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Baseball All-Star teams announced THSBCA All-Star teams announced 2007 4A-5A South All-Stars PITCHERS: Ryan Duke - CC. Calallen, Joaquin Hinojosa - McAllen, Matt Rein - Langham Creek, Chris Anagnostrou - La Porte CATCHERS: Logan Moro - Katy Taylor, Jake Rowell - Little Cypress Mauriceville FIRST BASE: Chase Hernandez - Deer Park, Greg Herbst - Helotes O'Connor SECOND BASE: Jose Mendoza - C.C. Moody, Cesar Guerrero - Mission Sharyland SHORTSTOP: Kevin Ahrens - Houston memorial, Carter Jurica - Katy THIRD BASE: Michael Dickson - Austin Westlake, Trey Hernandez - Robstown OUTFIELDERS: Brooks Raley - Uvalde, Dallas Figol - N.B. Canyon, Chase Dempsay - Baytown Sterling, Mark Hudson - Victoria Memorial AT LARGE: Michael Rocha - Buda Hays, Colby Townley - Barbers Hills COACHES STEVE RIPPEE - KERVILLE TIVY MELVIN CERNEY - KATY TAYLOR 2007 4A-5A North All-Stars PITCHERS: Chase Reid - Southlake Carroll, Chad Bettis - Lubbock Monterey, Stayton Thomas - Corsicana, Trent Appleby - McKinney North CATCHERS: Johnny Aldaz - El Paso Socorro, Jimmie Pharr - Flower Mound FIRST BASE: Jonathan Kaskow - Coppell, Dan Evatt - Grapevine SECOND BASE: Marcellous Biggins - FW Southwest, Matt Nilo - Aledo SHORTSTOP: Blake Kelso - Pflugerville, Rick Hague - Klein Collins THIRD BASE: Preston Springer - Denton, Tim Schneider - The Woodlands OUTFIELDERS: Nick Fleece - FW Boswell, Clay West - Wolfforth Frenship, Cody Gambill - Allen, Casey Johnson - Mesquite AT LARGE: Chase Wier - Nacogdoches, Trey Johnson - Tyler Lee COACHES MIKE TOVAR - DALLAS HILLCREST LARRY HUGHES - SOUTHLAKE CARROLL 2007 1A-3A South All-Stars PITCHERS: Jason Garcia - Falfurrias, Paul Demney - East Bernard, Dallas Gallant - Trinity, Nick Harrison - Troup CATCHERS: Chris Joshlin - Rogers, Hunter Fugate - Pollock Central FIRST BASE: Tyler Tynes - Waco Connally, Wade Mathis - Wharton SECOND BASE: Johnny Jackson - Price Carlisle, Rory Hollen - Harleton SHORTSTOP: Braeden Riley - Woodville, Ricky Beaty - Wimberly THIRD BASE: Kevin Garcia - Ben Bolt Palito Blanco, Errol Jones - Weimar OUTFIELDERS: Rocky Calhoun - Silsbee, Johnny Dishon - Bridge City, Jonathan Baker - Carthage, Kalen Revia - Kelly Kuhl AT LARGE: Jarod Hall - Normangee, Nathan Neiser - La Grange Tucker Muckleroy-Buna COACHES ROBERT WISNOSKI - ANDERSON SHIRO CRAIG COHELEY - ROGERS DOUG KUHL - TAYLOR 2007 1A-3A North All-Stars PITCHERS: Brandon Workman - Bowie, Chase Adams - Mineola, Jacob Bidelman - Celina, Kade Thompson - Burkburnett CATCHERS: Brendan Moser - Holliday, Colby Welsh - Peaster FIRST BASE: Garrett Brown - Jim Ned, Justin Bullard - Crawford SECOND BASE: Charlie Finch - Lubbock Cooper, Casey Barbee - Celeste SHORTSTOP: William Middlebrooks - Liberty Eylau, Logan Bawcon - Greenwood THIRD BASE: Ricky Wilson - Pottsboro, Case Roundtree - Wolfe City OUTFIELDERS: Auston Anders - Prosper, Josh Wilson - Canton, Wes Dipprey - Shallowater, Ky McNett - Blanco AT LARGE: Colt Molloy - Memphis, Justin Hastings - Hamlin COACHES PAT MAXWELL - ARCHER CITY CHAD MASSEY - BROCK TERRY BAXTER - LUBBOCK COOPER

Varsity Basketball coach Lin Ellis is leaving Warren to coach in Pasedena.

Tarp is on field so we're good to go..

Yea i agree! Little disappointed myself. Had to give them Congrats though.

CONGRATS STINGS!

Me either.

See thread below.

[move]Congrats Lamar on a great season[/move]

4PM start...www.kjas.com

8) 8) LU ties it. 5-5 in the 9th.

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CONGRATS!

[move]WOODVILLE WINS GAME 1 10-0..GAME 2 SATURDAY IN LUFKIN FOLLOWING THE BC/CARTHAGE GAME/GAMES.[/move]

Go get em!

Astros' performance disappoints McLane Owner indicates jobs of Garner, GM Purpura are safe PHOENIX — Astros owner Drayton McLane is disappointed at his team's performance this season, but he's not quite ready to make any significant moves in the clubhouse or with the manager or general manager. McLane essentially gave general manager Tim Purpura and manager Phil Garner votes of confidence Thursday evening, saying it was a loaded question when asked if he had reached a point where he needed to evaluate his manager or GM. "You have to work through what the problem is," McLane said via phone Thursday before the Astros opened a four-game series at Chase Field against the Arizona Diamondbacks. "Firing a bunch of people is not the solution. We need to get people playing. That comes through leadership from the general manager and the manager." Purpura fired the Astros' hitting coach, Gary Gaetti, at last year's All-Star break and the pitching coach, Jim Hickey, at the end of the season. Even though left fielder Carlos Lee has been worth the $100 million free-agent contract he got last winter, the offense has continued to struggle. The Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals were the only National League clubs with lower team batting averages than the Astros heading into Thursday. Moreover, the Astros were 12th in runs, 13th in hitting, 11th in total bases, 10th in home runs and 10th in RBIs among the league's 16 teams. The pitching staff has actually been good, considering Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are gone and Jason Jennings has been on the disabled list most of the season. Pitching coach Dave Wallace has aided the development of rookie Chris Sampson and Wandy Rodriguez, who have stepped up and helped ace Roy Oswalt lead the rotation while veteran Woody Williams tries to get back on track and Jennings works his injured right elbow back into shape. "We're all disappointed," McLane said. "We thought we'd have a better team. We thought we'd have a better offense." Which leads to the question: How many hitting coaches can you fire before you evaluate the person who makes the lineup and the person who gives the manager the players to put in that lineup? Responding to questions fans sent into chron.com, McLane tried to address the essence of the majority of the fans' concerns while acknowledging it would be pretty difficult to take the time to answer the 21 pages of questions he received via e-mail from the Chronicle. As far as firing anybody? "That hasn't been a consideration with me or Tim or anybody in our organization," McLane said. "Our whole motivation is to work with our leadership group — Tim, Phil and his whole coaching staff — to see what can be done." McLane admitted he and his management team had hoped Adam Everett, Jason Lane, Luke Scott and Morgan Ensberg would rebound and be better offensively this year. The owner also defended his club's decision to send young righthander Jason Hirsh, starting center fielder Willy Taveras and righthander Taylor Buchholz to Colorado for Jennings, who hopes to come off the disabled list and start Tuesday. Jennings, whom McLane liked even more because they were both Baylor Bears, dealt with elbow tenderness for most of the second half of last season with the Rockies. After refusing to budge on the $12 million offer they made to Pettitte, who sought $14 million from the Astros, the Astros tried to acquire the Chicago White Sox's Jon Garland in December. Once that deal fell through at the final stages, the Astros focused their attention toward Jennings. Ironically, a concern over Pettitte's surgically repaired left elbow was a reason the Astros were more interested in Jennings. Jennings, who made his second rehab start on Tuesday at Class AAA Round Rock, rejoined the Astros on Thursday and is optimistic about starting next Tuesday. "It's feeling pretty good," Jennings said of his elbow. Pitching hasn't been the Astros' problem, though. "I'm disappointed we haven't played better," McLane said. "We've just got to get the team to play more consistently, and hitting is the No. 1 issue." At this point, it doesn't appear McLane will add to the Astros' payroll. "We have a big budget," he said. "We have a $96 million budget. Have you seen any trades in the last few weeks? Generally, this is way too early for teams to make significant trades. You have to face reality on how baseball works." Fortunately for the Astros, they are in one of the weakest divisions in baseball. The Milwaukee Brewers, who entered Thursday night with a 6 1/2 -game lead over the second-place Astros and Chicago Cubs, are the only team in the NL Central with a winning record. The division is just bad enough that the Astros might look good once they play more teams in the division. "We've got to get the team to play better," McLane said. "The general manager and manager will look better when the team plays better."

1-0 UTSA in the 3rd.

If necessary game 3 will be at Lufkin Central at 1 Saturday.

Hornets fall to Bulldogs in 10 innings Hudson down 1-0 in regional semifinals, series resumes in Jasper today By Gary Stallard The Lufkin Daily News Thursday, May 24, 2007 In a game that needed 10 full innings — and several strange plays — to decide, the Hudson Hornets for once found themselves on the losing end of a late-inning comeback. A post-season of oddities and wild rallies continued for the boys in maroon, this time with the Hornets falling to Jasper 3-1 in Class 3A Region III semifinal action Thursday at Garrison Field in Lufkin. The Bulldogs' Malcolm Bronson drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th; and a throwing error on the play allowed the third run to score, dropping Hudson into a 1-0 hole in the best-of-three series. Jasper pitcher Travis Reagan tossed a complete-game beauty, striking gout 12 Hornets and scattering just four hits over 10 innings. His counterpart, Hudson's Nick Rhodes, also went the distance, allowing eight hits but keeping the Bulldogs off home plate by picking off three Bulldog runners and starting an inning-ending 1-6-3 double play. By no means were the three pick-offs the only weird plays. In the fifth, Hudson loaded the bases on a leadoff single from Aaron Jarvis, a fielder's choice from Bobby Byrd and a walk from Wayne Ramsey. Daniel Musick then lined a single to left to score Jarvis, but a base-paths mix-up led to the Hornets' second out instead of leaving the bases full. The inning ended with runners stranded at second and third. Then, with the game tied at 1-1 in the seventh, Jasper appeared to take a 2-1 lead on a long double with two aboard by Bulldog hitter Ryan Ellis. But John Bradley was called out for missing the third base bag on the play, leaving the score tied. Meanwhile, both pitchers continued to roll, sending the game into the extra three frames. In the top of the tenth, Robert Shellhammer reached on a fielder's choice and moved to third on Taylor Hart's double to right center. On that play, Hornet rightfielder Jeremy Pounds made a great throw back to the infield to prevent a run. But Bronson, after attempting a bunt, lifted a long foul ball down the left-field line. Jeremy Murphy made a good over-the-shoulder catch, but was unable to get the ball to the infield in time to prevent Shellhammer from scoring. An attempt to nail Hart at third sailed into left field, and the Bulldogs left Lufkin leading the series 1-0. "We had our chances," Hudson coach Glen Kimble said afterward. "But like I tell our guys, nobody in baseball hits every single game. We have to regroup and get ready to hit the ball tomorrow. "We've been in this position before, so we're not worried. We just have to go to Jasper and even this thing up." Game time in Jasper is 4 p.m. The third game of the series, if necessary, would be played on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. in Central.

kogt

You starting?

LU vs. UTSA coming up..

Wonder where that UMP was from!!!!!!!!!!