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Thibodeaux, Sharks fight back from Ike By Larry Bodin The Port Arthur News SABINE PASS – Rarely has a football game matching a couple of Class A schools (Colmesneil and Sabine Pass) meant so much. As everyone in Southeast Texas fully understands, 2008 is not just any year. In the year of “Ike,†lives have been changed forever! Things will never be the same again for anyone who took the brunt of this storm’s massive fury. On September 13, the tiny coastal community of Sabine Pass looked into the eye of the storm and felt Ike’s rage like few others could comprehend. After 100 mph winds and a storm surge of 14 feet or more, little was left standing in its wake. Homes were completely washed away, while others were leveled. Almost everything standing prior to the storm was either destroyed or left in shambles. Battered store fronts, flattened FEMA trailers still in use from Rita three years ago, and homes and buildings that remain still paint a terrible picture of Ike’s wrath. Now, fast forward and look what a difference a month makes. Finally a ray of sunshine in the form of a group of hardened Sabine Pass football players who will attempt to put tragedy aside for some three hours and bring hope to their once beleaguered community by playing a game. It will be their first contest since the storm struck in mid September. So here we are, just a little more than a month after one of the worst storms to ever hit Sabine Pass, and head coach Jason Thibodeaux and his 0-2 football team will take the field at 7:30 p.m. in Colmesneil with their collective heads held high. It truly represents much, much more than just a “game.†It’s a clear sign the city has started down the path on the long road on the way to recovery. Many thought the season would be scrapped. But Thibodeaux felt he owed it to his seniors, players who had lost their entire freshmen season due to Rita, to find a way to finish out the year. There was so much to do and so little time to do it that many felt playing in 2008 was strictly a pipe dream. But not to Thibodeaux and his assistants -- Troy Gregg, Trey Harvey, Andy Bates and Devin Deslatte. And for Thibodeaux, the 40-year-old head coach and athletic director in his third-year at the helm, Saturday’s return to the football field will culminate a month-long battle to overcome mind-boggling odds. In addition to the devastation of losing every uniform and piece of equipment in the entire boys and girls athletic department, the Sharks gym also will probably have to be destroyed. The Sabine Pass auditorium has already been condemned due to massive damage from the storm. So, considering what has transpired, just getting back on the field is nothing short of a miracle. “Two days (Thursday) before the storm hit, I moved my family to Breaux Bridge,†said Thibodeaux, a 1986 graduate of Port Neches-Groves. “Like most of the storms that come our way, I thought we’d be back in a day or two. But on Tuesday after the storm hit, I called Tom Butler (Sabine Pass Maintenance Director) and he told me it was 100 times worse than Rita. I knew we were in trouble. “When I got back to the school on Wednesday after the storm, I got a first-hand look at our facilities and I really couldn’t believe my eyes,†Thibodeaux said. “Our locker room was gone, we had no storage rooms, our baseball and football fields were a wreck, and the bus barn (25 feet high) where we had stored most of our equipment up high was almost ripped apart. Inside Thibodeaux’s office, there were watermarks at nine feet. Since his office is five feet above sea level, at least 14 feet of water must have been flowing through the streets of Sabine Pass. Making things even more difficult for Thibodeaux and his wife Ericka was that their home on Martin St. in Bridge City had also been completely destroyed with water rising as high as six feet throughout. Things got even worse after they found out their insurance did not cover any of their losses. They were without a home, so Jason, his wife Ericka (a math teacher at Bridge City high school) and their children --Joseph (4), Erin (2), and Aden (1) -- were at the mercy of friends and family. “Our Catholic faith held us together when everything was coming down around us,†said Thibodeaux. After returning to the area, they moved around, staying with one brother, then another brother, while moving also to live with parents and in-laws.. “Our family has been so incredibly kind to us, I knew we were going to be OK,†the SP coach noted. Within a week after returning to BC, Thibodeaux and his brothers and friends of his brothers had their house gutted and ready for repairs to begin. Then people’s love really started to surface. First it was his niece, Rachel Kamar, who gave up her recently purchased first home in Nederland to her uncle and his family to live in until their own home is completed. She moved with her brother.

Stowers' rain dance might work PORT ARTHUR NEWS GAME OF THE WEEK: NEDERLAND AT BEAUMONT CENTRAL By Tom Halliburton The Port Arthur News BEAUMONT -- Just a block from 11th street at Central's southwest campus corner, a tall, athletic coach could be seen doing a bizarre rain dance Thursday afternoon. If weather conditions adversely hamper Nederland's multi-purpose offense, Jaguars head coach Donald Stowers would stand to become the primary beneficiary on this homecoming night in Babe Zaharias Stadium. Nederland (3-1 and 3-0) would love to run off and hide and perform its own outright District 20-4A championship dance in another month. Central (3-2 and 3-1) just wants to smile at the homecoming dance and keep hope alive for a 4A playoff berth. They major in defense at Central and they turn quite glitzy on offense at Nederland, so this meeting has been circled on the calendar for months. Stowers and defense majors such as corner Jeffrey Thomas and end Jacoby Hale have been wanting a piece of Nederland's pass-catch tandem of Kirby Bellow and Asa Cardenas. They ruined Central's homecoming night, 40-29, a year ago. "They kinda rained on our parade at homecoming so some of our guys want a little revenge," Stowers divulged on Thursday as a light rain started to fall in midtown. "It's a pivotal game... If they were to beat us, I'd definitely think they were in the driver's seat to win the district. We feel if we can beat these guys, it will give us momentum and a much stronger chance to have an opportunity to go to the playoffs." Given all the numbers as of Thursday, Nederland has moved to No. 1 among 20-4A offenses at 376.3 yards a game. Central currently stands third in total defense allowing 277.8 yards a night. There's about 100 yards' differential in those averages. Therefore, some major team numbers have some changing to do here. Stowers nominated three of his defenders this week for the Port Arthur News Super Team and offered no apologies for his defense's averages so far. "We're doing OK there," he said. "We held Port Arthur to around 150. West Brook had its lowest output, about 370. LC-M had 190. Lumberton had its lowest output, around 230. I think we could have done a better job of preventing Lumberton from scoring." Nederland coach Larry Neumann brings 20-4A's premier passer to I-10 tonight. Kirby Bellow has nine touchdown tosses and only one interception with 44 completions in 84 tries. Neumann was not doing any rain dances of his own, but was mainly wanting his blockers to protect his southpaw junior quarterback. "We're going to have to be able to protect him," the Dogs boss said. "Central does a lot of stunts. They bring their linebackers and they try to keep you guessing. They put pressure on you up front.... I'm really pleased with our line to this point. They're starting to think like each other." Regardless of Kirby's protection, the Central coach made no bones about his defense's primary responsibility -- stop Bulldogs' bulldozer Wareall Grogan. "Our main objective is to stop him," said Central's fourth-year mentor. "They do a good job of throwing but we have a chance if we can stop the run. We want to get them in 3rd-and-long and 2nd-and-long." The cooler, wetter weather only further convinced Stowers that his defenders needed to muzzle Grogan first and foremost. Wareall has scored nine touchdowns, rushing for eight yards a pop. Stowers wants his sharp-clawing Jaguars to suffocate Wareall's space. "Grogan is a powerful running back and their line does a great job of creating lanes for him," the 37-year-old Stowers mentioned. Of course Central has an offense and Nederland has a defense, too. But the Jaguars' attack ranks seventh in 20-4A, averaging 242.4 yards a game, while the Bulldogs' defense rates sixth in 20-4A, allowing 331.3 yards a contest. Again that's a wide disparity, too. Central's best offensive weapon has been senior halfback Charles Thomas (6-2, 195), with 31 rushes for 311 yards -- or 10 yards a pop. Neumann feels Central sports three excellent running backs -- Thomas, David Mayfield and Nijel Daw. Except for linebacker Jordan Landry, the Dogs' defenders have had a hard time earning any weekly Nederland player features in this sports section. A good bit of that exclusion can be traced to the caliber of coordinator Monte Barrow's offense. "We're in control of our destiny," Neumann said. "That's where we'd like to stay." In order to accomplish such a mission, Larry will not be performing any rain dances at Central's homecoming either. NEDERLAND AT BEAUMONT CENTRAL When: Friday, 7:30 p.m. Where: Babe Zaharias Stadium, Beaumont Records: Nederland 3-1, 3-0; Beaumont Central 3-2, 2-1 Series: Beaumont Central leads 5-2 Last year: Nederland, 40-29

Amarillo Randall 17, Amarillo Palo Duro 10 Austin Anderson 42, Batrop 35 Austin Crockett 23, Austin Travis 22 Calallen 52, Laredo Johnson 0 Dallas Highland Park 40, Carrollton Turner 7 Dallas Madison 14, Dallas Roosevelt 12 Dallas Pinkston 14, Dallas Adamson 12 Dallas White 44, Dallas Sunset 17 Denton Ryan 58, Little Elm 14 El Paso Andress 51, El Paso Bowie 0 Fort Worth Castleberry 48, Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis 6 Fort Worth Eastern Hills 16, Fort Worth Wyatt 14 Fort Worth Polytechnic 35, Fort Worth Trimble Tech 14 Guthrie 60, Harrold 12 Keller 24, Justin Northwest 14 McAllen 38, LaJoya 0 PSJA North 36, Edinburg North 27 San Antonio Burbank 24, San Antonio Jefferson 3 San Antonio Reagan 27, New Braunfels 6 South Garland 44, Sachse 26 Temple 48, Harker Heights 10

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Mustangs schedule announced By CHRISTOPHER DABE October, 16, 2008 No, Hurricane Ike did not chase the Southeast Texas Mustangs semi-professional basketball team from playing its first season in Ford Arena. That much became evident when the team announced a 30-game schedule, which begins with a Dec. 6 game against a team called Beijing Olympian at Ford Arena. Yes, that represents a team from China, but don't be fooled. The Olympian team is actually based in Stockton, Calif., according to the American Basketball Association Web site. The Mustangs will play 15 regular season games at Ford Arena, plus one preseason game Nov. 29 against an undetermined opponent, according to the schedule. The Mustangs will play in a nine-team Southwest Division of the ABA but will not face two of the teams in the division, according to the Web site. The Mustangs will have a tryout camp Oct. 25-26 at the Milton YMCA, 3455 Sarah St., in Beaumont. Coach Steve Tucker estimated two roster spots and a three-player practice squad might be filled with the camp. There is a $125 fee to participate in the camp. The fee is $150 is paid the day of the camp. ##### MUSTANGS SCHEDULE Home games at Ford Arena November Sat. 29+Exhibition game+7:30 p.m. December Sat. 6+Beijing Olympian+7:30 p.m. Sun. 7+South Texas+3 p.m. Fri. 12+Houston+7:30 p.m. Sun. 14+at South Texas+7 p.m. Tue. 16+at Mississippi+3 p.m. Wed. 17+at Mississippi+7 p.m. Sun. 21+Mississippi+7:30 p.m. Mon. 22+Mississippi+7:30 p.m. Sat. 27+at Las Vegas+7 p.m. January Sat. 3+at Houston+7 p.m. Sun. 4+Houston+3 p.m. Mon. 5+at Houston+7 p.m. Thu. 8+at West Texas+7 p.m. Sat. 10+at Phoenix+7 p.m. Thu. 15+South Texas+7:30 p.m. Sun. 18+at South Texas+3 p.m. Sun. 25+Mississippi+3 p.m. February Sat. 7+West Texas+7:30 p.m. Mon. 9+West Texas+3 p.m. Wed. 11+South Texas+7:30 p.m. Sun. 15+West Texas+7:30 p.m. Sun. 22+at Mississippi+7 p.m. Mon. 23+South Texas+3 p.m. Tue. 24+Phoenix+7:30 p.m. Sat. 28+at South Texas+7 p.m. March Sun. 1+at South Texas+7 p.m. Mon. 2+at South Texas+3 p.m. Wed. 4+at West Texas+7 p.m. Thu. 5+at West Texas+7 p.m. Sun. 8+West Texas+7:30 p.m. Wed. 11+Playoffs begin+TBA Fri. 20+Finals begin+TBA

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South Houston 21 Sam Rayburn 12 Clear Brook 14 Clear Lake 13 Worthing 40 Scarborough 0 Second Baptist 31 Northland Christian 15

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Clear Brook wins 14-13!

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