Buc Backer

I really like the guy that announces the Buna home games.

GO BUCS!!

Apparently there is some misconception as the meaning of "bedroom community". It is simply a place where one lives but does not work.....

Close Buc Fan. It was 35-13. (I was cleaning out old Beaumont Enterprise & Home Town Press newspapers this morning and cutting out EC football articles when I ran across the score.)

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I have always observed that if the refs start out calling the game close, the players (boys or girls) will adjust and the ref can establish control then they can always back off a little. But once they start the game with "anything goes" they can never get the control needed to keep the game from getting dangerous. I agree that the referees have a very difficult task. I agree wholeheartedly with you that refs call "make up" calls, only to try to be fair mind you, or they wouldn't care if they made up a bad call at all. That is a very hard thing not to do but also a dangerous thing because as you said, it can cause things to spiral out of control quickly.

Gladly....and once again good luck to the Lady Pirates, also Kountze and Hardin. Represent our district well and make us proud.

Posted by: bleed orange I'm not that old either and I agree 100%. I don't like NBA basketball anymore either and for the same reasons you stated. It's a shame that our kids can't learn anything positive from watching the professionals of the sport....and I'm speaking about fundamentals and such. I'm sure that there are good people that play in the NBA but they get overshadowed by all the "power players" and their antics, on and off the court (but that's another subject altogether!!! ) I agree something needs to be done about the level of contact allowed in basketball. We used to joke about "No blood, no foul..." but I think somehow that was taken seriously. I have heard people comment that players just play at a higher intensity now a days but I don't buy that at all. You can play at a very high level of intensity without all of the things we see permitted on the court today.

tigersvoice says You remember it too? You mean it wasn't a pleasant dream....Boy those were the days. ;D

Inconsistent calls are the worst. They are very frustrating to the players. In one game at the BC Tournament in December, one of the referees repeatedly warned a player that if she didn't quit fouling, he was going to have to start calling her fouls. ??? Isn't that his job??? (During the game the day before, she fouled out in 1 1/2 quarters of play and she hadn't backed off one bit the day we played her team.) The referee wasn't giving any of our players that option, he just called the foul. I'm not saying that our team didn't foul, just in comparison with what she was allowed to "get away with" our girls weren't even in the same ballpark with her...... I know it is hard to watch everything at all times and call all that should be called. Most refs hearts are in the right place but it's their eyesight I worry about ;D!!! Just kidding. The best referees we have had all year were at home, EC against Kountze and also they weren't bad at Kountze either. I think the girls were just lucky enough to get outstanding refs because our boys' teams are highly ranked in state and the girls got the crumbs.....OH well, such is life!! Thank you to those referees for a great job.

I was at the Vidor/Lumberton game at Lumberton a couple of weeks ago and one of Lumberton's girls punched one of Vidor's girls in the face right in front of the referee and he claimed he didn't see it. Vidor's coach was livid and so were the rest of Vidor's fans and I don't blame them. I don't know if the refs can't actually believe what their own eyes are telling them or what then by the time they decide they did see it, it is too late to call anything...... :-\

And I do sincerely hope the Lady Pirates do well in the playoffs!

Gabriel Pruett stated Mr. Pruett, were you even at the game? The altercation was not on an inbounds play but yes the EC player was upset with Gibson's positioning.......a vicious elbow to the chest is quite upsetting in my book. (I was later informed, that was not the only elbow she threw against our player.) I just want to set the record straight for those of you who are praising the play of the DV player involved. I'm not saying that the EC player was right in her actions, far from it, but in this case "it took two to tango". I believe, Mr. Pruett, that you should put away your "rose colored glasses" and get your facts straight, the next time you write an article that is supposed to be informative. As ECBucFan has stated, it would never have happened if the referees had kept the game under control with even calls. With that said, good luck Lady Pirates in representing our district in the playoffs.

The actions of one player should not reflect on the team as a whole so I guess that the actions of the girl receiving the punch shouldn't reflect on D-ville as a whole, either. By the way, I have video showing that she was not an "innocent victim" in the altercation. After the whistle blew, following the foul on the rebound, I was still recording and captured the vicious elbow thrown by the "innocent victim" (AFTER THE WHISTLE WAS BLOWN) so it could not have been an accident. After that, the DV girl turns, says something to the EC girl and the rest you know. This is a classic example of why you should never retaliate. The second one is usually the only one that pays the price for their actions.

EC 31 Kountze 37