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Class 5A Team Rec Pts Pvs 1. Euless Trinity (19) 8-0 199 1 2. Galena Park North Shore (1) 6-0 176 2 3. Abilene 8-0 159 3 4. Odessa Permian 8-0 132 4 5. Allen 7-1 109 5 6. The Woodlands 7-0 103 6 7. Copperas Cove 8-0 80 7 8. Pearland 7-0 63 8 9. Southlake Carroll 6-1 36 9 10. Plano 8-1 16 10 Others receiving votes: Fort Bend Hightower 9, Los Fresnos 6, Arlington Bowie 5, Colleyville Heritage 2, Smithson Valley 2, Beaumont West Brook 2, Round Rock Stony Point 1. Class 4A Team Rec Pts Pvs 1. Lake Travis (19) 8-0 199 1 2. Everman 8-0 170 2 3. Dallas Highland Park 8-0 154 3 4. Aledo 8-0 148 4 5. Longview (1) 7-2 107 5 6. Dallas Carter 8-0 96 7 7. Wolfforth Frenship 8-0 58 10 8. Port Lavaca Calhoun 6-1 48 8 9. Kerrville Tivy 7-1 39 - 10. Hewitt Midway 7-1 26 - Others receiving votes: Edcouch-Elsa 17, Denison 8, Friendswood 6, Dripping Springs 6, Ennis 4, FW Dunbar 4, Texarkana 3, Sulphur Springs 3, Schertz Steele 2, Abilene Cooper 1, Alice 1. Class 3A Team Rec Pts Pvs 1. Liberty Hill (20) 9-0 200 1 2. China Spring 8-0 171 2 3. West Orange-Stark 6-0 158 3 4. Navasota 7-0 131 4 5. Waco La Vega 7-1 110 5 6. Gilmer 7-1 88 6 7. Texarkana Pleasant Grove 8-0 69 8 8. Abilene Wylie 6-2 57 7 9. Bridgeport 8-0 44 10 10. Cuero 6-1 43 9 Others receiving votes: Bellville 14, Prosper 6, La Vernia 3, Diboll 2, Sweetwater 2, Carthage 1, Giddings 1. Class 2A Team Rec Pts Pvs 1. Refugio (3) 8-0 174 2 2. Arp (11) 7-0 167 1 3. Kirbyville (3) 7-0 159 3 4. Muleshoe (3) 8-0 146 4 5. Altair Rice 6-1 103 5 6. Blanco 9-0 97 6 7. Cisco 7-1 56 7 8. Daingerfield 7-1 52 8 9. Clyde 7-1 47 10 10. Hitchcock 5-1 23 9 Others receiving votes: Bushland 22, Grandview 20, Kermit 13, Pilot Point 7, Brady 6, Alpine 3, West Rusk 2, New Waverly 2, Pattonville Prariland 1. Class 1A Team Rec Pts Pvs 1. Maud (18) 8-0 196 1 2. Itasca 8-0 144 2 3. Iraan 8-0 137 3 4. Roscoe (1) 7-1 119 4 5. Stratford (1) 7-1 107 5 6. Shiner 7-0 104 7 7. Quinlan Boles 8-0 90 8 8. New Deal 8-0 55 10 9. Canadian 7-1 54 9 10. Mart 6-2 34 - Others receiving votes: Cayuga 14, Menard 9, Archer City 9, Albany 9, Tenaha 6, Wellington 5, Bremond 5, Mount Enterprise 1, Clarendon 1, Junction 1.

Barbay is still there...Winner will get HJ and the loser will get WOS.

Texas officials say FEMA 'insensitive' after Ike By ASSOCIATED PRESS October, 27, 2008 AUSTIN - Texas officials are angry with FEMA's response Hurricane Ike victims in southeast Texas, accusing the agency Monday of insensitivity and foot-dragging in providing trailers and money. ``It's a tragedy, what's going on down there,'' Jack Colley, the state's director of emergency management, told the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee during a hearing on hurricane recovery. Colley said he believes FEMA should be removed from the federal Department of Homeland Security and placed under the president. ``They have been extremely insensitive, in our opinion, to the concept that somebody cannot drive 100 miles a day to keep their job,'' said Kevin Hamby, general counsel of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. ``They don't seem to care much if we lose these communities down there.'' He said that more than six weeks after the hurricane, less than 200 trailers are available for people to live in on their property while their homes are being repaired. Hamby said that Federal Emergency Management Administration officials had promised 300 trailers a week. The state agency estimates that 3,000 to 6,000 trailers are needed. While the federal agency has offered to pay for displaced residents to stay in hotels and motels, few rooms are available in the hard-hit area. FEMA spokesman Simon Chabel disagreed with the assertions made at the hearing, saying the agency is acting quickly and responding ``in a way that's compassionate.'' ``We've put out more than $250 million paid to help people find temporary housing,'' he said. He said that there are 262 mobile homes currently occupied and another 350 are awaiting connections like sewer and power hookups. He said FEMA is continuing to do interviews with people to find out if they need a mobile home. Nearly 19,000 people have been interviewed so far in Texas, and of those more than 6,000 have found housing, he said. FEMA helped 1,600 find a rental and 1,723 were approved for a mobile home. ``We're working as quickly as we can to help them put their lives back together,'' he said. Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, said a FEMA official said last week that anyone living in a tent or a car is there by choice, the Houston Chronicle reported in its Monday online editions. ``(That remark) just flies in the face of hundreds of families, working families, that are down there trying to save their only asset - and everything they own was in that home - and work that job and protect what is left of their lives,'' Williams said. ``It's amazing to me that a federal official could be so uninformed and so insensitive.'' Williams said the lack of transitional housing in Orange County and other parts of the Golden Triangle threatens $15 billion worth of refinery and chemical plant expansion. Williams also accused FEMA of ``running out the clock'' on deciding whether it will continue reimbursements for debris removal. He said the agency's practice of granting 30-day extensions leaves local officials in limbo as they wait to hear if they can continue to pay contractors to clear debris. Chabel said FEMA is evaluating a request that came last week from the governor for an 18-month extension of FEMA offering 100 percent reimbursement for debris removal instead of the standard 75 percent. ``The question is whether FEMA will extend the 100 percent reimbursement,'' he said. ``I wouldn't say that they're being left in limbo.''

Yup and to this date they (85 team) were the biggest (size wise) team i've ever seen.

Jasper should beat Rusk and make the Playoffs!

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www.texasprepinsider.com TexasPrepInsider.com's Greater Houston Area week 9 5A Top 20 Rankings 1) Conroe The Woodlands (7-0) 2) Galena Park North Shore (6-0) 3) Beaumont West Brook (5-0) 4) Pearland (7-0) 5) Fort Bend Hightower (6-0) 6) Spring Westfield (5-1) 7) Katy (6-2) 8) Katy Cinco Ranch (7-1) 9) Klein Forest (6-1) 10) Aldine Eisenhower (5-2) 11) Houston Lamar (6-0) 12) Cy Creek (5-1) 13) Cy Ridge (5-2) 14) Klein Oak (5-1) 15) Clear Lake (5-2) 16) Lufkin (4-4) 17) Houston Strake Jesuit (6-1) 18) Deer Park (7-0) 19) Dickinson (6-1) 20) Conroe (5-2) TexasPrepInsider.com's Greater Houston Area week 9 4A Top 20 Rankings 1) Dayton (6-1) 2) Rosenberg Lamar Consolidated (4-2) 3) Friendswood (5-1) 4) El Campo (5-1) 5) Huntsville (5-1) 6) Lumberton (6-1) 7) Livingston (4-2) 8) Houston Westbury (5-1) 9) Houston Davis (7-0) 10) Rosenberg Terry (3-3) 11) Texas City (4-3) 12) Crosby (4-3) 13) Houston C.E. King (6-1) 14) Beaumont Central (5-2) 15) Vidor (5-2) 16) Angleton (5-3) 17) La Marque (3-4) 18) Houston North Forest (5-2) 19) Nederland (3-3) 20) Bay City (3-4) TexasPrepInsider.com's Greater Houston Area week 9 3A Top 10 Rankings 1) West OrangeStark (6-0) 2) Cuero (6-1) 3) Carthage (6-2) 4) Bellville (8-0) 5) Diboll (7-1) 6) Cleveland (7-0) 7) Giddings (5-3) 8) Sealy (5-3) 9) Silsbee (2-5) 10) Columbus (5-2) TexasPrepInsider.com's Greater Houston Area week 9 2A Top 5 Rankings 1) Hitchcock (5-1) 2) Kirbyville (7-0) 3) Altair Rice Consolidated (7-0) (4) Newton (5-2) (5) Buna (6-0)

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There will be an WOSMS 8th Grade “B†football game against Anahuac on Tuesday, October 28th at 5:30pm at the WOS Middle School.

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Playoffs loom with Humble exit By Dave Rogers Good thing gas prices have taken a big retreat in recent days, because some local sports teams are going to start taking some unaccustomed trips pretty soon. To the playoffs. And to the throne rooms. The UIL realignment last February that took three Humble ISD schools out of the district that includes Sterling and Lee has totally altered the landscape when it comes to qualifying for the playoffs. A year ago, those three Humble ISD schools — Humble High, Kingwood and Atascocita — grabbed 26 of a possible 38 playoff spots in 13 of the 21-5A sports in which teams advance beyond district competition. Those sports are: football, volleyball, team tennis, boys’ and girls’ cross country, boys’ and girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ golf, baseball and softball. A year ago, Kingwood qualified for the playoffs in all 13 sports, claiming district titles in nine. You could see this sea change coming, but now that it’s here, it seems weird — in a good way. Already this fall, Sterling has claimed a team tennis title that Kingwood used to monopolize. Sterling’s girls are on the threshold of their first outright volleyball championship in several decades. And later this week, Sterling and Lee each will have decent shots at district titles in boys’ and girls’ cross country. “Any time you take out three strong schools, ones that are good not just in basketball and football but the non-major sports as well, it certainly helps our chances for making the playoffs,†said Tom Ed Gooden, athletic director for the Goose Creek school district that includes Lee and Sterling. Of course, football and basketball powerhouse North Shore moved into the Baytown 5A district, but that left another simple “addition by subtraction†equation. District 21-5A now has six schools instead of eight, but it still has the same four playoff berths in most sports it did the past two years. So Lee and Sterling teams definitely have an easier path to the playoffs now. But should it cheapen the accomplishment? Do the changes make it too easy? Or do they finally make it fair? There are plenty of schools in districts around the state that never had to compete against a sports factory like Kingwood, which year in and year out has been one of the state’s top all-around programs. “You can look all around the state and not find a situation like we had where five of eight schools were pretty good in all things,†Gooden said. And, besides he said, Lee and Sterling can use a break after their athletic rosters were hit hard by the opening of Goose Creek Memorial, Baytown’s third public high school. “This is not a bad year for it to be a little easier for us to make the playoffs,†he said. • • • It wasn’t just the city’s talent pool of high school athletes diluted by opening a third high school. Splitting the city’s high school football fans an extra way has made for some especially teeny turnouts this year for home football games in Baytown — with the notable exception of the gi-normous attendance for the Sterling-Lee game two weeks ago. It’s hard to call the assemblage a “crowd†when, like twice this past weekend, fewer than a thousand people show up at 16,000-seat Stallworth Stadium? Perhaps miniscule attendance should have been expected Thursday, when 0-5 Channelview and 1-4 Lee squared off. And while Friday night was Goose Creek Memorial’s version of “homecoming,†you’ve got to admit that’s an unusual undertaking when your first class of old grads is still 18 months away from picking up diplomas. Let’s hope the Mighty Mighty Mustangs of North Shore bring a cheering section for Thursday’s locally televised (KTBU, Channel 55) game against Lee. Perhaps some townies could come out, too, for Baytown’s first high school TV game. Needless to say, good seats are available.

It’s Lee’s turn for North Shore now By Dave Rogers Published October 26, 2008 There are benefits to playing high school football games on Thursday nights, like being able to get your day-after work done during the week and take Saturday off. Another for coaches is the ability to personally scout your next opponent on Friday night. Dick Olin got an eyeful Friday night on his trip to Galena Park ISD Stadium. “When you see people on tape, it’s a whole lot different than when you actually see them in person,†the Robert E. Lee coach said. “On tape, they look big. In person, they actually are big. “And they’re awfully fast, too.†Olin was talking about the No. 2 state-ranked North Shore Mustangs, seen plenty close up by Sterling coach Herb Minyard. North Shore romped to a 49-3 win over Minyard’s Rangers Friday night in a matchup of two teams that had been District 21-5A co-leaders. “They are an exceptionally talented football team,†Minyard said of a North Shore squad that won its 76th straight regular-season game by holding the Rangers roughly three touchdowns below their season norm. “But we fought until the bitter end,†said the Sterling coach. “I like my team a lot and this does not affect our ultimate goal of making the Texas high school playoffs. “We’re just going to learn from this and improve.†The Rangers, 5-2 overall, fell to 2-1 in 21-5A, which puts them behind both North Shore and Beaumont West Brook, which joined North Shore at 3-0 by beating Port Arthur Memorial 26-0 Friday. Sterling plays at West Brook Saturday afternoon before finishing up with a Nov. 7 home game against Channelview. The Rangers need to win one of those two games to break a 23-year playoff drought. Lee’s 10-7 win over Channelview Thursday puts the 2-4 Ganders at 1-2 in district. It leaves them needing a single win – over North Shore or Port Arthur — to get into the playoffs, assuming Port Arthur (0-3, like Channelview) doesn’t finish with a 2-0 sprint. It’s expected West Brook and North Shore will decide the district title when they play at Galena Park ISD Stadium Nov. 7. Although his team managed only a three-point win over a winless team, Olin was upbeat about the Ganders Saturday. “I thought defensive we really played well,†he said. “They had a pass of 45 yards (for Channelview’s touchdown) that we didn’t do a good job of defending. Other than that, we gave them like 95 yards of offense. “We cut down on mistakes as far as penalties, but when you go from an average crew to a good crew (of officials), it usually works that way.†After drawing 16 and 19 penalty flags in back-to-back losses, Lee was penalized just four times for 30 yards against the Falcons. The veteran Gander coach said there were a lot of high points to his night in the Galena Park press box. “It’s a nice atmosphere over there,†Olin said. “The food in the press box was tremendous. We enjoyed that part of it.†And the prospect of playing North Shore’s Mustangs? “When it got to be 49-3, we left,†said Lee’s coach. “We left and we were trying to figure out a way to get them off our schedule.â€

Rough night for Pats By Dave Rogers Published October 25, 2008 The temptation is to say that the Goose Creek Memorial Patriots couldn’t handle prosperity. The truth is they couldn’t handle the football or C.E. King speedsters Alvester Alexander and Josh Williams. The Patriots coughed up five turnovers and dropped numerous passes and Alexander and Williams combined for five TDs as the Panthers rallied for a 51-20 win at sparsely populated Stallworth Stadium Friday night. OK, so the Panthers only had to come back from a 14-6 deficit at the end of one quarter, but since C.E. King is a District 19-4A co-leader, it was Memorial’s most significant lead since holding a 20-19 third-quarter lead over Pasadena High in their first-ever game way back in August. “It was a new surprise,†Patriot coach Bret Boyd said of the early lead. “But I think maybe we just made them mad, I don’t know.†King, now 5-0 in district and 6-1 overall, reeled off 45 unanswered points before a third-string quarterback fumbled at the Panther 1-yard line, setting up DeMartie Allen’s second score of the night for Memorial with just 4:09 left to play. “The kids came out ready to play and we had a break go our way early for a change,†Boyd said. “But that speed of No. 34 (Alexander) and No. 1 (Williams), we couldn’t handle that speed.†Alexander, who entered the game as the league’s top rusher, gained 150 yards on 14 carries and scored on runs of 21, 25 and 13 yards before leaving the game late in the third quarter. Williams, the Panther quarterback, made his one pass completion of the night (in six attempts) good for a 39-yard scoring toss to teammate Patrick Johnson just 1:18 into the game and included a two-yard second-quarter scoring plunge among his 64 rushing yards. In all, C.E. King rushed for 397 yards on 51 attempts and had 436 total yards. Memorial, falling to 0-7 for the season, 0-5 in district, picked up 87 rushing yards on 19 carries by Allen, 108 passing yards from quarterback Cody Larson and finished with 200 total steps. After Williams’ 36-yard return of the opening kickoff, the Panthers went 54 yards in three plays to go ahead 6-0 on the QB’s pass to Johnson. The Patriots answered with a 48-yard kickoff return by Allen, then he carried seven times for 30 yards on the following 11-play, 47-yard match, converting a fourth-and-one with a 10-yard run and hitting paydirt with a twisting two-yard run. Price Jacobs’ extra-point kick put Memorial ahead 7-6 with 5:33 left in the first quarter. Then the Patriots caught a break. Panther punt returner Patrick Johnson coughed up a fumble that Memorial’s Vince Allen smothered at the King 33-yard line. On the next play, Larson rolled left and heaved the ball up. Keithen Collins circled back to catch the ball at the 5, then circled back to the end zone, fighting off a tackler to the goal line for 14-6 lead with 1:41 left in the first. A trio of second-quarter scores by the Panthers made Memorial’s eight-point lead a short-lived one. Alexander ran his first touchdown in from 21 yards, capping a four-play 55-yard drive he started with a 22-yard rip. The Patriots stopped Alexander on a two-point conversion try, but were called for a facemask violation. Williams got two points on the second try to tie the game with 8:54 left in the half. Alexander scored from 25 yards out to give C.E. King the lead with 5:27 left and Williams ran it across from two yards for a 28-14 halftime lead. The Panthers added 17 third-quarter points on a 13-yard Alexander run, a 23-yard run by Bruce Green and a 28-yard William Lopez kick and reserve Jimmie White scored from four yards out to make it 51-14 early in the fourth quarter.