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From kogt.com The defense did its job by not allowing any positive yards for the panthers. The Standouts were Dillon Crabtree, Remonte Johnson (fumble recovery), Jazzper Hughes (caused fumble), Taja Stevenson, Matt Ashworth, and Daviontae Wandick. The Stallions B-team will play Orangefield next Thursday at home.

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From BigRob465 District 24-4A Play-off scenarios OK here we go: Friendswood is in, and needs to find a way to catch Angleton for the title. Angleton although not technically in, will be with a win this week and can win the title by winning out against Santa Fe and Manvel. A win by Brazosport in either of their last two games against Friendswood and Texas City gets them in. Losses in both brin in tie breakers. They currently hold tie breakers over Dawson and Manvel. La Marque is in if they win both their last two games against Manvel and Friendswood. A win this week gives them tie breakers over Manvel, Dawson, and Brazosport going into Friendswood in week 10. Texas City is definitely in with 2 wins in their last two games against Dawson and Brazosport. Losses in either will likely make it come down to tie breakers which they hold over only La Marque right now. Dawson and Manvel are not officially out but need some big wins to finish out and do not hold many tie breakers.

Mustangs visit Sour Lake with title on the line Van Wade The Orange Leader WEST ORANGE — One more victory and the West Orange-Stark Mustangs will claim their fifth straight district title since joining the Class 3A ranks in 2004. The team standing in the third-ranked Mustangs (6-0, 3-0) way this week are the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks (4-3, 3-0), who share the top spot with WO-S in the 21-3A standings. The Mustangs visit beautiful Sour Lake Friday night to take on an H-J team that has stormed to three straight wins over the likes of Bridge City, Orangefield and Hamshire-Fannett. However, the Hawks could be facing a totally different “monster†on Halloween this week as the Mustangs check in with 27 3A district wins in a row. WO-S has outscored their three 21-3A foes 146-14 thus far and have put 66 points apiece on both H-F and Bridge City the last two weeks. “Looking at the way things are shaping up, both us and H-J are basically in the playoffs but whoever wins Friday will probably win the district,†Hooks said. “Coach (David) Martel has the Hawks playing good football. They’ve improved a lot on the defensive side of the ball compared to last year and they have nice skill folks on offense.†The Hawks, coming off a 21-12 win against H-F last week are paced by the solid two-man running back system led by Jacoby Turner, who has 474 yards and eight touchdowns on 84 carries and Trey Burrell, who has muscled his way to 365 yards and five TDs on 76 totes. Quarterback Blake Venable has passed for 416 yards and three TDs and has rushed for 169 yards and a TD. “H-J has some good skill people,†said Hooks. “That Turner kid is a tough runner. The Hawks are playing with a lot of confidence right now. They had a big comeback win against Anahuac. They played Newton really tough and have won three straight in district.†The Mustangs have bee gobbling up opponents at an awesome rate. WO-S has outscored opponents 140-28 in the first half the season. The Mustang “Chain Gang†defense has allowed just 131 yards a game and opponents have yet to score on them in the third quarter. Offensively, WO-S is pumping out 359.7 yards a game, despite not being on the field as much of late with all the TDs that have been scored on special teams and defense. Senior quarterback Ortavious Hypolite paves the way. He’s completed 47-of-79 passes for 792 yards and eight TDs and has just one interception. He’s also rushed for 432 yards and eight TDs. Receiver Trey Franks has been his favorite target with 20 receptions for 438 yards and four TDs. Senior running back Quintavious Garrett leads the ground arsenal with 548 yards and nine TDs on 81 carries. The Mustangs will face either Coldspring or Cleveland in the bidistrict round of the Class 3A Division II Region III playoffs but their main focus is H-J this week and at home against Orange County rival Orangefield next week. “We don’t want our kids looking ahead at all,†said Hooks. “Their mindset is that we’re 3-0 with two to go. H-J will be fired up for us. It’ll be a packed house at their place with a a lot of excitement filling the air. I think we’ll be okay. We can’t afford for H-J to get momentum going early and let them thrive off of that.â€

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From HoopInsiderCooper Preseason I revised, not because of the 'belly-aching' but because this poll was done @ 3 a.m. LOL. You guys start winning and the polls will change!!!! Grin HoopInsider 5A/4A 1. Ozen - Once again loaded in the front/back court. DeCarlos & Willie. Any ?s 2. PA Memorial - No J'Covan? No problem. 3. West Brook - Talent's not the question. 4. Central - Gulley hopes to lead Central past 1st round. 5. Crosby - 4 starters are back from a playoff team. 6. Vidor - 4 starters back from a patient offense. 7. Nederland - They have the players. 8. Dayton - They lose some pop but still have talent. 9. Barbers Hill - Stud is gone but they do return Ian Hamlin. 10. LC-M - Young 'Cubs' but led by a good coach. HoopInsider 3A/2A/1A/Private 1. Hardin-Jefferson - Killer B's. 2. Silsbee - Lil' Shannon & crew will go toe-to-toe with HJ. 3. Kountze - Lost Devin Bray but Roman Walker returns. 4. Newton - Won't begin playing until December. 5. Anahuac - Talent & coach is there. 6. Orangefield - Got a taste of playoffs. 7. East Chambers - You know who is no longer there but don't sell them short. 8. Big Sandy - Moved districts & gone is their big man down low. 9. Spurger - Talented group who lost to Big Sandy. 10. Hull-Daisetta - Will contend with Spruger for 25-A title.

BC seniors celebrate senior night - twice Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader BRIDGE CITY — A special senior night indeed. Sam West, Mallory Guidry, Sarah Armand and Destiny Garza celebrated their Senior Night for the Bridge City Lady Cardinals in style as the four did their job and got a little help late Tuesday. Bridge City first swept past the Hardin-Jefferson Lady Hawks and then went to watch the Hamshire-Fannett Lady Longhorns take down the Orangefield Lady Bobcats to force a third-place tie in the District 21-3A standings. Bridge City won the match 25-19, 25-19 and 25-12. The Lady Cardinals and Lady Bobcats finished the district schedule an identical 5-5. Before Orangefield even took the court, the Lady Cardinals first had to take care of their own business. West led the Lady Cardinals with a game-high 12 kills while Sarah Armand finished with 10. Guidry led the Lady Cardinals with nine digs and Garza was great from serve the whole match with 10 service points. The four seniors were not alone as junior Emily Kosh led the match with 24 assists and sophomore Maggie Stump added a match-high seven aces. Sophomore Marlee Lopez added seven kills while fellow sophomore Sara McPherson finished with six. Sophomore Bria Thibodeaux added six digs in the victory. Bridge City trailed Game 1 8-6 before Kosh set West for a kill. Then with McPherson at serve, the Lady Cardinals went on a roll. The Lady Cardinals first got a kill from sophomore Jordan Royal to tie the score at 8-8. Royal finished with three kills. McPherson, who also had four digs, then struck for two aces and another H-J shot landed out of bounds to give Bridge City a 11-8 cushion. The Lady Cardinals would not give up the lead in Game 1 as Guidry led another Lady Cardinals’ run from serve. McPherson had two kills from Kosh assists in the run that pushed Bridge City ahead 21-14. With the Lady Cardinals up 24-19 and the Lady Hawks serving, Kosh set Lopez for Game 1’s final point. Armand had five kills in the game. Game 2 was close until Stump came up to serve with Bridge City leading 4-3. Stump hit two consecutive aces and would later hit for three more. In between, Kosh set West for two kills as Bridge City pulled ahead 11-3. H-J started to make a late rally but a serve found the net to kill the momentum to make it 22-15 Bridge City. Two Lady Hawk hits went for errors with Garza at serve and West came up with another kill as Bridge City won Game 2, 25-12. Garza and her teammates then made sure Game 3 was short and sweet as the Lady Cardinals put the match on ice with a 25-12 win. Garza had nine service points in Game 3 and would be the first to thank West for assistance as West hit five kills while Garza was serving. The second long run with Garza at serve came with Bridge City up 18-9. Kosh set West for a kill and then West called her own number for another spike to give the Lady Cardinals a 20-9 lead. With the Lady Cardinals up 23-12, Stump was at it again. Stump finished the night with back-to-back aces to finish the deal. Then was time to watch a short video celebrating the 2008 squad and on to Orangefield for some very tense Lady Cardinal moments. Now the team is waiting to learn when and where the Lady Bobcats and Lady Cardinals will meet for the third time this season. Both home teams won in the match-ups.

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Cardenas sees grandmother, Vidor matchup very important By Tom Halliburton The Port Arthur News NEDERLAND -- Asa Cardenas used his Tuesday newspaper interview as a platform to call attention to his grandmother. He never had to mention her at all. It's not that Nederland's senior receiver/safety had to do it. He wanted to. The 17-year-old Super Team pass catcher for the Bulldogs could have dwelled on what it's like to play both ways this season. He could have talked about how it changed his pass receiving season significantly this year to be the main weapon in each team's defensive scouting report. Cardenas announced last week that he orally committed to accepting a football scholarship to play at Lamar University. He probably would have preferred to play for the Texas Longhorns if they would have been interested. There's all sorts of sports-related items, such as the fact that Asa said he planned to play baseball and track next spring. Yet at the top of his list stood Wanda McCowan. "You really ought to do a story about her," Cardenas said. "She's the one who really is the hero. She raised four sisters on a minimum wage and she hasn't missed a single thing during all my sports. She won a Mother's Day of the Year award from the Port Arthur News. Since I was about three years old, she has done everything possible to help me." Asa is grateful to special people outside the family, too. His receivers coach Bryan Spell has been 'like a big brother' to me. A best friend and teammate, Jimmy Swain, has been Asa's closest buddy since they were little. But the pain of a broken home has been tough on Cardenas since he practically was a toddler. A lot of that pain has been withheld from a lot of people, even many key people in Nederland's football operation. That makes sense that Asa keeps plenty of his private life as private as he can. Now HE’S ready to go public about one very important matter to him -- the Nederland Bulldogs in the 4A state football playoffs. Asa privately was on the outside of the playoffs, looking in to them last November and December. He might have been this area's finest receiver as a junior but Cardenas would have traded that individual distinction very quickly for even the smallest share of some team gratification. That's why Friday night's visit to Vidor has turned paramount in Asa's scheme of things. An extremely complicated playoff picture exists because each 4A district qualifies four teams for the post-season in 2008 for the first time in history. It's so complex that only a tiny number of Nederland varsity coaches understand. One thing has been determined for sure, though. If Nederland does not win at Vidor on 7:30 Friday night at Pirate Stadium, coach Larry Neumann's team kisses its playoff chances 'goodbye' for the second straight year. "It's a very big game, more than any other game so far, because I would like to go to the playoffs and it's always been a tradition of Nederland to go there," Cardenas said. The Bulldog in Cardenas really surfaced when he dwelled upon the word, 'tradition.' Do not be surprised in Nederland's locker room on Friday at 7:20 if Asa has uttered the word 'tradition' again. Nederland (3-3 and 3-2) established a Southeast Texas prep record of 10 consecutive bidistrict victories before that string ended last year when the 2007 Bulldogs missed the playoffs on the last night of the regular season. Vidor (5-2 and 3-2) is favored by state rating services to knock out Nederland on the Pirates 2008 homecoming night. Anyone who has attended a Vidor homecoming game can explain the rest of that elaborate story. Translation: NHS will have to be at its best. Neumann often has said a program's prosperity or failure has a strange way of being able to turn on a dime. The Bulldogs' finest receiver perhaps in any era, Cardenas would like to say a few more words to his readers about tradition. He might even want to get up and talk about the word at a Nederland pep rally. ` Vidor has not been to the 4A football playoffs since 2000. That's a tradition that Cardenas wishes to extend. And it's not that he has anything against any Vidor player. It's that Asa has grown up around this high school watching it go to the playoffs. "Here's the main thing for our seniors," he said. "It feels like you don't want to leave something behind worse than when you got there." When his contribution to Nederland's tradition ends, Cardenas joins LU head coach Ray Woodard at re-starting a brand new Big Red gridiron grab at glory. And yes, Asa has noticed how big that Big Ray is. He might be big enough to play in Vidor's line. "He's a big ol' fellow, isn't he?" Cardenas said. "I think we will get along fine. He's a nice man and he's always let me know what I've needed to know about Lamar's situation. Lamar is an exciting opportunity to get on track again and Lamar gave me an offer I can't refuse." One of the biggest parts of that offer was that his grandmother was going to be able to continue to watch his athletic career. That would mean a special amount to a woman who has done so much for her grandson. Bulldog Bites: Cardenas and Stefan Huber topped the homecoming night grade book at NHS with an 89, followed by Brent Salenga (87) and Jude Vidrine (86) among Nederland's regulars.... Dogs leading tacklers were Jordan Landry (9 and 6), Shelby Clark (8 and 4) and Grant Lovelady (6 and 5). Landry heads the season tackle numbers with 33 and 22 followed by Anthony Maddox (27 and 11) and Adrian Pina (26 and 18).... Defensive coordinator Delbert Spell has leaned toward returning to Nederland's secondary alignment prior to the Livingston game. Spell figured to go with Jimmy Swain and Cardenas at corners and Adrian Pina and Jake Kemp at safety.... Biggest surprise to Delbert about Asa on defense is "he plays the run very well and he's excellent tackler in the open field." . . . Nederland-Vidor is the Port Arthur News Friday Night Experience game of the week. It will air Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Cable 18.

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