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www.panews.com Kelly, St. Pius may be state preview By Larry Bodin The Port Arthur News BEAUMONT — Rarely does a coach think, much less say on record, that his upcoming game should be a preview of the state championship game. But when third-year coach Mike Long’s undefeated Kelly Bulldogs (8-0, 2-0) travel to Houston tonight to tangle with defending TAPPS 6-A state champion St. Pius (8-1, 2-0) before a sellout gathering, this just may be the case. Both Kelly and St. Pius have already secured berths in the TAPPS big school eight-team playoffs. So tonight’s battle will only settle district championship bragging rights. But there’s bigger fish to fry for these two talented private schools — a state title. In the eight-team playoff bracket, the two schools are in different brackets and would only meet again in 2007, after tonight, if each advance to the state championship game. Kelly’s Long thinks both teams are the best two private schools in Texas, so he had no problem saying tonight’s contest, “should be a preview of the state championship game.†Losing only to New Orleans’ Rummel High several weeks ago, St. Pius appears to be a mirror image of Long’s Bulldogs. ?hey?e really good. St. Pius has talented athletes on both sides of the line of scrimmage,†Long noted. “Theyíre similar to us; actually they are a mirror image of our team in many ways.†St. Pius defeated Austin St. Michaels last week by the tune of 64-26, and senior four-year starting quarterback Billy Noonan played only a half and completed 9-of-14 passes for 220 yards and five touchdowns. This year Noonan has thrown for 1,427 yards and 18 touchdowns, but he’s also been intercepted 11 times. ?t. Pius’ skill people are really good, starting with Noonan, and they also have two outstanding receivers who catch a lot of balls and average 20 yards a reception,†added Long. Landon Johnson has 24 receptions for 594 yards and nine scores, while teammate Howard Risher has catch 17 for 334 yards and five TDs. ?ther than their loss in Louisiana, most of their eight games haven’t even been close,†Long said. “But when we get together tonight, I think it will be the best team either of us has played this year. ?n reality, I think we’re the top two teams in TAPPS and I believe this game is just a tune-up for the state championship.†Long, a former Lamar University quarterback and longtime Port Neches-Groves offensive coordinator also said, ?his game is one of the biggest Iíve ever coached in.

www.panews.com NEDERLAND AT LUMBERTON KICKOFF BOX The Port Arthur News • When: Friday, 7 p.m. • Where: Raider Stadium, Lumberton • Records: Nederland 7-2, 4-2; Lumberton 8-1, 5-1 • Series: Nederland leads 8-1 • Last year: Nederland, 51-25 • Radio: KLVI-AM (560) • Internet: www.klvi.com • Bulldogs capsule: A string of 11consecutive playoff berths is on the line for Larry Neumann’s ‘Dogs . . . A Nederland win and a Dayton victory over PN-G keeps the string alive. If PN-G wins, Nederland must defeat Raiders by at least 10 points to claim the No. 3 playoff spot in 22-4A . . . The loss of leading tackler and defensive leader Chris Gutierrez to a broken foot really compounded the pain of losing 63-0 last week to Dayton.... 22-4A passing leader Kirby Bellow has thrown for 1,585 yards and 19 touchdowns but Dayton's blitzes and closing speed has been hard for offenses to solve. Bellow was limited to his season-low start of 42 passing yards. NHS is fourth in total offense among 22-4A teams with a 284.9-yard average a game. The Dogs defense is fifth, allowing 278.4 yards.... • Raiders capsule: 22-4A total offense leader Lumberton (334.3) seeks its first-ever playoff appearance in 41 UIL seasons tonight as a class of 30 seniors probably makes its final gridiron bows on its Raider Stadium homeland . . . Second-year head coach Alvin Credeur has 22-4A's only 1,000-yard rusher so far this season in senior TB Cody Hussey who has jabbed away for 1,098 yards on 159 carries and 14 TDs. Hussey also enters the final regular-season night with the 22-4A individual scoring lead at 78 points . . . Raiders' have the league's second-rated total defense (219.7 yards).... LHS easily tops all 22-4A rushing offenses with 2,023 yards.... • Neumann says: "Lumberton would have our full attention regardless because of the capability and the experience which they have. We know we're playing a very capable team and these seniors (Lumberton's) have won every year coming up. So we know we have to be at our very best.... Dayton played extremely well last week and they deserved to win. Their quarterback had an outstanding game against us. When your team loses the way we did against Dayton, you're always tuned into the psychological effect of your players. I've been happy with the kids' attitudes since Monday. We've been preparing this week as I would like to prepare." • Credeur says: "Nederland brings a lot of tradition and they always believe they're going to win. They have had a lot of success throwing the ball and we're going to have to try to contain their throwing game as best as we can.... Our two leading tacklers have been our linebacker Anthony Beard and our safety Jeremy Carter and I think our defense will rise to the occasion... I feel like our offensive line is getting better every week and our team has played well in the last couple of games since the PN-G game. That was a great ballgame with PN-G. Both of us played really well. There were very few turnovers and the outcome could have gone either way." NEDERLAND OFFENSE WR -- Ryan Brady (7) IR -- Adam Broussard (9) WT -- Michael Benefield (50)

Tribe eyes explosive Broncos PORT ARTHUR NEWS GAME OF THE WEEK: PN-G AT DAYTON By Tom Halliburton The Port Arthur News DAYTON -- Matt Burnett has been through this sort of final-week football before now. The Indians chief gladly would settle for his school's same familiar result, too. Port Neches-Groves brings its District 22-4A co-championship to a newly renovated Bronco Stadium tonight at 7 p.m. Unfortunately for the 7-2 and 6-0 Indians, the Dayton defense is not a newly renovated look at all. Coach Jerry Stewart enters Dayton (6-3 and 5-1) into this regular-season finale with the same old defense. Yet Burnett has a few pleasant memories from 1996 and 2003 on how to conduct the final regular season week's proceedings with a 4A district championship in the hand. Fact is, those final regular wins in 1996 at Bridge City and 2003 at Beaumont Ozen constitute two of the more memorable trails to victory in recent Indians' lore. In each case, the Indians hit the road, won by one point and came back to The Reservation with the entire piece of a district title pie rather than a share of it. That's exactly how these seniors feel about 2007. They never intended to share any titles with anybody. Sporting the league's No. 1-ranked defense and a much-improved offense, Dayton has plenty of other ideas. The Broncos have shut out four of their last five opponents, really peaking last week before a Mid-County audience in Bulldog Stadium. Dayton 63, Nederland 0 certainly got the attention of Indians' fans, players and coaches. Not that PN-G needed a reminder after Dayton's 33-2 victory in Indian Stadium a year ago. So the Indians can travel toward Liberty County without a mandate to win, but try to convey any such sentiment to PN-G's seniors. They are one game away from a season-long goal and their eyes are fixed on the prize. "Our seniors are thinking about Dayton," Indians senior defensive tackle Jody McDonald told The News in a Tuesday interview -- just a day after the school learned that it would host a bidistrict playoff game next Friday against Galena Park. "I don't really want anyone to look ahead at all. Dayton always has been a good team." And so the mid-week passed and 22-4A co-champions maintained the eye of the Tiger on the Broncos. "They would like to be the district champion and that's pretty much what they told me," Burnett said. "We've been in this spot before where we've qualified for the playoffs and played a good opponent on the road. "Obviously, they're very good. They have a lot of talent and they're well-coached. Coach Stewart does a great job with them." Although many Indians' fans might have complained prior to this season, the same can be said by Dayton's Stewart about PN-G's head coach. Matt has joined Dayton's Stewart, West Orange-Stark's Dan Hooks, and Nederland's Larry Neumann as the winningest coach in his school's history. When PN-G clinched its home win over Beaumont Central last Friday, the Indians poured the water bucket over their winningest coach. "They were very aware of it, yet I never told them," said Burnett. "I haven't had a whole lot of time to reflect on it, because we're so submerged into the season, but it's a good milestone.

Woo, i couldn't have said it any better!!!!! 8) Chain your right, it can be paid out in installments, even 1A Schools are getting it now across the State.

Stern criticizes city, state governments in Sonics dealings PHOENIX -- NBA commissioner David Stern warned Thursday that if the SuperSonics leave Seattle he sees no way the league would ever return to the city. "I'd love to find a way to keep the team there," he said, "because if the team moves, there's not going to be another team there, not in any conceivable future plan that I could envision, and that would be too bad." At a news conference following his announcement that the 2009 All-Star Game would be held in Phoenix, Stern criticized the city of Seattle and the Washington legislature for its handling of the issue of funding a replacement for Key Arena. Stern repeated earlier criticism of the mayor and city council for promoting a measure, overwhelmingly passed by voters, that requires any funds to help build an arena earn money at the same rate as a treasury bill. That measure simply means there is no way city money would ever be used on an arena project, Stern said. He also lamented that the state legislature refused to consider continuing a tax that helped fund Seattle's baseball and football stadiums. "To have the speaker of the house say well, they just spend too much money on salaries anyway, so we need it for other things," Stern said, casts aspersions on the whole league's operations. "We get the message. Hopefully, maybe cooler heads will prevail." He was referring to a remark by House Speaker Frank Chopp last February when funding for a new arena in the Seattle suburb of Renton was proposed. "They ought to get their own financial house in order when their payroll is over $50 million for, what is it, 10 players? I think that's a little ridiculous," Chopp said at the time. "They need to get their own financial house in order and if they did, they wouldn't have to ask for public help." Stern's comments were much tougher than the ones he made last June, when he said he believed the issue was "just going to work itself out." SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett told the NBA last Friday that he plans to move the team to Oklahoma City. When that move would occur depends on outcome of litigation with the city over the franchise's Key Arena lease. The lease calls for the team to play in Seattle through the 2009-10 season, but Bennett wants out sooner. As the issue becomes more and more contentious, Stern said he hopes "that a white knight that hasn't existed before, somebody who has a building plan of how to keep the team there, will step forward." Seattle Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis said that "Mr. Stern ought to take some of his own advice and quit lobbing these things over the fence at us in press conferences ... and engage with us on ways to keep the team in Seattle." "We have a lease that is valid and enforceable and his owner is in litigation with us to try and break that lease," Ceis said. "It appears that Mr. Stern is aiding and abetting that effort." In remarks before he served as the presenter for Bennett's induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City on Thursday night, Stern said he was "not through" helping in Seattle if he could be constructively involved and "not just simply parachute in to say you were there." "We've had a team in Seattle for over 40 years, it's been a great city and I think it seems almost tragic that as a matter of timing that people in power turned against the team at a time which will turn out to have been a time to really go in the other direction," Stern said. "Without Oklahoma City in the equation one way or the other, I would like very much to have seen a relationship that was so strong in Seattle and the SuperSonics continue free of sort of the antipathy and downright hostility that has been exhibited." Stern said he was not meeting with Oklahoma City leaders during his visit because it would be premature, and he deflected questions about the city's potential for hosting an NBA team on a permanent basis as being "an exercise for a relocation committee" and ultimately the Board of Governors. "If he's serious in working with us to keep the team in Seattle, we would appreciate him coming here to work with us," Ceis said. "Our door is open to Mr. Stern and his representatives and Mr. Bennett and his representatives to see what we can work out." Stern said Bennett has "learned a fair amount about public speaking in his stay as an owner," but otherwise said Bennett made intensive lobbying efforts for support in Seattle. Stern said a fair analysis of the situation would be that the city of Seattle and Chopp were "hostile, not specifically to Clay, but to the notion that there should be a new building for the Sonics at a time when tax moneys are currently being used to subsidize the baseball and football stadiums." The commissioner's comments in Phoenix came at the end of a news conference where he spent most of his time rehashing the one-game suspension of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for leaving the bench after San Antonio's Robert Horry slammed teammate Steve Nash into the scorer's table in last season's conference semifinals. NBA rules require a one-game suspension for any player who leaves the bench in such incidents. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

Coolbaugh's death prompts MLB to adopt helmets for base coaches ORLANDO, Fla. -- Baseball wants to prevent another tragic accident like the one that killed Mike Coolbaugh. General managers decided Thursday that first- and third-base coaches will wear some sort of head protection next season, a move that came four months after Coolbaugh was struck in the neck by a line drive during a minor league game. Coolbaugh, a former major league player, was a coach for the Colorado Rockies' Double-A team in Tulsa when he died July 22. He had been hit by a liner as he stood in the first-base coach's box during a Texas League game at Arkansas. Some major league coaches responded by wearing helmets the rest of the season. "There was a sentiment that as a concept this was a good idea," said Joe Garagiola Jr., senior vice president for baseball operations in the commissioner's office. GMs will decide on the exact form of protection when they meet next month at the winter meetings. "We're going to come back in Nashville with some options: liners, hard caps, helmets without flaps, helmets with flaps," Garagiola said. While no formal vote was taken, Garagiola said the thinking of the GMs was clear. "Everybody just felt it was a situation that made sense," Detroit Tigers president Dave Dombrowski said. Many batters started wearing helmets after Ray Chapman, a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, was killed when he was hit by a pitch during a game in 1920. A rule requiring helmets for batters was adopted in 1971. "If you think about the evolution of the batting helmet, unfortunately what ended up happening this year is essentially what happened with Ray Chapman," Oakland general manager Billy Beane said. "I think we need to come up with a recommendation." Garagiola said the recommendation adopted by the GMs next month will not need additional approvals. Coolbaugh's widow, Amanda, gave birth to his daughter, Anne Michael, on Friday in San Antonio, the Drillers said. Rockies players voted Amanda Coolbaugh a full postseason share last month. The couple's two sons, 5-year-old Joseph and 3-year-old Jacob, threw out ceremonial first pitches before Game 3 of Colorado's first-round playoff series against Philadelphia. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

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