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this is a tough game for me to call. the big four this year are dayton, png, lumberton, and nederland. dayton lost a close one to lumberton, but they're a different team now. nederland lost to png, but that game can always go either way. nederland hasn't played lumberton, and dayton hasn't played png, so you can't look at those results to help make a prediction. i want to say that dayton will pull this out, but this is their first real test since lumberton back at the beginning of district. it should be an interesting game, and the loser is going to be in a tough spot to make the playoffs. good luck to both teams.

maybe with time, but i'm not sure. i think they would certainly be more of a threat to go a few rounds deep at least.

i've been impressed with OFIELD of late, but this week they're gonna take a hurting. WOS 60 OFIELD 7

I'm shocked that there have been so few goals. there have been three 1-0 results, and a 0-0 tie. nobody's out of it yet. i also do want to give your boy davy arnaud some love for a freekick goal from about 6 miles out. he started the ball WAY outside the post and curled it back in.

i love the mavs! i don't like kobe. i kinda figure that as good as they are right now, it'd be hard to bring him in without losing several of the good young players that have made them so good.

they were apparently a little overrated at the beginning of the year. also, PNG has exceeded expectations. add into that the fact that dayton is very good again this year, nederland is in usual form, and lumberton has come out of nowhere and taken the district by storm. at the beginning of the year, i still wouldn't have predicted them as a playoff team, but i thought they would be more competitive than they've been. as things have turned out, it seems like everyone is clustered at either the top or the bottom, and there is no real middle ground this year, which is where i kinda figured that LCM would end up.

it's damn sure gonna end in a heartbreak for someone who's had a very solid season.

I'm not going to try to call this one... i just hope the vidor and ozen teams that played PNG show up to play, rather the the vidor and ozen teams that have been struggling most of the year. if they play as hard against each as they did against the NDNs, this should be an entertaining game.

Lumberton 38 LCM 9

EC by ten or so. kountze should give them a good competitive ballgame.

three questions: 1) how many turned out to play? 2) who was the MVP? 3) when is the next game, i had family obligations today.

better than a Mav.

well, i do believe the rockies are done. i really thought they had a good chance, but that long layoff surely hurt them. Congrats in advance to the Red Sox, but also to the Rockies for making one hell of a run to make it this far.

yup, but you can say that about last year, considering durant was essentially the worlds' tallest shooting guard.

when do you we play orangefield so i can at least predict a game that is somewhat close... Jasper 58 HJ 12

it's just the luck of the draw... i've seen teams make it to the state semifinals by getting lucky and playing creampuffs until they got there... the good thing for lumberton this year is that they have a team that can at least compete with most teams they might draw, and if you can compete enough to stay close, anything can happen.

it's still strange for me to see aTm ranked ahead of Texas in a basketball poll, but they've done a great job of building that program up the last couple of years.

i don't know if UT makes it without durant, but i sure as hell hope they do!

since this post came after the k'ville game, i'm assuming you feel that they ran the score up on you too. keep in mind that BC put up 19 first half points, and wasn't having a lot of trouble doing so. K'ville did score 34 points in the first half, but the game was somewhat competitive at halftime. when you consider the fact that BC showed that they could score some points, K'ville was kind of obligated to keep putting up points in the 3rd quarter to put the game away. it would've been a little different if the score at the half was 34-0 instead of 34-19. once the game was out of reach, backups came in, and they were still scoring. i did see that pierce rhodes only carried the ball 9 times. it's on the defense that he scored 4 touchdowns and had over 250 yards. He got his last touchdown with 10:44 left in the 3rd quarter. I doubt if he touched the ball again, although i can't say for sure.

poor officiating or not, what a gritty effort by both sides. PNG did what they had to do to get by, and vidor put a scare into the top team in the district. congrats to both sides on your play.

i think they would finish in the middle of the pack in 22-4A this year, which would be a very respectable result. I'd guess they'd beat: LCM, Vidor, Ozen. I'd give them even odds against Central. I think they'd probably lose to PNG, Nederland, Lumberton, and Dayton (but they might could pull one upset off against these four). Overall prediction: 4-4 in a very tough 4A district. of course, this prediction is just for this season, with all of their seniors. If they lost some of their key players due to UIL rules, the picture would be changed pretty dramatically, and they would probably struggle to get 3 wins.

most of you have hit this issue on the head. it is more embarrassing to have someone kneel the ball midway through the fourth. you can't expect a backup to get into the game and not try to do his best, or not make it into the endzone when he has the chance. the only way you can have a gripe here is if the opponent's starting running back is still carrying the ball late into the 3rd and 4th quarter, or if the opponent is still putting the ball in the air after being up 40 or 50. if your team can't stop 3rd and 4th (or even 5th and 6th) string running backs, then that's on your team and coaches, not on the opponent's coach who is doing his best to keep things reasonable while getting backups playing time.

wow! i knew i should've gone to this game... sounds like it was a great effort by both teams.

congrats orangefield! what a big win for ya'll!

It's gotta be roy... if you wanna take some of the other players' entire careers, maybe you can choose someone else, but just going on astros stats, he wins hands down.