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This is the X factor to me.  If we handle him inside or get him out of the game with fouls we will have a big edge.  If we let him control things we are going to have a big battle.  Either team  could win in either case but take his size out and I like it a lot better.

Aggirearewe, your prediction and thoughts after watching yesterday' games? 

Final score 94-68 Yates 

Helping out the ones that can’t get the broadcast 

Yes Sir

Yates looks like the team to win it all, but you still have to play the game.  Silsbee just might surprise me.  I don't have any money bet.  At the end of the day it is still just fun and games, or a game called basketball.  

Yates is very very talented. They very well could be beat Silsbee but who knows. Silsbee is very battle tested this season and helps this time of year. Yates has blown everyone out this year for the most part. The games Yates has lost was to bigger schools. 

Silsbee will beat Connolly but the starters will have to play the whole game to do it.  Yates on the other hand, will brush Liberty Hill aside almost as easily as they did Hardin Jefferson.  It's practically a warm up game.  Coach Wise will rest his starters so they will be fresh for the Silsbee game. He doesn't need to win by 50.  This will put the Tigers at a disadvantage before the game even begins on Saturday afternoon.  The Tigers will have to play their biggest game of the season on one night's rest right after a tough game.  And then it's a bad matchup for the Tigers anyway.  Yates is big and fast and skilled and plays a better defense.  No real  weaknesses at all.
But if the Tigers are shooting well and can somehow stay out of foul trouble they just might pull it off.  Yates will have an apparently comfortable lead going into the 4th quarter.  Then Silsbee will rally fiercely and pull close.  The Lions haven't been challenged like this in a while and they aren't used to it.  They will probably wilt somewhat under the onslaught.  I think it will ultimately come down to the bounce of the ball.  Pure happenstance will decide it.  And since tigers are just naturally luckier than lions Silsbee wins by 1 point.
That's my prediction for this weekend.

The defending champs that brought back the majority of there team should steamroll Waco Connally and make a statement to the other teams in 4A. 
Silsbee +42

High Five to Sam Houston 

Silsbee still wants payback to Yates. We have lost twice in the playoffs 2013 and 2014. 

Yates has had a somewhat easier road to Huntsville.  All unranked opponents.  And now facing unranked Liberty Hill.  I'm afraid the Panthers are about to get steamrollered unless they can somehow take the air out of the ball and turn it into a half court game.  Very unlikely.
Tigers will have a better game.  Based on the Tigers last two games it figures to be close with the Tigers pulling way at the end.  Connolly isn't a high scoring team, couple of games in the 90's.  But they are competent, ranked 17th.
Only Region 4 is easy to call.  Brazosport has a cakewalk of sorts.  Facing No. 22 Somerset then No. 15 West Oso.  They will overpower those guys.  The other three regions are tossups.  No way to call it.  Region 1 has No. 8, No. 9, No. 10 and No. 11 - Region 2 has No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and an unranked.  Region 3 has No. 1, No. 2, No. 17 and an unranked.  It will be an interesting weekend in 4A.  

We have read all these score comparisons between our two teams, and then seen how everyone says how close it will be.  I have to say after seeing Scarborough against Shepherd I wasn’t really expecting the game to be as hard fought as it was.  However I just looked at the box score/ scoring thread of both games y’all played against them and see you never could shake them either.  I suggest everyone take their nerve and heart pills befor3 the game Saturday if we both get there.

3 Division Winners & a 4th seed (Connally) heading to SHSU, it’s going to be fun Friday Night. See everyone in Huntsville  

Region 3
Liberty Hill 89, Navasota 73
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#2 Yates 114, Hardin Jefferson 56
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#17 Connally 80, Hillsboro 75 OT
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#1 Silsbee 99, #20 Scarborough 76
4A Regional Semifinals are set for SHSU
Yates vs Liberty Hill at 6:15p Friday 
Silsbee vs Connally 8p Friday 

Case closed

Does Silsbee have anyone that is talented as Quentin Grimes on this current team???
If Yates hit there current playoff average of 98ppg, it’s going to be difficult for anyone to beat them. 
Can’t wait for Fridays Game.

Where is the disrespect, the majority of  folks on this site is picking Silsbee. Silsbee are the current defending 4A champs and everyone is attempting to beat them.

Nope, but who does? 

Silsbee is not as deep this year. Yates is deeper than last year. Don't want to get in a track meet. 

#23 for Yates loves to play above the rim, good free throw shooter but needs to work on his low post game. 

#23 for Yates loves to play above the rim, good free throw shooter but needs to work on his low post game. 

Yates too much for HJ tonight.  The Hawks left it all on the court though.  Give tons of props to Jalen tonight.  Not mentioned on this thread is that Persohn played only 3-4 minutes and suffered a ankle in the 1st and never returned.  Also both twins left in 1st half with ankle injuries.  One returned and the other tried in 2nd half and couldn’t make it.  Thanks for the great season from those seniors in Sneed, Upchurch, Murray and Morreale!!
Yates is the most talented group of kids I’ve seen in a long time.  23 is the real deal!!

WOW HJ Fan is upset because Yates scored 108 pts

Tell them don’t get mad stop them they want have 108 I hate when fans do that