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You’re right. Missed that when I was scrolling through their schedule.

Hitchcock hasn’t lost a game to a 3A and under opponent this year, and has several wins over 4A and 5A schools. They beat #6 Shallowater by 5, and their next closest game against a 3A school was their 23-point win over #23 Diboll last round. They’re the real deal. Orangefield has looked good in the playoffs so far, but it’s going to be a struggle to keep this one within 15.

18 was the number I had in my head

I can arrange for the Hamshire Fannett intermediate gym to be open Tuesday night. Seats almost 40, and the gym is about 2/3 regulation size. Would be a fast-paced game.

I expect Silsbee to win by 15-20. That said, if they come out flat like they have a few times lately (LCM and Jacksonville), HJ has a shot to keep it close. The hawks have really been playing well this year. The hawks will have to care of the ball, and Samaha is going to have to have a big game if the hawks are going to sniff an upset.

54-50, final

Ref just gave CH 3 free throws, they made two to cut it to two. Ref 6 feet from the shooter didn’t call it, the ref all the way across the court plus 15 ft behind it called it

Yikes

The biggest differences between Vidor and Liberty Hill have nothing to do with small discrepancies in how they run the same offense. `

Manvel had the lead at the half. Did manvel blow an 8 point lead late, and then inexplicably foul BH on a desperation half court heave in OT up 2? If so, then BH shouldn’t have won. They got beyond lucky. In no way am I discrediting them. They’re an extremely good team. But in your post I quoted originally, the logic was flawed. Taking two games and using that as your basis for BH being better didn’t really make sense. Honest question: if that Manvel player hadn’t completely lost her mind and fouled on the half court shot, and BH lost, would that mean HJ is the better team now? Like I said, I think they’re very close. But HJ has had the better results for the season. And BH playing in a 5A district is pretty irrelevant, because it’s a very bad district that HJ would’ve gone undefeated in as well. Regardless, I’m rooting for both teams to keep winning and moving on. They’re both excellent teams, facing excellent competition this week.

wholeheartedly agree.

BH had no business winning that game. In fact, Manvel gave them that win, twice. That said, if we're basing who's better off of one game, then HJ's win over 6A #4 Pearland makes them the better team, as that's a better win that BH's best win over FB Hightower. HJ also beat Judson, who handily beat BH, and beat 5A #12 McKinney North. HJ has 10 wins against 6A competition, a couple of those are ranked, and 8 of them had winning records, and several of them were "1st place teams", since that's part of how you're gauging things. 4 of HJ's 5 losses have come to 6A schools with winning records, including a 3-pt OT loss to Katy Cinco Ranch (24-11), a 6-pt loss to 6A #9 Summer Creek (31-4), a 6-pt loss to Sachse (26-10), and their one semi-bad loss of the season to 19-14 Dallas Skyline by 15. HJ's other loss this season was by 5 to 27-4 Houston Christian, probably the best private school in state. While HJ had to play 4A competition in district, and BH 5A, BH's district is not very good. So all in all, HJ has more, better wins against a significantly tougher schedule that BH played, despite being a classification lower. BH's losses are for the most part worse than HJ's as well. Having said all that, I think they're very close. It's a shame BH backed out of their game to play Iowa Colony. But the overall body of work this season points to HJ being the better team, and having the better season. HJ playing the last month without 2nd best player (and post presence) has made a difference, but their overall resume is better. I do think both teams lose their next game. Waco La Vega is insanely good this year, and is probably a tougher opponent than Hendrickson, who's also very, very good.

Florida teacher suspended for using kids as ‘political props,’ having white kids bow to black classmates in TikTok videos (msn.com) As an educator, this is completely unacceptable. I don't care if you're conservative or liberal, you should never push your politics onto your students, and you absolutely should never use your students as props to push your politics onto others on social media. He will be fired, and deservedly so.

I do too!

I think you're safe to put them top 3. Seeing as WB beat them by 20 this year, and they backed out of their matchup with HJ, that's about all I'm willing to give them at this point. HJ has made it just as far as them in the playoffs. They're both probably going to lose their next games. If BH advances and HJ loses, I'd say you could make a decent argument, although I still think a healthy HJ is a slight favorite against them. I'll definitely concede that BH has improved a lot from the start of the season. 3 weeks into the season I thought HJ was 20 points better than them. Now I think it would be a great game. To be fair, no beavers for the last month has brought HJ down some. She's back, but not sure that she's all the way back yet.

Feels like the end of the line for HJ and their runs to state. La Vega is as good as any 4A team as they've faced over the past 4 years or so, and this HJ team, while still excellent, doesn't feel like it's on quite the same level that they've been on the last 3 years. I'll be pulling for the Hawks, though!

Nice push from Buna to make the playoffs, and then give CH all they wanted and more

Lumberton had a decent game plan coming in, but once HJ got a decent lead they just didn’t have the players to run with them

Hawks win 70-45

64-38 with 2:30 left

HJ on a 9-0 run to open the 4th. 61-34

Heck yeah! Palestine showed they’re a quality team in these playoffs

Is beavers playing?

HJ up 52-34 after 3.

They’re down 3 now with :35 left now