Bucster

Odessa Permian

H-F will be playing for a new coach / new system. EC was a fairly young team last year that knows how to win. The H-F team has yet to prove they know how to win and until they do, put your money on the Bucs.

Most exciting game in district play was EC vs. DV. Lot's of scoring in that game. My non-district pick would be EC vs. H-J.

Girls Doubles - East Chambers duo of Katie Trammell & Sierra Foy

They won tournaments at Barbers Hill and East Chambers this year.

Nazareth is a little German community in the middle of nowhere and I mean NOWHERE yet they've been successful at winning State Championships since my HS days. I believe their boys team made the State Tourney this year too.

# 24 Katie Trammell from East Chambers

Congratulations to Canyon on their 'Umteenth" Championship.  Good grief! - how do they perpetuate themselves like that?

Canyon has the best Girl's BB coach in Texas combined with a "we're expected to win state" mentality. Same is true of the 1A Nazareth Swiftettes. Canyon was successful before Joe Lombard became coach and won State championships under Bob Schneider.

Update?

Way to go Oilers! 

Looks like the Winnsboro - Panhandle game was a doozy!

The UIL need s to come up with a different plan. Region 4 is horrible. The best 4 teams are not in the state tournament. Canyon is good but come on 70-34. Like I said before there are 26 teams in region 1, 50 teams in region 2, 53 teams in region 3 and 39 teams in region 4. Llano would not even make the playoffs in 21 3A. This is a crock.

Canyon is that good. They have the best girl's BB coach ( Joe Lombard ) in the state. He has won several state championships at both the 1A level (Nazareth) and 3A level (Canyon). I don't recall if he won a state championship when Canyon was a 4A school.

I've never seen Llano play so I won't comment on their potential to compete in 21 3A but I have seen Canyon play numerous times as well as teams from 21 3A and IMO there's not a single team from 21 3A that would have done a better job against Canyon than Llano did. Frankly, I don't think any of the 4A teams from this area could compete with Canyon either.

As a whole, the quality of Girl's BB played in the Panhandle and South Plains area is much higher than anything I've seen played in SE Texas.

Something else to consider... Could be a more emotionally charged game for Tatum, since their AD was at EC as recently as 3 years ago -- AND -- Harrison Hartt's dad was also once an administrator for EC.

Of course, if EC's on, nobody can beat our starting talent and our deep athletic bench.

Last time I looked, neither Andy Evans or Hartt's daddy will be on the court so I doubt their past affiliation with EC will play much, if any of a factor for either team. ;D

Another bunch of uberathletes. Won state in football past two years.... Understand they like to dunk like crazy.... EC has to ratchet it up another notch! Lets go Bucs! 

Keep 'em outta the paint and they won't be dunkin' the ball.  ;D

No aggie, my toes werent stepped on. I was just saying to JC that the woman can definitely handle herself and I'm sure she has a reason for everything she does or hasnt done.

Maybe she doesn't want the girl's BB program to compete with her VB program?

Tramain Thomas

Donte Raymond did one heck of a job keeping #32 CJ Busby out of the paint.

Is the volleyball coach the girl's AD?

Why does a 1A school need two AD's?

Way to go Bucs!

Best part of the game was watching the trash talking Kountze fans leaving the stands before the game ended.  ;D

Congratulations to both young men. They represented themselves and their schools very well last night. Hopefully both will find continued success on the college gridiron.

The award ceremony was nothing short of first rate. The Beaumont Founder's Lions Club, BASF and other sponsors need a big round of applause for sponsoring a banquet that will be remembered for a lifetime by the award winners and finalists.

Well done!

Paul Trammell - EC Junior - 181 lb. class

Bench - 275

Squat - 425

Dead Lift - 410

Paul Trammell & Tramaine Thomas are both Juniors. Trammell was also a Super Gold Team selection.

EC vs. Kountze on a neutral court will be the game of the year in SE Texas. Their previous 2 meetings were close games with each winning at home.

For anyone who hasn't met V-Mac, this is one excellent person, all the way around.

Vance is a great kid despite being raised in a house full of texas fans. 

Thanks for sharing Coop. Nazareth has always had a great girls BB team for as long as I can remember. Girls athletics has tremendous support in the Texas & Oklahoma Panhandles.