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BC’s Myers heads above 21-3A rivals Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader BRIDGE CITY — A lot of Bridge City volleyball fans will be quick to answer who they believe the best player in District 21-3A was this season. Lady Cardinal senior Audrey Myers was flat out ridiculous at times during matches. Just take into account the 31 kills the senior spiker threw down this past Saturday in Silsbee against the Lady Tigers. The five-game victory gave the Lady Cardinals the first place seeding out of District 21-3A and proved yet again when Myers is on — there are not too many people around who can stop her. “It has been a really good year,†Myers said. “It has been even better than my junior year. I have improved individually and so has the team in a lot of ways. My attitude has improved a lot since last year and I’ve become more consistent with my hitting.†Myers had several goals heading into her senior season and did a lot of work in the offseason to make sure the goals were met. “First goal was for us to get first in district, which we did,†Myers added. “That was an awesome match. The game was a battle and it felt great to get the win. Mainly for myself I ran a lot during the summer to make sure I was in shape. I tried my hardest because I knew this year would be the hardest.†The Lady Cardinals finished the district schedule with a 13-1, matching the record the Lady Tigers ended up with. Both teams defeated the other on the road. Myers found it easy to describe the difference between this year and last year’s squad which bowed out in the bi-district round of the playoffs. “We are a lot quicker and we are more disciplined,†Myers said. “We hustle to every ball. Our defense is the best around. We know you can’t have an offense without a defense.†While the regular season is over, Myers is still not finished in her mind. “My sophomore year we made it into the third round so this year I want to do the same or even go farther,†Myers added. “I think we are a lot more prepared this year for the playoffs. We now have to be quick and if you make a mistake, we have to make up for them. The teams in the playoffs will be a lot tougher than we played in district.†The bad news for those opponents is Myers could be a lot better than what they seen all year as well.

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Congrats!

Deer Park is 5A. I think you meant WOS will play at Deer Park for their first playoff game.

Congrats/Congrats

This game will be broadcasted here on the site!!

Hopefully at least a 20 win season.

I've heard Lamar was interested along with Texas Tech and Baylor as of now.

Post em here.

High School Volleyball Playoff Results Tuesday Oct. 30, 2007. Class 4A Area Round PN-G Rock-A-Noos-- 0 Santa Fe Lady Indians-- 3 Friendswood Lady Mustangs-- 3 LC-M Lady Bears-- 0 Class 3A Bi-District Silsbee Lady Tigers-- 3 Kingwood Park Lady Panthers-- 0 Splendora Lady Wildcats-- 0 Ham-Fannett Lady Longhorns-- 3

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Girardi signs 3-year deal to manage Yankees MLB official says contract worth $2 million per year Associated Press TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments (8) Recommend NEW YORK (AP) - Joe Girardi is back in pinstripes, taking over as New York Yankees manager from his mentor. Girardi was hired Tuesday, agreeing to a three-year contract to replace Joe Torre in New York's dugout. The deal is worth an average salary of at least $2 million annually, a baseball official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the team had not yet announced the details. Girardi was the 2006 NL Manager of the Year with Florida, plus he has a pinstriped pedigree. The hard-nosed catcher played on three Yankees teams that won the World Series, served as their bench coach under Torre and was a TV announcer this year. The team scheduled a conference call for 3:30 p.m. CDT to announce the move. "Joe Girardi is a good man,'' Torre said Monday on "Late Show with David Letterman.'' "He's got a feel for this organization.'' Girardi's agreement was first reported by ESPN.com. Once he was informed Monday that the Yankees had chosen Girardi, Don Mattingly told the team he had no interest in returning next year as bench coach or in any other coaching position. Beloved as team captain, Donnie Baseball was the early favorite to replace Torre and openly coveted the spot. Instead, the Yankees picked experience over popularity, choosing Girardi even at the risk Mattingly would walk away from the franchise. "Don was extremely disappointed to learn today that he wasn't the organization's choice to fill the managerial vacancy,'' Mattingly's agent, Ray Schulte, said in an e-mail. "Instead, he was informed the organization offered the position to Joe Girardi.'' Still, spurning Mattingly - who always receives one of the loudest ovations on Old-Timers' Day - was sure to be compared to another famous Yankee snub: Babe Ruth was never offered the manager's job he so desperately wanted. Mattingly was the Yankees hitting coach for three years before moving next to Torre this season. Schulte said Mattingly congratulated Girardi and wished him well. Girardi also beat out Yankees first-base coach Tony Pena, who had the most managerial experience of the candidates. Girardi caught for the Yankees from 1996-99, served as a bench coach in 2005, then managed the Marlins the following year. He kept a young team in contention until September and then was fired, apparently for clashing with owner Jeffrey Loria and others above him. The 43-year-old Girardi often told many in the Marlins about how the Yankees did things, reinforcing the winning ways he learned in New York. Now, he'll get a chance to try them out himself. Girardi was the first person to interview to replace Torre, who managed the team to the playoffs in each of his 12 seasons. He spent about five hours with the Yankees' baseball operations staff last week, and an hour with George Steinbrenner, sons Hank and Hal, son-in-law Felix Lopez and team president Randy Levine. Girardi turned down the Baltimore Orioles' managing job last summer, choosing to spend time with his ailing father. Mattingly also interviewed for the Yankees spot last week, telling team management how much he wanted it. Earlier this month, he said replacing Torre would be quite a challenge. "It's like following John Wooden or something,'' Mattingly said then. "This guy wins championship after championship and we're in the playoffs in every year. "It's pretty much a no-win situation for someone coming in here to be able to live up to the expectations or live up to what he did. It's not going to happen. So as far as someone coming in and taking over this job, it's not necessarily a great situation.'' Girardi gets the unenviable task of following Torre, who led the Yankees to four World Series titles in his first five years - but none since - and was one of the most celebrated sports figures in the city. If Girardi takes the job, he inherits a team in transition and one without Alex Rodriguez. He also is not assured of getting back pitchers Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera or catcher Jorge Posada. Rivera and his agent, Fernando Cuza, were at Legends Field in Tampa on Tuesday, to talk with Yankees officials. The ace reliever, who has filed for free agency, said only, "We've got to see something.'' Afterward, Cuza said they had a good meeting but wouldn't speculate as to whether Rivera will be a Yankee next season. "I don't know,'' Cuza said. "It's up to them.'' Rodriguez informed the Yankees on Sunday that he was terminating his contract and becoming a free agent. The Yankees have repeatedly said they wouldn't negotiate with A-Rod if he hit the open market. The Yankees offered Torre a $5 million, one-year contract featuring a $2.5 million paycut and $3 million in performance-based bonuses, and he turned it down Oct. 18. The result was a messy departure that split Yankees fans into camps of Torre supporters and proponents for change.

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UNT football player alleges racism.. Defensive back was suspended following sideline incident 10:41 PM CDT on Monday, October 29, 2007 By BRETT VITO / Denton Record-Chronicle [email protected] DENTON – North Texas defensive back Dominique Green filed a complaint Monday with the Texas chapter of the NAACP accusing the North Texas coaching staff of racial bias. UNT head coach Todd Dodge suspended Green on Sunday following a 48-28 loss to Middle Tennessee on Saturday night. Dodge declined to comment Monday on why he suspended Green and later declined through a university spokesman to talk about the complaint Green filed. Green said he was suspended after an incident on the sideline Saturday. "I am suspended indefinitely for saying, 'We are from the hood,' on the sideline," Green said. "[uNT wide receivers coach] Clayton George charged up to me on the sideline and said we didn't need that. I asked him what was wrong and he said we didn't need to say that, so I asked him what was wrong with saying that we are from the hood." At that point, defensive coordinator Ron Mendoza pulled George away from the confrontation, Green said. Green, a junior from Lawton, Okla., said he believes the incident had racial undertones and is part of an overall pattern of bias among the UNT coaches. Neither George nor Mendoza could be reached for comment. Dodge, the former head coach at Southlake Carroll, hired an entirely new staff after he took over the program in December from Darrell Dickey, who was fired late last season. Two members of UNT's 13-man staff – quarterbacks coach Butch LaCroix and running backs coach Shelton Gandy – are black. That staff includes Dodge, assistant coaches, graduate assistants and football operations personnel. Ericka Cain, the Texas youth adviser for colleges for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she is in the process of hearing Green's complaint and setting up a visit to UNT to talk to the players and coaches. "I have yet to receive all of the information from him [Green]," Cain said. "All I can say is that we have received a phone call. We will go through an information-gathering process. We would try to mediate if we find that there is a problem. We would try to educate the coaching staff on what is appropriate. If it went further than that, we would take it to the school's administration." UNT athletic director Rick Villarreal said he didn't have enough information to comment on the complaint, but he did speak of his policy regarding racial issues within the athletic department. "I will never tolerate racial remarks or situations within a team, my staff or this program," Villarreal said Monday. "People who know me know that has been proven time and again. That policy is for players, coaches and everyone." UNT president Gretchen Bataille did not return a message left on her cellphone or respond to a request for comment left with a university public relations official.

UIL Realignment Process REQUIRED READING: Conference and District Assignment Policies and Procedures For 2008-09 and 2009-10 Realignment 1. The League office shall obtain enrollment data on participant schools (grades 9-12). 2. Students who are officially designated as having multiple disabilities may be excluded from the enrollment figures submitted for reclassification purposes. 3. The League office shall verify (through TEA) the enrollment figures submitted by the schools. 4. Conference AAAAA should consist of a minimum of 220 schools and a maximum of 245 schools participating in football (depending on how many new schools there are next alignment period); Conferences AA through AAAA should consist of a number of schools such that the enrollment ratio in grades 9-12 between the largest school and the smallest school is approximately 2.0. There should be at least 200 schools each in Conferences AA and AAAA. Conference A shall consist of all schools that are not in Conferences AA-AAAAA. 5. Schools with an enrollment of 99.9 or lower may choose to participate in six-man football or may opt to play eleven-man football but remain in the smaller division for basketball and spring meet (see #7 below). If enrollment in grades 9-12 is greater than 99.9 and the school is currently playing six-man football, it may continue to participate if any one of these three conditions exists: Enrollment of 99.9 or below in Grades 7, 8, 9 and 10, or grades 8, 9, 10 and 11, or grades 9 and 10 doubled. 6. Any school may request to be elevated one conference for extreme travel or in multiple-high school districts of eight or more schools, provided notification is submitted to the League office simultaneously with enrollment figures. 7. After determining the enrollment cut-off figures, Conference A schools will be further divided by enrollment figures for spring meet activities and basketball. Then map pins are used to represent all schools in a conference and both divisions of Conference A. Schools are placed into districts keeping the following criteria in mind: a. Group geographically contiguous schools in groups of no more than ten and place in districts with an even number of schools, except when that action causes an extreme travel hardship. Schools in a district in urban areas may not always be contiguous. b. Except in Conference A, there are 32 districts to facilitate the playoff procedures (except in activities that do not have enough schools). c. Multiple-high school districts with more than one school in the same conference will have those schools assigned as follows. (1) Multiple High School Districts with 11 or More Schools in the Same Conference: A multiple high school district with 11 or more schools in the same conference shall have its schools assigned to two or more UIL districts. Any UIL district resulting from this division with seven or fewer schools from the same ISD in it may have additional schools assigned to the UIL district by the League office. (2) Multiple High School Districts with Seven or Fewer Schools in the Same Conference: A multiple high school district with seven or fewer schools in the same conference shall have its schools assigned to the same UIL district. Other schools may also be assigned to this UIL district by the League office. (3) Multiple High School Districts with Schools in Different Conferences: A multiple high school district of eight or more schools may opt to have one or more of its schools elevated one conference if it wants its schools to be assigned to the same UIL district. (4) Multiple High School Districts with schools in more than one conference, one of which is a magnet school. A multiple high school district with schools in more than one conference, one of which is a magnet school, shall have the magnet school placed in the same conference as the high school in that school district with the largest enrollment. A magnet school is defined as a high school within a multiple high school district where all students participate in the magnet curriculum. (5) EXCEPTION: Exceptions to the above may be made when agreed upon by all participating schools and approved by the District Assignment Review Committee. d. If a school district with only one high school opens a second high school with the same attendance boundaries as its primary high school, the enrollment of both schools will be combined to determine conference placement for the primary school. 2 e. Conference A Basketball: Conference A basketball schools will be divided into large schools (Division 1) and small schools (Division 2), through the state basketball tournament, with 32 districts in each division. f. Conference A Spring Meet Activities: (1) Schools in the lower half of Conference A enrollment will be placed into approximately 16 spring meet districts. Schools in the upper half of enrollment will be placed into approximately 16 spring meet districts. (2) The division of smaller and larger Conference A schools in spring meet is at the district level only. (3) Each Conference A regional spring meet will have eight districts, with approximately four districts in the lower half of the enrollment and four districts in the upper half of enrollment. Except for one-act play and cross-examination team debate, representatives will qualify from each district to regional competition and representatives will qualify from each region to state competition. 8. There shall be no attempt made to perpetuate or avoid "old rivalries." Socioeconomic and ethnicity factors are not considered. 9. A school may be placed in different districts for different activities to alleviate extreme travel situations. 10. If there is a clerical error in assignment or if a school has been omitted, the staff is authorized to correct the error or omission. Schools in both districts will be notified of the correction. 11. A school may change districts with the unanimous consent of all schools in both districts. This is the first level of appeal. 12. If the first level of appeal is denied, schools may appeal their district assignment to the District Assignment Review Committee. All schools will be notified of the deadline for this appeal. 13. A school may be disqualified from district honors for up to two years in that sport for contracting games prior to finalizing the reclassification and realignment by all UIL appeal committees. Athletic schedules will not be considered official until approved by the superintendent of the member school district. 14. Schools may play their first football game the last Thursday in August. Beginning practice dates will remain the same for all conferences. Schools will be limited to no more than ten regular season games. 15. Schools shall be assigned to football districts only in even-numbered years. Example: 2008, 2010, etc. 16. A new school may be assigned on a non-honors basis in football for one two-year assignment period. 17. Charter Schools. a. Charter schools will be assigned to districts in team sports only prior to even-numbered years. b. Charter schools may be reassigned to a higher conference if actual enrollment is larger than enrollment projections. c. Charter schools shall not be assigned to a football district unless they have provided evidence to the UIL staff that they have participated previously. 18. Schools gaining or losing students by consolidation may have their conference and district assignments changed during the two-year alignment period. 19. Schools will not be changed because of loss or gain within a district during growth or decline in membership after enrollment figures are certified. 20. Schools may be in different regions in different activities. 21. District numbering begins in the north or west with (1) and culminates in the southern part of the state with (32). 22. Schools which are assigned to an athletic district and fail to participate may be suspended in a specific activity or all activities.

kogt The Orange Dirty Dozen went 5-0 this weekend to win the 10U District 39 Fall Ball Tournament. They finished the Fall with a record of 20-1. Pictured: Front Middle - Mikaela Stegall. 2nd row L to R- Kayla Manuel, Marlaysia Davis, Emilee Adrio, Brooke Brister, Lauren Cox. Back Row L to R - Mallory Hand, Katelyn Dickerson, Britnie Peck, Ally Wray. Coaches L to R - Craig Adrio, Michael Shugart, Jody Hand, Mike Brister

Without a doubt.

I'll be there.

These guys make waaaayy to much money in my opinion!