools play a huge part as well because they push the spirit from high school to elementary. Those kids are counting down the days that they will be able to play for the high school whether football, baseball, basketball, Indianettes, etc.. There is no school district that comes close to the spirit of PNG. I have people in Barbers Hill that tell me they can't stand when Cherokee is played, but they think it's neat to watch the Indian Spirit dance and all of the traditions of PNG. That says alot when other schools admire your spirit and traditions, although they wouldn't admit it on here. lol :D
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWE0sNntAQ

We moved to BH two years ago from PNG. My kids to this day want to move back. They told us that they would rather graduate from PNG than BH. They started in Kindergarten at PNG and we lived there for a long time. It's hard to get the purple blood out of your system. lol Alot of it is a close knit community between Port Neches and Groves. The majority of kids and parents are close friends, they buy into the traditions already in place with new ones being made every year. My kids learned "Cherokee" in kindergarten. They send players, cheerleaders, Indian Spirit to the elementary schools for pep ralleys. The schools play a huge part as well because they push the spirit from high school to elementary. Those kids are counting down the days that they will be able to play for the high school whether football, baseball, basketball, Indianettes, etc.. There is no school district that comes close to the spirit of PNG. I have people in Barbers Hill that tell me they can't stand when Cherokee is played, but they think it's neat to watch the Indian Spirit dance and all of the traditions of PNG. That says alot when other schools admire your spirit and traditions, although they wouldn't admit it on here. lol :D
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWE0sNntAQ