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Lee up 7-0 11:56 left in half

Lee drawing up plays in the dirt here.

Wish we had these Rayburn offensive linemen

Zellars not playing yet. Could be an early night for me.

Hard to say which crowd looks more pathetic out here

Anyone know if this is going to be on regular radio I can get with my headset?

Is Zellars going to play this Friday? I have heard he was cleared to play, but I can't verify. I don't know if I want to drive down there to watch them play Sam Rayburn if Zellars isn't playing.  Not really able to see what they truly have until he gets back in there.

Did the cutoff for 5A used to be much lower or has WOS lost that many students?  If so, why the exodus?

I saw two sacks in the first half.  Were there six in the second half? I saw a lot of good stops in the backfield on running plays.

Just watched the youtube clip of the Crosby-Nederland game.  Pretty good defense by Nederland, but I was expecting the second coming of a late 90's LaMarque defense the way it has been talked up. It's not a suffocating defense by any means. GCM should have their chances.

It is Dorian, but it was still similar enough to make me think of it.

What? No "Picture of Darion Gray" jokes yet? I guess I am the only librarian here.

Who would want t come to baytown to coach. There was an opportunity here when olin got here. I just donts see any opportunity at lee or sterling. Gcm maybe if they keep building subdivisions out that way.

I don't think a high school coach is going to just completely change his offense.  If you hire this guy, you have to know that he is going to run the offense that he runs.  If you hire Olin, you have to know he is going to throw the ball all over the place. I think a lot of it, for all of the Baytown teams, is they just don't take football that seriously.  Sterling kids are still young though.  All of those running backs and the qb are back next year right? Give them some time.  Hard to do much when all of your key players are 10th graders.

Acosta is probably the best player on the offense as of now in relation to taking car of his responsibilities and doing his job.  he had the backside linebacker draped on his back every time he would keep the ball.  not much he could do.  once lee tired out and put the second team in acosta had more time to get going after the fake and he did well. The problem is that sterlings offense takes an extreme amount of precision.  every lineman back receiver and qb has to do the job every play or it could blow up.  at clear lake they had much better linemen that gave oswald time to make the decisions and execute the offense.  lees offense takes very little precision.  just spread out and try to outrun and juke the defenders to the best of your ability. Acosta and the backs could lead a very potent offense, just need a little bit of blocking.

Next week as far as I know on Zellars.

I watched the first half of the freshman game. Neither team had much, but lee was more talented.  they scored three times in the first half,two called back on suspect penalties followed immediately by interceptions. What appeared to be lees best player, a qb, did not play after getting his ankle wrapped before the game.  just by looking at him he was probably their best player.  i left at the half. Sterling had so e nice size up front, but again just couldnt get anything going in the first half.  they couldnt decide who to leave at qb either.  they had a big fb that switched and played qb some. Again neither team had much but as a lee fan i cerainly would not want to switch freshman teams with sterling.

I don't think Lee has [i]that[/i] much better players(without Zellars) than Sterling if at all.  Not sure how Lee moved the ball to be perfectly honest.  Just ran it up the middle then scrambled around to the outside occasionally. 

Finally made it home. Very encouraged by what I saw from Lee. Cedeno has all-district type potential at running back.  Very powerful runner.  Didn't really break out much tonight, but he is difficult to bring down and punishes defenders. Zellars should be back next week.  With him at qb and Cedeno at rb, they will have a nice running attack.  Move Leonce out to slot receiver where he would be more useful.  Throw in Jobe and Gomez, both tall and rangy receivers on the outside and Lee should be able to move the ball against most opponents unless their offensive line is just an absolute sieve against the more athletic teams. The Lee defense was very surprising.  They have Gilbert and Willie at safeties, both really good.  The corners are  both above average as well.  Kion Richardson was causing havoc in the backfield all night for the Rangers.  He would tackle both the fullback and the quarterback for good measure on multiple occasions.  He would also track down Acosta from behind if the play went away from him.  Once Richardson left the game for whatever reason in the 3rd quarter, the Rangers just started stuffing it down Lee's throat right towards the spot that he vacated. The kicker is pretty good relative to what Lee has had in the past.  Overall, I am very excited to see what Lee can do with a full assortment of healthy players.  Garza is also out.  Not sure when he is due back though.  I also think they should bring up #2 from the freshman team.  They could have used him out there tonight. I think Sterling will be ok.  Not sure what is wrong with their option attack.  Seemed like they have all the players in there to make it work.  They just don't really get any sort of push with that line at all.  They also never threw the ball at all.  I would have thought they would throw it maybe once a quarter just to keep Lee honest.  #11 is a really good runner.  The fullback is ok once he gets going.  #7 looked pretty good.  The plays just never really had a chance.  Seemed like the Lee linebackers were having a meeting in the backfield on about every third play throughout the first half.  I think they were guessing on the snap count a lot and just barreling through there. Yeah that was a horrible call to try to ice the kicker.  Also a bad call by Lee to throw it in the endzone on the 3rd and 10 if they wanted to go for a fg anyways.  Should have run it and tried to get five yards and give themselves a more makeable fg attempt.  It turned out ok, but I didn't think there was any way Lee would win once Sterling tied it. 

Lee lucky to win this one

Lee is going to need to get in better shape or get better Gatorade. Just too paper thin out there. 22-15 now.  Lee trying to hold on for dear life. 7:44 left

Td Sterling Lee dropping like flies out here. Just get this one in the books and try to rest up already

Lee churning up the yards but then a fumbled snap. Sterling ball Lee 40

OK that makes sense then. It seemed a little random. Lee stops Sterling three and out. Sterling messes up the snap on punt.  Lee takes the ball in for a td after a few plays on offense. Leonce hurt a little. Willie came in and he got hurt too.

Worst halftime show ever by the Sterling stars here.