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PN-G will make the playoffs!!!

Congrats Coach!

Just hang on Horns!!!

Huckaby excited about chance to come home Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader ORANGEFIELD — Twenty seven years is a long time to be away from home. So after stops at Hardin-Jefferson, Wharton, Paul Pewitt and Hull Daisetta, Brian Huckaby is glad to be back home in Southeast Texas. Huckaby was approved by the Orangefield ISD School Board Monday night to become the Bobcats’ athletic director/head football coach. Huckaby spent last year at Hull Daisetta as an assistant principal. Now he will try to turn around a program which went 1-7 in 2008 and has not made the playoffs since 2003. “It’s just great to be back in Orange County,†Huckaby, a 1978 graduate of Bridge City, said. “I had a long trip getting here and it definitely feels like home.†The move to become athletic director at Orangefield allows Huckaby’s wife, Mary, to stay on as superintendent of Hull Daisetta Independent School District. “There is no way I could stand in front of her dream,†Huckaby said. “This will allow her to pursue her dream and it also lets me pursue my passion in a school district I have a ton of respect for.†Huckaby went 63-27 in seven seasons at Paul Pewitt which plays in District 12-2A. District 21-3A could be a lot different with teams such as West Orange-Stark and Silsbee lurking in the shadows. Bridge City, Hamshire-Fannett and Hardin-Jefferson could also be tough teams in 2009. “There are tough districts all over the state,†Huckaby said. “A lot of people speculate over the alignment numbers and who is going to go where but I am not one of those people. I am not concerned with having an easy district or a tough district. It may be cliché but you have to take it one game at a time and give the kids their best chance to win football games.†Huckaby knows he will have the support of a fierce community which always turns out in huge numbers at all Orangefield games. “I love the 3A level,†Huckaby added. “The 3A communities are very supportive of their kids. I have been at bigger schools but really the 3A schools offer the kids great opportunities. “I have learned over the years there is not some magic X’s and O’s. There are plenty of playbooks out there that have become winning formulas. It is really all about the fundamentals. We are going to stress ball control and try to set the pace of the game. I feel like that will give us the best opportunity to win games.†The Bobcats will return nine starters on offense and six on defense this season so experience will be a key for Orangefield. “It is all about doing things so you deserve to win games,†Huckaby said. “We are going to have to install confidence in them by them being confident in us coaches. It will start by getting to know them over the summer. That is the first step.†The Bobcats begin the 2009 on Aug. 28 with a road trip to face East Chambers. [Hidden Content]

Well said. One reason the Defense may have not looked good is because the Offense is so much better under Faircloth. You don't know what's coming next when the Offense comes up to the Line.

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HJ Hardin Anahuac

Yes sir, tonight.

Had their chances!!

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From Smoaky.com Hargraves to resign in Bullard KTBB Sports has confirmed Bullard boys basketball coach Hank Hargraves will resign to take an administration job within the Whitehouse school district. Hargraves, who came to Bullard a year ago from East Chambers, led the Panthers to a co-district championship. The Panthers lost to Center in the opening round of the state playoffs. Bullard superintendent Keith Bryant told KTBB's David Smoak, "We hate to lose him, but this is a great opportunity for Hank to get into administration and he couldn't pass it up." Bryant continued, "We will get the job opening up online and it's our hope we can find a replacement within a reasonable amount of time."

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Don't have the scores right now but West Brook and Klein Collins Qualified.

Allen is correct. RB name was Leigh.

They are back i believe.

Yep just like in Houston. Thur, Fri and Sat.

LC-M V-Ball The 2009 Lady Bear Volleyball camp will be held July 13 -17. The incoming 5th, 6th and 7th graders will be from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The incoming 8th and 9th graders will be from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. The cost is $50. More information can be found at lcmcisd.org. Just visit the athletic's page and go to volleyball and then volleyball camp for more information. You may also call 745-3102. BC Volleyball Camp BRIDGE CITY – The Bridge City Volleyball Camp will be held July 20-23 at the Bridge City High School Gym. Incoming fourth through sixth graders will participate from 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. each day while incoming seventh through ninth graders will go from 12:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Participants will learn fundamental and basic skills competition, both individual and team. The cost is $30 and that includes a camp T-shirt. Make checks payable to Bridge City Volleyball Camp. For more information call 735-1547.

He should be a Beast this year!

Your right the OL will be the key.

Quinny Garrett graduated last year. Some good RB's coming in though!

Yep, that's what he was saying in the video.

Is trainers’ report really a hot topic? By Dave Rogers Published June 21, 2009 Barbers Hill grad Dan Ray Hooks has been head coach at West Orange-Stark for 29 years and only 15 other Texans have coached more than his 261 high school victories. So excuse the 70-year-old Hooks if he’s opinionated: “Those trainers, they need to train, and we will do the coaching,†he said last week after the National Athletic Trainers Association put out a report recommending that high school football teams dispense with two-a-day practices during their first week of August workouts. The NATA also recommended longer breaks between practices. “It’s just another example of the wussification of America,†cried Houston sports radio talk show host Carl Dukes. Really, it just tells me Thursday was a slow news day for the Associated Press in San Antonio, which covered the NATA’s annual meeting there. Heat stroke is no joke. Never has been. Never will be. It’s just that most of the recommendations offered in the report are pretty much already in place in Texas, at least the parts of Texas I know about. Believe me, the coaches and trainers I’ve dealt with have been for the last 20 years or so as concerned with and are as up-to-date on preventing heat illness as they can be. Best I can tell, the days of coaches withholding water from their players are long gone. And ... knock on wood, in the nearly 40 years I’ve been around high school football, I’ve never been around a team that had a player die from heat stroke or suffer any kind of life-threatening on-field injury. (Never mind that every time the ball is snapped in a football game, it can be a life-threatening situation, depending on equipment, conditioning and just dumb luck. Let me knock on wood again.) But still, kids die almost every year from heat stroke. The NATA report says at least 39 football players across the country have died since 1995. One is too many. Especially if it’s yours. But like everything else nowadays with our wall-to-wall reporting, saturation coverage blows things out of proportion. In the 10-15 years covered by this count, that averages out to about three football players a year dying of heat stroke in a country of more than 300 million people. And if my recollection is not too far off, I think there are about a million football players each year in high school alone. “Is it really more prevalent? Or is it more advertised because it’s a hot topic?†Karen Barger, Sterling High’s head trainer, asked me when we talked about the NATA report Thursday. No one can really tell you what the total of heat-related football deaths were in the 50s or 60s, because no organization monitored it like they can and do today. Duke said kids today are “soft,†partly because they spend more of their summertime in air-conditioned buildings, standard equipment for most these days that was a luxury when most of the Baby Boomers were growing up. Veteran coaches agree that as times have changed, so have their players – and not always for the best when it comes to handling the heat. Whether it’s that lack of year-round “heat†conditioning, or whether it’s the increase of sun-reflecting concrete and air pollution that trap heat as folks migrate from the country to metropolises, it sure seems hotter these days. And that makes an all-out effort to ward against overheating plenty important. To me, it looks like such an effort is already in place – unless my experiences aren’t typical. Limiting football practices – which are already heavily regulated by this state and most others – could actually be harmful if it means sending kids into games unprepared. And face it, life is full of risks. But how far are we willing to go to eliminate the risks? After all, no one would ever die in a car wreck if we just eliminated all the cars.

There will be more passing!

They came up just short. They played well but lost in a good game to Pasadena Dobie.

Oh there will be some passing!!