KFDM COOP Posted February 11, 2008 Report Posted February 11, 2008 Titans need win in Baytown in order to extend season By Cody Pastorella The Port Arthur News If the Memorial Titans beat Baytown Sterling tonight in Baytown, they will have at least a share of the fourth and final playoff spot for District 21-5A. With Port Arthur's loss to West Brook on Friday night, it fell to 7-6 on the season. Fortunately, Atascocita also lost on Friday night and is also at 7-6. Atascocita plays Kingwood tonight. Kingwood is 10-3 and tied for first place with Humble and West Brook. If the Eagles are clipped by the Mustangs and Memorial beats Sterling, the Titans would move into sole possession of the final playoff spot for the league. The other scenarios are not quite as simple, however. If both the Titans and Eagles win, a play-in playoff game would take place on Friday or Saturday between Atascocita and Memorial for the tiebreaker. If both teams lose, it would leave the district with Atascocita, Memorial and Sterling at 7-7. If that happens, a coin flip would pair two of the teams to play on Friday and the third team would receive a bye and wait to play the winner of Friday's game on Saturday to determine which team gets the fourth spot. Obviously, if Atascocita beats Kingwood and Memorial loses to Sterling tonight, Atascocita would move on to the postseason and the Titans' season will be over. However it plays out, the fourth seed of District 21 will most likely meet Deer Park on Feb. 19. The Titans do have a 73-56 victory over Sterling this district season. That victory came in Port Arthur. Jacovin Buckner scored 24 in that game. Memorial, however, travels to Baytown this time and has lost three of its last four games; and the Titans have only claimed three victories on the road in league play this season. Atascocita, meanwhile, has lost its last two games while playing teams with sub .500 winning percentages. Kingwood is well above .500 and the Eagles beat the Mustangs on the road earlier this season. Atascocita has played well against tougher opponents all year, having wins over Humble, Kingwood and Port Arthur. In District 22-4A, meanwhile, the regular season finales for Nederland (6-7) and Port Neches-Groves (2-11) won't have much meaning. The Mid-County teams will only be playing for pride tonight as PN-G has been out of the race for a while and the Bulldogs suffered a big loss to Vidor on Friday night that put them out of the playoff picture. The Bulldogs travel to Beaumont to meet Central tonight while the Tribe will host Little Cypress-Mauriceville. LC-M (7-6) is still very much in the playoff hunt as it hopes to move into a two-way tie with Dayton after tonight's action.
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