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RSS falls short in opening loss to Dobie From sports staff reports Baytown Sun Published January 11, 2008 The Baytown Sun It was a tale of two halves for the Sterling boys’ soccer team but in the end it was a win for Dobie. Trailing 2-0 entering the second half, the Rangers closed to within one on a Mike Pittman goal but came up short in their bid to get any closer in a 2-1 loss in the Pearland Tournament. “Overall it was pretty good,†Sterling head coach Jim Richter said. “They scored one goal on a pretty good shot, I have to give them that. The second goal came on a deflection. In the second half we were a much different team. We scored a goal but we just couldn’t tie the game.†Richter was able to get all players in the game including a mass substitution of nine in the second half. Playing well for the Rangers were goaltenders Corey Fox and Adrian Gonzales as well as Misel Velasquez on defense. Sterling will attempt to even its record at 1-1 on the season when it takes on Texas City at 3:30 p.m. The Woodlands 5, Lee 0 “What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger,†Lee head coach Cris Dippel said following the Ganders 5-0 loss to The Woodlands Thursday afternoon. “We just got outplayed but it was good for us.†The Highlanders scored two goals in the first half and added three more in the second half to drop Lee in the season opener for both teams at The Woodlands Tournament. “I started moving things around and started moving people around,†Dippel said. “We learned a lesson. Their field was as wide as it is long and we weren’t used to that. When we would bunch to the inside, they would go out and when we played the outside they would attack the middle. When we got back to Sultis Stadium, we put our shoes back on and worked on the things that we had learned.†Lee will return to action at 11 a.m. today when it faces Round Rock. “I’m glad we went to this tournament,†Dippel said. “WE play Round Rock and I hope they are every bit as good as The Woodlands. That is the only way we are going to get better.â€

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Clemens to talk to coaches, but not about conditioning The nearly 3,000 high school baseball coaches meeting in Waco, Texas, will still get their chance to listen to seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens Saturday, but the topic of his talk that was listed in promotional material and drew criticism across the nation has changed. Before George Mitchell's investigation reported that trainer Brian McNamee injected Clemens with performance enhancing drugs, the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association's website listed Clemens as the last speaker at the convention. His 45-minute speech? His legendary workouts and his longevity. Clemens' denials since the release of the Mitchell report didn't end the scrutiny the THSBCA faced about the appropriateness of Clemens discussing these topics with a group of coaches entrusted with guiding and shaping thousands of young players. Now, Clemens will talk about "teaching and coaching," according to THSBCA president-elect David Sitton. "I was the one who came up with the original title for Roger. Now, he's going to do a broader definition than conditioning. If he gets questions and gets into his workouts, that's up to him." Clemens is still on the roster, THSBCA president Jim Long said, because "In Texas, a man's word means something. All the other officers, all six of them, said the same thing." FIND MORE STORIES IN: Roger Clemens | Clemens | Mitchell | High | Jim Long Long watched Monday's news conference, Clemens' first public one since the Mitchell report. "After his press conference, which I wish everyone would watch the entire thing, there's no way we could conceivably say he couldn't come," said Long. "It's he said, he said." Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, replied in an e-mail Wednesday, "From day one, the coaches have given Roger the benefit of the doubt, which is all Roger has asked of anyone." Long, a high school baseball coach for 25 years, says he would not extend that same courtesy to everyone in the sport, especially not people posing as trainers. "You want to trust them, but today I don't know if I would trust any trainer in the world to give me anything," said Long. "If they ever wanted to inject me with anything, I'd say, 'No, I'm going to a doctor or a nurse,' especially if I'm making as much as these guys are making. I'd have too much to lose." Brenham High, where Long coaches, has athletic trainers on staff who also teach classes. They have college degrees in athletic training and are prohibited from giving any medicine or injecting prescription drugs. "Meds have to come from a doctor," said Long, adding he only encourages players take vitamin C. He hears about temptations to cheat. Long's players have gone onto college baseball and to the minor leagues. "I've got two athletes in the minor leagues right now," he said. "We talk about things. They say they know some guys who are doing something they shouldn't do. They tell me, 'I don't mess with this. I've got too much to lose.' " And so does a high school player from Texas if he's caught doping. Testing at the high school level is relatively new. Wednesday, University Interscholastic League officials in Austin announced they hope to conduct two rounds of testing before the end of the year. The Texas Legislature in May mandated tests. The push for high school testing comes as a December survey, Monitoring the Future, shows a 2.8% increase in the proportion of 12th-grade males who see "great risk in trying anabolic steroids" compared to the past four-year interval. The authors of the study surveyed 48,025 students in 403 secondary schools, including 15,132 12th-graders. The risks and rewards are well established in the BALCO era: Steroid regimens combined with tough workouts help a pitcher throw a faster ball and a slugger hit a longer ball. Clemens is not the only speaker who won't be focusing on the benefits of workouts at the THSBCA convention. No longer on this weekend's agenda is a speech by Dana Cavalea, full-time strength and conditioning coach for the New York Yankees. "He had a conflict," said Long. "We're going to have another high school coach talk about middle-infield play."

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UTA falls as well.

What a night!

Good Gosh!

Tough schedules pay off!!!

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I got that to. I got to listen to some of it.

As wosmustangs said, the more new Schools are buildt and the population grows this will continue.

Thanks Mom

LU by 16

As i expected!

UIL approves steroid testing rules, penalties AUSTIN — Texas' new steroid testing program for public high school athletes moved closer to getting started with the approval Thursday of testing rules, penalties and the appeals process. Officials also said a vendor to conduct the tests should be announced within the next few days. The University Interscholastic League, the state's governing body of public high school sports charged with running the program, hopes to conduct tests at least twice by the end of the school year. The Legislature mandated the tests in May, and with the goal of testing about 20,000 students annually it will be the nation's largest high school steroid testing program. The program rules must still be approved by the Texas Education Agency. Jeff Kloster, TEA associate commissioner, said the agency is expected to endorse the plan as early as next week. Patti Ohlendorf, vice president of legal affairs at the University of Texas, which helped develop the program, said a company has been selected to collect and test urine samples. A formal announcement will come after the $6 million contract is finalized. Ohlendorf wouldn't name the company but said it "has a lot of experience and will do a great job." Fourteen companies submitted bids in July to run the testing program. Among them is the National Center for Drug Free Sport, which conducts testing for the NCAA, New Jersey and Florida. Frank Uryasz, president of the National Center for Drug Free Sport, declined comment when asked if his company was chosen. Another bidder was Houston-based Pinnacle Medical Management Corp., which already conducts drug testing for about 5,000 Texas students a month under separate programs. President and CEO Harvey Graves said his group has not been contacted about its bid for the UIL program. Graves expects the contract to go to the National Center for Drug Free Sport. The rules approved Thursday "are taken directly from that group," Graves said. "It would seem very unlikely they were picking us and they were not contacting us." State lawmakers wanted testing to begin in time for the football season, but the program took much longer to develop than expected, said UIL athletic director Charles Breithaupt. "We were a little naive thinking we could begin back in September," Breithaupt said. Uryasz and officials at several drug testing companies had previously said testing could begin almost as soon as a contract is awarded. Ohlendorf and Mark Cousins, UIL athletic coordinator, said officials hope to conduct at least two rounds of testing before the end of May. The program is designed to randomly test students around the state. The rules adopted Thursday require the testing company to randomly select schools, which will then supply a list of student-athletes participating in all sports. The testing company will randomly select athletes who will be pulled out of class to provide a urine sample. A positive test will result in a 30-day suspension from sports. To return to play, the athlete must pass another drug test. A second positive test brings a one-year ban and a third results in a permanent suspension from play. The tests will not look for recreational drugs. UIL Executive Director Bill Farney noted that several hundred Texas schools already test for recreational and performance-enhancing drugs. Those tests will remain separate from the UIL program. Uryasz, of the National Center for Drug Free Sport, said there is no solid data on how many high school athletes are taking steroids, but anecdotal evidence suggests it may be a wider problem than many want to admit. The testing program can act as a deterrent, he said, and casting a net as wide as Texas plans is sure to catch someone, he said. "If I tested 23,000 people and didn't find anything? Let's be real," Uryasz said.

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> Let's all get along.

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Orangefield's Little exploding in senior season Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader ORANGEFIELD — Explosive. Dynamic. All-around player. Those are just a few words Orangefield Coach Chris Jost used to describe Lady Bobcat senior Kaylin Little. Little has been one exciting player to watch this season as the No. 16 Lady Bobcats have stormed out of the blocks in District 21-3A play with a perfect 6-0 mark heading into tonight’s showdown with the No. 17 Hardin-Jefferson Lady Hawks. Little is having fun this year, taking in all the luxuries a player waits to take in when their senior season rolls around. “This year has been really good so far,†Little said. “We are 6-0 and all I have really wanted is to make the playoffs one more time. Our press this year has been the main reason for our success. We have a great defense and it really has helped out this year.†Little is averaging nearly 25 points a contest this year and it is not just her scoring Jost has been impressed with. “She is really a special player,†Jost said. “She has such a quick first step and when she gets hot it is pretty much bam, bam, bam. Kay-K is just so explosive. When she is not scoring, she is doing a ton of other things for this team. She is a great defender. The changes we put in on defense this year, she is a huge reason why it has worked so well.†The Lady Bobcats’ march in the district loop started off with a bang when they downed Silsbee on the road in what Little called “an amazing game.†Orangefield has since taken care of business by beating the teams they were expected to beat to set up tonight’s game against Hardin-Jefferson, who comes in 5-1 after a loss to Silsbee. “Hardin-Jefferson is going to be a really good game,†Little said. “We are capable of pulling it out. We are going to have to keep playing good defense and just come out and play our game.†Little has been far alone this season and she has certainly been pleased with several of her teammates play. Laura Riddick, Olivia Wagner, Jessica Weldon, Allie Beach, Shelby Poole, Aimee Scales and Marissa Wyatt have all contributed this year and Little has been right there to soak in the victories. “It certainly has taken a lot of pressure of me,†Little said. “They have all stepped up this season. This is a fun group to be on a team with. We all get along so well.†Little and Riddick are the team’s two seniors and the two have taken to the leadership role for Jost. “We are also best friends so that makes it very easy,†Little said. “The team really responds to what me and her do or say. What we do is what they do so we try to be good leaders for them. I have been over excited to be a senior this year.†Now Little and the Lady Bobcats hope to turn the fun into a few more wins and possibly a district championship.

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4 Teams it is!!