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Vidor/Lee wasn't even what you could call a scrimmage. More like a glorified practice for the most part. Lots of 7 on 7 action and inside running drills. For some reason, they played on a field that Lee practices on that is adjacent to the stadium. Freshmen played in the stadium the same time that the JV was out in the field. then, when those two were done, varsity played on the field outside the stadium. Made no sense really. They said something about the fact that it was a practice and not a scrimmage, but cmon, that doesn't mean you have to use the field that you normally practice on lol Anyway...after all the drills, they finally got to some goal line(from the 7 yard line) and then some punts and kicks and finally about 9 or 10 real plays of 11 on 11. Those were split up between first and second team, so first team O and D for each team got about 5 simulated plays. You could still get a good gauge of the two teams from the action. It looked as I suspected. About like one would figure a 4A vs 5A matchup would look. Lee scored 5 or 6 times from the 7 out of about 10-12 plays and once on a punt return. Vidor only gained positive yards once out of about 12 plays from the 7 yard line, but they didn't score on that one either. Lee's first team got 3 first downs out of 6 plays they ran in the simulated part, but didn't score. Vidor got 1 or 2 yards total out of their first 8 plays, then broke a couple of good runs on two plays right near the end. Gooch didn't play for Vidor. Vidor has two really good defensive tackles I thought. They were big ol boys. They also have a good center(I'm sure he's one of the defensive tackles as well, but they didnt have numbers) Lee will have a much better gauge of what they're going to do this year next week against Galveston Ball.

Man, if we get beat by Vidor then we're in for a world of hurt again this year. I just can't see Vidor beating Lee. I'll say 35-14 Lee. Lee always starts slow though, so you never know. Still have a very young team overall.

Vince Young is far and away the best high school player I have seen at any position. I was at that 61-58 game too. Had you traded the quarterbacks, and given Vince to North Shore and given Willie Gaston(a good high school qb in his own right) to Madison. North Shore would have won 80-10 had they wanted. You could have stuck Vince on Houston Reagan or Vidor or Houston Smiley and they would have been a threat to win a state championship. I don't think some people appreciate how horrible that Madison defense was. Courtney Lewis was good on offense as were a couple of their receivers, but it was typical HISD team other than that. They had poor fundamentals and despite having a little bit of talent, they would not have been above .500 had they not had Vince. Put him at the helm and they are a few plays from the state championship. Other than him, Drew Tate, Ell Roberson, Odell James, Ced Cormier, James Brown, Chip Ambres. PAJ had a guy that i liked. I can't remember his name. He was there when Lendon Henry was there. His name might have been West. I always thought hewas a productive qb for high school. Beasley of course is great. I seriously said when I saw him that if he were 3 inches taller, he would be one of the top ranked qb recruits. His passing was pretty good if you ask me. He of course had excellent quickness. I'd put him right there with Drew Tate tied for second place. But both are light years behind Vince Young.

David Boston, from Humble High School, single handed eliminated Lee back in 1995. They went on to the state semi-finals that year. He made a spectacular diving grab in the corner of the end zone and played some stellar safety too. I believe the final was Humble 10 Baytown Lee 7. funny part of it was, my friend had been making fun of David Boston the year before when he was a junior. He was back returning punts against North Shore in the first round of the playoffs. I hadn't heard of Boston at the time, and I must admit he wasn't the most obvious looking guy to be returning punts. He was so tall and thin. But we sure knew about him the next year. Also, Jamaal Charles against Lamar in the playoffs. Luckily, this game was in Baytown and the stadium is about 1/2 mile from my house. I went ahead and went to the game. Jamaal was a one man wrecking crew. PAM really didn't have any other plays. Every play they called that was not a run by Jamaal, you could tell it was just to buy time til Jamaal could catch his breath a little bit to tear off another 12 yard run. He must have had 50 carries and well over 300 yards. Lamar won unfortunately in about the 5th overtime.

Prepxtra was great to me, til they put their team previews on premium content lol. Guess I'll just have to fork over the 10 bucks for one month access once all the teams have been previewed to view them all. Were you at the 7 on 7? Or were you just getting updates from someone? Lee is very good in 7 on 7, because they don't have to change much from their regular season offense. I'm a homer, but I think we will be much improved this year in the fall as well. We had 4 soph offensive line starters last year and that killed us.

Hey, thanks for throwing in this score for us Baytown fans. This is patrickallen from the other site. Nice site yall got here, will definitely have to bookmark it. Shame Lee couldn't bring it home this year from Southeast TX