WOSgrad

Joaquin at Timpson, 7:30 pm San Augustine at Chireno, 7:30 pm Woden at Tenaha, 7:30 pm

Brookeland at Colmesneil, 7:30 pm Lufkin Pineywoods at Zavalla, 7:30 pm West Sabine at Broaddus, 7:30 pm

24-2A

Burkeville at Kennard, 7:30 pm Martinsville at Apple Springs, 7:30 pm Wells at Groveton Centerville, 7:30 pm

Goodrich at Leggett, 7:30 pm Richards at Spurger, 7:30 pm

TAPPS 3-6A

TAPPS 7-3A Beaumont Legacy Christian at Tomball Rosehill Christian, 7:30 pm TAPPS 7-2A Highlands Chinquapin at Baytown Christian, 7:30 pm

It looks like the Ladies are a bit delayed

I am sure that Scott will.

Well, I guess I do indeed need a nap. The game tonight is at the Bear Cave in Little Cypress, not the Tiger Den in Silsbee

The Evadale folks can correct me on this, but I think it was a knee injury.

Is this for the 2017 season or beginning in 2018. I am unclear.

The Evadale Lady Rebels wrap up the regular season and the Evadale Rebels begin to close out theirs as they host the Sabine Pass Lady Sharks and the Sabine Pass Sharks. Robert Hollyfield's Lady Rebs, 24-5 on the season, improved to 7-0 with a 66-36 win over Hull-Daisetta on Friday. Meanwhile, Laurence Williams' Rebs, 17-5 on the season, moved to 6-0 last Friday with a 99-76 win over Hull-Daisetta. This is a rematch of a doubleheader on January 20th which the Lady Rebels and Rebels took, 80-14 and 83-76 respectively. Join Scott Loar for all of the action from Rebel Gym beginning with the ladies at approximately 5:15 and the men at about 7-7:30 by clicking play on the following player: Share Events on The Cube Follow Evadale Rebel and Lady Rebel Basketball on Your Source for Sports in Southeast Texas, SETXsports.com!

Now come on guys, I am going to have a late dinner tonight. Don't do this to me.

The Evadale Lady Rebels wrap up the regular season and the Evadale Rebels begin to close out theirs as they host the Sabine Pass Lady Sharks and the Sabine Pass Sharks. Robert Hollyfield's Lady Rebs, 24-5 on the season, improved to 7-0 with a 66-36 win over Hull-Daisetta on Friday. Meanwhile, Laurence Williams' Rebs, 17-5 on the season, moved to 6-0 last Friday with a 99-76 win over Hull-Daisetta. This is a rematch of a doubleheader on January 20th which the Lady Rebels and Rebels took, 80-14 and 83-76 respectively. Join Scott Loar for all of the action from Rebel Gym beginning with the ladies at approximately 5:15 and the men at about 7-7:30 by clicking play on the following player: Share Events on The Cube Follow Evadale Rebel and Lady Rebel Basketball on Your Source for Sports in Southeast Texas, SETXsports!

First place is on the line as the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears host the Silsbee Tigers. Brad Jeffcoat's Bears, 21-11 on the season, improved their district mark to 6-1 with a 53-38 win over Orangefield last Friday. Meanwhile, the Tigers, 24-5 on the season, improved to 7-0 in district with a 124-37 win over Hamshire-Fannett on Friday. This game is a rematch of a game on January 20th at the Tiger Den which the Tigers too 99-39. Join Gary Stelly for all of the action from the Bear Cave in Little Cypress beginning with the scheduled tip off at 7:30 by tuning your radio to AM 1600 KOGT or by clicking on the following link: [Hidden Content] Follow Greater Orange Area Sports on Your Hometown Radio Station, AM 1600 KOGT, and Your Source for Sports in Southeast Texas, SETXsports.com! Also follow the Silsbee Tigers on SETXsports.com!

Oh, I know. It just gave me an opportunity to give some insight (unnecessary as it was) as to how these polls work and have folks understand that those who vote in them are not completely outside of their minds...although such thoughts about me are completely reasonable..

Oh, you have no argument from me that the disparity between TAPPS 3-6A and 23-3A is just as big as the one I referenced earlier. However, it may seem unfair as all get out, but yes, winning or losing trends are looked at in these polls. Of course, you look at the strength of an opponent in an individual loss. But again, I stress that when the losses mount for one team and wins mount for another consecutively, you have to lessen, if not completely disregard, the credit you give to one team in playing in tougher district and decrease the penalty to another for playing in a district viewed as not being so tough. Quite simply, you win, you rise. You lose, you drop.

Mackey had an injury that cut his season short.

I can understand the need for that adjustment. Putting Kelly, Legacy, Baytown Christian and OCC in the smaller school polls is mainly a football thing. An example of this is Kelly. In doing my football previews, Coach Rabb told me that his biggest problem was getting enough young men on the team to compete in a very strong TAPPS district with the likes of interestingly so, St. Pius and Concordia Lutheran. Thus, it would be patently unfair to compare the football Bulldogs to any of the larger football teams in our area. However, with smaller team requirements in basketball kind of close that gap and would enable Kelly to be compared more fairly with the larger schools in the area. Wait a second? winwin, isn't this the point you were trying to make in the other topic before someone took that thread off topic, thereby prompting you start this thread called "off topic?" And by posting a response that would be on topic for that topic am I off topic on this off topic thread. Never mind, my head is starting to hurt. I think I need a nap.

No, REB, what you saw was not a UFO but the ball that Luis Pujols hit off of Brad Lidge in the NL championships about 10 years back. Yes, NASA has confirmed that it is still in orbit.

As a past pollster, I can understand the logic behind Kelly's "fall" in the rankings. I certainly understand that the top of TAPPS 3-6A is tougher than the top of 29-1A. TAPPS 3-6A is downright brutal! And I really do think that the pollsters took that into consideration as despite the early district losses Kelly maintained its #1 ranking in the 3A-Private Poll until last week and despite a current 4 game district losing streak Kelly still maintains a spot in the Top 10 of those rankings. However, there is only so much credit that you can give to a team for being in a tougher district and only so much you can penalize another for either putting a good streak together or being well above their district competition. This is especially true when the spot in question is the #1 ranking in this or any other poll. Now as to who would beat who....yes....I'd take Kelly against any of the teams in the current 3A-Private Rankings and, quite frankly, I would like their chances against some of the teams in the current 6A-4A rankings. However, this focuses on the difficulty that I know AAW and I have discussed in the football rankings and to some extent also here. That is when you have several classes being ranked in one poll, you can't always rely on hypothetical matchups in determining your rankings. To sum up my convoluted paragraph into one sentence....while actual results count, mythical results don't necessarily do. Of course, in the end, regardless of the past, current or future rankings in this poll, the fact that Kelly is not #1 puts it no further way from a potential state championship and the fact that Leggett is #1 puts it no closer to one

BOYS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE - WEEK OF 1/30-2/4/2017 Tuesday, February 7, 2017 21-6A Baytown Sterling 46 Channelview 50 Goose Creek Memorial 56 Atascocita 88 Humble Summer Creek 40 Galena Park North Shore 38 (OT) Kingwood 57 Sheldon C.E. King 40 22-6A Deer Park 57 Pasadena Dobie 49 Pasadena 44 Pasadena Memorial 48 Pasadena Rayburn 41 Beaumont West Brook 61 South Houston 49 La Porte 48 21-5A Baytown Lee 57 Conroe Caney Creek 54 Dayton 51 Barbers Hill 60 Humble 49 Crosby 42 New Caney 49 Porter 58 Splendora 48 Kingwood Park 60 22-5A Beaumont Ozen 83 Livingston 39 Lumberton 40 Vidor 54 Nederland 60 Port Arthur Memorial 61 Port Neches-Groves 37 Beaumont Central 49 21-4A Lufkin Hudson 43 Huntington 58 Shepherd 53 Jasper 56 22-4A Bridge City 65 Hamshire-Fannett 53 Orangefield 34 West Orange-Stark 52 Silsbee 2 Little Cypress-Mauriceville 0 (For) 23-4A Hardin-Jefferson 51 Tarkington 44 Liberty 53 Cleveland 86 21-3A Coldspring-Oakhurst 47 Hempstead 84 Crockett 53 Anderson-Shiro 37 Trinity 64 Onalaska 50 22-3A Corrigan-Camden 39 Newton 85 Hemphill 46 Garrison 76 Pollok Central 56 Nacogdoches Central Heights 47 23-3A Anahuac 86 Port Arthur Bob Hope 34 Hardin 40 Buna 77 Kountze 89 East Chambers 51 Warren 61 Kirbyville 53 20-2A Centerville 37 Grapeland 80 Dallardsville Big Sandy 62 Lovelady 45 Latexo 42 Groveton 55 22-2A Joaquin 65 Timpson 51 San Augustine 56 Chireno 57 Woden 67 Tenaha 79 23-2A Brookeland 31 Colmesneil 76 Lufkin Pineywoods 70 Zavalla 37 West Sabine 41 Broaddus 48 24-2A Hull-Daisetta 52 West Hardin 64 Sabine Pass 70 Evadale 104 28-1A Burkeville 33 Kennard 74 Martinsville 57 Apple Springs 32 Wells 64 Groveton Centerville 59 29-1A Goodrich 59 Leggett 88 Richards 40 Spurger 84 TAPPS 3-6A Houston St. Thomas Catholic 60 Beaumont Kelly Catholic 63 TAPPS 7-3A Beaumont Legacy Christian 84 Tomball Rosehill Christian 35 TAPPS 7-2A Highlands Chinquapin 12 Baytown Christian 73 Friday, February 10, 2017 21-6A Atascocita 52 Kingwood 53 Baytown Sterling 41 Galena Park North Shore 51 Goose Creek Memorial 39 Humble Summer Creek 42 Sheldon C.E. King 32 Channelview 76 22-6A Beaumont West Brook 45 Pasadena 60 La Porte 59 Pasadena Dobie 58 Pasadena Memorial 54 Deer Park 58 South Houston 66 Pasadena Rayburn 51 21-5A Barbers Hill 61 Porter 71 Dayton 68 Baytown Lee 60 Humble 62 Kingwood Park 55 New Caney 53 Crosby 63 Splendora 47 Conroe Caney Creek 53 22-5A Beaumont Central 91 Lumberton 40 Livingston 41 Nederland 61 Port Neches-Groves 30 Port Arthur Memorial 72 Vidor 41 Beaumont Ozen 80 21-4A Lufkin Hudson 54 Diboll 57 Shepherd 56 Huntington 63 22-4A Hamshire-Fannett 53 Little Cypress-Mauriceville 56 Orangefield 37 Bridge City 38 Silsbee 103 West Orange-Stark 78 23-4A Cleveland 65 Huffman Hargrave 69 Tarkington 53 Liberty 54 21-3A Coldspring-Oakhurst 61 Onalaska 60 Crockett 51 Hempstead 67 Trinity 60 New Waverly 57 22-3A Corrigan-Camden at Garrison, 7:00 pm Hemphill at Woodville, 7:30 pm Pollok Central 54 Newton 62 23-3A Buna 63 Warren 43 East Chambers 66 Anahuac 55 Kirbyville 49 Hardin 42 Port Arthur Bob Hope 46 Kountze 101 20-2A Centerville 58 Latexo 52 Dallardsville Big Sandy 68 Grapeland 75 Groveton 51 Lovelady 72 22-2A Joaquin 61 Tenaha 80 San Augustine 70 Timpson 46 Woden 48 Shelbyville 61 23-2A Broaddus 49 Zavalla 36 Brookeland 31 West Sabine 93 Lufkin Pineywoods 72 Colmesneil 50 24-2A Hull-Daisetta 60 Deweyville 70 Sabine Pass 50 West Hardin 51 28-1A Apple Springs 35 Kennard 50 Burkeville 55 Chester 67 Wells 65 Martinsville 75 29-1A Richards 44 High Island 82 Spurger 48 Leggett 65 TAPPS 3-6A Beaumont Kelly Catholic 75 Houston AWTY International 63 TAPPS 7-3A Beaumont Legacy Christian 92 Pasadena First Baptist 51 TAPPS 7-2A Houston Briarwood 74 Baytown Christian 78 TAPPS 10-1A Orange Community Christian at Angleton Christian, 7:30 pm Non-District Tatum at Nacogdoches Central Heights, 7:30 pm

2016-17 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL RANKINGS WEEK OF 1/30/17 6A-4A Poll Rank, Team, Record, Previous, Next Opponents 1. Silsbee, 24-5, 1, 2/7 at #12 Little Cypress-Mauriceville; 2/10 at West Orange-Stark 2. Atascocita, 20-8, 3, 2/7 vs. Goose Creek Memorial; 2/10 at Kingwood 3. Port Arthur Memorial, 22-5, 4, 2/7 vs. #9 Nederland; 2/10 vs. Port Neches-Groves 4. Beaumont Central, 18-7, 6, 2/7 vs. Port Neches-Groves; 2/10 at Lumberton 5. Porter, 17-9, 9, 2/7 at New Caney; 2/10 vs. Barbers Hill 6. Humble, 24-6, 2, 2/7 at Crosby; 2/10 at Kingwood Park 7. Huffman Hargrave, 25-5, 8, 2/10 vs. Cleveland 8. South Houston, 21-11, 5, 2/7 at La Porte; 2/10 at Pasadena Rayburn 9. Nederland, 24-8, 10, 2/7 at #3 Port Arthur Memorial; 2/10 vs. Livingston 10. Pasadena Dobie, 17-11, 11, 2/7 vs. Deer Park; 2/10 vs. La Porte 11. Beaumont Ozen, 17-9, 7, 2/7 at Livingston; 2/10 vs. Vidor 12. Little Cypress-Mauriceville, 21-11, 13, 2/7 vs. Silsbee; 2/10 vs. Hamshire-Fannett 13. Shepherd, 19-7, 14, 2/7 at Jasper; 2/10 at Huntington 14. Galena Park North Shore, 14-10, 15, 2/7 vs. Humble Summer Creek; 2/10 vs. Baytown Sterling 15. Dayton, 16-9, NA, 2/7 at Barbers Hill; 2/10 at Baytown Lee Others receiving votes: Kingwood, Pasadena Rayburn, Hardin-Jefferson, Barbers Hill, Deer Park 3A-Private Poll Rank, Team, Record, Previous, Next Week's Opponents 1. Leggett, 27-2, 1, 2/7 vs. Goodrich; 2/10 vs. Spurger 2. Buna, 19-12, 3, 2/7 vs. Hardin; 2/10 at Warren 3. Kountze, 19-10, 5, 2/7 at East Chambers; 2/10 vs. Port Arthur Hope 4. Grapeland, 25-5, 6, 2/7 vs. Centerville; 2/10 vs. #10 Dallardsville Big Sandy 5. Hempstead, 10-3, 7, 2/7 vs. Coldspring-Oakhurst; 2/10 vs. Crockett 6. Shelbyville, 17-5, 9, 2/10 vs. Woden 7. Tenaha, 20-3, 2, 2/7 vs. Woden; 2/10 at Joaquin 8. Beaumont Kelly Catholic, 20-11, 4, 2/7 vs. Houston St. Thomas Catholic; 2/10 at Houston AWTY International 9. Evadale, 17-5, 8, 2/7 vs. Sabine Pass 10. Dallardsville Big Sandy, 19-7, 10, 2/7 at Lovelady; 2/10 at #4 Grapeland 11. Lufkin Pineywoods, 20-6, 11, 2/7 at Zavalla; 2/10 at Colmesneil 12. Nacogdoches Central Heights, 19-9, 12, 2/7 vs. #13 Pollok Central; 2/10 vs. Tatum 13. Pollok Central, 18-11, 13, 2/7 at #12 Nacogdoches Central Heights; 2/10 at #14 Newton 14. Newton, 9-4, 14, 2/17 vs. Corrigan-Camden; 2/10 vs. #13 Pollok Central 15. Chireno, 16-6, 15, 2/7 vs. San Augustine Others receiving votes: East Chambers, Wells, Beaumont Legacy Christian, Crockett, Spurger

Atascocita at Sheldon C.E. King, 7:00 pm Channelview at Humble Summer Creek, 7:00 pm Galena Park North Shore at Goose Creek Memorial, 7:00 pm Kingwood at Baytown Sterling, 7:00 pm