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[font=Courier]Humble Christian Life's Javarez Willis set a Texas state record on Tuesday night hitting 18 3s in the 125-65 win over Lone Star College. Willis will play at Texas Tech in the fall. He had 56 points in the win. -courtesy of RCS[/font]

[font=Courier][u][b]Year[/b][/u] [b]Straight Up:[/b] 158-32 (.831) [b]Spread:[/b] 120-70 (.631) [size=12pt][b][u]Fri, Jan. 29[/u][/b][/size] [size=12pt][b][i]22-5A[/i][/b][/size] [b]North Shore 78[/b], @ West Brook 66 NS (4-1) WB (16-8, 3-2) PICK: NS (-7) [b]No. 19 PA Memorial 76[/b], @ Baytown Lee 49 PAM (20-3, 5-0) BL (0-5) PICK: PAM (-22) [b]@ Channelview 74[/b], Sterling 57 CV (2-3), BS (1-4) [size=12pt][b][i]20-4A[/i][/b][/size] [b]Ozen 70[/b], @ Livingston 58 O (15-8, 8-1) L (11-15, 5-4) PICK: Ozen (-8) [b]Central 60[/b], @ LC-M 48 C (10-14, 6-3) L (16-13, 4-5) PICK: [color=red]LC-M (-3)[/color] [b]Lumberton 49[/b], @ Vidor 46 - OT L (11-19, 1-8) V (14-17, 1-8) - Williamson down with ankle injury, hope for speedy recovery. PICK: [color=red]Vidor (-2)[/color] [b]@ Nederland 69[/b], PN-G 63 - 2OT P (16-9, 4-5) N (14-13, 7-2) PICK: Ned (-5) [size=12pt][b][i]19-4A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ CE King 47[/b], Barbers Hill 39 CEK (8-1) BH (19-9, 4-5) PICK: CEK [color=red](-10)[/color] [b]@ Kingwood Park 47[/b], Crosby 46 KP (8-1) C (10-17, 2-7) PICK: KP [color=red](-7)[/color] [b]@ GC Memorial 65[/b], Dayton 36 D (5-16, 1-8) GCM (4-5) PICK: GCM (-5) [b]@ Galena Park 68[/b], North Forest 52 NF (1-8), GP (8-1) [size=12pt][b][i]18-3A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Lufkin Hudson 58[/b], Jasper 47 J (12-12, 5-4) LH (8-1) PICK: LH [color=red](-14)[/color] [b]@ Carthage 59[/b], Pollock Central 35 Carth (3-6), PC (0-9) [b]@ Center 67[/b], Diboll 45 C (9-0), D (2-7) [b]@ Rusk 45[/b], Huntington 43 H (4-5), R (5-4) [size=12pt][b][i]21-3A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Bridge City 64[/b], Hamshire-Fannett 40 BC (12-15, 2-3), HF (6-18, 0-5) PICK: BC (-15) [b]@ No. 6 Silsbee 50[/b], No. 4 Hardin-Jefferson 41 HJ (27-3, 4-1): Jacoby Turner 16, Grayson Sutherland/Will Anderson 5 S (22-2, 5-0): DC Stallworth 16, Prentice Lane 14, Kendrick Jones 10pts, 22rebs PICK: Sils (-4) [b] @ WO-S 59[/b], Orangefield 40 O (14-14, 1-4) W (17-8, 3-2) PICK: WO-S (-5) [size=12pt][i][b]22-2A[/b][/i][/size] [b]@ Kirbyville 59[/b], Hemphill 36 H (1-4) K (11-6, 3-2) PICK: Kirby (-17) [b]@ Newton 55[/b], San Augustine 50 - WOW N (5-13, 3-2) S (3-2) PICK: [color=red]SA (-14)[/color] [b]Woodville 62[/b], @ Shelbyville 26 W (17-6, 5-0) S (0-5) PICK: Wood (-22) [size=12pt][i][b]23-2A[/b][/i][/size] [b]East Chambers 60[/b], @ Anahuac 55 - WOW EC (15-12, 6-2) A (11-13, 5-2) PICK: [color=red]Ana (-7)[/color] [b]Deweyville 64[/b], @ Warren 43 D (11-12, 3-5) W (5-16, 0-8) PICK: Dew (-10) [b]@ No. 4 Kountze 102[/b], Hardin 39 K (26-2, 8-0) H (11-12, 3-5) PICK: Ktz (-46) [b]@ Tarkington 81[/b], Buna 64 B (9-9) [size=12pt][i][b]23-A[/b][/i][/size] [b]@ Lovelady 68[/b], Big Sandy 49 L (4-1) BS (12-13, 1-4) PICK: Love (-6) [b]Grapeland[/b] def. Latexo - NO SCORE REPORTED G (5-0), L (1-4) [size=12pt][i][b]25-A[/b][/i][/size] [b]@ No. 24 Spurger 63[/b], Evadale 39 S (19-4, 5-0) E (15-8, 4-1) PICK: Spur (-5) [b]@ West Hardin 56[/b], High Island 39 WH (7-9, 2-4) HI (4-11, 1-5) PICK: WH (-2) [b]Sabine Pass 69[/b], @ Hull-Daisetta 44 SP (10-8, 3-2) HD (4-12, 1-4) PICK: SP (-13) [b][i][size=12pt]TAPPS[/size][/i][/b] [b]@ Kelly 56[/b], Houston Christian 38 HC (1-4) K (8-15, 2-3): secure playoff spot PICK: Kelly (-6) [b]No. 7 St. Thomas 65[/b], St. Pius X 48 STH (5-0): district champs SPX (2-3): secured playoff spot [b]Legacy Christian 58[/b], @ Bay Area Christian 46 LC (9-19, 9-0): District champs PICK: BAC (-2) [b]@ Orange Community Christian 74[/b], Banff 46 OCC (19-4, 11-1) [b][u][size=12pt]Thurs, Jan. 28[/size][/u][/b] [b][i][size=12pt]TAPPS[/size][/i][/b] [b]Orange Community Christian 45[/b], @ Texas Christian 28 OCC (18-4, 10-1) [/font]

Judge Yates on more than point total by Richard Justice, Chron.com He grew up in the Third Ward, a few miles from Yates High School. Basketball opened doors. “It got me an education,” Greg Wise said. “I couldn't afford college without basketball. After college, I wanted to stay involved. Coaching was a natural progression.” He loves his job as the boys basketball coach at Yates High School in a way we'd all like to love our jobs. He loves winning, loves practice, loves it all. But he also loves the part that has nothing to do with basketball. “I feel like I'm as good as anybody in terms of preparing them for life,” he said. He and his brother Billy were raised by a single mom who taught school and emphasized school work, responsibility and discipline. “The first thing I want for our kids is to be able to go to college, if not on a basketball scholarship, on an academic ride, or we'll find whatever avenue we can to get them in,” he said. He ticks off the three players — Darius Gardner, Joseph Young and Brandon Peters — that already have scholarships and goes through three or four more — Elton Roy, Alex Davis, etc. — he believes will land them. “I want them to go there prepared for the things they have to do to graduate,” he said. “They're not going to quit. They understand the things they have to do. My guys realize that hard work is an avenue to succeed.” He played at Houston Baptist when the Rockets used it as a practice facility and has vivid memories of Calvin Murphy and Robert Reid, Moses Malone and Rudy Tomjanovich. “Work ethic,” he said. “Those guys had amazing talent, but what I remember is how hard they worked.” Other NBA teams practiced there, too. “It's funny the things you remember,” he said. “I can still see John Havlicek running in place while the coach was talking. He had so much energy he couldn't stand still.” And Julius Erving. “When you see the best players in the world work as hard as those guys worked, it stays with you,” he said. “It teaches you what it's supposed to be about.” That's why his practices are so fast, so intense. That's why he pushes his teams to smother opponents on both ends of the floor. When they're playing well — and they're 55-1 the last two seasons — they're a thing of beauty. “Let me tell you what I do two of three times a week,” Yates principal Ronald Mumphery said. “For my relaxation, I go watch them practice. The best way to watch is get in the corner and look. You get to see what he's doing. He's coaching lanes. He's teaching kids where to be. And that's where they are.” Wise smiles upon hearing this. “It took two years for us to get to moving on our press the way we need to,” he said. “Right now, our guys don't have think when we're fastbreaking. We just know what to do.” Maybe you heard Yates beat Lee 170-35 a few weeks ago. Maybe you've heard some unkind things about Greg Wise and his program. Maybe you've heard Wise lacks class, that while he may be teaching his kids basketball, he's not teaching them much about sportsmanship. ‘Could have scored 250' At Yates, they're furious at how they've been portrayed around the country. They feel like people have focused on one score without understanding the circumstances. He used 15 players in the first quarter of the 170-point game, but early in the second half, there was a hard foul, and words were exchanged. Referees ordered all the bench players into the stands and told the two coaches to finish the game with the players they had on the floor. “Believe me, we could have scored 250 points that night,” he said. “We didn't run up the score.” His boss is steadfast in his defense of his coach. “We didn't run up the score,” Mumphery said. “We've gotten hate mail from all over the United States. I got one this morning indicting me because he works for me. I've heard that our kids are degenerates, that our coach is a moron. “He's a man of character, and that's something you can see him passing onto the young men. He expects his kids to follow the rules and be good students. Four of those kids have over 3.0 averages. But no one is talking about that.” Yes, but 170 points is unusual. “This is an unusual team,” he said. Wise said he has done a lot of thinking about 170-35, and if he had it to do all over again, he might do things differently. Considering Yates beat Austin 147-57 on Tuesday, he wouldn't do things that much differently. “That game cast the kids in a negative light, and they've done two years of great things,” he said. “To have them presented that way bothers me. They're about hard work and winning. People that watch us love the way we play, love the way we behave. From my standpoint, all of Houston should be behind them.” Still … “I feel like in hindsight there may have been things we could have done,” he said. “But they were fouling hard, and our kids are not going to back down.” That's as close to an apol-ogy as you're going to get. Team's behavior lauded Winning by 170-35 has distorted what Wise sees as the real story of basketball at Yates. “After we flew to Hawaii, I got a letter from a teacher on the plane,” Wise said. “She said we were the best behaved group of young men she'd ever been around. We heard from the Continental flight grew. They said our kids were great. One of the Nike executives said he was proud of the way we play, but he was more proud of the way we handle ourselves.” His problem is that four of the seven teams in his district can't compete with Yates, and the scores are going to get out of hand. But he can't prepare his team for the playoffs if the starters don't play deep into games. “Against Davis, no starter played more than 17 minutes,” he said. “I don't feel our kids are in the shape they should be because of the minutes they're playing. “In our mind, we want to prove we're the best team in the country. People say teams are going to be coming at us. We see to it that we're the ones coming at them.”

[font=Courier]When Ozen & Central play a home game and it's not against each other (Ozen v. Central), they bring in refs from other chapters. They are wasting a ton of money. When you use another chapter for your varsity game, the local chapter will not send subvarsity officials.[/font]

[font=Courier]Don't forget Del Valle is in this region as well. [/font]

[font=Courier]Ozen will not beat Yates for the Region III title this year. Franks is the real deal. For those who said this kid shouldn't be ranked in the player rankings, think again.[/font]

[font=Courier]Yes...Yates will be special to see.....[/font]

[font=Courier]Posted up top guys...67-62 Livingston[/font]

[font=Courier]I posted up top...81-49.....[/font]

Nm

Half: ozen 47-18 Frank has 31

Bc wins 61-58

End 3: bc 50-37

Half: bc 34-27

Man....put me in.

End 1: bc 16-15

[font=Courier]Very interesting matchup.... Which 'Cats show up? The ones that fought tooth and nail with H-J and Silsbee or the 'Cats that struggled with H-F? Regardless, starter Zach Hayes will not play due to injury, which makes this Bayou game more interesting. An OField loss would mean they would have to sweep WO-S for the 3rd spot (considering they lose to H-J and Silsbee).[/font]

[font=Courier][b]Straight Up:[/b] 136-30 (.819) [b]Spread:[/b] 106-60 (.638) [size=12pt][u][b]Tues, Jan. 25[/b][/u][/size] [size=12pt][b][i]21-5A[/i][/b][/size] [b]West Brook 49[/b], @ Baytown Sterling 46 WB (16-7, 3-1) BS (1-3) PICK: WB [color=red](-12)[/color] [b]@ No. 19 PA Memorial 56[/b], Channelview 47 PAM (19-3, 4-0) CV (1-3) PICK: PAM [color=red](-19)[/color] [b] @ North Shore 82[/b], Lee 36 NS (3-1), Lee (0-4) [size=12pt][b][i]20-4A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Ozen 81[/b], Nederland 49 O (14-8, 7-1): DeCarlos Frank 46 (12-3s) N (13-13, 6-2) PICK: Ozen (-4) [b]@ Central 46[/b], Vidor 43 V (13-16, 1-7) C (8-15, 4-4) PICK: Cen [color=red](-26)[/color] [b]@ PN-G 47[/b], LC-M 34 L (16-12, 4-4) P (16-8, 4-4) PICK: [color=red]LC-M (-3)[/color] [b]Livingston 67[/b], @ Lumberton 62 Liv (11-14, 5-3) Lum (10-19, 0-8) PICK: Liv [color=red](-13)[/color] [size=12pt][b][i]19-4A[/i][/b][/size] [b]Galena Park 58[/b], @ Barbers Hill 56 GP (7-1) BH (19-8, 4-4) PICK: GP [color=red](-4)[/color] [b]CE King 77[/b], @ Crosby 65 CEK (7-1) C (10-16, 2-6) PICK: CEK (-2) [b]Kingwood Park 54[/b], @ Dayton 27 KP (7-1) D (5-15, 1-7) PICK: KP (-16) [b]GC Memorial 65[/b], @ North Forest 58 GCM (3-5) NF (1-7) [size=12pt][b][i]18-3A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Jasper 66[/b], Carthage 63 - OT J (12-11, 5-3) C (2-6) PICK: Jasper [color=red](-7)[/color] [b]Lufkin Hudson 67[/b], @ Huntington 47 LH (7-1), H (4-4) [b]@ Rusk 91[/b], Diboll 42 R (4-4), D (2-6) [b] Center 73[/b], @ Pollack Central 37 C (8-0) PC (0-8) [size=12pt][b][i]21-3A[/i][/b][/size] [b]Bridge City 61[/b], @ Orangefield 58 BC (11-15, 1-3) BC (14-13, 1-3) PICK: [color=red]OF (-9)[/color] [b]No. 6 Silsbee 88[/b], @ Hamshire-Fannett 40 S (21-2, 4-0) HF (6-17, 0-4) PICK: Sils (-42) [b]@ No. 4 Hardin-Jefferson 63[/b], WO-S 61 W (16-8, 2-2) HJ (27-2, 4-0) PICK: H-J [color=red](-27)[/color] [size=12pt][b][i]22-2A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Kirbyville 60[/b], Shelbyville 29 K (10-6, 2-2) S (0-4) PICK: Kirby (-20) [b]@ Woodville 77[/b], Newton 35 N (4-13, 2-2) W (16-6, 4-0) PICK: Wood (-14) [b]San Augustine[/b] def. Hemphill - NO SCORE REPORTED SA (3-1), H (1-3) [size=12pt][i][b]23-2A[/b][/i][/size] [b]@ Buna 54[/b], Warren 31 B (9-8, 2-5) W (4-16, 07) PICK: Buna (-17) [b]No. 4 Kountze 98[/b], @ Deweyville 49 K (25-2, 7-0) D (10-12, 2-5) PICK: Ktz (-29) [b]@ East Chambers 63[/b], Hardin 27 EC (14-12, 5-2) H (11-11, 3-4) PICK: EC (-20) [size=12pt][b][i]23-A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Big Sandy 64[/b], Alto 60 BS (12-12, 1-3) A (1-3) PICK: BS (-3) [b]@ Grapeland 71[/b], Lovelady 58 G (4-0) L (3-1) [size=12pt][b][i]25-A[/i][/b][/size] [b]@ Evadale 75[/b], Hull-Daisetta 36 HD (4-11, 1-3) E (15-7, 4-0) PICK: Eva (-15) [b]Sabine Pass 62[/b], @ High Island 44 SP (9-8, 2-2) HI (4-10, 1-4) PICK: SP [color=red](-20)[/color] [b] @ No. 23 Spurger 57[/b], West Hardin 23 S (18-4, 4-0) WH (6-9, 1-4) PICK: Spurger (-29) [size=12pt][b][i]TAPPS[/i][/b][/size] Non-district: [b]Kelly 64[/b], @ The Village 61 K (7-15) [b]Legacy Christian 66[/b], @ Clear Lake Christian 52 Leg (8-19, 8-0) PICK: LC (-13) [b]@ Community Christian 65[/b], Oaks Adventist 41 OCC (17-4, 9-1) PICK: CC (-20) [size=12pt][u][b]Mon, Jan. 24[/b][/u][/size] [size=12pt][i][b]TAPPS[/b][/i][/size] [b]Community Christian 35[/b], @ Texas Christian 25 OCC (16-4, 8-1) [/font]

[font=Courier]Davis coach said Yates didn't try to run it up.... [url=[Hidden Content]] When Yates makes it to Austin, the Drum will be sold out for their games tho.... ;) I hear a big announcement coming from the Lions' camp on Jan. 29.........[/font]

[font=Courier]Sounds good to me.[/font]

[font=Courier]Someone texted me and said Orangefield got hosed big time on calls....true?[/font]

[font=Courier]You guys know where I stand...I say score. But there was some griping earlier on the boards and now the shoe is on the other foot. I find nothing wrong with scoring and scoring but don't complain about others then win by 60! Lazeek, you run up the scores during Little Dribblers too.....!!!! LOL[/font]

67-46

Nm

Beeninnikes said scoreboard read 47-33