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Ex-Astro Hayes accused of assaulting youth coach An attorney for an ex-major leaguer accused of hitting a youth baseball coach said today his client was only defending himself when the man tried to attack him after using a racial epithet. Authorities have charged Charlie Hayes with misdemeanor assault for a fight during a game last October. He faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted. Hayes, who played 14 seasons as a third baseman for seven teams, including the Astros and Yankees, pleaded not guilty during a court appearance Thursday. His attorney, Terry Yates, said Hayes was trash-talking with an opposing coach during the game. But at one point in their exchange, the coach directed a racial epithet at Hayes, Yates said. However, the remark was not the reason the two men fought, Yates said. "The guy also turned toward (Hayes) and came at him," he said. "Charlie was defending himself, and it didn't help that the guy made this statement either. It all happened so quickly." Hayes received a bloody nose during the fight. The coach he is accused of assaulting told authorities his back was injured. Yates said the delay in filing the assault charge, which was done last week, might have been motivated by an effort to get money from Hayes. The coach has denied using the racial epithet and has said he isn't out for money. Hayes is set to appear again in court March 1. He is free on a $1,000 bond. In 1999, while playing for the Giants, Hayes was suspended for four games by the National League for charging an Arizona pitcher from second base and instigating a brawl.

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Pic..kogt WOS Assistant Coach Roy Locks has been hired as the linebackers coach at Northwestern State University. Locks, an Orange native, starred at NSU and also played with the Beaumont Drillers Arena League team.

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Teams jockey for playoff positions as races near end College Park, Westfield, Cy-Fair seek perfect marks By JENNY DIAL Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle With just a week left in the high school girls basketball season, the standings are taking shaping for area Class 5A and 4A districts as teams battle for places in the playoffs. The 5A playoffs have a fourth team this year, while the 4A playoff format includes the top three teams in each district. District 15-5A College Park (9-0) is in and will win the district title with one more win. Conroe (7-2) also has clinched a playoff berth. The Woodlands (4-5) is sitting pretty in third and will clinch a spot with a win today. Lufkin and Magnolia are tied at 3-6. If both win out, the district will need a playoff to see who gets the fourth spot. District 16-5A Westfield (10-0) won the district title easily. Tomball and Klein Collins are both in the playoffs with 6-5 records but may need a playoff to determine which team gets the No. 2 seed and which is No. 3. Spring stands fourth and could overtake Tomball or Klein Collins with two more wins if either team suffers a loss. District 17-5A Cy-Fair (10-0) and Cypress Falls (10-1) are playoff bound. Langham Creek is 6-4 and, barring two losses, will make its first playoff appearance in eight seasons. Cypress Creek and Cypress Springs are still battling for the fourth spot. District 18-5A Cinco Ranch (12-0) clinched the top spot. Elsik (8-3) will go as the No. 2 team unless it loses two games. Hastings and Katy Taylor are tied for third with 7-5 records and play today. Alief Taylor (6-6) still has a chance. District 19-5A If Eisenhower (11-1) and Nimitz (11-1) both win out, they will need a playoff to decide the district championship. Memorial (10-2) is in, and Spring Woods and MacArthur, both 6-6, are battling for the fourth spot. District 20-5A Westside (12-1) is in control and Bellaire (11-2) has clinched the No. 2 position. Lamar stands third with an 8-6 record, and Chavez has fourth clinched at 7-5. District 21-5A This district also is set. The seeding could change, but the four teams that are playoff bound are Humble (11-1), Port Arthur Memorial (11-2), Kingwood (9-2) and Baytown Sterling (5-6). District 22-5A The four playoff teams here are also set. Dobie (11-1) and North Shore (10-2) are the top two; La Porte and Deer Park are in with 8-4 records, but the seeds won't be determined until play ends in a week. District 23-5A Six teams are battling for four spots in this race. Marshall (13-2), Dulles (12-2) and Elkins (11-3) have qualified, while Hightower, Willowridge and Fort Bend Austin are tied for fourth with 7-7 records. District 24-5A The four qualifiers are Alvin (10-1), Clear Brook (8-2), Clear Creek (7-4 ) and Clear Lake (7-4). Clear Creek and Clear Brook meet in the final game of the season Tuesday. District 18-4A Willis (8-2), Huntsville (8-3) and Livingston (7-3) are playoff qualifiers. The three have already played each other twice, so they won't meet again. Upsets from Brenham or Montgomery could change the seeding order. District 19-4A Jones (9-1) will win the title with a win in its final district game over Wheatley on Tuesday. Sterling (8-3) and Worthing (7-3) are the other qualifiers. District 20-4A Washington (11-0) has the top spot in the postseason and Yates (9-2) will finish second. Reagan and Davis are fighting for third and face off tonight. Both take 7-4 records into the showdown. District 21-4A Barbers Hill (11-1) is the district champion, and Crosby is in with a 9-3 record. New Caney and Smiley are tied at 8-4 with two games left to play. District 23-4A Dickinson (11-0) clinched the top spot two weeks ago, and La Marque and Santa Fe are both in with 6-4 records. They play each other tonight to decide second place. District 24-4A Lamar Consolidated (9-0) leads the way, while Terry and El Campo are in at Nos. 2 and 3 with just one game remaining. [email protected]

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Thomas, Williams make All-State teams Van Wade The Orange Leader West Orange-Stark senior Earl Thomas and Deweyville senior Justin Williams both were selected the their respective Texas Sportswriters Association All-State Football Teams Wednesday. Williams, (6-1, 225), who helped lead the Pirates to their second straight playoff appearance out of District 24-2A, zipped his way to a whopping 2,294 yards and 32 touchdowns on 257 carries for Coach Dwight Bickham’s offensive unit. With his efforts, Williams landed on the Class 2A All-State Second Team. Thomas, also an outstanding defensive back, was selected to the Third Team Offense on the Class 3A unit. Thomas hauled in 40 receptions for 861 yards and scored 13 TDs while also rushing for 387 yards and nine TDs on 55 totes for long-time Mustang head coach Dan Hooks’ offense. There were just two other Southeast Texans that landed on the elite units. East Chambers junior Tremain Thomas (6-2, 175), was a Second Team Class 2A selection in the secondary after picking off seven passes. He also quarterbacked the 24-2A champion Buccaneers, passing for 1,366 yards and 11 TDs and also rushed for 1,349 yards and 23 TDs. Silsbee senior offensive lineman Ahmad Jones (6-2, 310), who helped steer the vaunted Tiger running attack all the way to the playoffs, was a Class 3A Second Team selection. Thomas and Williams are both finalists for the prestigious Willie Ray Smith Awards which goes out to the best offensive and defensive player in Southeast Texas. Williams is nominated on offense while Thomas is a defensive finalist. EC’s Thomas is also a finalist for the offensive award. Former East Chambers head coach Andy Evans, who had a long, successful stint at the Winnie school, was named Class 2A Coach of the Year after guiding Tatum to the Division I state crown. Tatum running back Lennon Creer was named the 2A Offensive MVP after darting for 2,835 yards and 34 TDs while Mart linebacker Heston Adler, who posted 218 tackles, was the Defensive MVP after helping his unit to the Division II state title. Gilmer quarterback G.J. Kinne and Liberty Hill running back Brent Bode shared Offensive MVP honors in 3A while Giddings linebacker John Dock is the Defensive MVP. Kinne passed for 2,962 yards and 47 TDs while Bode rushed for 2,363 yards and 28 TDs. Dock led Giddings with 167 tackles. Liberty-Eylau’s Pat Brady received Coach of the Year honors. For a complete look at both the 3A and 2A TSWA All-State Teams please see Sportsstats on Page 2B.

LC-M diamond full of new names Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader LITTLE CYPRESS — Fans of Little Cypress-Mauriceville baseball will have a lot of getting used to do at the first of this season. Coach Steve Griffith could only muster up two names that were around last season, catcher Jake Rowell and pitcher Adam Leggett. The Bears lost four first team all-district selections from last year and three second team players.. LC-M was a perfect 12-0 through the district and eventually lost to long-time rival Brenham. Do not feel sorry for the Bears just yet. LC-M lost 12 players after the 1997. The next year the Bears made it to the regional finals. In 1999, Griffith once again lost 12 players and once again the next season saw the Bears right back in the regional finals. After last season, the Bears loss 11 players to graduation. Griffith is already doing the math in his head. “To have that many kids graduate and to have such a tough district, it is going to be tough to overcome this,†Griffith said. “Our kids have been working hard and are going to continue to work to overcome it this year. We are looking to find kids who work hard, make good grades and act right. If they don’t fit in those categories, they will not be in the group we pick.†Griffith added he has had an idea of what players would be on the diamond for the Bears since last season and is really now selecting a few new players while also getting ready for next year. “Part of what we do here is the kids we have now were in all the team meetings last year,†Griffith said. “They know the signs and the plays. We are not totally starting from scratch. We are also right now finding our top candidates for next year. We are not always just preparing for just this season.†LC-M will get its first work Feb. 20 against West Orange-Stark before hosting its annual tournament Feb. 22-24. The Bears will take tough road trips to the Brenham Tournament, March 1-3, and the Jasper Tournament, Mar. 8-10. These games, plus a road trip to Beaumont Kelly on Mar. 6, is to prepare the new Bears’ roster for another march through the district which now includes the Dayton Broncos. “Nederland and Port Neches are always good teams,†Griffith said. “Vidor is as strong as they have ever been and Ozen could have the best pitching staff in the district. Dayton is returning about 10 or 12 seniors. The early season line-up of games and tournaments has served us well in the past.†So for now, the Bears’ baseball coaching staff is taking a hard look at 12 players who have a chance to “slug it out†for position spots. The Bears are also working out 11 pitchers, five left-handers and six right-handers. “Before the weather went south lately, we got in 600 at-bats and kept stats on the hitters and the pitchers. This helped the kids turn from sophomores to juniors and the juniors turned to seniors. “That many swings and pitches is almost a whole season. As a motivator, I told the kids a while back we were starting the season as low as seventh in the district and each month I bumped them up. I hope we have already worked hard enough that we are now in the race.â€

OF, D'ville take honors from voters Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader First off let me say thank you for participating in this poll of our area’s best girls players. It was interesting no doubt but the norm came out as the team in our area with the best record had the most votes in the end. Congratulations not only to the winners but to every girls basketball player in Southeast Texas. Now on to the winners: Area’s Best Scorer Orangefield’s Kaylin Little Best All-Around Player Orangefield’s Kristy Sanders Best Young Suprise Orangefield’s Oliva Wagner Greatest Force Inside Orangefield’s Paige Roy Best Coaching Job This Season Orangefield’s Sondra Ancelot Biggest Hustler Deweyville’s Tera Gibson Most Fun to Watch Deweyville’s Teresa Brown

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SOURCE:Beaumont Enterprise LC-M hanging on to slim shot at a postseason berth Do you believe in miracles? The Little Cypress-Mauriceville boys basketball team does. LC-M sits two games behind Central for the third playoff spot in District 22-4A, but the Bears are not giving up hope for their second straight playoff appearance. Ozen (20-5) holds sole possession of first place at 10-0, while Dayton (17-7) is in second place at 8-2. Central (14-12) is in third place at 7-3. "As of right now we are two games back and out of a playoff spot," said LC-M coach Darin Harley, whose team is 15-13 overall and 5-5 in district play. "But as long as we keep winning we might get a shot at the end." It's still a little premature, but it could happen. Bottom line: it's do or die time for the Bears. The Bears must win at least three of their last four games for any chance at the playoffs. LC-M is scheduled to play Lumberton, Vidor, Central and PN-G in the next two weeks. "We are playing pretty good right now," Harley said. "I think we just have to take care of the games in front of us and see how it unfolds." Lumberton travels to LC-M for a 7:30 p.m. game at the Bears' gym. Lumberton beat LC-M 66-44 in its first district meeting on Jan. 9. "I have to give credit to Lumberton," Harley said. "They outplayed us and they deserved the win. We showed little effort in that game. Our goal this time around is to come out with maximum effort against them." The reason for all the hoopla surrounding the Bears is the fact they have won three out of their last four games. The most notable victory was a 75-58 win over Dayton on Jan. 26. Ozen was the only team in the district to hand the Broncos a loss before the game. The Bears also beat PN-G 56-54 and Nederland 46-36. "I am very happy with the progress we have made," Harley said. "We are starting to execute at a level to be successful." LC-M almost handed Ozen its first district loss of the season. The Bears missed the last shot of the game that allowed Ozen to hold onto a 51-48 victory on Jan. 23. It was the second year in a row that LC-M missed the last shot against the Panthers. Ozen beat LC-M 77-76 in overtime last year. "Ozen is well-coached and a very good team," said Harley, whose team suffered a 93-49 loss to Ozen in its first district game. "But I think in order to beat them you have to control the pace of the game. We were not able to do it at their place, but we handled the full court pressure at home. We just missed the last shot of the game. That was the second time that it has happened." Even though the Bears returned only one letterman from last year's playoff team, Harley never underestimated what his squad could do. "We lost eight seniors from last year's team," Harley said. "We are basically playing last year's JV team, so I knew it was going to take some time to get into a rhythm. We've played good at stretches and then bad other times, but we knew from the start that the only way to get experience is to play. The season has been a great building block for the next one."

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