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Johnson to depart Big Ned Tom Halliburton The Port Arthur News NEDERLAND — One of the state's most successful girls coaches, Julie Johnson, is leaving Nederland after 25 years.   Johnson told The News on Monday night that she had accepted a swimming coach and English teaching position at Arlington Sam Houston High School. The Tyler native will report to her new post Aug. 2.   Building one of the region's true soccer empires, Johnson guided her Lady Bulldogs to 14 consecutive district soccer championships in her 19 seasons as head coach. She compiled a career mark of 289-126-23.   Her Nederland team had not been a district champion in the past three years but she had divided her winter duties with soccer and swimming in the last three years.   "I have had a great time at Nederland and it's going to be hard not coaching soccer after all this time," Johnson said.   An Oklahoma University graduate and still a most loyal Sooners fan, Johnson came to the Golden Triangle in the mid-80's and became a head girls track and field coach as well as a junior varsity basketball coach for five years at Nederland.   Nederland began boys and girls soccer in 1988. Johnson replaced Cindy Bordelon as head coach and started her successful tenure in the 1992 season, shortly before a friend and a cohort arrived at NHS.   His name Larry Newuman, the Nederland head football coach and athletic director who has worked with Johnson over the past two decades.   "Larry's been great to me," Johnson said. "He and I have had a great working relationship."   While Johnson will miss Nederland and Neumann, she will appreciate some of the benefits from her new post very much. Julie will have to coach only one sport (swimming) along with her teaching duties. She still has a niece, a nephew and friends in the Norman, OK. area. Plus her mother (Janice) and brother (Don) continue to live in Tyler.   "It was an opportunity to only have to coach one sport and it cuts my travel in half going to Oklahoma or the Tyler area." Neumann paid tribute to Johnson on Tuesday afternoon.   "We will dearly miss Julie and I wish her the very best," Neumann said. "Her record speaks for itself and it's not an accident.   "Julie has set extremely high standards. She's been a consummate professional and she has achieved in an outstanding way. She motivated her players to achieve and pay the price and her people have achieved in an outstanding way."   It was expected Tuesday that the NISD would fill most of Johnson's responsibilities in-house. Neumann said he would recommend assistant swimming coach Cheree Bolser to replace Julie to lead the swimming program. He also said NHS assistant coach Rafael Hernandez likely would succeed Johnson as the girls soccer coach.   Hernandez started the boys soccer program at Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson before he was hired in the Nederland ISD. He has worked with Johnson for the past two seasons.

U.I.L. announces State Championship Sites The schedule for each championship football game in 2010 is listed below: Shotwell Stadium – Abilene Saturday, December 11, 2010 Conference 1A 6-Man Division II – 2:00 p.m. Conference 1A 6-Man Division I – 7:00 p.m. Cowboys Stadium – Arlington Friday, December 10, 2010 Conference 3A Division I – 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 17, 2010 Conference 3A Division II – 4:00 p.m. Conference 4A Division II – 8:00 p.m. Saturday, December 18, 2010 Conference 4A Division I – 12:00 p.m. Conference 5A Division II – 4:00 p.m. Conference 5A Division I – 8:00 p.m. Vernon Newsom Stadium – Mansfield Friday, December 17, 2010 Conference 1A Division II – 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 18, 2010 Conference 1A Division I – 12:00 p.m. Conference 2A Division II – 4:00 p.m. Conference 2A Division I – 8:00 p.m. The 2010-11 season marks the first time all conference championship football games will be played at a pre-determined location.

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From Matt Steppe Lufkin SQT Pools Pool A Lufkin Victoria East Willis Conroe Oak Ridge Pool B [b]Lumberton[/b] Diboll Conroe [b]Little Cypress-Mauriceville*[/b] Pool C [b]Bmt. Central[/b] Montgomery Pasadena Dobie [b]PA Memorial[/b] Pool D Lufkin #2 [b]Bmt. West Brook[/b] Bryan Rudder Klein*

Three teams to advance in Conference 1A, 2A football playoffs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUSTIN – The number of teams advancing to the Conference 1A and 2A football playoffs will increase from two to three beginning this football season, the UIL announced Tuesday. In a 2009 referendum ballot, Conference 1A and 2A superintendents across the state voted to divide football brackets into two divisions (Division I and Division II) prior to the start of the season. The result allowed only two teams from each district to advance to the football playoffs. The new rule change allows three teams to advance from each district in the Conference 1A eleven-man and Conference 2A football playoffs and will go into effect immediately beginning with the 2010 football season with the first place team receiving a bye in the first round.

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[b]Below is the list of qualified teams as of June 13, 2010.[/b] DIVISION 1 Houston Lamar Houston Chavez Alamo Heights Klein Collins El Paso Chapin El Paso Coronado Arlington Bowie Stephenville Denton Guyer Coppell Pflugerville Round Rock Stony Point Friendswood Manvel Cypress Fairbanks The Woodlands Abilene Irving Nimitz DeSoto Mansfield Legacy Plano West Mesquite Lake Travis San Antonio Warren PSJA Memorial Edinburg Pearland Cy Falls Plano West Lewisville Hebron Tyler John Tyler Gregory-Portland [b]Little Cypress-Mauriceville[/b] Pearland Dawson Spring Dekaney Klein San Antonio Madison San Antonio MacArthur Belton Copperas Cove El Paso Montwood El Paso Franklin Southlake Carroll Arlington Lamar [b]Beaumont West Brook[/b] DIVISION 2 Celina Godley Lorena Whitney Seminole Snyder [b]West Orange-Stark[/b] [b]Newton[/b] Hidalgo LaVilla Cameron Yoe Lexington Rice Consolidated Edna [b]Hardin-Jefferson[/b] [b]Anahuac[/b] Houston 2nd Baptist Houston Kinkaid Gatesville Brownwood Sanger Lovejoy Boyd Archer City China Spring Kaufman Abilene Wylie Ballinger Marion Vanderbilt Industrial Navasota Hitchcock Wellington Graham Canyon Lake Burnet Glen Rose Grandview Gilmer Carthage

Got my copy. White cover with QB's Jerrod Johnson, Andy Dalton and Case Keenum.

Dayton along with BC chose not to participate.

All schools were involved except Bridge City and maybe one more.

LC-M looked fantastic according to the folks there!

Congrats to LC-M!!

Central and LC-M are in the Semi Finals. Bears looking good i hear!

:D Oh come on, just this once.  ;)

Not yet, probably be later this afternoon. I'll post as soon as i hear.

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[quote name="BMTSoulja1" post="811577" timestamp="1276276970"] Why would you wanna see that game?  Do you think it will be competitive or something? [/quote] I think it would be!

Havent seen them posted anywhere yet. We'll have them all Monday when the MAG comes out.

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