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BC sweeps H-F From staff reports The Orange Leader The Bridge City Lady Cardinals took care of their own business Tuesday night with a three-game sweep over the Hamshire-Fannett Lady Longhorns. Bridge City (18-13, 11-1) remained tie with the Silsbee Lady Tigers in District 21-3A play after defeating Hamshire-Fannett (21-10, 7-5) 25-22, 25-23 and 25-15. The victory clinched a playoff spot for the Lady Cardinals with two matches left on the schedule. The Lady Cardinals got a match-high 18 kills from senior Audrey Myers who also chimed in nine assists. Senior Lauren Angelle finished the night with 12 kills and 18 digs while sister Jenna Angelle added 22 digs. Sophomore setter Emily Kosh dished out a match-high 23 assists. Bridge City returns to action this Friday when they play host to the Orangefield Lady Bobcats.

LC-M takes down Lumberton in five Van Wade The Orange Leader LITTLE CYPRESS — It’s been a wild District 22-4A volleyball season and the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears decided to clinch their second straight playoff berth in wild fashion Tuesday night at the Bear Cave. In a year which has provided a ton of five-game matches, the Lumberton Lady Raiders certainly made the Lady Bears earning it, as LC-M went on to hang on to an exciting 25-13, 17-25, 25-11, 21-25, 15-12 victory to seal a postseason berth. “It was a crazy match, but what can you say, all of the matches have been crazy in our district this year,†said LC-M head coach Vicki Castino. “I’m just so happy for the kids. Making the playoffs for the second straight year is quite an accomplishment. The kids really rallied together to take that last game.†The Lady Bears remain in a second-place tie with the Beaumont Ozen Lady Panthers. LC-M will play host to Vidor in its regular season finale Friday while Ozen plays host to rival Beaumont Central. The Lady Raiders (22-13, 6-7) jumped out to a 7-4 advantage over the Lady Bears (19-14, 9-4) in the decisive game. After a Castino timeout, the Lady Bears caught on fire. Senior Kristi Trahan served up six straight points and the Lady Bears received two kills by senior Jordyn Davis and a kill by senior Morgan Blohm to snare a 11-7 lead. The scrappy Lady Raiders retaliated by scoring five of the next six points to draw even at 12-12. LC-M grabbed a 13-12 lead after Lumberton’s Jelayna Jones couldn’t get a dink over the net. Lady Bear sophomore Christine Sicktich had a killing smash to make it 14-12 and Blohm then served out the match. Blohm has had an amazing couple weeks for the Lady Bears and once again led them Tuesday night. The senior captain poured out 18 kills and three blocks. Sicktich pumped out 16 kills, nine service points and two aces. Davis collected 10 kills. Junior Brittany Wiegand had her amazing jump serve working well all evening, pouring out 13 service points and two aces. Trahan finished with eight points, two aces and five kills while Shayna Sheppard and Carly Gauthier had nine points apiece. The LC-M win offset a tremendous effort by the Lady Raiders. Laurie Abbo paced the Lumberton attack with 13 kills and two blocks. Nicole Kemp collected 12 kills and two blocks. Alyssa Valastro pumped out seven kills and seven points. Alicia Allen had 10 points and two aces. Jones finished with seven points and five kills while Laura Chapman added five points and four kills. The Lady Bears clobbered the Lady Raiders in Game One, tallying 14 of the first 16 points as Blohm and Sicktich were firing away bombs and the Lady Raiders hurt themselves with a slew of unforced errors. Lumberton dug itself out of a 12-9 deficit in Game Two by going on a 6-0 run to go up 15-12. LC-M got as close as 16-15 but Lumberton ripped off nine out of the last 11 points by the hard hitting of Abbo and Kemp to pull away. LC-M was in complete command of Game Three and ran away from the Lady Raiders with 11 of the game’s final 13 points. It was the Lady Raiders that broke away from a 10-10 tie in Game Four by collecting nine out of 10 points to go up big at 19-11. LC-M scrapped right back and got as close as 24-21 before Kemp sealed it with a kill to force the decisive Game Five. “We played so well in the first and third games, some of the best volleyball we’ve played this season,†Castino said. “In the second and fourth games, I thought we relaxed too much and committed errors we usually don’t commit. Give Lumberton credit though, they play really hard.â€

OF takes down WO-S, gets help from BC Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader WEST ORANGE — At least for the time being the Orangefield Lady Bobcats can say thanks to the Bridge City Lady Cardinals. Shortly after defeating West Orange-Stark in three games, the Lady Bobcats learned the Lady Cardinals had defeated the Hamshire-Fannett Lady Longhorns putting Orangefield alone in third place. The Lady Bobcats downed the Lady Mustangs 25-18, 25-22 and 25-15. Orangefield (15-14, 8-4) is now a full game up on H-F (21-10, 7-5) heading into Friday’s showdown against the Lady Cardinals (18-13, 11-1) who are tied with Silsbee (19-10) for first place in District 21-3A. Silsbee downed Kirbyville Tuesday. So say your thanks Lady Bobcats now before heading into Cardinals Gym on Friday. Orangefield got a match-high nine kills from Laura Riddick who also had 12 digs while Kaylin Little put in eight digs and 16 assists. Allie Beach finished with five kills while Jessica Maass added four. Both Aimee Scales and Olivia Wagner finished the night with three kills. Kia Hartfield led the Lady Mustangs (0-12) with six kills while Christine Gaskill had a team-high seven assists. “That was a very long three games,†Orangefield Coach Linda Riddick said. “We still have to work on our mental errors. The good thing is those are correctable. In the past I know we have been able to take care of those kinds of things. We have to show up at practice Wednesday and refocus our attention.†The Lady Bobcats serving game seemed to be the difference all night long as Orangefield racked up 10 aces in the three games. It was Maass in the first game who got the Lady Bobcats rolling after the Lady Mustangs took an early 4-0 lead. Maass calmly struck for seven straight service points later in the game as Orangefield was able to build a 13-6 advantage. The two squads then traded points for a while until Little came up to serve for Orangefield and all but put the game on ice. Little hit for four straight points giving Orangefield a 21-11 lead. WO-S could not recover and a final Lady Mustangs’ shot landed out of bounds giving the Lady Bobcats a 25-18 victory. Orangefield got off to the same slow start in Game 2 as WO-S took an early 4-0 lead. The Lady Mustangs were able to stretch it out to 9-3 as Cayla Adams struck for four straight service points. Orangefield could never take a lead until Maass was once again serving and she came through with five straight points giving the Lady Bobcats a 23-21 advantage. The run of points included two aces from Maass. With Riddick serving, a final WO-S hitting error allowed Orangefield to escape with a 25-22 win. Game 3 was backwards for the two teams as it was Orangefield who gained a big lead only to see WO-S fight back. Scales hit for eight straight points giving Orangefield a comfortable 12-3 advantage only to see WO-S fight back and get within 16-14 later in the game. Little then did her part again while serving with six straight points which included three aces as the Lady Bobcats grabbed a 22-14 lead. A final Lady Mustangs hit fell out of bounds giving the Lady Bobcats the 25-15 victory. “Now we don’t have a night where we can just coast,†Riddick said. “We have to care of our own business. It is going to take our best games and believing that we will be able to do it.†While Orangefield travels to face Bridge City Friday, WO-S will play host to Silsbee.

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kogt The Orange Lumberjacks played in the 14 U bracket of the Spring-Klein Fall Classic baseball tournament, held the weekend of 12-14 in the Woodlands. The team went 4-1 to capture second place. Pictured is (front center) Reid Fults, (first full row) Jonathan Allen, Jake Garza, Dillon Young, Jordan Dillard, Jacob Belcher, Ryan Carline, Dalton Brister, Zach Barnwell (second row)Coach Jessie Floyd, Coach Doug Allen, Kevin Adams,Zach Drouillard, Jordan Harmon, James Swan, Coach Bobby Swan.

kogt Monday: The Orangefield 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams swept WOS. The 7th grade A Team is undefeated while the 8th grade A Team is now 5-1.

kogt Monday: LCM Team Tennis defeated Vidor on Monday 18-1. Boys winners included Jude Layne, Corey Guilbeaux, Nick Dorrell, Dean Simpson, Derek Anderson, and Jordan Baldree. Girls winners included Emily Walker, Kat White, Stephanie Scheer, Katie Harrell, Rachel Miller, and Lindsey Moreau. Other team members include Kellen Gandy, Madison Ham, JJ DuBose, Jacob Wilson, Emiley Hughes, and Chelsey Art. The LCM Fall Tennis team has secured a fourth consecutive trip to the 4A Region III Tournament in Friendswood on October 26th and 27th.

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Soccer Lamar Academy The Lamar University soccer team will hold clinics this fall. The sessions will be led by the Lamar coaching staff and assisted by LU players at Cardinal Stadium. Enrollment is limited to 30 players per session. High school seniors cannot participate. The cost is $20 per session. The sessions take place Monday and Tuesday for the next three weeks. The clinic for players in kindergarten through eighth grade is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. each day. Players in ninth through 11th grades work out from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. For information, call (409) 880-2334.

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Basketball Winter Adult League The Sterling Pruitt Center will be hosting a two-division adult basketball league. Each division has a six-team limit. Registration through Oct. 26 is $175. There will be a managers meeting Oct. 29. Teams may register at the Sterling Pruitt Center located at 2930 Gulf St. For information, call Stacey Lewis at (409) 838-3613.

www.panews.com Titans can only look ahead to Lee By Cody Pastorella The Port Arthur News A 3-3 overall record, a 2-1 District 21-5A record and coming off a disappointing loss to Kingwood has Memorial right back where it was a year ago. In last week’s 42-34 letdown, Memorial surrendered 369 rushing yards and turned the ball over four times, three to the same Kingwood player. Nobody associated with the Titans is abandoning ship, however. Just as churchgoers see the calendar, Sunday is truly the first day of the week for the Memorial Titans and all sins from the week prior are forgotten. “We have to put that behind us†said senior quarterback Harry Brown, who threw for 226 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions against the Mustangs. “Saturday was the last day for us to think about that game. That’s how it is every week, whether we win or lose. “We always have to keep the next game in front of us. We can’t dwell on a loss and we have to work just as hard after a win. On Saturdays, we watch film and then that’s it. After Saturday, we move on to the next week.â€Ã® Head coach Ronnie Thompson made the same assessments before Tuesday’s practice. “This game is 98 percent mental. We can’t carry two conflicting thoughts and expect to do well,†Thompson said. “We can’t try to move on while thinking about what went wrong last week. We have to burry it and look forward. “Today is a new day. Every week is a new week. Last week’s errors were last week’s game. We have a new opponent this week and a new game. We can’t think about three weeks from now and we can’t think about last week, we have to stay focused on this week’s matchup. We can’t play every team every week.†It’s possible a bulk of Memorial’s defensive problems were due in part to the unconventional offense the Mustangs run. Kingwood runs the flexbone-option attack, which is an offense no other team in District 21-5A uses. And with the new 3-3-5 defensive system Memorial is running, and the youth that fills out the Titans’ defensive squad, there has to be a learning curve. “Our defensive guys are very young,†Thompson said. “They are young. From here on out, they are going to face conventional offenses. It’s unlikely we are going to see the kind of offense Kingwood runs again.†Memorial travels to Baytown Lee this week for a meeting with a team it beat 27-26 last season. After Friday, the Titans will face West Brook, Baytown Sterling and Humble to close out district. Last year, Port Arthur two of the three, losing only to West Brook.

www.panews.com PN-G's Broussard makes big impact, sparks secondary By Tom Halliburton The Port Arthur News PORT NECHES -- As the words go in the Dukes of Hazard theme song . . . He's just a good ol' boy, never meaning no harm.... been in trouble with the law (in this case the officials) since the day... That's all Jacob Broussard has meant to be, just a good ol' boy. Then the 18-year-old Port Neches-Groves senior puts on that purple and white football gear and he seems to surround himself with a different air about him. A sports writer for PN-G's student newspaper, the Pow Wow, this Indians cornerback may want to write a first-person column one of these days and explain some of his aggressive actions on a football field. Let's just say for now that Jacob tries to play the game right. And he tries to practice it right. And he just has a tendency to get excited. We all can have trouble with our adrenaline glands on occasion and sometimes we get too wound up. If Mid-County football fans tune into the Port Arthur News Friday Night Experience tonight on Cable 18 at 7 p.m., they need to stick around for the fourth quarter. That's when Jacob became involved in plays which led to numerous refinery discussions, chat-room debates and arguments from both sides of Twin City Highway's train tracks. The Indians were getting the upper hand and were seeking the knock-out punch after six losses in the previous seven years to Nederland. Times had turned a bit too Black and Old Gold for coach Matt Burnett's senior-laden Tribe. It was almost as if the Indians and their fans were ready to explode in celebration, as Broussard put the pads on Nederland receiver Ryan Brady near the Bulldogs sideline with his team in control of the game. Now let's have Jacob describe what took place. "I hit him on their sideline and I got up and I didn't mean anything by it, but I was pumped up and I just went ''woo''," Broussard said he gestured. Next thing the 5-10, 150-pound Jacob knew, the officials gave PN-G a 15-yard penalty for naughty behavior. Broussard never thought any penalty should have been assessed. Anyway, the Indians did a lot more celebrating after that moment, while the penalty seemed to turn Broussard into a "Superman" of sorts. Jacob became more powerful than a locomotive. He began leaping tall buildings in a single bound. He was everywhere. "It was a bad call," he said. "I wasn't taunting.... I just did this. That's it and they threw a flag on me. And I was like, "Are you serious?... Are You Serious?" The fun had only begun. The celebration was uncorked in PN-G's 28-16 victory after that. Nederland went back to Brady again on the next play, a slant route. Brady caught the pass and Broussard made bone-jarring contact before any one at Billy Joe's Bar-B-Q could say "pickles." Later in the drive, Nederland QB Kirby Bellow threw at him again, and it was one time too many. Jacob came away with the football, one of his three take-a-ways on the night. He’d made his point and redeemed himself for the penalty, whether it was deserved or not. "Jacob is highly competitive, like so many of these seniors are," PN-G's head coach said of Broussard. "He gets pretty excited at practice too. He gets pretty animated and he carries it into a game.

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High School Volleyball Results, Tuesday Oct. 16, 2007. District 22-4A PN-G Rock-A-Noos-- 3 (PN-G improves to 13-0 in District) Central Lady Jags-- 1 (Central 6-7 in District) Lumberton Lady Raiders-- 2 (Lumberton 6-7 in District) LC-M Lady Bears-- 3 (LC-M 9-4, Clinches Playoff Spot) Ozen Lady Panthers-- 3 (Ozen 9-4, Clinches Playoff Spot) Vidor Lady Pirates-- 1 (Vidor 0-13 in District) Nederland Lady Bulldogs-- Dayton Lady Broncos-- Report Scores by Calling 895-4674 District 21-3A Kirbyville Lady Wildcats-- 0 ( Kirbyville 3-9 in District) Silsbee Lady Tigers-- 3 (Silsbee 11-1 in District) Bridge City Lady Cards-- 3 (Bridge City 11-1 in District) Ham-Fannett Lady Longhorns-- 0 (Ham-Fannett 7-5 in District) District 24-2A Kountze Lionettes-- 3 (Kountze 9-0 in District) East Chambers Lady Bucs-- 0 District 23-2A San Augustine Lady Wolves-- 0 Warren Lady Warriors-- 3 (Warren tied with Woodville for 1st in District) TAPPS District 4-4A Legacy Christian Lady Warriors-- 0 Katy Faith West Lady Eagles-- 3