KFDM COOP

How's Lumberton's pitching?

Within 3 Years somebody will have it!

What are some the Teams in the area that may surprise people this Year? All Classifications. Opinions..

Gordon wins second Duel race Daytona Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Jeff Gordon captured the second of two Gatorade Duel at Daytona events. The No.24 DuPont Chevrolet driver took the checkered flag 0.127 seconds ahead of runner-up Kyle Busch. It was the third "Duel" win of Gordon's career. In the race within the race, Robby Gordon and Mike Wallace were the top-two finishers of 12 drivers who were not already qualified for the Daytona 500 via 2005 owners standings or qualifying. The pair earned a position on the starting grid by finishing 10th and 12th, respectively. Defending Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon brought the 29-car field to the green flag to start the 60-lap qualifying event. The Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and Bobby Labonte drove side-by-side for the first two laps before Labonte and his No.43 Petty Enterprises Dodge took the top spot. Labonte's lead lasted four laps until another Hendrick Motorsport car, Busch's No.5 Chevrolet, took the lead. Busch and Jeff Gordon raced with one another for the lead, but Busch wouldn't yield to his teammate. So Gordon ducked behind his teammate and the two began to pull away from the rest of the field. Jamie McMurray, the newest member of the Roush Racing team, joined the top pair and together they had more than half-a-second on the other 26 race cars. But as usually happens in a restrictor-plate race, the other cars teamed up to bring the leaders back to the pack. The first caution came out on lap 27 when Joe Nemechek's No.01 Army Chevrolet began to smoke. He quickly slowed and was out of the race with an engine failure. The timing was convenient for the race teams as it was a perfect spot to pit and still reach the checkered flag without any more stops. Busch overshot his pit box and the delay left him in seventh place. Gordon won the race off pit lane and returned to the top spot with McMurray just behind him. Jeff Gordon held the lead as the drivers hit the 40-lap mark of a scheduled 60, but it wasn't a big lead. Eleven cars made up the first group, all within 1.5 seconds of each other. Dave Blaney brought out a caution on lap 51 when his left-rear tire went flat. The caution left the race as a seven-lap shootout to the checkered flag. But when J.J. Yeley spun out on lap 58, the fans were treated to a second straight green-white-checker finish. Jeff Gordon took the green flag and as the cars slowly gained speed kept the inside line. It takes almost a lap and a half for Nextel Cup cars to reach top speed, so as long as Gordon held to the bottom of the track, he figured to win it. And win it he did, crossing the finish line just ahead of Busch. McMurray, Labonte, and Mark Martin completed the top-five.

West Brook will be good again under Stump! Can't wait to see how Memorial does as well.

Heard it was a good one!

Yep!

I think folks in Port Arthur are starting to realize Thompson is the Man. Read Article.

www.panews.com Wide-open offenses follow PA coach There are nearly 56,000 students in the Garland school district, east of Dallas, and about 16,000 of them are high schoolers. They attend seven different Class 5A high schools and it seems like all the good football players wind up at Garland High. "You can live anywhere in Garland and go to school any place," veteran GISD athletic director Homer Johnson says of the district's open admission policy. "That makes it kind of hard on people who don't coach at Garland High." Ronnie Thompson, Port Arthur Memorial's newly named head coach and athletic director, coached at South Garland High School for 14 years, nine as head coach. Thompson, 83-72-3 in 16 seasons as a high school head coach, was 41-50-1 at South Garland from 1993 to 2001. That included two 2-8 seasons, two 4-6 seasons and three that ended 5-5. In 1996 and 1997, South Garland made the playoffs, going 6-4-1 and 8-3. Johnson, who was Garland High football coach 50 years ago when that was the city's only high school, thinks Thompson did a good job at South Garland. "Ronnie was really a good coach, a great offensive coach. I know the other coaches around here hated to play him, because he used entirely a different type of offense than anybody they played," Johnson said. "You've really got yourself a good coach. No question, you've hired a good guy." Thompson's whiz-bang offense first took the Golden Triangle, then the state of Texas by storm in TJ's 1980-81 heyday. It had the same effect in Northeast Texas in the 1990s. "People in Port Arthur don't understand that when he came to the Dallas area to coach, his influence on the passing game in the Dallas-Fort Worth area was just unbelievable," said Todd Dodge, the Thompson protege who has racked of a record of 63-1 and three state championships the past four years at Southlake Carroll. "You can't turn three degrees and not find someone who hasn't been affected by him. I can go on and on about people who are running an offense derived from what Ronnie was doing. "He's been very influential to what's going on today in the Dallas area. And, somewhat, all over the state of Texas." Garland's open admission policy allows students going into their ninth-grade year to choose their high school, so there's no such thing as a feeder system prepping the players for high schools programs there. "At South Garland, most of kids didn't even play football in junior high, but they picked the offense right up," Thompson said. "It was a lot of fun to prepare." Dodge knows the thrill. "I've put my own wrinkle on things with the no-huddle and all that kind of stuff," he says. "But still, in the way we do things, there's a lot of Port Arthur, a lot of Ronnie Thompson fingerprints on the things we do today."

That's what's nice about Realignment Years, New games/New Teams!

In 1A West Hardin will be a Beast. In 2A Look out for Anahuac!

Silsbee Boys could be on their way to Austin!

Onalaska by 8...

Big win for Kounze in their warm up game!

I hear he's pretty good!

Your prolly right!! :bss

Will it ever get here??

Yes it is!!

Silsbee shocks 5A Aldine in Warm Up game 65-64!

Stewart gets help from rookie to win Busch race DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Tony Stewart just wanted to have some fun and stop thinking about Sunday's Daytona 500. "This is going to make sleeping tonight a little easier," Stewart said Saturday after wresting the lead from pal Dale Earnhardt Jr. with 13 laps to go, then holding off a series of challenges to win the crash-filled Hershey's Kissables 300 NASCAR Busch Series race. It was the second year in a row Stewart, the two-time and reigning Nextel Cup champion, has won the 300-mile race at Daytona International Speedway in a car fielded by fellow Cup star Kevin Harvick's Busch team. Last year, it was Harvick who pushed Stewart to the win. This time, the help came from a much more unlikely source -- new teammate Burney Lamar, a rookie making only his third Busch start. "He did an awesome job," Stewart said of Lamar, who battled with Clint Bowyer, a Cup rookie this year and last year's Busch series runner-up, to the finish line and was awarded second place after a review of the video by NASCAR. Jon Wood was credited with fourth and Harvick fifth in a Richard Childress Racing car. The race was punctuated by a series of crashes, the biggest of which came on the final lap. As Stewart raced away to the victory, a melee involving at least 10 cars erupted close behind the leaders, with cars crashing into the wall and sliding and spinning through the infield grass. There were no injuries reported.

Cathedral 89 San Antonio Castle Hills 29

Good Deal!

At least he got things smoothed out with the QB.. :thumbsup

That's true!

www.panews.com PA coach's first day eventful Ronnie Thompson's first day on the job as Memorial High's new head football coach impressed at least one assistant coach and, Thompson says, included a turnaround for at least one player. "It was a good first day," Thompson said Friday evening, about 24 hours after he'd been hired as the Port Arthur school district's athletic director and head coach. "I got a chance to meet with the coaching staff and see the team. I think we've got some good talent there." Thompson met Port Arthur's sophomore and junior football players during their fourth-period football athletic period. "I thought it was pretty good," defensive coordinator T.K. Harrison said of Thompson's talk to the youngsters. "He got the kids in the auditorium and talked to them. He told them some of the stuff we were going to do. He told him nobody was bigger than the team. That it was little "me" and big "team." He told them how we were going to do all this together. "He talked for most of the period until the announcements came on. The kids asked a couple of questions. He seems to be kind of guy who will roll his sleeves up and go to work. "I like the fact that he got hired last night and he was here today. That shows me something." About 80 players were present. Kenny Harrison, the Titan's offensive coordinator the past four seasons, said all the players were present and accounted for. Including quarterback Davon Lewis. The senior-to-be stomped out of the school board meeting Thursday night when it was announced Thompson was being hired. He threatened to be a no-show from off-season drills. Thompson said he sought the player out Friday morning. "I got with him," the coach said. "That thing was all amicable. He understands. He's going to be fine." Thompson, a 1962 Thomas Jefferson graduate who coached the team from 1978-81, plans to move back into his old office over the weekend. "I need to get set up, so I can get some materials run off for the staff," he said. "My first task will be to observe, learn some names and try to slowly get into the teaching part of (his offensive and defensive schemes)." Thompson has said he'll spend time this winter and spring evaluating the coaching staff left behind by his predecessor, Dean Colbert, before firming up his coaching staff this summer. "I want to get on the field as soon as possible," he said. "It's hard to evaluate coaches when you're not doing anything." T.K. Harrison said he and Kenny Harrison have had the players working hard on conditioning and football skills during fourth period since Colbert resigned early last month. "I think we'll be ahead of the game next year more than we were," he said. "I know we've got to come in and learn a whole new system offensively and how he wants to do things, but basically the kids are doing good. "Coach Colbert was real big into the mental part of the game during off-season, but since we had no head coach we couldn't do a lot of stuff that's challenging mentally. So we're addressing things we need in football, everything we could do just short of putting on the pads." Thompson's athletic director responsibilities promise to keep him running. "There's a bunch of things and there's just one of me," he says, "but I think we made a lot of progress in some spots. "We identified some hot spots, and now we need to see how fast we can get into fixing them."