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Central takes down Lady Bobcats Leader Sports The Orange Leader BEAUMONT — The Beaumont Central Lady Jaguars toppled the Orangefield Lady Bobcats 69-41 in the basketball season opener for both squads at Jaguar Gym Tuesday night. The Lady Jaguars (1-0) used a 18-8 spurt in the second period to go up 31-20 at intermission and then went on a 15-8 tear in the third quarter to pull away from the Lady Bobcats (0-1). Senior Kaylin Little paced the Orangefield attack with 17 points. Allie Beach led the Lady Bobcats with six rebounds. Jessica Weldon dished out five assists while Laura Riddick swiped five steals. The Lady Bobcats return to action Friday when they host the Lumberton Lady Raiders.

Lady Cardinals shock Bellville in 5 Gabe Pruett The Orange Leader KLEIN — The Bridge City Lady Cardinals probably do not even know how to spell the word quit much less put the term into action. The Lady Cardinals are now one of 16 teams left in the 3A playoff bracket after a five-game, precious victory over the Bellville Brahmanettes at Klein Forrest High School in the Class 3A Region III Regional Quarterfinals. After falling 25-17 in Game 1, Bridge City shrugged off big deficit after big deficit to win Game 2 26-24, Game 4 25-22 and Game 5 15-12. Bellville won Game 3 25-17. Once again it was the conditioning and will power of the Lady Cardinals (25-13) in Game 5 which made all the difference. Senior Audrey Myers had six of her match-high 24 kills in Game 5 and it was Sam West who came up with the match-winning block on Bellville's Precious Sanders. Sanders was a thorn in Bridge City's side all night with a team-high 16 kills with monster spikes. Bellville ends its season at 25-17. "I think my heart stopped," Bridge City senior Lauren Angelle said.. "Coach (Becca) Mathews prepared us so well for this. When we had to make changes, they were made. We never once gave up tonight." Lauren Angelle finished with 11 kills, five assists and 19 digs in the victory while sister Jenna Angelle finished with a team-high 23 digs. Myers put in seven assists and two aces. Sophomore Emily Kosh certainly made a difference with six aces and 21 assists. Myers compared the Brahmanettes to the Silsbee Lady Tigers whom the Lady Cardinals defeated twice in three matches this season. "They were very tough," Myers said. "Game 5 I knew we had it because we have won all our Game 5's this season. This is awesome. It makes it better it is my senior year and we are headed to the regional tournament. I hope we can go over there and do our best." Game 2 was exciting throughout as the two teams stayed close to each other. The largest lead was when Bellville opened with a 4-0 lead only to see Kosh serve the Lady Cardinals back into contention. Kosh hit three straight service points, including two aces, to make it 4-4. Four straight Bellville errors down the stretch gave the Lady Cardinals the 26-24 win. In Game 4 the Lady Cardinals once again had to battle back as the Brahmanettes took an early 7-1 advantage. The Cardiac Lady Cardinals fought back on the serve of Myers who hit six straight points making it 10-8 Bellville and the Brahmanettes were never to put Bridge City away from that point on. Bridge City took its first lead of Game 4 when Kosh set up Kayla Fullerton for a kill making it 19-18. Fullerton followed it up with an ace to pad the lead. Lauren Angelle finished Game 4 with a nice kill giving Bridge City a 25-22 win and forced Game 5. It was then Bellville who never gave up in Game 5 but the Brahmanettes were chasing the Lady Cardinals the entire time. Bellville's Bethany Braun tied Game 5 at 12 with a kill but it was the last time the Brahmanettes would score this season. Fullerton made it 13-12 with a kill and then the Lady Cardinals went back to their bread and butter with Kosh setting up Myers to make it 14-12. West then came up with the huge block to end the match. "This feels more than incredible," Kosh said. "I'm extremely proud of this team, everybody did an awesome job. Bellville was a great team." Mathews is now ready to take her team into College Station this weekend. "I don't think they got into true groove until the fifth game," Mathews said. "Only thing I can think of in Game 5, leave it all on the floor.. No matter what be proud after the game was over. Especially the seniors, you think you know them. I swear every game, someone surprises me. We don't play the game the same every game."

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Lamar Volleyball: Meengs Named SLC Offensive Player of the Week BEAUMONT – After helping the Lamar University volleyball team to a pair of wins against Central Arkansas and Northwestern State last week, setter Adrianne Meengs was named the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week. Meengs, a sophomore from Friendswood, Texas, helped Lamar to a pair of wins over UCA and Northwestern State, averaging 12.67 assists per game. In Friday’s win over UCA she tied her career-high with five service aces while passing out 38 assists, knocking down eight kills with a .500 hitting percentage and picking up seven digs. In Saturday’s win over Northwestern State she again passed out 38 assists, while picking up nine digs, three service aces and three blocks. For the week she passed out 76 assists, had eight service aces and knocked down 14 kills for the Lady Cards. In addition to her impressive kills, assists and serving numbers, she had a .273 hitting percentage, picked up 16 digs, posted three blocks and scored a team-high 23 points to earn the third player of the week award of her career. She currently ranks third in the SLC with 11.09 assists per game in conference play and ranks sixth in the conference in hitting percentage at .294. In addition to her offensive prowess, she has also been solid defensively, averaging 2.08 digs per game, which is fifth-best on the team. This is the sixth player of the week award for Lamar this season. Also earning the honors were libero Andrea Hamilton who earned the defensive honor after the opening week of conference play while outside hitters Kaci Brewer and Destiny Mason were named offensive and defensive players of the week last week. Meengs and the Lady Cardinals are 13-1 in the SLC and 22-8 overall on the year. They will close out the regular season this weekend with a pair of matches against SLC West foes Texas A&M Corpus Christi and UT-San Antonio. Friday’s match against Corpus Christi starts at 7 p.m., while Saturday’s contest will begin at 1 p.m. Both matches will be played at McDonald Gym.

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Cheater may be able to answer this one but i think Proposition 1 that passed will allow renovations to the Baseball and Softball fields.

www.panews.com Alexander shakes off frustrations, sparks Memorial By Cody Pastorella The Port Arthur News It has been a frustrating season for Memorial's Jarael Alexander. The junior part time quarterback and running back has been limited by nagging injuries most of this season. In the Titans first three games, Alexander suffered an ankle sprain and a thumb injury. Neither injury was too serious but have taken quite a toll for the duel-threat quarterback. "Coming into this season, there were a lot of expectations for Jarael," said offensive coordinator Kenny Harrison. "He has a great arm and we were really hoping he would be able to complement Harry (Brown) at quarterback. I know this has been very frustrating for Jarael." Some of those frustrations were resolved during last week's 44-42 win over Baytown Sterling. Alexander ripped off 199 yards on 30 carries and completed three passes for 20 yards. "I was really happy for him," Harrison said. "I know it has been hard for him. He hasn't been involved much this season and I was really happy he was able to have a break out game like that." Alexander's 199 yards was the most by any player this season and ranks 12th at Memorial for most individual rushing yards in a game, putting him in company with Kansas State's James Johnson and Texas' Jamaal Charles. "They were ready for us to pass," Alexander said. "I think it surprised them when we started running. It felt good to be so involved and to be able to make a difference. I just want to win. That's what I was happy with the most. I wanted to win so that we can get to the playoffs." Alexander had a big smile when talking about being in the same company as Charles and Johnson. "Those are really great players," he said. "They are both great college athletes and will probably be in the NFL soon." Harrison said Sterling prepares well for Memorial's passing game, which is second to West Brook in District 21-5A with 2,119 yards. "They do a great job preparing for us," Harrison said. "They did a great job last year. They dropped eight in coverage and we figured they would do something similar to us again this year. We knew they would try to take away our strength and make us beat them with the running game." Memorial did just that by rushing for 304 yards, which is the most in any game this season. Along with Alexander, who scored a rushing touchdown, Patterson Clay rushed for 86 yards and a score and Harry Brown picked up 19 yards and a rushing touchdown on seven carries. In total, the Titans put up 481 yards of offense against Sterling. Brown threw for 157 yards on 12 of 20 passing with three touchdowns. "Alexander really opens some things up for us," Harrison said. "He is a duel threat and creates a lot of problems for defenses. His ankle is fine now, but I don't think his thumb is completely healed. His thumb is probably 85 percent." Harrison said a few weeks ago, Alexander could barely grip the ball but is healthy enough now that he will provide the Titans offense with a lot of options in Saturday's game against Humble.

The people i have talked to just said they would rather see 900,000 on other things rather than Turf.

Don't know yet.

South Houston really came out of nowhere this year!

Yup. Hopefully there's a plan B.

I'll see if i can get wos87 to get those.

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Not looking good. 298 against the turf/128 for it early. What people didn't understand is the cost would have been 4.00 or less a year.

What was the final?

Glad your doing ok.