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Kirbyville Baseball 2009 2/10 #WOS Away JV/V 4:30/7:00 2/13 #Deweyville Away JV/V 4:30/7:00 2/17 #Kountze Home JV/V 4:30/7:00 2/20 #Jasper Away JV/V 4:00/6:30 2/24 Hardin-Jefferson Home JV/V 4:00/7:00 2/26-28 Kountze Tournament Away V TBA 3/3 WOS Home JV/V 4:30/7:00 3/5-7 Jasper JV Tourn. Away JV TBA 3/5-7 Orangefield Tourn. Away V TBA 3/9 Orangefield Home JV 11:00 3/10 Hamshire-Fannett Away JV/V 5:00/7:00 3/12-14 Kirbyville Tourn. Home V TBA 3/17 Orangefield Home JV/V 4:30/7:00 3/20 Silsbee Away JV/V 4:30/7:00 3/21 Jasper (DH) Away JV 11:00/2:00 3/27 *Woodville Away JV/V 4:00/7:00 3/28 Silsbee (DH) Home JV 11:00/2:00 3/31 *San Augustine Home JV/V 4:00/7:00 4/3 *Newton Away JV/V 4:00/7:00 4/6 Buna Away JV 6:00 4/7 *Shelbyville Away V 7:00 4/9 *Hemphill Away JV/V 4:00/7:00 4/14 *Woodville Home JV/V 4:00/7:00 4/17 *San Augustine Away JV/V 4:00/7:00 4/21 *Newton Home JV/V 4:00/7:00 4/24 *Shelbyville Home V 7:00 4/25 Deweyville Home V 1:00 5/1 **Hemphill Home JV/V 4:00/7:00

Tuesday Feb 10 Kirbyville@WOS Liberty @Orangefield Westbrook@Port Neches-Groves Bridge City @Nederland Hardin-Jefferson@Dayton Barbers Hill@Bay City Jasper@Vidor LCM @Kelly Shepherd@East Chambers Newton @Kountze

Interesting article, it fits all high school sports. Parents out of bounds; respect for coaches waning Commentary By Scott Kaiser Times Sports Writer par~ent (par'ent) n. 1. A father or mother; 2. Any organism in relation to its offspring; 3. A source; origin. Definition from the Second College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary coach (koch) n. 2. (a) A private tutor; ( one who instructs or trains a performer or a team of performers; © One who instructs players in the fundamentals of a competitive sport and directs team strategy. Definition from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary You will notice in the above definitions that parent and coach are not related. However, it appears that more of the former think they know more than the latter, and aren't afraid to cross that line. Example No. 1: At last Friday's Cinco Ranch-Mayde Creek girls' basketball game, the Lady Cougars posted an impressive 21-point road victory to remain in a first-place tie with Taylor in the District 17-5A race. This was a huge road win against a Lady Rams' squad that lost at the buzzer to the Lady Mustangs just three nights earlier. It was also Cinco Ranch's 56th win its last 57 district games, one of the most impressive streaks in the history of Texas high school sports. After the game, I had just asked Lady Cougars coach Eric Bartlett about the victory when a gentlemen stopped in front of us and said, I'm embarrassed to be part of this program. I want to re-emphasize that this comment, which left both of us dumbfounded, came after a 21-point road victory by the four-time defending district champions. Here are some of the other gaudy numbers posted by the Cinco Ranch girls' basketball program: ** A record of 152-55 in the last six-plus seasons; ** Playoff qualifiers the last six years, including four straight trips to the regional quarterfinals before advancing to the Region III finals last season; ** A district-winning streak of 54 games over four-plus seasons; ** A 17-13 record this season, with 12 of those losses having come against programs with a combined 243-71 record. Eight of those teams have already won 20 or more games; ** Led by a coach who has won 462 games in his 22-plus seasons. Boy, I bet Coach Bartlett tosses and turns every night in bed thinking about how embarrassing his program is. Example No. 2: A veteran coach recently told me that one of his former players had considered getting into high school coaching, but said, I don't think I can take the criticism. I'm not tough enough. Example No. 3: The constant ringing tune of Play a different quarterback! shouted from the Morton Ranch stands during the majority of the 2007 football season. I'm sure that was pleasant for the quarterback who was playing. Example No. 4 through infinity: Time-wasting, mind-numbing meetings with parents who aren't happy with their child's playing time. Now, understand that I come at this from three different angles: parent of a teenager, a former high school coach, and a sports writer. As a parent whose child played basketball as a freshman and has been in the tennis program at Cy-Fair High School for three years, it is tough to watch her play. It ached at times when she didn't get to play as a freshman because I love my daughter. I am selfish and am extremely protective of her well-being. We all want our children to play the entire game, succeed, and be champions. This is unrealistic. It is Fantasy Land, spurred by our changing society. High school sports is not Fun-Fair-Positive-Soccer. FFPS is a great program for youngsters, but playing high school sports prepares teenagers for life. Life is not always fun, it's hardly ever fair, and you're never going to live a day without someone being negative about something. So, how do I best love my daughter? By letting her experience all aspects of high school sports, the good times and the rough times. By letting her learn to deal with adults, i.e. the coach, if she has a question or is discouraged. If I start fighting her battles now, what will she do in college and once she has a job? Will she expect me to call her professor or boss when she has a problem or dilemma? Even worse, will she expect me to go over the head of her direct supervisor/teacher/coach to the athletic coordinator/principal/dean/CEO, without first privately following the chain of command? Although my daughter has rarely complained about anything in athletics, when she does, her mother and I say, Talk to the Coach. Rather than fighting these battles for her, I stand deep in the bleachers or far away from the court and mumble about strategy or coaching techniques, but I keep them to myself. As a former high school coach, albeit for only three years, I agonized over lineups and trying to get everyone into a match. In tennis things are more cut and dried because we have a challenge ladder and you can prove one-on-one who best deserves a certain spot, but I can promise you that the No. 1 dilemma, and there isn't a close second, for all coaches is how to decide playing time. No coach, repeat, NO COACH!!! goes into a match or game thinking, Boy, I'm not going to play so-and-so just to upset him/her. Deciding who does or does not play, or how long someone plays, is not based on malice. It's done after watching hours of practice and games, watching tape, and scouting opponents. Varsity coaches have to decide on what lineup can best help them win on that night, not on stroking the egos of the players (or sometimes, the parents). As a sports writer, one who wrote his first story for a professional paper in 1976, I have seen a disintegration of the team (Together Everyone Accomplishes More!). Instead of having a team of players, you have individuals who play for a team. Encouraged by greedy club coaches and sometimes-misguided parents who have forked out thousands of dollars to chase that not-inevitable scholarship, high school coaches have become targets with large red circles on their backs. These coaches, who, by the way, are first and foremost classroom teachers, go to clinics, study tapes until all hours of the morning, or go scouting when they could be home with their families, but somehow that doesn't make them as qualified as those of us who sit in the stands. Do you not see their bloodshot eyes late in a season? Do you not see them when they are at the hospital with an injured player at 3 a.m., then head to 6 a.m. practice? Do you not see them representing our schools and our children with humility and grace? Do you not see how much they LOVE children? Trust me, it's easy to be a coach from the stands. I do it every time I cover a game, but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to do so from the field or the bench. Like any sports writer, there's not a coach alive who hasn't questioned the strategy of a fellow coach, but you're not hearing them yell it from the stands or calling the principal the next morning because Johnny or Julie didn't play. Winning at all costs or being a breeding ground for college programs is not the ultimate goal of a high school sports program. It's about teaching kids about academic and behavioral responsibility, and sacrificing the goals of the individual for the betterment of the team. I'd say probably 90 percent of the parents understand this; it's the 10 percent who make coaches dread answering the phone or looking at their emails. Friends, our coaches deserve better. Before shouting that slur or making that call or sending an email, please look in the mirror and ask yourself, Is this about the TEAM, or this about ME?

Parents out of bounds; respect for coaches waning Commentary By Scott Kaiser Times Sports Writer par~ent (par'ent) n. 1. A father or mother; 2. Any organism in relation to its offspring; 3. A source; origin. Definition from the Second College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary coach (koch) n. 2. (a) A private tutor; ( one who instructs or trains a performer or a team of performers; © One who instructs players in the fundamentals of a competitive sport and directs team strategy. Definition from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary You will notice in the above definitions that parent and coach are not related. However, it appears that more of the former think they know more than the latter, and aren't afraid to cross that line. Example No. 1: At last Friday's Cinco Ranch-Mayde Creek girls' basketball game, the Lady Cougars posted an impressive 21-point road victory to remain in a first-place tie with Taylor in the District 17-5A race. This was a huge road win against a Lady Rams' squad that lost at the buzzer to the Lady Mustangs just three nights earlier. It was also Cinco Ranch's 56th win its last 57 district games, one of the most impressive streaks in the history of Texas high school sports. After the game, I had just asked Lady Cougars coach Eric Bartlett about the victory when a gentlemen stopped in front of us and said, I'm embarrassed to be part of this program. I want to re-emphasize that this comment, which left both of us dumbfounded, came after a 21-point road victory by the four-time defending district champions. Here are some of the other gaudy numbers posted by the Cinco Ranch girls' basketball program: ** A record of 152-55 in the last six-plus seasons; ** Playoff qualifiers the last six years, including four straight trips to the regional quarterfinals before advancing to the Region III finals last season; ** A district-winning streak of 54 games over four-plus seasons; ** A 17-13 record this season, with 12 of those losses having come against programs with a combined 243-71 record. Eight of those teams have already won 20 or more games; ** Led by a coach who has won 462 games in his 22-plus seasons. Boy, I bet Coach Bartlett tosses and turns every night in bed thinking about how embarrassing his program is. Example No. 2: A veteran coach recently told me that one of his former players had considered getting into high school coaching, but said, I don't think I can take the criticism. I'm not tough enough. Example No. 3: The constant ringing tune of Play a different quarterback! shouted from the Morton Ranch stands during the majority of the 2007 football season. I'm sure that was pleasant for the quarterback who was playing. Example No. 4 through infinity: Time-wasting, mind-numbing meetings with parents who aren't happy with their child's playing time. Now, understand that I come at this from three different angles: parent of a teenager, a former high school coach, and a sports writer. As a parent whose child played basketball as a freshman and has been in the tennis program at Cy-Fair High School for three years, it is tough to watch her play. It ached at times when she didn't get to play as a freshman because I love my daughter. I am selfish and am extremely protective of her well-being. We all want our children to play the entire game, succeed, and be champions. This is unrealistic. It is Fantasy Land, spurred by our changing society. High school sports is not Fun-Fair-Positive-Soccer. FFPS is a great program for youngsters, but playing high school sports prepares teenagers for life. Life is not always fun, it's hardly ever fair, and you're never going to live a day without someone being negative about something. So, how do I best love my daughter? By letting her experience all aspects of high school sports, the good times and the rough times. By letting her learn to deal with adults, i.e. the coach, if she has a question or is discouraged. If I start fighting her battles now, what will she do in college and once she has a job? Will she expect me to call her professor or boss when she has a problem or dilemma? Even worse, will she expect me to go over the head of her direct supervisor/teacher/coach to the athletic coordinator/principal/dean/CEO, without first privately following the chain of command? Although my daughter has rarely complained about anything in athletics, when she does, her mother and I say, Talk to the Coach. Rather than fighting these battles for her, I stand deep in the bleachers or far away from the court and mumble about strategy or coaching techniques, but I keep them to myself. As a former high school coach, albeit for only three years, I agonized over lineups and trying to get everyone into a match. In tennis things are more cut and dried because we have a challenge ladder and you can prove one-on-one who best deserves a certain spot, but I can promise you that the No. 1 dilemma, and there isn't a close second, for all coaches is how to decide playing time. No coach, repeat, NO COACH!!! goes into a match or game thinking, Boy, I'm not going to play so-and-so just to upset him/her. Deciding who does or does not play, or how long someone plays, is not based on malice. It's done after watching hours of practice and games, watching tape, and scouting opponents. Varsity coaches have to decide on what lineup can best help them win on that night, not on stroking the egos of the players (or sometimes, the parents). As a sports writer, one who wrote his first story for a professional paper in 1976, I have seen a disintegration of the team (Together Everyone Accomplishes More!). Instead of having a team of players, you have individuals who play for a team. Encouraged by greedy club coaches and sometimes-misguided parents who have forked out thousands of dollars to chase that not-inevitable scholarship, high school coaches have become targets with large red circles on their backs. These coaches, who, by the way, are first and foremost classroom teachers, go to clinics, study tapes until all hours of the morning, or go scouting when they could be home with their families, but somehow that doesn't make them as qualified as those of us who sit in the stands. Do you not see their bloodshot eyes late in a season? Do you not see them when they are at the hospital with an injured player at 3 a.m., then head to 6 a.m. practice? Do you not see them representing our schools and our children with humility and grace? Do you not see how much they LOVE children? Trust me, it's easy to be a coach from the stands. I do it every time I cover a game, but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to do so from the field or the bench. Like any sports writer, there's not a coach alive who hasn't questioned the strategy of a fellow coach, but you're not hearing them yell it from the stands or calling the principal the next morning because Johnny or Julie didn't play. Winning at all costs or being a breeding ground for college programs is not the ultimate goal of a high school sports program. It's about teaching kids about academic and behavioral responsibility, and sacrificing the goals of the individual for the betterment of the team. I'd say probably 90 percent of the parents understand this; it's the 10 percent who make coaches dread answering the phone or looking at their emails. Friends, our coaches deserve better. Before shouting that slur or making that call or sending an email, please look in the mirror and ask yourself, Is this about the TEAM, or this about ME?

East Chambers Feb. 10 Shepherd 5:00 Scrimmage Feb. 13 High Island 4:00 Scrimmage Feb. 17 Woodville 5:00 Scrimmage Feb. 20 @Orangefield 5:00 Scrimmagembers Feb. 24 Brookeland 6:00 Feb. 27 Vidor JV (DH) 4:30, 7:00 Mar. 3 Open March 5-7 Orangefield Tourney Mar. 10 Buna* 6:30 Mar. 13 Beaumont Kelly noon Mar. 17 @Deweyville* 6:30 Mar. 20 Hardin* 6:30 Mar. 21 Hamshire-Fannett 12:00 Mar. 24 @Anahuac* 6:30 Mar. 27 Bye Mar. 31 Kountze* 6:30 Apr. 3 @Warren* 6:30 Apr. 7 @Buna* 6:30 Apr. 9 Deweyville* 6:30 Apr. 13 @Hardin* 5:00 Apr. 17 Anahuac* 6:30 Apr. 21 Warren* 6:30 Apr. 24 @Kountze* 6:30 *District

Smart coach, must stay focus before Nederland

Saturday at the Bridge City Athletic Booster Baseball Clinic young players like Alston Reynolds were instructed by varsity players Matt Hicks and Joe Robertson Compliments of Gary Stelly at KOGT

SETXsports Pre-Season Baseball Top 10 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Bridge City 6. Vidor 7. Hamshire-Fannett 8. Kelly 9. Buna 10. Orangefield Still under construction.

Had maybe 3 practices so far this baseball season, who do you think Coach will go with as No 1 pitcher?

The complete Top 10 will be posted soon.

AC baseball opens season with pair of losses By AC News Service The Lufkin Daily News Saturday, January 31, 2009 The Angelina College Roadrunners picked a mighty tough team with which to open their 2009 campaign, with Blinn's Buccaneers getting numerous pre-season votes as one of the nation's top junior college programs. The Bucs proved those voters knew their business with a pair of wins over AC in Saturday's regular-season opening games for both teams. Complete Story> [Hidden Content]

It's going to be outstanding baseball season. Our members have the top 10 below. I will keep this thread going for awhile before the board makes the call. 1.LCM, LCM, WB, WB, Ned, PNG, LCM, WB, Ned 2.WB , WB, LCM, BC, WB, WB, PNG, PNG, WB 3.PNG, WB , PNG, PNG, PNG, Ned, Vid, Ned, BC 4.BH, BC, Vidor, Ned, BC, BC, WB, LCM, PNG 5.Vidor, BH, BC, Vid, Vid, Vid, BC, Vid, Vid, LCM 6.Vidor, BH, BH, OF, LCM, Ned, BC 7.Buna, Ned, LCM, LCM, BH, Buna, Jasper, OF 8.Jasper, Huffman, Jasper, Jasper,Jasper, Kelly, Buna 9.HF, Buna, Buna, Lumberton, OF, OF, OF, HF 10.OF, Jasper, OF, HF, Buna, HF, HF, Jasper

71-61 f dogs

from what I've heard BC's pony league is going to be allright, so get out there and sign up. if for some reason they don't have enough, let us know in nederland.

They look pretty salty, made the playoffs in 4A lst year.

any roster yet?

when i pick a top 10, i use a 3 game series. just for example, hester on the mound gives vidor a chance to beat anyone.

i like pujols. if he's on the tube and at the plate, i will stop the vacuum, hold off the garbage run, and as lazek mentioned tonight, delay a Lamar, to watch his complete time at the plate.

Was Lamar favored in this game?

LCM at No 1 not a bad choice. They have a pitcher, Shane Waddel who reminds me of a shorter version of John Patterson. He could follow the last Bear who played at this college.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Bridge City 6. Vidor 7. Hamshire-Fannett 8. Kelly 9. Buna 10. Orangefield Huffman, Barbers Hill, Jasper 5A West Brook Memoria 4A Crosby Barbers Hill Central Ozen Dayton Lumberton Nederland Little Cypress-Mauriceville Port Neches-Groves Vidor 3A Huffman Hargrave Bridge City Hamshire-Fannett Jasper Orangefield Silsbee Hardin-Jefferson West Orange-Stark Cleveland Tarkington Coldspring-Oakhurst Kingwood Park Liberty Shepherd Splendora 2A Kirbyville Corrigan-Camden Hemphill Nacogdoches Central Heights Newton San Augustine Shelbyville Woden Woodville Anahuac Buna Deweyville Hardin Kountze Warren East Chambers 1A Evadale High Island Hull-Daisetta Sabine Pass Saratoga West Hardin Spurger

a computer error.

your right coop, it amazes me how some people find their way to work. LCM did the right thing and saved a few of the survey comment writers the aggravation of exposing their intelligence.

Yes, and rightly so.

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