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Deaver lost in the finals 6-4 6-4. He was down 5-0 in the second and battled back to 5-4. The kid he was playing cramped in the final game and had a long medical timeout at 40-30. After the timeout he won the next point and the match. If Matthew could have won a few more points then he might have had the kid right where he wanted him. I was getting text updates from his dad throughout the match. Sounded like a gutsy comeback.

Deaver won 6-3 6-4 this morning in the semis and will play the finals this afternoon!

Deaver had a bye this morning and then won 6-0 6-1. He is in the semis tomorrow morning.

garsnare is correct. Matthew is ranked around 90 in Texas in SuperChamp 18's. I think he will win regionals and state this year in 3A. I hit with him today and he is hitting a lot better in my opinion than he was last year at this time. Great kid. I hope he finally gets that elusive state championship. He has been very close the last two years.

bottom 2nd...

Lamar 9 SHSU 1

Good Gracious! Who started for SHSU? Must have been TexasTerror! ;D

Talked to Jorge earlier. Grant won 6-4 6-4.

For every 100k worth of house you have if you live in Nederland, the bond will cost you $490 in taxes. I think it will be a hard sell.

Why did Josh Wright get DQed?

Why did Josh Wright get DQ'ed?

And they won the day before that on the road at Southern Miss.

5-1 nederland

There is just one team. I am captaining it. We are going to have a one day league(on a Saturday) where the 4.0's who want to play up for practice play us in some matches to get us qualified for sectionals. There will be three teams total, but just one true 4.5 team.

It's gonna be a very competitive league. The top 3 teams are Shanks, Wesbrooks, and Cobb. I think the winner will be either Shanks or Wesbrooks. Shanks team seems to have the edge in doubles, but Wesbrooks has some good singles players that do not appear on the roster yet(Guillory and Jones) and a solid doubles player(Joel Barton) who has not yet signed up. Shanks team has Vahid Morris(very good 4.0 doubles) who also does not appear on the roster yet and is in my opinion the best 4.0 in the area when he is on his game. Should be a great league. I give the edge overall to Shanks team if they can muster up a singles win here and there. They will have 3 very good 4.0 doubles lines.

Agreed. The top HS singles players and doubles teams would not fare well in adult leagues at 4.0 or higher(other than Deaver). Lain Herr, Sagar Desai, and Grant Lopez(all are good HS players) would do okay in 4.0 sometimes I think, but would probably win less than 50% of the time(especially in doubles). Deaver would dominate in 4.0 and can definitely hold his own in 4.5.

Top 4.0's in the area would include in no particular order: Vahid Morris, Kelly Shanks, Matt Minnick, Tim Brewer, Jon Price, Craig Fox, Jon Williams, Joel Barton, Ron Wesbrooks, Chad Guillory, Damon Jones etc.. There are way too many to list and I am sure I left a lot of good ones out. I would say out of that list that Morris and Shanks are the closest to making it to 4.5, but that is a big jump. In terms of talent, I think that Minnick and Price will someday be 4.5's if they keep playing and keep improving.

You are definitely right, sportsfan. I play 4.5 and play with Matthew a couple times a week. He fits in 4.5, but I don't know any other high schoolers around here that could compete in 4.5. Most could not even hang in 4.0. The top of the 4.0 division locally has some good players and the league for 4.0's this year is bigger than ever(6 teams).

Upset Special!!!  UTSA will win this one by 4 and once again prove why the SLC should get rid of this tournament!

Congrats on those 9 appearances in the Southland Tourney! :  Oh, and also congrats on winning the thing 1 time in those 9 tries! That is a great success rate!  Lamar is 1 for 6 with their tries which still isn't good. So, I guess if success is measured by making the SLC then you guys are in a league of your own.

SHSU flops AGAIN in the SLC tourney?  :  Who woulda thunk it?? The reality is, this conference needs to reward the REGULAR SEASON champ the AUTOMATIC bid and do away with this stupid tourney. That way, the conference would consistently be represented by the team that had the best SEASON in conference, not the one that gets hot for a few games. There is not a huge difference from top to bottom in the SLC, but it seems like having the best record should get you more than a 1,2, or 3 seed in a tourney for a shot to get smoked in the NCAA as a 15 or 16.

Unless I missed something, LU is in with a win OR a SELA loss.

I hope we leave Miles at the point and put Kenny at shooting guard. I like the way the offense is running with Miles at the point and I think Kenny gives us the shooter we have definitely been missing! I am hoping LU wins this game, gets into the tourney, and somehow avoids a first round clash vs. SFA. If those things happen, I think LU could make some noise in the tourney. Let's face it, there is and always has been parity in the SLC. There is not a lot of difference in talent between the 1 and 8 seeds.

Fighting your way into the 8th and final spot....wow.

One better than not making it at all...

Mcneese is out.

Texas st is in.

SELA an LU fighting for last spot. LU hold tie breaker.

I think LU can still be a 7th seed with an LU win and Texas st loss.

Would that pit us against Sam Houston? I sure hope so! We match up well with them and their struggles in the conference tourney through the years are well documented!  ;D

Coach is a good friend of mine. I am mainly going by what he was telling me a few weeks ago. He believes top 3 teams are LU/SHSU/UTA in no particular order. UTSA could be in the mix. 

The Lions won't be nearly as good this year as last. They graduated quite a bit. At this point, I would say the winner of the UT-A/LU match will have the best shot. LU is not as strong as last season, but they are improving. Injuries have taken a toll and they are really up a creek if they have any more injuries. A walkon has been playing #7(the match does not count in final score) and lost 6-0 6-0 to SFA and 6-0 6-0 to SHSU.

I was at this match and will vouch that y'alls #1 girl is good. She probably is tops in the SLC. But, LU has a red-shirt that spanked her 6-2 6-2 a couple years ago. She is out for the season and received a medical redshirt. She will be a junior next season and should dominate over the next couple of years. Also, I expected SHSU to win the doubles point. That is definitely not LU's strength this season. It was a good match. It ended up being 5-2, but easily could have been 4-3 either way. By the way, LU beat SFA 7-0 today.