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[size=18pt][b]Gulley, Upchurch, Donahoe Earn All-Region Honors[/b][/size] Posted by jarnold 03/9/11 1:31pm Highland Community College sophomore [b]Jarmar Gulley (Beaumont, Tex.) headed a trio of Scotties honored as All-Region VI Division II selections. Gulley received the most votes in the Region selection. [/b] Gulley and freshman De’Andre Upchurch (Flint, Mich.) were both selected to the All-Region VI D-II First Team. Gulley was honored as a First Team selection as a freshman. [b]Sophomore Ryan Donahoe (Sour Lake, Tex.) was honored as an All-Region D-II Honorable Mention for the second straight year. [/b] [b]Gulley led the Scotties with 23.1 points per game and scored a school-record 1,331 total career points. [/b]Upchurch scored a freshman-record 696 points this season, averaging 21.8 points per game. [b]Donahoe has led the Scottie offense for two years, amassing 339 assists or a 5.3 average.[/b]

[i]If you want to see locals Donahoe and Gulley playing in March:[/i] With the win, the Scotties are headed to the National Tournament for the first time in school history. Highland will play Kirkwood Community College (Iowa) on Tuesday, March 15 at 1 p.m. [b]All of the tournament games can be watched live online at www.dacc.edu/njcaa/. [/b]

[size=18pt][b]Gulley, Upchurch Honored as All-Jayhawk Eastern Conference[/b][/size] Posted by jarnold 03/7/11 9:36pm Highland Community College men’s basketball players Jarmar Gulley and De’Andre Upchurch were both chosen as All-Jayhawk Eastern Conference selections for the 2010-11 season. [b]Gulley, a sophomore, was chosen as an All-Jayhawk East First Team selection for the second straight year. He led the Scotties with 709 nine points or 22.9 points per game average. His 1,278 career points are the most all-time in Scottie basketball history. Gulley came to Highland from Beaumont, Texas where he was a stand-out player at Beaumont Central High School. [/b] Upchurch, a freshman, was chosen as an All-Jayhawk East Second Team selection in his first season in a Scottie uniform. He is second on the team with 650 points or 21.7 points per game average. He led both the Jayhawk East and West with 110 three-point attempts made this season. Upchurch hails from Flint, Michigan where he prepped at Flint Northwestern High School. The HCC men’s basketball team is having a historic season going 21-12 and winning their first ever NJCAA Region VI Championship and NJCAA District 2 Championship. The Scotties advance to the NJCAA National Championships in Danville, IL on March 15-19.

But they're HJ's Washington Generals!

I have a sincere suggestion for Cleveland: get rid of those warm-up outfits.

[size=18pt][b]MEN'S BASKETBALL HEADED TO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP[/b][/size] Posted by jarnold 03/3/11 8:58pm The Highland Community College men's basketball team followed up their first ever Regional Championship by defeating Clarendon College 112-81 to win the NJCAA District 2 Championship. The Scotties will travel to the NJCAA National Championships in Danville, IL on March 15-19. Complete story to come soon!!!

[b]SCOTTIE MEN WIN REGION 6 CHAMPIONSHIP!!!![/b] Posted by jarnold 03/3/11 8:58pm The Highland Community College men's basketball team defeated Johnson County 91-85 Thursday night to win their first ever NJCAA Region VI title. The Scotties will host Clarendon College (TX) on Sunday with the winner advancing to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament. Game tips at 3:00 PM. Get to Ben Allen Field House on Sunday to support the Scotties!!!

[b]Gulley Named Player of the Week[/b] Posted by jarnold 02/24/11 3:37pm Highland Community College sophomore Jarmar Gulley (Beaumont, Tex.) has been named the Jayhawk Conference men’s basketball Player of the Week. Gulley averaged 26 points per game in two Scottie wins last week. He scored 27 points and had eight steals in the Scotties overtime win over Johnson County. Against Labette County, Gulley scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the Highland victory. [b]It is the second Player of the Week honor for Gulley this year.[/b]

Thanks for the kind words, Poppa.  Still hurting a bit for those seniors.  They came so awfully close to making another trip to Austin. They do have a lot to be grateful for, though. One of the most gratifying things about the HJ program is to see what fine men the former players are turning into.  I'm not talking about my sons here (they're doing well, thanks again), but the eight or nine former players I ran into at Baytown Lee and Huntsville.  They look so mature now.  The only one who didn't go to college is running his own business, doing well with it, putting his wife through college, and planning on going to college himself one day.  Everyone else is graduating college on time.  Three kids I spoke to are going into teaching, and hoping to coach basketball(!).  We've got a couple of chemical engineers, a petroleum engineer.  My older one says he wants to do molecular biology research his whole life; my younger one is double-majoring in mechanical engineering and math.  All these young men benefited immeasurably from the time they spent with coaches Sutherland, Davis, and Lee.

Lazeek and Pappabear: thanks for the broadcasts this year.  Keep 'em going forever, please.  I'm already looking forward to next year. We just got home from Huntsville feeling sad, yes, but gratified for another great season of HJ hoops. Congrats and best of luck to Mexia.  Not many teams withstand our comeback surges in the playoffs.  Great job.  Seemed like a bunch of really good kids, too. HJ Seniors: thanks for the memories, and so many nights of driving home happy.  Work as hard in your future endeavors as you worked for your coaches.  The sky's the limit for you guys. Coaches: you guys know how I feel about y'all.  Many, many thanks.  Best of luck next year.  We'll see y'all at the games.

I'm pleased for Nederland's players, coaches, fans.  Coach English has done a great job there creating a program.  Hard work being rewarded!  Hope HJ gets to cheer for Nederland and Evadale in Austin!

Did Shawn change the spelling of his name?  I've always thought he spelled it Shawn.  However you spell it, he's my #1 in SETX.

My first thought: [b]Robert Harmon[/b] came off the bench and played a great game.  Now that's Senior leadership!  Great job!  Sadion Vallery, those free throws were important!  Chase Villasan, Cade Carr, Korey Colbert all contributed.  I'm probably missing some kids-- sorry-- Good job, bench! I thought Coach managed substitutions incredibly well, maybe the best job he's ever done-- and he certainly knows how to use time-outs! Shawn Prudhomme looked like a man among boys.  Gus had his usual incredible floor game.  Grayson and Bosha with the threes, of course.  Joe, all banged up, got called for a foul when a player elbowed Joe across the chin.  Joe just smiled.  Nice. HJ basketball, and this time of year...  Ain't much better.

Weds night, Baytown Lee College-- excellent!-- what time?

Let's hope the HJ-Cleveland game will be at Baytown Lee College.  Looks like an equilateral triangle on the map.  Nice facility.

[b][size=18pt]Gulley Named Player of the Week[/size][/b] Posted by jarnold 02/24/11 3:37pm Highland Community College sophomore Jarmar Gulley (Beaumont, Tex.) has been named the Jayhawk Conference men’s basketball Player of the Week. Gulley averaged 26 points per game in two Scottie wins last week. He scored 27 points and had eight steals in the Scotties overtime win over Johnson County. Against Labette County, Gulley scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the Highland victory. It is the second Player of the Week honor for Gulley this year.

Wow, what a game.  We jumped up on 'em early, then Joe Persohn went out with a broken finger (no foul called) and we went kind of flat.  Joe missed most of the 2nd Q, got back just in time to get an and-one putback where he got his face opened up-- except, again, no foul was called-- that put us up by one point at the half.  Co-MVP of the game goes to Coach Klinger, who kept patching Joe up!  Without Joe, I was worried that 6'8" Stafford kid would eat us alive on the boards.  Thanks for being so tough, Joe.  That's True Blue right there.  [Joe, leave those steri-strips in place until after the Cleveland game.  You might wanna just prophylactically wear bandaids over both eyes until after Austin...] MVP Player: Prudhomme.  Shawn put on a dunk-fest much, much better than the NBA did last week.  Seriously.  Hit his free throws, too.  Gus ran the show flawlessly.  Gus was clearly fouled on his final driving layup during regulation-- but, once again, no call.  Grayson and Bosha hit some important shots.  Everyone hustled enough to beat Stafford and the refs.  Great job, Hawks!

Dear Seniors:  Thanks for the memories, and best wishes for many more!

Our locals have been snowed under up there in northeast Kansas: Road Trips Not Favorable For Scottie Men Posted by cmosher 02/14/11 11:05am The Highland Community College men’s basketball team found life on the road in the Jayhawk East tough going this past week, dropping two conference games. On Wednesday, the Scotties fell to Kansas City Kansas by the final of 91-72. On Saturday, Highland couldn’t hold their lead and lost in the final two minutes to Coffeyville by the score of 100-95. At KCKCC, the Scotties looked to avenge the earlier overtime loss to the Blue Devils. In the first half, Highland took an early lead, but the talented KCK team was too much to hold back and the Blue Devils took a 45-38 halftime lead. In the second half, the game remained tight until five minutes to play when KCK took over and finished off the Scotties. [b]Sophomore Jarmar Gulley (Beaumont, TX) led the Scotties with 22 points.[/b] Freshman De’Andre Upchurch (Flint, MI) was the only other Highland player in double figures with 19 points. “This was the first time all season that we let another team get away from us,” said head coach Jerre Cole. “I think we have de-conditioned some. We seemed to hit a wall and couldn’t recover from it. We had better get ourselves prepared for Coffeyville or expect the same conclusion.” On Saturday, the Scotties seemed to be reborn as they raced out to a 21-point halftime lead over the Coffeyville Red Ravens. In the second half, the Red Ravens full court pressure and long range shooting allowed them to quickly chip away at the lead. The Scotties had a run with seven minutes to play, but they simply could not stop Coffeyville and lost the lead with a minute to play. [b]Gulley led the way with 44 points and 16 rebounds.[/b] Upchurch had 24 points while [b]sophomore Ryan Donahoe (Channelview, TX.) had 10 assists and nine points. [/b] “This was a devastating loss. To blow such a large lead on the road at a place like Coffeyville is hard to take,” said Cole. “We keep talking about earning a signature win and getting this trend of playing well but not finishing games behind us. Unfortunately, we will have to wait for another opportunity. On a positive note, we played our best basketball of the season in the first half. We proved we can still do it if we want to.” The Scotties next host Johnson County on Wednesday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m.

[quote name="LAZEEK" post="963356" timestamp="1297225255"] Anxious to hear how many assists for the TEAM tonight.........played as much as a TEAM tonight as they have all year!!!!! [/quote] Great to hear!  It's time to pull together.

Listened on KOGT, and it sounded like we didn't exactly kick butt today.  Missing the front end of three straight one-and-ones late was not clutch.  But we'll take the W, thank goodness.

After a couple of wasted (well, not completely wasted: he was working for UPS at one point), knee-rehabbing years, Donahoe's been a great PG for the Highland Scotties in the Jayhawk Juco Conference these last two seasons.  I asked Sammy Mitchell (Donahoe's younger brother, 9th grade Hawk PG) and the HJ Coaches about his future basketball plans.  They tell me he has D1 offers, but is seriously considering going to a D2 school.  Apparently he would only have one year of scholarship eligibility left in a D1 program, but two more years of eligibility at a D2 program, and he intends to get his college degree. 

Jarvis is red-shirting this year, and working on his point guard skills.  He had some 30+ point games as a 2 last year, but his Coach wants him to succeed Donahoe at the PG position next year.  Those were some bold predictions I made about Jarvis two years ago-- thanks for digging those up-- and I am proud of how close he came, and will come, to making those predictions come true. Mats hang on, will play for state title BY ADAM ZUVANICH ON MARCH 12TH, 2009 20 COMMENTS PRINTER-FRIENDLY Share BY ADAM ZUVANICH AVALANCHE-JOURNAL AUSTIN — After 32 minutes of intense, back-and-forth basketball, Clarence Willard had had enough. Estacado's Jourdain Irvin shoots ahead of Sour Lake Hardin-Jefferson's Jarvis Benard during the Class 3A semifinals of the UIL Boys State Tournament on Thursday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. (Zach Long/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) So the Estacado sophomore took matters into his own hands and made sure the Matadors finished it once and for all. Willard, a 6-foot-1 guard who scored seven of his 13 points in the fourth quarter, kept his foot on the gas when Estacado’s Class 3A state semifinal against Sour Lake Hardin-Jefferson went into overtime. He started the extra period with a go-ahead putback, then got a steal and layup immediately thereafter, and the Matadors never trailed again in a thrilling 77-73 victory on Thursday at the Frank Erwin Center. “I was out there tired. I didn’t feel like playing no more,” said Willard, who also chipped in five rebounds and two blocked shots in 22 minutes off the bench. “So I just figured these last four minutes, I was going to play the hardest.” Willard provided the final push for the second-ranked Matadors (34-2) — who will play for their first state championship at 10 a.m. Saturday against No. 1 Dallas Madison (32-4) — but they had several other heroes in a game that kept 8,414 fans riveted until the final buzzer. Fellow sophomore Kevin Wagner, the son of Estacado head coach Tony Wagner, shined the brightest. The 5-8 point guard poured in 27 points, most coming on pull-up jumpers in the lane after he beat the Hawks off the dribble, and also tallied three steals, two blocks and a game-high five assists. Estacado's Jamar Johnson shoots over Sour Lake Hardin-Jefferson's Trey Burrell during the Class 3A semifinals of the UIL Boys State Tournament on Thursday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. (Zach Long/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) Kevin Wagner made his last three field-goal attempts in the fourth quarter to help force overtime, then sank four of his nine free throws during the final 40 seconds to help Estacado hold on. “He was just unbelievable and phenomenal,” said Hardin-Jefferson coach Todd Sutherland, whose team won the state title two years ago. “To be honest, he’s what did us in.” The Matadors appeared to be done in when the No. 11 Hawks (37-7) built a 36-26 lead early in the third quarter — the team’s largest deficit all season according to Tony Wagner — but Jamal Stewart single-handedly put them back in the game. The 6-3 senior forward scored eight of his nine points during the span of a minute, sparking a 16-2 run that turned the deficit into a four-point Estacado lead. Stewart also drew three charging fouls, the last of which came when he had four fouls and the Hawks were leading by one early in the fourth quarter. Stewart, who eventually fouled out, also grabbed five offensive rebounds and had two steals in only 12 minutes of action. “Juice was just being Juice,” said Tony Wagner, referring to Stewart by his nickname. “How many teenagers do you know with four fouls will attempt to take a charge, knowing it could be a block or a charge, just so the other team wouldn’t get the go-ahead basket? That says a lot about the kid’s character and how much he wanted to win.” Estacado’s leading scorer, Jamar Johnson, despite a 2-of-17 performance from the field, finished with 11 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Another senior, guard Duran Minjarez, drained a pair of 3-pointers in the second half. The Matadors also had a 46-31 advantage in rebounding — turning 25 offensive rebounds into 24 points — and forced 28 turnovers that led to 27 points. [b]It all helped Estacado overcome a sparkling performance by Hardin-Jefferson senior Jarvis Benard, who went off for a game-high 31 points and hit a go-ahead 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter. Benard, a 5-9 guard, also scored the game-tying bucket late in regulation immediately after Willard put the Matadors on top. “I thought I was going to have to get out there and guard him at one point,” Tony Wagner joked. “He was scoring at a rapid pace, and I felt like we were being cheated. It seemed like there was two people out there, so I put two people on him. “He’s by far the best player that we’ve seen this year. He could shoot it, he could put the ball on the floor, he had great body control. He did everything extremely well.”[/b] But Benard’s effort and that of fellow senior Trey Burrell, who added 18 points and a team-high seven rebounds, wasn’t enough for the Hawks. “I dreamed of the game going to overtime, which it did, but my dream had us coming out on top,” Sutherland said. “It just didn’t happen today.” A dream has almost been realized for Estacado, which lost in the state semifinals as a Class 4A team in 2004. The Matadors are trying to become only the third Lubbock ISD school to win a basketball state championship, and the first since Dunbar won the last of its five Prairie View Interscholastic League titles in 1965. Lubbock High delivered the city’s first championship as a Class 2A program in 1951. “It’s great,” Kevin Wagner said of the opportunity in front of him and his teammates. “I’m speechless.”

Everyone be safe driving.  See y'all Tuesday!

Please no more fouls.  It's over.