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[Hidden Content] Girls basketball teams hit the court By JOHNNIE WALTERS October, 21, 2008 Bouncing basketballs and squeaking high tops. Pass by any gym and those sounds will be prevalent, along with echoes of high school coaches' voices throughout facilities-and don't forget about the whistle sounds. Today marks the first official day of practice for high school girls basketball teams. High school boys teams begin practice next Wednesday. "I'm excited about the upcoming season," said Central girls coach Rolander Fontenot, whose team won the District 22-4A title last season. "I'm looking forward to working with the kids. They are eager to defend the district championship." Just like Fontenot, many girls coaches in Southeast Texas are eager to begin the season after a successful run last year. One team's success that sticks out amongst the rest is the Woodville Eagles. The Eagles beat McGregor 53-50 in the Class 2A, Region III finals to advance to the state tournament for the first time in school history. It was also the first time the Eagles were crowned regional champions. The Eagles made it to the state semifinals before losing to Poth 54-42 last season. The Hardin-Jefferson girls also made a deep run in the playoffs. The Hawks didn't make it to state tournament but they did improve drastically from the previous year. The Hawks, who were ranked in the top 20 for most of the season by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches, made it to the Class 3A, Region III semifinals before losing to Fairfield 53-46. The Hawks last playoff appearance was in 2006. Besides Woodville and Hardin-Jefferson, Orangefield and Hemphill were the only other schools to make it to the regional quarterfinals. Central, Ozen, Silsbee, Kountze, Hull-Daisetta, and Big Sandy made it to the second round. Memorial, East Chambers, Anahuac, and Kelly made it to the first round. Schedule of events Girls Basketball Today First day of girls practice Nov. 1 First day of girls scrimmages Nov. 10 First day of regular season games Boys Basketball Oct. 29 First day of boys practice Nov. 8 First day of boys scrimmages Nov. 17 First day of regular season games

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Lady Cardinals down Lady Cats in thriller Gabe Pruett The Orange Leader BRIDGE CITY — The Bridge City Lady Cardinals stayed in the District 21-3A playoff chase with a thrilling five-game victory over Orange County rival Orangefield Tuesday night. In Game Five, Bridge City pulled to within 14-13 on a kill by Sara Armand. Junior Emily Kosh had two aces to give BC a 15-14 lead. The final Orangefield shot fell out of bounds as BC held on for the win. BC won the match 25-18, 25-14, 23-25, 24-26, 16-14. The win pushes BC to 3-5 in district while the Lady Bobcats rtemain in third with a 5-3 mark. Allie Beach led the Lady Bobcats 16 kills. Aimee Scales popped for 11 kills. Olivia Wagner led OF with 23 assists. For the Lady Cardinals, Samantha West led the way with 11 kills and Armand added 10. Jordan Royal contributed with seven kills. Sara McPherson had six kills and Marlee Lopez and Emily Kosh had five apiece. Kosh had 31 assists and six aces. Destiny Garza had six aces for BC and 10 digs. while Maggie Stump added five aces. Mallory Guidry had a match-high 36 digs and Bria Thibodeaux had 16. BC heads to WO-S Friday while Orangefield visits Silsbee.

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Why @ Babe? Ozen-Central game moved to Zaharias By THE ENTERPRISE October, 21, 2008 Friday's Beaumont Bowl game between Ozen and Central has been moved to Babe Zaharias Stadium, according to Beaumont ISD officials. The game had been scheduled to be played at Durley Stadium on West Brook's campus. Zaharias is the home field for Central, but this is Ozen's home game. The kickoff will be at 7:30 p.m., as originally scheduled.

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BC ready for tough WO-S challenge Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader BRIDGE CITY — For the love of Bridge City, the Cardinals are running the gauntlet these days. The Redbirds make a trip to Dan R. Hooks Stadium on Friday to face the No. 3 West Orange-Stark Mustangs after falling 21-0 to Silsbee last Friday. WO-S leads the all-time series against Bridge City 17-0, although the Mustangs did have to forfeit a 54-7 victory in 1992. The series started in 1986, the year WO-S won the state championship, and last year the score was 73-0. “Actually I like this week,†Bridge City Coach Cris Stump said. “The kids have been in a good state of mind all week. The Silsbee game did not go quite right for us but in a lot of ways we went toe-to-toe with those guys. Silsbee is the same team that went into overtime with West Orange. We are excited to play the No. 3 team in the state.†The Cardinals stepped up to the plate against Silsbee in the second half and did a much better job on defense. Silsbee, which also had a string of penalties and miscues in the second half, had 197 yards of offense in the first half yet could only muster up 78 after the break. The Tigers scored 21 points in the first half and were held scoreless in the final two quarters. “Defensively we are going to have to build off that second half of play,†Stump said. The Cardinals will have to play sound defense if there is any hope of shrugging of a dangerous Mustangs offense. WO-S’ offense is averaging 38.8 points and 340.6 yards a contest. The Cardinals defense allows 328.4 yards and 25.2 points a contest. The man running the Mustangs’ show continues to be senior quarterback Ortavious Hypolite. Hypolite has rushed for 346 yards and six touchdowns to go with his 581 yards passing and another six scores. The signal caller has one interception on 69 completions. Trey Franks is the leading Mustangs’ receiver with 17 receptions for 285 yards and three touchdowns. Josh Gloston has 10 catches for 160 yards and one score. Quintavious Garrrett, who did not play a week ago against Hamshire-Fannett, is still leading the Mustangs with 512 yards and nine touchdowns. So the list of threats for WO-S is long and Stump knows the Cardinals will have to be on their toes on defense. “Offensively those guys spread the ball around to a lot of different guys,†Stump said. “You cannot zero in on just one guy. They are not in the I-formation anymore but they use the same philosophy because they use about five to six plays because they work. They just spread it out more now. They can throw it to a wide receiver, hand it off or that quarterback keeps it himself and moves upfield. “Hypolite is going to be a lot like what we faced with Silsbee. That guy (Silsbee’s Jeremy Johnson) really makes that team go and does a good job making decisions. We have to get a wrap on him (Hypolite) and if you had to pick one guy on their offense to stop, it is definitely him.†The Cardinals offense will try to get going after being blanked by the Tigers. Bridge City had 179 yards against Silsbee and now face a defense which limits its opponents to 134.2 yards and 6.8 points a game. One thing Stump would like to see out of his offense is for the Cardinals to be more consistent and start to take what the defense is allowing to give up. “A lot of the problems last week were mental,†Stump said. “The mental mistakes led to the physical mistakes. If a defense is going to allow a five-yard hitch, take the five yard hitch. If a defense is going to allow a four-yard run up the middle, go four yards up the middle. We just have to be more consistent on that side of the ball and not allows look for the big play.†Junior quarterback Josh Lemoine has thrown for 771 yards and six touchdowns this season with just three interceptions on 95 attempts. The running back slot is now in the hands of freshman Matt Menard as junior Joe Robertson is out for the season with an injury. Menard has played nicely with 206 yards on 32 carries, 6.4 yards a carry, and one score. “Matt has done really well so far,†Stump said. “I don’t think all the attention has really hit him yet. The best part about Matt is after a series he will walk up and say ‘Coach I need to work on my blocking. I am not blocking well enough.’ That is why he will be a good football player. He is always wanting to work on something and he will continue to get better. Right now sometimes the game moves a little to fast for him. As he gets older and plays more, the other guys on defense will not move so fast. It is a big jump from a ninth grade game to playing Silsbee and then the No. 3 team in the state.†The Cardinals will also look to get the ball into the hands of three receivers who all have 10 receptions on the year. Jerry Landry leads the way with 275 yards and two scores while Cory Moseley has 211 yards and three touchdowns. Luke Rhodes has 10 catches for 86 yards. The Cardinals’ offense puts up 296.2 yards and 20 points a game. Bridge City will participate in the Bayou Bowl against Orangefield after taking on WO-S.

Vidor hits road to face Bears Van Wade The Orange Leader VIDOR — While the Vidor Pirates will look to stay in the thick of the wild District 20-4A football race Friday night, the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears look to play a spoiler role when the Pirates roll into Battlin’ Bear Stadium. The Pirates (4-2, 2-2) used their potent ground game to dispatch the Port Neches-Groves Indians 23-14 last week in a game that the Pirates had to have. The Pirate offensive line controlled the line of scrimmage against the Indians the entire night, rushing for 264 yards on 52 time-consuming carries. “That’s what we do, we run the football and everybody knows we’re going to run the ball,†said Pirate head coach Jeff Mathews. “We cut down on our mistakes on both sides of the ball. It was a game we needed badly and the kids played a top-notch game.†Fullback Theron Reynolds continues to lead the Vidor ground assault. The hard-nosed back has muscled his way to 533 yards and three touchdowns on 81 carries. Tailback Shane Pittman, who had 107 yards on nine carries in the win over PN-G, now has 443 yards on just 39 touches. Fellow running back Jacob Peevey has darted for 307 yards and two TDs on 40 carries. Quarterback Chris Teinert has had the nose for the end zone the entire year. Teinert, who has rushed for 168 yards on 45 carries, has scored nine rushing TDs. He’s also passed for 140 yards as the Pirates have attempted just 30 passes the entire season. The Pirates enter the game averaging close the 330 yards a game while the defense is yielding just 230 yards a game. Vidor will try not to look past a young Battlin’ Bear unit. The Bears, who have started as many as 11 sophomores and freshmen, are averaging just 162.8 yards a game and are allowing 415.4. “This is a rivalry game for both of us in a lot of ways, so you can throw out the records in this one,†said Mathews. “We’re both Orange County teams and we always go at it hard at each other.†LC-M (0-5, 0-4) have been outscored 186-37 in 20-4A play. However, the Bears had their best output of the season last week when they got outscored by Livingston 50-24. “In no way are we going in overlooking the Bears,†said Mathews. “Really, they’re (LC-M) in the same boat we were in last year. We struggled through our first six or seven games, starting a bunch of sophomores. Then, all of a sudden, the lights came on during those last three games and we played really well. Those young LC-M kids have a lot to prove and they’ll get after our tails.†Bear quarterback Hunter Gonzales has passed for 211 yards and has rushed for 125. His favorite target has been receiver Samuel Burton, who has 10 catches for 122 yards. Fullback Blake Perry leads the LC-M running attack with 173 yards on 37 carries. The Pirates will play host to Nederland next week in another critical encounter with playoff hopes lingering in the balance down the stretch run.

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Hot Pirates head to perfect Buna Van Wade The Orange Leader DEWEYVILLE — They’ve found their rhythm in District 23-2A play, now the Deweyville Pirates face a “monster†district tilt a week before Halloween. The Pirates (4-2, 2-1) are coming off back-to-back 23-2A wins, including a 34-19 romp against Warren for Homecoming last week. This week, the chore will get even tougher as the Pirates head to undefeated Buna (5-0, 2-0) as they try to stay in the middle of the 23-2A playoff picture. Only Buna and Anahuac (4-2, 2-0) remain perfect in 23-2A play while Deweyville and Hardin (5-1, 2-1) have one loss apiece. “The district certainly remains up in the air,†said Pirate head coach Russell McDaniel. “East Chambers has dropped back-to-back games so that shows you how tough the district is. Anahuac has been playing well of late and Buna, they’re so tough.†The Pirate ground game chewed up “big-time†yardage against Warren in the win last week, led by tailback Kane Kachtik and fullback Keeton Addison. Kachtik tore through the Warrior secondary for 149 yards on 26 carries while Addison, who has been saddled with an injury most of the season, broke loose for 134 yards on 23 carries. “After our loss to East Chambers, we came back the following week and made some changes and slight adjustments to our blocking schemes and it’s panned out well for us,†said McDaniel. “The offensive line has had two straight strong weeks. We were happy to see Keeton (Addison) have a big game. He’s been banged up most of the season and he was awesome the other night. With him back healthy, that will relieve some of the work that Kane (Kachtik) has had and it’ll keep them both fresh.†The offensive line consisting of players like Hunter Manning, Dalton Estes, Channing O’Bannion has led to a tough Pirate running game for most of the campaign. Kachtik has 849 yards on 112 carries and has nine touchdowns. Addison has zipped for 389 yards on 92 carries and has five TDs. Buna, meanwhile, got rested up last week in their bye week as the Cougars look to continue their winning ways. The Cougars rely on a power running game that head coach Bradley Morgan has used for years. Buna enters the game averaging close to 390 yards a game, 351 coming via the ground. Blanton Craft leads the balanced attack with 356 yards and seven TDs on 47 carries. Ryan Sheppard has 313 yards and three TDs on 39 carries. Keaton Baker has 294 yards and five TDs on 49 totes and Jacob Craft has 290 yards and a TD on 34 totes. Quarterback Josh Clark has rushed for 127 yards and four TDs and has passed for 177 yards. “Buna, there’s nothing fancy about them,†said McDaniel. “They line up, come right at you and say ‘Stop us if you can.’ Looking at them, they don’t ever beat themselves. They play tough, hard-nosed football.†The game has big implications for the Pirates. “We really like the way the kids are playing and working hard,†said McDaniel. “They’ve got some big games in front of them and they realize that. I know they’ll give it all they have, they’ve done it all year.†The Pirates will have their bye week next week and will host Hardin Nov. 7 and will visit Anahuac Nov. 14.

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[Hidden Content] Football Players Charged With Assaulting Cheerleader Released After Posting Bond Comments 0 | Recommend 1 October 21, 2008 - 11:22AM Scott Lawrence The Hardin County Sheriff's Office tells KFDM News two Silsbee High School football players charged with sexually assaulting a cheerleader have been released from jail after posting bond. Christian Rountree, 18, and Rakheem Bolton, 17, each posted $100,000 bond and were released from the Hardin County Jail. A 16 year old Silsbee High School football player has also been charged and placed in juvenile detention. As KFDM News reported Monday, Silsbee Police Chief Dennis Allen says authorities have charged three Silsbee High School football players with sexually assaulting a cheerleader at a party following the team's Friday night game. The teenage girl says it happened at a house party in Silsbee. Chief Allen tells KFDM News the cheerleader says the teens cornered her in a room, closed the door and locked it. That's when the cheerleader says they sexually assaulted her. Chief Allen says the football players left when other teens heard what was going on and started knocking on the door. Monday morning Silsbee Police picked up 17 year old Rakheem Bolton, 18 year old Christian Rountree and a 16 year old juvenile. The teens were charged with sexual assault of a child. Allen says another teen could also face charges. Bolton and Rountree were taken to the Hardin County Jail. The teen was transported to juvenile detention. The cheerleader was taken to a hospital where doctors administered a rape kit. The kit will be turned over to the Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab. Results could take up to 3 or 4 months to get back. Officers say they found DNA evidence that could possibly link at least one of the teens to what happened. Chief Allen says investigators are in the process of interviewing several witnesses. He also says investigators are looking into allegations that teenagers were able to drink at the party. He says if there is evidence to prove that allegation the homeowner might also face charges. A conviction for sexual assault of a child is a second degree felony. It can bring a punishment of up to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. The cheerleader's father called KFDM news and talked about the investigation. He didn't want his name used, nor his daughter's. He told us, "I want the case made public and I want it prosecuted to the maximum. I'm outraged this happened to my daughter. In today's society, it's all about 'me' and what 'I' want to do. It doesn't excuse you to do these things and think they can get away with it. You see it in the college and professional ranks. Now you're seeing it more and more in high schools. They need to know who her parents are. She's doing okay. She has a lot of me in her. She's strong willed and determined." The cheerleader's father said she'll be at school Tuesday because she knows if she stays away, "the football players win." Silsbee ISD released a statement saying it's prohibited from disclosing or commenting on confidential student disciplinary matters, or from acknowledging that student disciplinary actions have, or have not, been taken, or that such actions are under consideration.

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Two Lamar students drown while cliff-diving By BLAIR DEDRICK ORTMANN October, 20, 2008 Two Lamar students drowned over the weekend while cliff-diving. Nicholas C. Micale, 22, and Jamal Hasan, 21, were identified Monday by authorities in Travis County. Cpt. Art Cardenas with the Travis County Sheriff's Department said the two were cliff-diving at Pace Bend Park in southwestern Travis County about 2 p.m. Saturday when Hasan became distressed while in the water. In an attempt to save him, Micale also went under, Cardenas said. The sheriff's department and the Travis County Park Ranger Unit responded to the report of two missing swimmers, but emergency personnel were unable to rescue them. The bodies were recovered Sunday morning at about 10 a.m. by the Sheriff's Office Dive Team. They were taken to the Travis County Medical Examiners Officer where an autopsy was conducted on Monday. The cause of death for both Micale and Hasan was determined as accidental fresh water drowning.

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