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Not gonna get my hopes IP but man lees defense is all over this option attack.  Lee offense can kinda just run around and outrun the Sterling defense.  Just hope Sterling doesn't get it figured out in the next 15 minutes.

Gilbert out for Lee with some sort of injury pretty early in the game.  Did not look too serious but he has not returned.  Lee would be up by 30 if.they had zellars able to play. Just hope they come out and give the same performance in the second half.

Sterling with another three and out. Leonce running all over Sterling. Lee down to the 5. another three yard Qb sneak to the two. First and goal. cedeno in for the td. 15-0. Missed kick again. Two minutes left in half.

WWhats going in in this one

Sterling fum-bles. Lee scores one play later. 9-0 missed pat

Wow Lee with a 38 yard fg. Surprised the hell out of me.

Three times now leonce had a first then jitter bugged his way out of it. Lee gets the 4th and one by Qb sneaking for five yards. At the Sterling 12

Lee with long pass and then a good run by cedeno. Leonce does not understand the nuances of option football. Between ceremony and zellars when he gets back Lee is going to have a stout running game.

Lee defense looks adequate but maybe Sterling is just not good.  Neither team doing much. End of first. 0-0. One first down for Lee maybe two for sterling

Lee picking upwhere they left off. Penalties and busted plays on first offensive series. Zellars not playing.  Leonce at Qb. Sterling ball after punt.

Grey numbers on white Jersey not the wisest decision

Zellars appears to be.dressed.out at least

Lee had a lot of talent fed to them from the junior highs as recently as five years ago.  The opening of GCM cut that off completely.  Lee used to get most of Baytown Junior and a good portion of Cedar Bayou, along with most of HM.  Sterling would get virtually all of Gentry and Highlands and a little of the other three mixed in.  Giving Sterling the Cedar Bayou kids should have been the turning point.  Sterling has kids on the squad now that should be able to get them to respectability.  We will see what they can do.

If that is true about the backup qb breaking his leg, Lee is in trouble. If Zellars were playing, I would feel comfortable in Lee scoring on Sterling, with Leonce, not quite as sure, with Willie at qb it's a crapshoot.  Willie can't throw, but he can certainly run the ball. If he is starting, then I would expect a whole lot of running the ball, which they should still be able to do with some degree of success, and then chucking it up to Gilbert every once in a while.

What's up with the participation at GCM? Do they have good numbers at the lower levels? It always seems like the new schools generally start out having some good numbers come out, with new neighborhoods, and more people into school activities, then it would dwindle down much later. I guess a lot of their students are drawn from McNair which is not the most involved community.

To answer the earlier question, yes I am going to go to the Lee game tonight. To answer the BH question, it must have happened within the past three years.  A Lee team from 5 years ago would have more talent than all three teams combined in Baytown now.  It's hard to believe.  None of the Baytown teams will ever be good again when they can only get 100 guys to come out in the entire program.

Where did all of the Humble talent go?

I saw the first half of the Lee-Sterling freshman game at Sterling.  Man I was really hoping someone would tell me that was the B team is all I can say. I know it wasn't though, because Lee actually had one guy on the team that will probably get moved up to varsity.  He(#2) is a really good rb/db type.  I can't imagine that they have too many guys more electric than him on varsity.  Lee had maybe 5 or 6 guys that looked like they belonged on an A team.  They only had maybe 28 total.  Sterling had a couple of big guys up front, but they were very, very shaky running the option. What appeared to be Lee's #1 qb did not play.  They wrapped his ankle, and he did not play at all.  Just looking at him, he was probably the second best guy on the team behind #2.  The quarterback that did play was adequate enough.  They had another running back(#33) that got hurt who was also pretty decent though undersized.  They had a third running back(#4) that was really fast and big and surprising that he was not on the first team offense in some form or fashion.  Lee was up 6-0 at the half when I left.  Should have been 18-0 at least if the Sterling science teachers/freshman officials had not taken away two touchdowns on holding calls that were immediately followed by interceptions.  Sterling fumbled and bumbled all over the place, got maybe a first down or two in the half. Neither Lee nor Sterling has much coming up the pipeline it appears. Where the heck are all of the guys in Baytown that know how to play football.  Lee, Sterling and GCM are all very thin in terms of roster and not very big across the board.

or FB Hightower. Crazy how many athletes are in that one 5 mile radius there. I bet they start building more neighborhoods down Lakes of Savannah way too, so Manvel will only get better,

Most of the athletic kids that go to Manvel live closer to Dawson I would imagine.

I got an update about 45 minutes in that neither team had scored. Can you give us some more details?

Clear Falls is a first year varsity team if I am not mistaken.  They look ok.  I think they got their kids from Clear Lake, so take that as you will.  If a full Clear Lake team was not very good, I can't imagine half of them going to Falls now are going to be very good.  They have some pretty decent athletes and some nice size up front on both sides of the ball.  #70 is a huge right tackle.  They have two big, squatty guys at DT.  They would run the ball like three times for 12 yards each, then Lee would somehow stop them.  Lee didn't get much going, but then had a couple of big plays and scored on offense. Lee first team won 2-0 if you count the sure pick six that Lee had that was whistled dead as the db took it in from about 25 yards out.  1-0 if you don't count that. Falls won about 6-2 if you count second team action which I don't  ;D Once Zellars gets back and Leonce gets out at receiver, I think Lee will make some pretty good stuff happen on offense.  They don't have any lineman really either way.  They don't have a lot at lb. They have a couple of receivers and a couple of db's to go with Zellars and the big running back.  They can probably hang with most teams in the district, but they should get pummeled by Dawson.

Gibson just doesn't learn does he

Well Lee is hanging with them so they are probably not very good. Falls fumbled after moving a little then didn't do much. Lee didn't do much either. One big run and a pass. Zellars not playing so hard to tell what Lee has on offense.

Lee with a long run by leonce and then a td pass This RB for Lee loves contact.