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LP had two fumbles. Lee had one turnover. Lee and LP are evenly matched teams. LP probably got a bit too excited whipping teams that anyone with a pulse should whip in Elsik and GCM. Lee had 400 yards of offense and dominated the second half from the 10 minute mark of the third quarter to the 2 minutes left in the game mark I don't think LP had one first down. Lee just ran out of steam with most of their guys going both ways. Had the ball deep in LPs territory tie ballgame late and just couldn't punch it in then LP comes back with a 90 yard drive to win it. There is no need to rationalize for LP. They beat a good team in Lee Lee certainly had just as easy a time with Clear Brook as Deer Park did last night and I know DP beat the fool out of LP.

Laporte wins 27-20. Lee had their chances. Two evenly matched teams. Likely needs to beat BH or PAM now to make playoffs.

I always see North Shore whipping up on everyone and I go to their Hudl expecting 10-12 big time recruits and they really don't usually have it like that. Maybe two or three highly recruited guys and a team full of UTSA and Lamar University guys. Last year's state championship defensive MVP for them is at Grand View, an NAIA college in Iowa. I feel like they are more like Katy except with just a few notches better athletes across the board. Well coached, execute the game plan, confident in their abilities.

I am a Baytown Lee fan through and through. I did live for six years about five minutes from Ridge Point, so I have some interest in them as well. i dont know what I have against Crosby. I will need to be really introspective and figure that out perhaps. I don't think I was being too unreasonable yesterday though. I think Lee has better coaching and Crosby has way better size and athletes. That is my assessment still. I think Lee could have won the game with a near perfect effort. Had Crosby played near perfect they could have probably won by 50. I just happen to think that there is a higher likelihood of Lee playing at close to their best than Crosby due to the coaching. I will keep thinking of why I don't like Crosby and see what I come up with.

Sorry but these teams were fairly evenly matched. Lee threw an INT that turned the momentum as well and got an easy TD for Crosby. Failed fourth and one. Rouging the punter to give Crosby the ball again when down two scores in the fourth. Vrosby punt rolling down to the 1 from what was about a 30 yard punt turning into a 55 yard punt. Lots of opportunities missed both ways. Crosby is obviously bigger and faster and looks like a formidable 5A team while Lee looks like a 3A team. Lee's coaching and execution keeps them in it though.

Game over. Crosby wins by 20. If they played 10 times this is about what I would expect the average score to be. Crosby is about 20 points better than Lee. Lee needed to play perfect and the missed 4th and 1 conversion in the 2nd and the roughing the punter in the 4th quarter were back breakers. Good game Ganders.

Little home cooking here these last 8 minutes. Three personal fouls against the Ganders. All very suspect. Would t have thought they would needed to bring out the chef for little old Baytown Lee.

34-21 about 9 minutes left.

34-14 Crosby early in 4th. Maybe 11 minutes to go.

27-14 sorry. Now moving to the 4th.

They are not keeping up with time remaining very well. Has to be late in the 3rd. Still 27-15. Crosby ball in their own 14. Just said 1:11 left in 3rd. .

Lee has no business being in this game. They have a much better coach that has been able to keep things close. We will see how it goes in the second half. I expect Crosby to come out and be a lot fresher and impose their will.

Crosby only has three plays. Luckily they work a bit due to their athleticism. Throw right laterally, throw left laterally and chuck it up for grabs down field. Lee has completely shut down any running game. One of the chucks went for a TD after the defender missed the sure INT. Lee is one missed 4th down conversion on 4th and short deep in Crosby's territory away from being up at the half.

20-14 Crosby at half.

20-14 now early 2nd quarter.

Crosby 20-7 towards end of 1st quarter. Crosby is big and has good athletes for this level but not very well coached.

Crosby 13-0 early.

Can we get back to focusing on Lee extending their winning streak against Crosby this week.

It will be interesting to see what Lee does at QB. They played QB2 about half the time to let QB1 slide out to receiver where he did some pretty good damage against Clear Brook. QB2 looked ok, but made a few ill advised passes that would probably be pick sixes against Crosby. Clear Brook broke some long runs right up the gut. If they had 250 yards offense, they probably got 200 of it on four runs up the middle. I have a feeling that this will be like the PAM game for Lee last year. They will be in the right places at the right times but just not athletic enough to make the plays and a barrage of long Touchdowns will occur. Will it be streamed somewhere?

Demographics continue to shift and teams that were once powerhouses become also rans. Happened to Willowridge, The Aldine schools, the Alief schools, will happen eventually to the Klein and Spring schools. Probably Katy as well. People will just keep edging out further into the burbs. Fulshear and Iowa Colony will be the powerhouses in 5 years.

These aren't Kalief Muhammad's Alief Elsik teams. They went 1-9 last year and got outscored by 300 points. They lost to FB Austin in week one. Austin was 0-10 last year. I think playing Elsik these days is not much different than playing one of the weaker HISD schools.

BH by 35

38-23 Ganders final

Lee is up 13-7 in 2nd quarter.