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Coaching search nears finish line By Dave Rogers Published November 30, 2007 A Baytown assistant coach with head coaching experience and four current head coaches are among those who made the first cut for the head football coaching job at Goose Creek Memorial. Scott Joseph of the Lee coaching staff joined current head coaches from Killeen Ellison, Beaumont Central, Little Cypress-Mauriceville and Santa Fe among at least eight people interviewed Tuesday and Wednesday by the district, said a source close to the process. Also getting an interview, according to the source, was Deer Park assistant Chris Cauley, a former head coach at Hempstead with close ties to Goose Creek schools athletic director Tom Ed Gooden and assistant superintendent Toby York. Joseph, Beaumont Central coach Donald Stowers and LC-M coach Todd Moody all confirmed that they had been interviewed this week. Cauley, Killeen Ellison coach Bret Boyd and Santa Fe coach Brent Southworth could not be reached by the Baytown Sun Thursday. A school district spokesperson said Thursday the eight interviewed were merely semifinalists; that the field has been cut in half and a second round of interviews is being scheduled. York said Wednesday a total of 81 coaches applied for the position, which combines coaching football and serving as campus athletic coordinator. Dick Olin at Lee and Herb Minyard at Sterling have the same jobs a their schools. The Baytown Sun filed a Texas Public Information Act request Nov. 16 for the school district to make public the list of applicants for the job, as required by state law. The newspaper was promised that list would be turned over Thursday, but a district spokesperson said it wasn’t ready Thursday. Gooden, York, Memorial principal Al Richard, Gentry Junior principal Tammy Edwards and Suzanne Heinrich, the district’s executive director of secondary education, made up the interview committee, said the source. Richard is a former Goose Creek athletic director and York is a former high school head coach whose team won a state championship at Cameron Yoe High School in 1981. The school district first posted the Memorial coaching job on its website in mid-October. Qualifications required included a valid teaching certificate and five years of coaching and teaching experience. Head coaching experience and a master’s degree were preferred, the posting said. The listing did not include a salary and district officials haven’t revealed to the Baytown Sun what the job will pay. However, in response to a second Texas Public Information Act request by the Baytown Sun, the district reported that Olin, a 16-year head coach in Baytown, will earn a salary of $88,356 for this school year. Minyard, in his fourth year as head coach at Sterling and fifth year in the district, is being paid a salary of $78,355, the district said. York said Wednesday he and his committee want to select a coach in time to take his name to the school board for approval at its Dec. 10 meeting. “I don’t know that that will happen,†York said, “but if we had our druthers, that’s what we’d do. “It’s an aggressive timeline, but we’re working real hard to do what’s best for these kids.†It is expected that a new coach will be in place in January for the start of the spring semester. In addition to hiring dozens of coaches to form Memorial’s campus coaching staff, the new coach will conduct an off-season program for the football players who will attend Memorial. Some close to the district believe that Cauley has the inside track because of his connections to York and Gooden. Cauley’s father, Ed, was head coach at Cameron in 1972-76, prior to York (1981-87) and Gooden (1988-93), who held the same job. Gooden hired Chris Cauley as his defensive coordinator when Gooden was head coach at Pasadena Memorial, beginning in 2004. Cauley left Pasadena Memorial this year to work at Deer Park. “He’s an excellent coach, an excellent person,†Deer Park athletic director Jerry Creel said Thursday. “We were very fortunate to get him. “He has been a head coach already. I think he’ll be an excellent head coach somewhere.†Cauley was head coach in Hempstead in 2002 and 2003, where his teams posted a 3-17 overall record. Joseph is the son of Eddie Joseph, who recently retired after a long tenure as executive director of the Texas High School Coaches Association. He’s also the brother of Katy head coach Gary Joseph. Scott Joseph has coached for nearly 20 years, and was head coach at Houston Westbury in 2004-2006. His teams were 12-18 overall those three seasons. Stowers, 37, had been an assistant at A&M Consolidated, Killeen Ellison and Killeen Harker Heights before taking over at Beaumont Central. He has put together an 18-13 record in his three seasons as a head coach, making the playoffs in 2005 and 2006. Moody was defensive coordinator at Temple when he was hired at LC-M in 2005. His head coaching record there is 8-20. Boyd has been head coach at Killeen Ellison for seven years, five at Harlingen and two at Brookshire Royal, amassing an overall record of 64-78. His Ellison teams have made the playoffs each of the last three years. Southworth was head coach at Paris for five years (22-28 record) before moving to Santa Fe this past fall. His team there went 1-9 in a transition from a wishbone running offense to a spread passing offense.

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REGION III SEMIFINALS PICKS: * La Vega (12-0) vs. West Orange Stark (11-1): Well, regardless of how good Vega either is or isn't, the biggest thing here is that WOS just knocked off Giddings last week - that's right, the Giddings that's been the favorite for the state championship since day one. Giddings may not have had its starting QB, but the Buffaloes were still a trophy win for WOS. RB DePaulrick Garrett was terrific for the Mustangs last week, but La Vega is every bit as good as anyone else in the playoffs. With the targets now squarely on WOS' backs, expect undefeated Vega to aim well: La Vega 28, WOS 21. * China Spring (11-1) vs. Kirbyville (11-1): Both these teams were impressive last week: China Spring held Westwood to just seven points only a week after they scored 65, and Kirbyville had a sharp offensive performance despite sloppy conditions. Kirbyville QB Aaron Hazlewood didn't have the best looking completion percentage, but did throw for three touchdowns. I really like what China Spring's defense did last week, but I think this is Kirbyville's game to lose, and they won't. Kirbyville 35, China Spring 24.

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Astros set to sign 2B Kaz Matsui Complete Astros coverage Barring some unforeseen developments, the Astros will beat out the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies to sign free-agent second baseman Kazuo Matsui, a person with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed on Thursday night. Without addressing Matsui, Astros general manager Ed Wade stuck to his policy of not commenting on specific players until a contract is done. "We don't have a deal done with anyone," said Wade, who declined to talk about specific players. "As has been the case all offseason, when we get a deal done with someone, we'll announce it." Nonetheless, it has been no secret the Astros have coveted Matsui to the point that Wade flew to Los Angeles last week to meet with Matsui's agent, Arn Tellem. Tellem has not returned calls from the Chronicle in recent weeks. Matsui, 32, has a .272 career batting average over four seasons in the majors since leaving the Japanese League. He spent his first 2½ seasons with the New York Mets before being traded to the Rockies on June 9, 2006. Matsui, who helped the Rockies win the National League pennant and reach the World Series for the first time in franchise history, hit .288 with four home runs, six triples, 37 RBIs and 32 stolen bases last season. In Matsui, the Astros will get a veteran second baseman to replace franchise icon Craig Biggio, who retired this year after 20 seasons with the club. Chris Burke, who the Astros drafted as a shortstop in the first round in 2001 out of the University of Tennessee, had been considered the heir apparent to Biggio at second base for several years. Although Wade made it clear this month he would be comfortable with Burke starting at second, the club has been aggressive in the free-agent market. The Astros made a strong push for free agents Luis Castillo and Matsui. Castillo decided to re-sign with the Mets, but the Astros appear to have outbid the Cubs — who offered a three-year, $14 million deal — for Matsui. The Astros will have a prototypical No. 2 hitter in Matsui, while also having Burke available as a backup infielder/outfielder or as a prime trade piece to help acquire a starting pitcher or a quality reliever. If the season started today, manager Cecil Cooper's first two batters would be players Wade acquired this winter. Center fielder Michael Bourn, who landed in Houston in the Brad Lidge trade, would lead off, and Matsui would bat second. Hunter Pence, Lance Berkman and Carlos Lee will be the next three batters, although it remains to be seen if Pence will hit third or fifth.

Hull-Daisetta 70, Rosehill Christian 68 (OT)

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