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Need pitching!!

I agree! Let's keep the smack down.

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No Joke, there're getting better each game.

How is Taylor doing? Update us!!

They may be on our east texas site at www.deepeasttexassports.com

Predictions?

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Should be a good game.

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5A Sulphur.

;D It was on the scoreboard above.. Hardin-Jefferson-55 Hamshire-Fannett-41

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Basketball roundup for Dec. 12 From sports staff reports Baytown Sun Published December 12, 2007 Sterling boys Sterling lost a 15-point lead to South Houston late but held on to knock off the Trojans 78-73. Cartavious Kincade led the Rangers with 23 points. Derrick Thompson finished with 15 and Adrian Fontenot added 12 as Sterling improved to 9-6 on the year. “We lost pretty this weekend so we will take an ugly win,†Sterling head coach Mark Patton said. “We turned the ball over and didn’t close them out right but we held on.†Sterling will open the District 21-5A slate Friday night at Kingwood. Barbers Hill boys The Eagles improved to 9-4 in a 58-27 win over Dayton Tuesday night. The Eagles held the Broncos scoreless in the first quarter and broke the game wide open in the third quarter with a 43-15 lead. Heath Padgett scored 17 points and Jon Daniels added 11. The Eagles will return to action next Tuesday when they open up district against Forest Brook. Crosby girls Kiaria Siggers scored 11 points and Nikkolette Mora added eight Tuesday night as the Crosby girls eked out a 49-42 win over Huffman in the District 21-4A opener. Crosby improved to 6-10 on the season. The Lady Cougars play at New Caney Friday night. Crosby boys HUMBLE — Atascocita broke out of a 27-27 halftime tie and downed Crosby 68-50 Tuesday night. The Cougars fell to 4-8 on the season. Kendrae Carter led Crosby with 22 points. The Cougars are off until the District 21-4A opener at Smiley Dec. 18. BCA girls Christian Brantley scored 15 points and Annie Davis added 11 Tuesday night as Baytown Christian scored a 46-37 win over Bay Area Christian. The win boosts BCA to 3-0 in TAPPS 4-4A play. The Bulldogs led 19-16 at halftime and took that three-point lead into the final period before pulling away on Bay Area Christian, outscoring the visitors 17-11 in the final eight minutes. BCA’s boys and girls will play in the Galveston O’Connell tournament this weekend.

Family ties fuel Dayton triple threat By Dave Rogers Published December 12, 2007 DAYTON — Garrett Gilbert, the pass-happy quarterback for the Lake Travis team that takes on Dayton in the Class 4A Division II state semifinals at College Station Friday night, is the latest in a line of high school stars with famous dads. Southlake Carroll won state titles with big plays from the sons of former Oilers wide receiver Mike Renfro and former Cowboys lineman Nate Newton. Austin Westlake went to state with the sons of University of Texas standouts Earl Campbell and James Street. Gilbert is the son of Gale Gilbert, who quarterbacked for San Diego in Super Bowl XXIX. And the Dayton Broncos? “Our gene pool is not that good,†Bronco head coach Jerry Stewart chuckled Tuesday. “We’ve got two or three whose daddies are sawmillers. And there’s a pipefitter or two.†On this Bronco team, A.J. Dugat comes the closest to a famous athletic pedigree. Father Alonzo Dugat was a star running back for Liberty. Brother Mike Dugat, a running back for Dayton, finished as the No. 6 rusher all-time in Class 4A. Cousin Henry Dugat, a basketball star at Dayton, plays for Baylor. “A lot of them taught me different things,†A.J. says. And he learned his lessons well, says Stewart. “History will tell where he ends up,†the coach answered when asked where the junior receiver-defensive back ranks among the Dayton players he’s coached in 12 years. “A.J.’s a different beast; he plays both sides of the ball. He’s a lockdown corner at 6 foot and 190 pounds. He can also throw the ball, catch the ball, run the ball and return kicks. “And he’s a kid that plays better when the stage gets brighter.†Dugat has contributed nearly 2,000 yards of combined offense to the 11-3 Broncos this season. That’s 1,001 yards and 13 touchdowns on 70 pass receptions, 463 yards and five touchdowns passing and 523 yards and five touchdowns rushing. Dayton’s return statistics weren’t available Tuesday, but his defensive numbers include five interceptions, which matches teammate Paul Fontenot for the team high. Dugat opened last week’s 28-21 win over Waller, the first third-round playoff win in school history, with a 41-yard run with a screen pass. He had a 31-yard punt return to set up Dayton’s first score and he scored the game-winning touchdown on a two-yard run with an end-around. He finished with five pass receptions for 99 yards and five rushes for 17 yards. He also broke up a pair of passes and threw the key downfield block on another touchdown. “I guess as far as an all-around player, he’s making a push to be the best Dayton’s ever had,†Stewart said. “And he’s just a junior.†Dugat played quarterback for the Broncos immediately after blue-chip prospect Cody Green was lost for the season in the second game. Having him behind center was a good thing. Not so good was not having him available as a receiver and runner. Stewart says bringing Gregory Charles in to quarterback made all the difference for a Dayton team that started the year 1-3. It allowed him to play Dugat not only at receiver but full-time on defense. “He’ll get 100 snaps a game,†the coach said. Dugat says his biggest helper off the field is his brother, Mike, who spent the fall at Blinn College. “He still coaches me. He sends me text messages, things to think about before the games,†he said. What sort of messages? “Things like ‘My cuts will come to me,’ and he always tells me to pray before the game. That’s my secret,†Dugat said, “I pray to God.†Charles says Dugat can be too slippery for him sometimes. “His moves and his vision are the big things,†the quarterback says. “Sometimes he shakes me. I have to wait until he gets into his routes.†For all his offensive headlines, Dugat says the key for he and his Bronco teammates against Lake Travis’ 13-1 Cavaliers will be defense. “The key last week was to just gang tackle around the ball and our defense stepped up big,†he said. “This week defense will be the key for us again. “Defense wins games, not offense.†Having A.J. Dugat helps.

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New GC coach sets January start By Michael Pineda Baytown Sun Published December 12, 2007 The new head football coach in Baytown lined up opposite Billy Ray Smith and blocked for Eric Dickerson and Craig James. And he didn’t play at SMU. Memories of the 1979 Texas High School All-Star game at TCU came back to Bret Boyd recently when he came to Baytown to interview for a job and discovered his all-star coach, Toby York, was heading up the search. “I was the center,†said the Kerrville Tivy grad who went on to play at Navarro Junior College and Texas A&I. “I got to block Billy Ray Smith all night long.†The Goose Creek school board agreed late Monday to hire Boyd, 46, as the first head football coach-campus athletic coordinator for Goose Creek Memorial for a base salary of $83,355 per year. The coach said he plans to start work here Jan. 7. “I’m planning to be there that Monday morning after New Year’s, meet with the players and have a reception with the parents,†he said Tuesday from Killeen, where he’s in the process of wrapping up a seven-year tenure as head coach at Killeen Ellison. “I think when they start the second term of school, they’re going to try to work a way to have the Memorial players in a separate athletic period, so we can all work together. “There are a lot of details still to be worked out. It’s not like you can move into a new building. I think I’m going to be working out of my truck until summer.†Still under construction, Goose Creek Memorial is set to open next August and compete in varsity athletics in a Class 4A district. The Patriots will play their first season without a senior class and face other disadvantages that go along with being a first-year program. All of which begs the question why an established coach coming off three straight playoff appearances would covet the job of leading them through the process. “My son graduated from Killeen Ellison and now my wife and I are home alone,†Boyd said. “I always told my wife if a new school opened up, it would be a big challenge that would interest me. “My dad opened a new school at Sugar Land (Clements) and told me it was one of the most fun experiences he had. This situation (Goose Creek Memorial) arose, so I threw my hat in.†Now retired, Bob Boyd was head coach at Garland, Kerrville, Alice, Fort Bend Clements, Corpus Christi Ray and Harlingen, putting together a record of 116 wins, 60 losses and seven ties. He also was an assistant coach at Texas A&M and the University of Texas. Bret Boyd’s wife Brenda is a teacher and former coach. They have two children, Brandi, an English teacher and cheer coach in San Antonio, and Beau, a junior at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Baytown’s new coach got his start in coaching at McKinney, where he was offensive coordinator for Ron Poe. Todd Dodge joined that staff as quarterback coach, many years before Dodge made it to Southlake Carroll. Boyd has a record of 69-84 as a head coach, with his best record — 39-19, two district championships and two trips to the regional finals — coming in five seasons at Harlingen, where he took over for his father as head coach. In 1991-92, Bret Boyd was 1-19 in his first head coaching job at Brookshire Royal. “It was a down program,†he said, “but it was my first head coaching job.†Boyd joined his dad’s staff in Harlingen in 1993 before taking over in 1996. In 2001, he took over at Ellison and his first four teams there went 8-32 before the Eagles put it together for a 20-15 record the past three seasons. That included a 16-4A district championship and trip to the regional finals in 2005. The past two years, the Eagles qualified for the playoffs as runnersup in a District 13-5A that includes Bryan, A&M Consolidated and Temple. “Killeen Ellison, when I got here seven years ago, was a lot like being at a new school,†Boyd said. “Killeen had just split from two schools to four (adding Shoemaker and Harker Heights to Killeen High and Ellison) and a lot of students here were going to the new schools.†Memorial principal Al Richard and district athletic coordinator Tom Ed Gooden joined York, Goose Creek’s assistant superintendent for personnel, and two other administrators on the selection committee for the new coach. “Having been in the playoffs for the past three years, he has the knowledge about what it takes to build a program that is playoff-caliber,†Richard said. Gooden said “We’re extremely excited to welcome Bret Boyd to the Goose Creek CISD athletic family. Coach Boyd’s athletic experience, including his background as a head football coach and athletic coordinator, make him a perfect fit as the person to build the athletic department at Goose Creek Memorial High School. “We believe that the athletes and coaches at Goose Creek Memorial will benefit greatly from his knowledge, leadership, commitment and work ethic.†A total of 81 men applied for the job won by Boyd, more than two dozen of them current high school head coaches. Boyd’s starting salary falls halfway between that paid this school year to Dick Olin, the 16-year head coach at Lee ($88,356) and Herb Minyard, the fourth-year head coach at Sterling ($78,355).