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looks like they've tipped. hopefully someone will update

this is disappointing to me this year. I was very interested in watching these games, but not $9.95 interested when I can listen to Mike for free.

I'm curious to hear your evaluation of these two teams.

Clarendon on a good old fashioned 36-9 run

Grapeland shoulda put it away

Halftime started 26 minutes ago. I'm assuming it's in the 3rd q right now

I can't think of any small towns that have multiple public high schools. Bigger cities do, but there's generally an obvious geographical need for them. It's not practical for a city the size of Beaumont to have one school, but at the same time it's not practical for a city the size of dallas to have an abundance of 3A and 4A schools a few miles apart from each other. it would take some common sense to figure it all out, but I'm sure something could be worked out.

kind of, but it's still a town of 2000 people. They're not going to get move-ins to play there, and if so, it certainly won't be like it is in dallas. In dallas, if you aren't getting PT at one school, these kids can just go "stay with family" and all of a sudden they're playing for a new school, and it may literally be a move of a couple of miles, if they even move at all.

I know this wasn't what you meant, but I think most 3A schools who have to face a squad pulling talent from a major city are going to face a pretty terrible matchup. I think of our local 3A schools, and the towns of a 1000-2000 (or less) people that they're in, with the tiny talent pools the draw from, and then I look at a school like Dallas Madison. Santa Rosa had approximately 2700 people during the last census. Dallas had 1.3 million. and while Madison does not have the full run of the city when it comes to their talent, i think it's safe to say their talent pool is infinitely deeper than the schools they beat to get here. It just doesn't set right with me for big city schools to play in 4A and 3A.

don't be a fool... the free throws they missed in the 1st quarter were what REALLY affected the game...

its a poorly written article, but it looks like they refer to his 3-pointer in two different places. one when they talk about it with 25 seconds left, and another later in the article when "grapeland had their chances to win in regulation, nursing a 3-point lead". anyway, who the heck knows.

I was hesitant at first, but Dak earned his spot as the starter

Wellington 64 Grapeland 61 OT AUSTIN - George Shrubs scored 18 points, including a 3-pointer in the final minute to send the game into overtime, as Wellington outlasted Grapeland 64-61 Friday in the Class 2A semifinals of the boys' state high school basketball tournament. Wellington (29-5) advances to Saturday's final to play Peaster (27-7), a 74-61 winner over Brookshire Royal in Friday's other semifinal. Shrubs' 3-pointer with 25.6 seconds left tied the game at 57-57. Wellington then used a 4-0 spurt on baskets by Larry Valles and Jason Wischkaemper to go up 61-57. Tarlus McDaniel scored to pull Grapeland within 61-59 before another Shrubs' basket pushed the lead back to four. Wellington could have iced the game from the foul line but went 0 for 5 from the line in the final minute of overtime before Nakia Nash made one for the final margin with 6.2 seconds left. Kenneth Barrett, who had 21 points, had a final chance to tie for Grapeland but his 3-pointer bounced off the side of the rim as the buzzer sounded. Grapeland (28-9) had its chances to win the game in the final minute of regulation. Trying to run out the clock with a 57-54 lead, Barrett was stripped by Valles at midcourt, who then missed his layup. Grapeland quickly threw the ball back down court to Tarlus McDaniel who was open under the basket. But McDaniel, who scored a game-high 23 points, missed the dunk, setting up Shrubs' game-tying 3-pointer. Wischkaemper scored 17 points and Nash 10 for Wellington. Kendrick Barrett scored 10 and had 13 rebounds for Grapeland. Nash and Valles, both 5-foot-9 guards, combined for 19 rebounds and 11 steals.

I did find a news article about the game and read about it. it described the missed dunk that would've put them up 5, but the article said he made the 3 to tie it with 27 seconds left. what am I missing here?

Well, Romo is going to be released tomorrow. Hopefully he ends up with a contender and has one or two more shots at a super bowl. He only had a team capable of winning a ring a couple of times during his career, and got screwed by the "catch/not catch" one year, and hurt another other. I'll never understand the hate for Romo. His clutch numbers were through the roof, and the only reason he had so many "chokes" was because the awful team around him constantly put him in situations where 28-35 points wasn't enough, and he performed fantastically in situations where he needed a game winning or tying drive, despite the rhetoric from the haters. Dallas fans are spoiled, and many of them are too stupid to understand that he's the ONLY reason Dallas has had any relevance for the last 12 or so years, and that without him they're a 4-6 win team every year. That he played the first decade of his career behind one of the worst O-lines in the league, and still put up fantastic numbers while running for his life. That his team had a top-10 statistical defense ONCE in his career, and for most of it a garbage running game as well. Etc. Etc. Etc. And I'll never understand the hate towards him for not winning a ring. During the course of his career at dallas, there were 14 superbowls played, and only 8 qbs won at least one. 10 of the championships during that time were won by 4 qbs. It's not like it's some easy feat that Romo just couldn't manage because he sucked. While I understand that a superbowl is the main goal of every franchise, it's not prudent to hold a great player, who played great for your team, responsible for the shortcomings of those around him (from the owner on down). I for one wish Tony the best of luck wherever he ends up, and have thoroughly enjoyed watching him lead the cowboys for the last decade or so.

Does a video of this exist?

That's insane.

Silsbee wins 72-53.

I'd like to see a silsbee/brazosport final. It's a shame silsbee essentially gets the 4th seed based on playing a much harder schedule than the other teams, when they're deserving of the #1 seed.

Ballgame! 94-84, silsbee advances to state!

94-84, under 30 seconds to play

Tigers eating the clock. 93-81, 50 seconds left, tigers to the line for 2

Tigers pulling away. 93-79

91-79, 3 min left

Yes. Missed one letter and my phone autocorrected for me