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Class 4A area round game from Mustang Stadium in Madisonville at 7:30 pm The winner of this match will face the East Chambers/Mexia winner

Class 4A area round match from Huntsville High School in Huntsville at 7 The winner of this match will face the Waco La Vega/Port Arthur Bob Hope winner

Class 4A area round game from Leonard George Stadium in Spring at 7 The winner of this match will face the Center/Gatesville winner

Class 5A area round game from Stallworth Stadium in Baytown at 7 The winner of this game will face the Porter/Texas City winner

Class 5A area round match from Stallworth Stadium in Baytown at 5 The winner of this match will face the Manvel/Lumberton winner

Class 5A area round game from Eagle Stadium in Mont Belvieu at 5 The winner of this game will face the Fort Bend Elkins/Nederland winner

Class 5A area round game from Cougar Stadium in Crosby at 7 The winner of this match will face the Houston Wisdom/Kingwood Park winner

Class 5A area round match from Eagle Stadium in Mont Belvieu at 7 The winner of this game will face the Humble/Houston Sharpstown winner

Class 5A area round game from Butler Stadium in Houston at 7 The winner of this game will face the Port Neches-Groves/Houston Furr winner

Class 5A area round game from Turner Stadium in Humble at 7 The winner of this game will face the Texas City/Crosby winner

Class 6A area round match from Vitanza Stadium in Dickinson at 7 The winner of this match will face the Galena Park North Shore/Alief Taylor

Class 6A area round game The winner of this match will face the Alief Hastings/Channelview winner

Class 6A area round match The winner of this match will face the Alief Elsik/Sheldon C.E. King winner

It's time for Orange County baseball again as the Bridge City Cardinals host the West Orange-Stark Mustangs in 22-4A district play! Chad Landry's Cardinals, 10-6 on the season, improved to 1-1 in district play with a 11-0 win over Little Cypress-Mauriceville last Friday. Meanwhile, Shea Landry's Mustangs, 13-3 on the season, pushed their district record to 2-0 with a 6-4 win over Hamshire-Fannett last Friday. Join Gary Stelly for all of the action from Cardinal Field in Bridge City beginning with the first pitch at 7 by tuning your radio to AM 1600 KOGT or by clicking on the following link: [Hidden Content] Follow Greater Orange County sports on Your Hometown Radio Station, AM 1600 KOGT and Your Source for Sports in Southeast Texas, SETXsports!

The Silsbee Tigers look to stay atop of the 22-4A district standings tonight as they host the Hamshire-Fannett Longhorns! Michael Nelson's Tigers, 16-2 on the season, improved to 2-0 in district play with a 7-6 win over Orangefield last Friday. Meanwhile, the Longhorns, 9-7 on the season, slipped to 0-2 after a 6-4 loss to West Orange-Stark last Friday. Join Mike Sanchez and Tim Scoggins for all of the action from Tiger Diamond in Silsbee with the pregame show at 6:50 followed by the first pitch at 7 by clicking play on the following player: Share Events on The Cube Follow Silsbee Tiger Baseball on Your Source for Sports in Southeast Texas, SETXsports!

This game has been moved to tomorrow at 7 in Jasper

Class 4A area round match from Bulldog Stadium in Jasper at 7 The winner of this match will face the Lorena/Little Cypress-Mauriceville winner

Class 4A area round match from Mustang Stadium in Madisonville at 6:30 pm The winner of this game will face the Hamshire-Fannett/Gatesville winner

Class 5A area round match from Stallworth Stadium in Baytown at 7 The winner of this match will face the Port Neches-Groves/Santa Fe winner

Class 6A area round match from Ray Maddry Stadium in Channelview at 7 The winner of this match will face the Deer Park/Brazoswood winner

Class 6A area round match from Challenger-Columbia Stadium in League City at 7 The winner of this match will face the Kingwood/Friendswood winner

Class 6A area round match from Clyde Abshier Stadium in Deer Park at 5 The winner of this match will face the Clear Springs/Atascocita winner

Class 6A area round match from The Rig in Pearland at 7 The winner of this match will face the Pasadena Dobie/Brazoswood winner

And will probably this year as they are again district opponents. As difficult as it is to get a 10 game schedule every two years, you would think that coaches would stay away from jilting opponents mid alignment and even worse, encouraging other schools to do so. Now, I would only say that in Coach McMurry's defense, he took over the football program after these games were agreed to and given that they were 1-9 last year, he would need to preserve some enthusiasm in the program. Dropping the 3 games from your pre-district schedule where you lost by an average of 61-10 might do that. But I still find that no defense to keeping your word. Colmesneil not doing so in this case might make it more difficult for them to find games when February 2018 rolls around.

As much as it might have all of us scratching our heads, to the person that really counts, Greg Neece, it makes perfect sense. One of the perks of doing the football previews is the chance to interact with the coaches about their programs. I can assure all of you that there are few coaches who professed as much pride in their program as Coach Neece. But something changed.....we don't know what and as much as some think they have the timetable down, we don't know when. Chances are good that we will never know. But that change inside of Greg Neece brought him to realize that he could no longer give his all as the athletic director of Kirbyville ISD and as head coach of the Kirbyville High School football team. Coming to that realization, he did the most compassionate thing that he could have done for the kids of the program....he stepped aside. Of course, the move to a quarterback coach position at another school is quite curious. However, let's look at a couple of things. Now what I am about to say is not is not intended to be a slight of the Kirbyville football program, or athletic program for that matter. It is an excellent program with a very enthusiastic fan base (I am probably going to get a reminder of how enthusiastic pretty soon). However, if you would canvass coaches outside of this area to take a look at the Kirbyville program and the Newton program, I wager that many more than we think would not view it as a backward move to leave the head coaching position at Kirbyville, an excellent program known well here in the area, to take an assistant's position at Newton, an excellent program that has some state wide prestige. Even for those that do view it as a "backward" step, we can't assume that every coach will follow the same pattern of ambition. What prompted Bob Westerberg last spring to leave Allen where he has reached what many would consider the pinnacle of coaching in Texas, multiple 6A Division I State Championships, for Barbers Hill, whose last state championship appearance was just over 40 years ago? What prompted Larry Neumann, who told the Port Arthur News in September that loved coaching and that he had no intention of retiring, to, without a public word, file retirement papers with the Nederland ISD at the end of the year? We think that we may have the windows into these coaches' hearts and souls, but we don't. Coach Neece, while we will always wonder as to your reasons why, good luck in your new position in Newton.