sticky

How did they do against each other?

my, my, my

My, My, My

BC #1 LCM #2

Great Eastern is a great knife.

Off of 3A Down Low....last week Sealy beat Brookshire Royal 44-1.

I hope the Eagles win....but you guys are, as usual, very confident. I wish I had that kind of confidence.....I'm worried.

The only thing more incredible than PGN making the list is the story of Easter, with Jesus being ressurected from the grave. If anyone can pick PNG as a top 12 team in the state, t Heck, as much as you don't want to admit it, Vidor and LCM are better teams. Wake up pollsters, this is a East of the Trinity Team! If PNG has no errors, hit homers, stay "motivated" and pray, they still get smoked in the first round. Good luck indians.......LOL I think a Tournament Championship at Westbrook (including a win over LC Barbe without your number one on the mound) and a win over LCM without your number one on the mound. Coupled with a 11-3 record is deserving of some recognition. Which is all these polls are. Simply to honor the teams who are playing well now. As a BH fan, I believe PHG belongs their also. I hope we don't have to play them unless its the regional finals.

That might be before Spanglers time. Is he still alive?

Huffman beat BH 30-0 around 1980. Sure about that one sticky? I have a copy of the BH baseball record book that the coach puts out, and since you asked, I looked it up. Huffman 30 and BH 0 in 1981. Worst defeat in baseball history at BH. Number two worst defeat is SFA 17-0 over the Hill in 1986. Third worst is HF 18-2 over BH in 1984.

Huffman beat BH 30-0 around 1980.

I guess your full of crap.

I agree....but it is just some nominations. The powers to be will select who they think should be on the list......I guess.

I would add Johnathan Kelley from BH. RHP who signed early with Galveston JC.

TEXAS A&M Scott Arthur, SS, Klein Oak, Texas A&M Ross Hales, LHP, Barbers Hill, Texas A&M Wes Schill, SS, A&M Consolidated, Texas A&M Adam Smith, Klein, Texas A&M Kyle Mangan Rf / closer, Brenham, Texas A&M Nathan Eovaldi, RHP, Alvin, Texas A&M UH Taylor White, SS, Fort Bend Baptist, University of Houston Michael Goodnight, RHP, Westside, University of Houston Mo Wiley, P, Mayde Creek, University of Houston Codey Morehouse, Langham Creek, University of Houston RICE Andrew Benak, RHP, Langham Creek, Rice Anthony Fazio, P, Beaumont Kelly, Rice Taylor Wall, LHP/OF, Westside, Rice Anthony Rendon, IF, Lamar, Rice Daniel Gonzales-Luna, OF, Lamar, Rice Jeremy Rathjen, OF, SB Memorial, Rice Matt Reckling, RHP, Kinkaid, Rice SHSU Bobby Stone , LHP/1B/OF, Montgomery, SHSU Sean Weatherford, RHP, Bryan, SHSU Nino Leyja, SS, Houston Christian, SHSU Chase Daniel, RHP/OF, Oak Ridge, SHSU TCU Kyle Winkler, RHP, Kempner, TCU Taylor Featherston, SS, Katy Taylor, TCU Travis Jenkins, LHP, Alvin, TCU TEXAS Hunter Cervenka, LHP/1B/OF, Ross Sterling, Texas Robbie Grossman, CF, Cy-Fair, Texas Sam Stafford, LHP/OF, Klein Collins, Texas Austin Dicharry, Klein Collins, Texas TEXAS TECH Scott LeJeune, RR Mcneil, Texas Tech Justin Berry, Austin High, Texas Tech Louis Head, RHP, Cinco Ranch, Texas Tech UTSA Clay Schrader, RHP/OF, Atascocita HS Texas State Matt Steiner, RHP, Morton Ranch, Texas State Lamar University Ryan Smith, Foster, Lamar University Out-of-State Clay VanderLaan, Cypress Ridge, Michigan State University Jeremy Schaffer, C, Bellaire, Tulane Ross Seaton, RHP/OF, Second Baptist, Tulane Kyle Roliard, 1B/OF/P, Klein, Louisiana Tech Daniel Rumsey, CF, Tomball, Kansas State Colin Bear, LHP/1B, St Thomas, NW Louisiana Nathan Wood, RHP, Hightower, New Mexico State Jared Cosart, Clear Creek, University of Missouri Ben Fairbanks, RHP, FB Austin, Louisiana Tech Jake Carlson, OF, The Woodlands, Dartmouth College Junior College Angelina Junior College John Tatum, 3B/RHP, Lufkin, Angelina Kendall Thamm, LHP, Barbers Hill, Angelina JC Blinn Junior College Michael Guerra, SS, Alvin, Blinn Tommy Collier, RHP, CyFair, Blinn Will McCaleb, 3B/SS, Bellaire, Blinn Galveston Junior College Johnathan Kelley, RHP, Barbers Hill, Galveston JC Justin Beiser, OF, Morton Ranch, Galveston JC San Jacinto Junior College Andrew Beasley, P, Friendswood, San Jac Hunter Silva, RHP, Barbers Hill, San Jacinto JC

I hear Coach Lovie Smith has a heck of a team. leading off and playing center field is Devin Hester number two hitter should be Bernard Berrian big first baseman John St. Clair is hitting third clean up hitter is leftfielder Muhsin Muhammad number five guy is the third baseman Brian Urlacher (ty cobb of his day) six hole hitter is the shortstop Nathan Vasher starting in right field is Adewale Ogunleye in the eighth spot is second sacker Charles Tillman pitching and hitting ninth is Rex Grossman When you have a bullpen of Brian Griese, Rashied Davis, Kyle Orten and John Tait you are loaded!!!!

From the Baytown Sun Sterling’s Cervenka signs with Texas By Michael Pineda Baytown Sun Published November 22, 2007 Hunter Cervenka may not have been a Longhorn when he was born, but he was one by the time he left the hospital. The Sterling baseball player realized one of his dreams earlier this week when he signed a letter of intent to play baseball for the team he grew up with, the University of Texas Longhorns. Cervenka will keep his options open as he awaits the Major League Baseball draft. “As of right now, this is my dream,†Cervenka said. “Hopefully, in June I will be drafted. “If I get drafted high enough I will go to the pros. I want to be in a position to play in the major leagues in four to five years.†If Cervenka takes the NCAA route, he will join one of the most storied college baseball programs in the nation. One of the reasons that the left-hander chose the Longhorns is their ability to compete for a national championship each season. “Playing for Texas will give me a chance to go to the College World Series and get a ring,†Cervenka said. “They told me I would definitely come in as an impact player if I perform. I am going to pitch and have the opportunity to play outfield and first base.†This past summer, Cervenka worked on his change-up and gaining better control of his breaking pitches. Better control would help the senior reach his goal of a 10-0 record this season. “If Hunter throws strikes consistently, he will be one of the better ones that I have had,†Sterling head coach Paul Tadlock said. “He’s an maximum effort guy. He throws a lot of pitches. If we can keep his count down, he will finish a lot of games for us. “He also swings a real good stick. We are moving him to first base this season. It will be good for his arm when he isn’t pitching.†In addition to going 10-0, Cervenka would like to hit over .400 and win a district crown and most valuable player award. “That would be a perfect season,†Cervenka said. “Last year was not my best. I thought my sophomore year was a lot better.†Cervenka finished the year as a second team all-district selection. This past summer, Cervenka earned the opportunity to play at the highest levels nationally as a member of a USA Select team that played in North Carolina.

From the Baytown Sun Eagle pitcher inks with A&M By Michael Pineda Baytown Sun Published November 16, 2007 Since the age of 12, Barbers Hill pitcher Ross Hales has had a dream — to play in the College World Series. Hales will have the opportunity to fulfill that dream with Texas A&M. The senior pitcher committed to the Aggies this summer and made it official Wednesday. “It’s a lot easier now, I’m not stressing,†Hales said. “I can focus on working harder and preparing for the season. I am going to work on gaining weight, getting stronger and gaining velocity. I’m hoping I can be a starter. They don’t want me to redshirt, they want me to pitch.†Hales is a lanky 6-foot-5 left-hander who throws in the low 90s. Since last season, he has grown an inch and added 10 pounds. “I saw him pitch when he was 12 years old and knew he would be good even then,†Barbers Hill head coach Gil Stalbaum said. “He came up as a pitcher and he could throw strikes. He has continued to improve every year. His control was always good, but he now has more control over his second and third pitches.†Hales was the ace of the Eagles last season, helping lead the team to a regional semifinal appearance. He earned first team all-district honors and was named to the Class 4A All-State team. Hales played select baseball this summer and had several offers to consider. But in the end, he chose Texas A&M. “When I was younger, I was a Texas fan and my family was Texas fans,†Hales said. “I never saw myself at A&M. Now it’s pretty much the only place that I want to go. “After I signed, the coaches kept calling me and telling me they were just glad that I would be coming and be a part of the tradition.†Hales carries a 3.8 grade point average and will major in business administration while playing baseball for the Aggies, a full-time job in itself. “They require two hours of study hall a day,†Hales said. “It will be a lot harder than high school. I also saw some of the workouts they do and I know I will have to work harder. “They run a lot more and work out four to five hours a day. At the beginning of the season, you have to run a mile in 5:40. The players that I talked to told me to show up for practice in shape.†Hales in the first player from Barbers Hill in the Gil Stalbaum era to sign with a Division I school out of high school. Chase Mitchell attended junior college before signing with Kansas State. “I expect him to have his best year,†Stalbaum said. “Ross has as much composure on the mound as any high school pitcher that I have ever seen. You wouldn’t know if he was pitching a shutout or if the other team had 10 to 12 hits off of him. “He’s more relaxed on the mound then any other place in the world.†The Eagles will return all four of their top pitchers from last season, but it will be Hales taking the mound for the big games. With a scholarship from a Big XII school, he expects to have a target on his chest. “ I think it will be more of a challenge,†Hales said. “I love pitching in close games against the best teams. It brings more out of you.â€

I thought "loaded" was spelled L C M!!!

Congrats.

From the Baytown Sun: District favorites face off tonight By Dave Rogers Published October 12, 2007 It was a serious question, but it didn’t sit well with Craig Stump. The Beaumont West Brook head coach did a spit-take with his morning coffee Thursday when asked about tonight’s game between his 4-1 Bruins and Lee’s Ganders being the District 21-5A championship game. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. at West Brook’s Durley Stadium. “This is the district championship game?†was his incredulous verbal response, coming after he sort of composed himself. “How can you say that when you have four other games left to play?†But what else would you call a meeting between the two teams picked months ago to be the top two teams in the eight-school league? And when those two teams are both so-far undefeated (2-0) in district play? And when they rank No. 1 (West Brook) and No. 2 (Lee) in both team offense and team defense? The fact that both teams lost their top running backs to injury a week ago (Lee’s Jarvis Moore, West Brook’s Albert Williams) isn’t getting a lot of sympathy around 21-5A. Nor does anyone think the teams won’t keep going full-speed ahead on offense. “Losing your running back like that takes a lot out of you as far as what you’re going to do,†Stump said. “You just have to adjust.†Junior Paul Martinez, backup running back for Lee (3-2 overall), rushed for 100 yards in last week’s 28-0 win over archrival Sterling. The Ganders also got a boost from former No. 1 quarterback Josh Jones, who ran for 36 yards on seven carries. Coach Dick Olin hoped to have Kevin Craft, the district’s leading receiver and sometime running back, return from an ankle injury. And freshman receiver C.J. Mixon, a standout runner for Gentry Junior a year ago, has been taking practice snaps in the backfield. Lee’s No. 1 challenge should involve 5-foot-10 quarterback Octavio Torres passing the ball downfield over a West Brook line that includes a trio of 6-foot-5 defensive ends in Marcus Malbrough, Blake Chavis and Shane McCardell and 6-foot-4 tackle Roland Bordelon. “They’re going to throw screen passes, I’d imagine, until the cows come home,†Stump said. Offensively, the Bruins will look for junior Christine Michael to pick up the slack left by Williams. Both Michael and Williams had rushed for more than 400 yards this year. Junior quarterback Christian Louis has a trio of experienced receivers to throw to. But senior Joshua Powdrill , whose 26 catches are one fewer than Craft’s total of 27, has been the Louis’ go-to receiver. West Brook’s offensive line, anchored by 6-4, 280-pound Ryan Pollard, the brother and son of NFL players, was a question mark coming into the season. “They’re playing good,†Stump said of his team’s blockers, “but they’re going to have to play good for sure.†That’s because the Bruin coach is really impressed with the Lee defense, which has allowed just 463 rushing yards this season, fewest of any 21-5A team. “Their defensive line is really good, and so are their linebackers and they’ve got two defensive backs (Reggie Butler and Thomas Bates) that were all-district last year,†he said. “They’ve got a lot of speed and their defensive line is extreme.†Stump especially likes Lee’s all-district nose tackle, J.T. Cleveland. “He’s got a lot of experience and he’s strong and athletic,†he said of the 6-1, 275-pounder, “and that helps.†If there’s a knock on Lee and West Brook it comes from the fact that neither team has been tested so far in 21-5A. Lee has pitched a pair of shutouts over Kingwood (38-0) and Sterling, two teams who are a combined 0-10. West Brook’s wins came over Kingwood (50-18) and 2-3 Atascocita (44-6). “They’re the best team we’ve played next to Westfield (a 33-24 winner over West Brook,†Stump said of the Ganders. “I think we’ll both find out where we’re at.â€

He is already in the Barbers Hill Hall of Fame From the Baytown Sun: ETBU names Grimes to Athletic Hall of Fame From sports staff reports Baytown Sun Published October 12, 2007 Bink Grimes became a member of East Texas Baptist University’s baseball program in 1994 because of a dream, literally. And that dream has culminated with Grimes, now an assistant baseball coach at Bay City High School, being enshrined in ETBU’s Tiger Athletic Hall of Fame last month. Grimes, who starred at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, back in the early 1990s, was part of a class of four inducted into the Hall of Fame in induction ceremonies on Sept. 29. Grimes’ career at ETBU spanned just two years on the field as a player, in 1994 and 1995, but his name remains a staple in the Tiger record books. Following the 1994 season, Grimes was named NAIA All-Region on a Tiger team that finished with the most wins in program history (39) and fell just one game shy of advancing to the NAIA World Series. The following season as a senior, Grimes was an All-American for the Tigers. He graduated in 1995 and was an assistant coach and sports information director at ETBU from 1995-98 after a stint in professional baseball. He left Marshall in 1998 to become assistant coach at Bay City, where he’s been with the Blackcats since. All of it began with a dream, of almost Biblical proportions. Drafted by the New York Yankees out of Barbers Hill in 1990, Grimes chose to sign with Sam Houston State University. By 1993, he’d decided to transfer, and he was seriously looking for a place to continue his career. His choice came down to Baylor, Liberty, Dallas Baptist or ETBU. Grimes visited all those places and was torn about the decision. But one night back home, he thought of Daniel in the Old Testament and placed a special prayer for guidance. “I asked God specifically to reveal (the decision) to me in a dream,†Grimes remembers. “I figured if it was good enough for men like Daniel, you know … “Anyway, that night I dreamed I was at the plate in an ETBU uniform. I’d never seen an ETBU uniform before, either, but there I was. I got up the next morning and told my parents I was going to ETBU, and the rest is history.†Grimes’ signing was a boon for the Tigers and head coach Jim Kneipp, who went on to become the program’s all-time leader in coaching wins. It also turned out to be the perfect decision for Grimes, who credits his opportunity at ETBU with allowing him to turn his career around. Grimes hit 11 home runs his junior season and set a team single-season record for RBI. He followed that with another 10 homers as a senior – in 15 less games from the previous season due to a series of rainouts. Grimes also credits his resurgence at ETBU to Kneipp, who he says not only was his coach but became a close friend. “I had a coach in Kneipp who believed I was the man,†Grimes said. “He made us play with discipline and class, and he gave me a lot of leeway to be the leader I needed to be. He let me play the way I needed to play, jumped me when I needed to be jumped, when most coaches would look the other way concerning the leader of the team. He wasn’t all about baseball; he was a friend, and cared about your spiritual life off the field.†Grimes finished his career at ETBU in 1995, hitting .367 with 21 homers and 109 RBI in those two years. He stayed on to help Kneipp as the program’s assistant coach, which also allowed him to finish his Masters of Education at Stephen F. Austin State University as well as meet and marry his wife, the former Shelly Matthes. He and Shelly currently have one daughter, Mallory. His extended stay in East Texas also provided another opportunity for one of Grimes’ other passions – the outdoors. Already an experienced hunting and fishing guide along the Gulf Coast prior to attending ETBU, Grimes was given his first opportunity to write an outdoors column while in Marshall. He’s been writing ever since, with credits in over two dozen regional and national publications, while chartering hunting and fishing trips.

Assumptions can get you beat.

HMMMMM yourself. He runs the BH sports web page and is a teacher at the Hill. Where have you been?

Something tells me that Dan Hooks just doesn't give a crap about what any of you have to say.