AshlyHasBeen

I wonder if PN-G will change. Ever since they changed their all purple look they've had problems. The pants have never been right. Orginally in 2004 they were supposed to be bronco style with a short white stripe on purple but instead they came in with a thick straight stripe. Later in the year, the week of the LC-M game, the bronco style pants came in but they didn't fit right so they only wore them one game. The rest of the year they wore white pants at home and on the road even though they kept the straight stripe pants, that's what they wore last season. That same year they wore a ton of combos.

Purple with Purple Straight Stripe

White with White

Purple with White

White with Purple Short Stripe

Still that doesn't compare to West Orange-Stark, it seems like they've kept every jersey and pant style from every year. From week 0 to the playoffs it's like they have different uniforms every week. My favorite is the Silver Pants / White jersey with blue shoulder stripes, man being an Indian thats hard to say. ::a

Wouldn't it be weird for them to have Owl wings when they're called the Hawks. I think Eagle wings would look closer. Still I think they should just keep the HJ, you immediatly know who's helmet it is when you see it.

I guess we'll find out August 7th.

Local Teams

Texas Thunder, Beaumont Blast Gold, Beaumont Blast Pink, Beaumont Blast Red, Beaumont Blast, Beaumont Rowdie, Gulf Coast Breakers, Orange Crush, Texas Storm (Cody Trahan)

Monday Results (Pool Play)

Lindale Heat 5 Thunder 4

Blast Pink 2 So Cal Select (Los Angeles) 2

Blast Pink 16 Texas Starz Black (Houston) 0

California Stars (Visalia) 2 Rowdie 1

Lousiana Bayou Blast 6 Blast 0

Blast Gold 9 California Rage 2

Denham Springs Stingers 4 Crush 0

Rowdie 8 Texas Elite (Liberty) 2

Blast 6 Texas Nightmare 3

Blast Gold 7 Texas Select 0

Oklahoma Firebirds (Tulsa) 8 Breakers 0

Minnesota Twisters (Monticello) 2 Blast Red 0

Strom 4 Blue Crush 0

Tuesday (Pool Play)

Thunder 10 Texas Blitz (Texas City) 4

Texas Steelers (San Antonio) 1 Blast Pink 0

Texas Avengers (College Station) 2 Orange Crush 1

Rowdie 7 Texas Lethal Weapon (LaPorte) 4

TCB (Houston) 8 Blast 0

Blast Gold 9 Texas Tigers (Seguin) 0

Blast Red 4 Huffman Cobras 3

Storm 4 California Strike Force (Arcadia) 1

Blast Red 4 Texas Heat 3

Houston Wave 2 Crush 1

Storm 8 South Texas Cobras (Corpus Christi) 0

Texas Aces 6 Breakers 0

Texas Jets 6 Breakers 0

So HJ is dropping their red helmets for white? They've worn red since the 80's.

Vidor still has the TB logo, but now it's black on a gold helmet. I liked it better when it was a gold flag on a black shell. So did Lumberton change their helmet color?

Pool A

Mississippi-D'Iberville 2-1

Oklahoma-Northeast Oklahoma(Ottawa County) 0-2

East Texas-GROVES NATIONAL 2-1

West Texas-Lubbock Western 1-1

Pool B

Arkansas-Mountain Home 2-1

Colorado-Academy (Colorado Springs) 0-2

Louisiana-South Lake Charles 2-0

New Mexico-Shorthorn(Carlsbad) 1-2

Day 1 (Saturday, August 5)

Game 1-Groves National 6 Lubbock Western 2

Game 2-Mountain Home, AR 5 Academy, CO 3

Game 3-D'Iberville, MS 10 Ottawa Co., OK 0

Game 4-So. Lake Charles 11 Shorthorn, NM 1

Day 2 (Sunday August 6)

Game 5-So. Lake Charles 12 Mountain Home, AR 4

Game 6-Groves National 11 Ottawa Co., OK 1

Day 3 (Monday August 7)

Game 7-Shorthorn, NM 6 Academy, CO 5

Game 8-Lubbock Western 18 D'Iberville, MS 5

Day 4 (Tuesday August 8 )

Game 10-Mountain Home, AR 5 Shorthorn, NM 4

Game 12-D'Iberville, MS 6Groves National 2

Game 9-So. Lake Charles vs Academy, CO, 5 pm

Game 11-Lubbock Western vs Ottawa Co., OK, 8 pm

Teams with one or no losses will advance to the single elimination championship bracket. Between two and six teams could meet in this criteria. Championship game will be Friday August 11th on ESPN.

Groves National knocked off Pearland tonight 2-0, they now advance to the Southwest Regional in Waco. Winner of that advances to Williamsport for the Little League World Series.

Amelia bounces back beating Edna 13-6, play tonight against Washington County in championship round. If they win they have one more game tomorrow night.

Last years Newton state championship game in Tyler. It was nasty cold. When leaving KLTV downtown my photog almost killed himself on a patch of ice he thought was a water puddle. It took me an hour to warm up after that one.

It''s not far fetched, things like that really happen, scouts or "friends of the programs" are everywhere, they might not analyze the tape but word gets out through these highlights sometimes it's just a name that sticks in someones head, no I'm not talking about USC or Notre Dame but 1AA schools sometimes. Also we've haven't shown any local high school games live in at least 20 years. Maybe a 1 minute hit during the Blitz tops and we've never sold any game. Another thing it's not free for us to cover anything, they must pay salaries, overtime for photogs, gas(which could kill us this year) and equipment. Cameras break all the time, they're not cheap to fix. I understand what your saying, but there really is not a large profit in doing these shows, they are there for the kids, family and fans to enjoy. Also all local stations sponser various events that help collect school supplies and try to give back to the community whenever they. Good Subject Though :thumbsup

I really don't try to think about the business aspect, but I know that sometimes our shows might help get kids some attention from scouts. As far as money goes, a lot of the profit is spread out thought the entire television family, McKinnon Broadcasting has stations in Corpus Christi and San Diego besides Beaumont. The main thing for people to realize is that like most businesses the actual workers don't have much say in things like this. But I can tell you this it makes me feel good to hand over that Star Athlete certificate and see the smiles on the kids face then get calls from parents thanking me for covering their child.

Last night the Amelia softball team lost a heartbreaker to Washington County of Brenham 3-2 at the state tournament game in Seguin. Tonight they face Edna in an elimination game.

Last night the West End boys were eliminated in the State Tournament, falling 2-1 to the Harvey All-Stars of Bryan.

Last night the Groves National 11/12 All-Stars advanced to the East Texas State Title game by downing New Braunfels 3-2 in 7 innings. They're the only undefeated team remaining. If they win tomorrow night they advance toe the Little League Southwest Regional held in Waco.

At Channel 12 we also have our 12 Star Athlete of the Week.

About to head out, the latest I had tonight was Groves National and New Braunfels tied at 2 in extras.

Orange eliminates Vidor 5-1

Where are those fields located at?

That's great, just one thing, would everyone stop calling them Groves Nationals it's Groves National as in National League. Groves has two leagues, Groves National which plays Little League rules and Groves American which plays PONY rules. Sorry to snap a little but I've read that in local papers and websites for the last month, even though I was an American Leaguer growing up it drives me crazy.

I still like it overall, but the changes did bother me a lot. I know people think I'm weird but I think the equipment and uniforms were too modern for the 80's, field turf wasn't invented yet, you could tell every game was shot at Ratliff with the scoreboard just covered up a couple of things, even though Abilene Cooper didn't make the playoffs one of the teams I think it was Nimitz wore their uniforms, the bracket was unrealistic, they called Galena Park North Shore North Shore Galena, and the last time I checked it takes a lot longer than 6 hours to get from Odessa to Houston. But other than that it was great :ROFL

What were the final scores in both games?

He hasn't added Lumberton yet, but he has the pics.

Actually West Hardin added an "O" logo on their helmet last year. I've sent pictures to the site so it will be updated. Also WO-Stark fans your helmet has been added. Updates might be a little slow for a while, the guy is busy moving.

I remember the old Nederland unis, they were horrible (and I'm not saying that because I graduated from PN-G ) They were black and yellow. The helmets were black with a yellow old english N B decal. Reminded me of the Steelers.