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LC-M’s Trahan overcomes accident with stellar play Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader LITTLE CYPRESS — Little Cypress-Mauriceville senior Kristi Trahan knows she is a lucky Lady Bear these days. Last Monday Trahan was leaving volleyball practice and went to turn onto Texas 87 to go to the other side of the high school for a meeting. When she did, another vehicle driven by an elderly couple T-boned her Honda Civic. The accident was Trahan’s fault and totaled her vehicle. The one thing not totaled was Trahan’s spirits and will to play volleyball the next night against the Port Neches-Groves Rock-A-Noos. “I am very lucky I have to say,†Trahan said. “I am very blessed because all I really had was a bruise on my side and my knee was hurt a little. There was nothing major wrong, especially not enough to stop me from playing volleyball.†While some people would have called in sick to a job or school in a heartbeat after an accident, Trahan went out and had a terrific match the next night even though the Lady Bears went on to lose. Trahan led all setters that night with 21 assists in the match and despite a knee brace, she several times leaped above and beyond the top of the night for a kill. “She was pretty strong after it happened,†LC-M Coach Vicki Castino said. “It was a miracle she was not hurt even more. If someone would have been driving faster, she might have been hurt pretty badly. Shes is real tough.†Trahan said once the wreck happened she got out of her vehicle and began to walk around. She knew her knee hurt and also knew the PN-G match loomed the next night. “That was one match I was not going to miss,†Trahan said. “Good thing Hondas are safe cars. My dad is already wanting me to get another one.†When accidents occur there is sometimes friction between the two drivers but not in this case. “It was an older couple and they were very sweet,†Trahan added. “It was my neighbor’s former pastor so I knew of them. He has already called a few times to check on me. “I haven’t missed a beat in practice and never even thought of missing a day. The third day after was the worst because I was pretty sore. I have always had the attitude if I was hurt to keep in it. I went full out. It was the last time I would ever play PN-G and I couldn’t even feel my knee. I only wish the match would have turned out different.†Trahan’s determination can also only help the younger Lady Bear players who look up to this year’s senior group. “Our band director calls her ‘Super Stud,’†Castino said. “That is what she is. She was determined to be out there. That is her character. All our seniors are good, strong leaders. They are some good ones for the younger girls to follow.†Trahan and the Lady Bears, in a three-way tie for second in District 22-4A with Lumberton and Beaumont Ozen, will play host to Dayton tonight.

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South Houston has really Improved this year!

Predictions?

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UIL to begin steroid testing by month's end AUSTIN — University Interscholastic League officials said Sunday that the state's mandatory random steroids testing program should begin by the end of October. UIL officials have said that their goal was to have the new mandate implemented before the end of football season. The final regular-season games are scheduled for Nov. 9. UIL athletic director Charles Breithaupt said "three or four" companies are still being evaluated for the contract out of the 14 that submitted bids, which were due in late July. Contenders for the contract have said testing could begin within a week of being awarded the job. "Realistically, we're looking at the end of October," Breithaupt said in a story posted Sunday on the Austin American-Statesman Web site. Legislative budget planners have set aside $6 million for the program, which will apply to all sports. More than 23,000 public high school students out of an estimated 740,000 total are expected to be tested in the next two years for anabolic steroids under the new law, making the initiative the largest of its kind in the country. On Sunday, Breithaupt and UIL assistant athletic director Mark Cousins said at the semiannual UIL Medical Advisory Committee that the program will be "the largest steroid testing program in the world." Test subjects will come from a randomly selected pool of 30 percent of the state's 1,246 public high schools. The program calls for students at about 400 schools to be tested during the 2007-08 school year. "The way sports are going right now, it's a great idea," said Claude Mathis, coach of the LBJ High School football team. "For some of these kids, there's a lot of pressure to get a scholarship, to make it to the next level. Maybe they see (steroids) as a way of getting there." Students who refuse the test will be treated as a positive test, which is punished by a 30-day suspension on the first offense.

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Yea they won't do it in the Forum. They'll do it like a Radio show type deal.

I'll have to go back and make sure, but I'm fairly certain that the first positive test is a 30-day suspension, the second is a one year suspension and the third is "lifetime" suspension.

We'll broadcast this game here on the Site Friday Night followed by our scoreboard show.

Yea both teams lost RB's.

;D I was just fixing to ask that myself.

That's enough! Back on topic.

It's our game of the week!

Yup.

Texas' unprecedented random steroid testing will be begin about two weeks before the University Interscholastic League state football playoffs begin. UIL athletic director Charles Breithaupt said Sunday the state-mandated random steroid testing program for high school athletes in Texas will begin near the end of October.

The only way we could do this is like you see on Channel 6 on Sunday Nights. We have a show on here Wednesday Nights starting this week. A different coach could be on every week and questions would be asked like you see on Sports Xtra.

We have a show on the site here members listen to on Wednesday Nights we could have a coach on and ask him questions about the upcoming game.

We could have coaches on our weekly show on Wednesday Nights here on the site talking about their game coming up.

Torre job saved.