TGCA Poll ranks Harmony 5th, Harleton 10th.
INTERNET, Jan. 30, 2009 -- The Texas Girls Coaches Association pre-season softball poll is out, and district 18-2A is well represented, with Harmony's Lady Eagles and Harleton's Ladycats both given nods.
Harmony ranks #5 in the 2A class, while Harleton claims the 10th spot. Kirbyville tops the class.
The leaders for all classes are 5A-Austin Bowie, 4A-Nederland, 3A-Huntington, 2A-Kirbyville and 1A-Shiner.
Complete rankings follow:
Class 1A
1. Shiner
2. Bosqueville
3. Eula
4. Elkhart Slocum
5. Maud
6. Thorndale
7. Windthorst
8. Marfa
9. Alto
10. Iola
Class 2A
1. Kirbyville
2. East Bernard
3. Coahoma
4. Danbury
5.. Big Sandy Harmony
6. Sadler S&S Consolidated
7. Poth
8. Hawley
9. Clyde
10. Harleton
Class 3A
1. Huntington
2. Needville
3. Texarkana Liberty Eylau
4. Burkburnett
5. Andrews
6. La Vernia
7. Longview Spring Hill
8. Robinson
9. Celina
10. Levelland
Class 4A
1. Nederland
2. Waco Midway
3. Dripping Springs
4. Rockwall
5. Barbers Hill
6. Port Neches-Groves
7. Mesquite Poteet
8. Wolfforth Frenship
9. Frisco Wakefield
10. Rockwall Heath
Class 5A
1. Austin Bowie
2. Klein Oak
3. Tomball
4. Odessa
5. Brazoswood
6. Weatherford
7. Rowlett
8. Mesquite
9. Alvin
10. Pearland
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First poll of the year gives nod to Pirates and Roughnecks.
INTERNET, Jan. 30, 2009 -- The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association have released their 2009 pre-season rankings, and two local teams are ranked well up in their respective classes.
The Pittsburg Pirates are listed at #5 in the 3A class, and the White Oak Roughnecks come in at #6 among 2A schools.
First ranked teams in each class are 5A-Coppell, 4A-Corpus Christie Calallan, 3A-Cuero, 2A-Buna and 1A-Bosqueville.
The complete rankings follow:
5A:
1. COPPELL
2. HOUSTON BELLAIRE
3. FLOWER MOUND
4. SOUTH LAKE CARROLL
5. KLEIN
6. LAREDO UNITED
7. PLANO WEST
8. SAN ANTONIO REAGAN
9. SPRING BRANCH MEMORIAL
10. KATY
4A:
1. CORPUS CHRISTI CALALLEN
2. NORTH RICHLAND HILLS BIRDVILLE
3. FRIENDSWOOD
4. LAMAR CONSOLIDATED
5. WAXAHACHIE
6. WACO MIDWAY
7. AUSTIN LAKE TRAVIS
8. CORPUS CHRISTI MOODY
9. HIGHLAND PARK
10. BRENHAM
3A:
1. CUERO
2. TAYLOR
3. GIDDINGS
4. ROBSTOWN
5. PITTSBURG
6. BRIDGE CITY
7. BULLARD
8. PLEASANT GROVE
9. BELLVILLE
10. ANDREWS
2A:
1. BUNA
2. SAN ANGELO GRAPE CREEK
3. HALLETTSVILLE
4. RIVIERA KAUFER
5. ROGERS
6. WHITE OAK
7. HOLLIDAY
8. PALMER
9. GRANDVIEW
10. ROSEBUD LOTT
1A:
1. BOSQUEVILLE
2. FLATONIA
3. MAUD
4. FOLLETT
5. MALAKOFF CROSS ROADS
6. ARCHER CITY
7. GRANGER
8. SEYMOUR
9. NEW DEAL
10.WEST SABINE
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Cardinals take a 79-30 home court win over Harmony.
GLADEWATER, TX Jan. 30, 2009 -- Coach Tim Davis' Cardinals continued to roll unchecked through the 18-2A line-up tonight with a home win over the Harmony Eagles.
Just two games into the second half of district play, the win pushed Sabine's district record to (9-0), and clinched a playoff spot for them.
Scoring the opening basket, Sabine never trailed, and allowed the Eagle to score double digits just once, in the fourth frame.
Scoring by Quarter
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Fin
Sabine 18 26 22 13 79
Harmony 8 6 5 11 30
The Cardinal's Noah Jackson led all scorers with 23 points, followed by teammates Colton Kirk with 15 points and Jacob Kenna with 14.
For Harmony, Jordan Argabright led with 11 points, trailed by Jon Ledbetter with 8.
Box Scores
Sabine Harmony
Noah Jackson 22 Jordan Argabrient 11
Colton Kirk 15 Jon Ledbetter 8
Jacob Kenna 14 Jared Fielden 5
Lie'Quan Byrd 7 Wesley Schoon 3
Josh Montana 6 Josh Keel 2
Zach Royce 6 Jade Bess 1
Tyler Woodrell 6
Chance Haskins 3
Sabine travels to face Elysian Fields Tuesday.
Harmony, with a district record of (4-5), will look to break a two game losing streak Tuesday when they travel to duel with Lions of Union Grove.
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Water temperatures are dropping, but the reports are fairly consistent with last week, with bass action called fair and crappie fishing good everywhere.
Excerpts from the TPWD Report follow:
BOB SANDLIN
Water fairly clear; 44-49 degrees; 0.37' low. Black bass are fair on watermelon/red Brush Hogs fished in 6-8 feet. White bass are fair on small jigging spoons in the major creek channels. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows fished over brush piles in 18 - 23 feet. Catfish are good on chicken livers fished around cormorant roost.
On Sunday, Feb. 1, TPWD will complete the stocking of Bob Sandlin with 2000 trout, began on the 18th of December last year.
Trout anglers will need the $5 Freshwater Fishing Stamp, which is included in all freshwater license packages. Anglers under 17 years of age are not required to have a license and don't need to purchase a stamp.
CADDO
Water off color; 46-50 degrees; 0.55' high. Black bass are fair on black jigs, white spinnerbaits and tubes around cypress trees in 2-4 feet. Crappie are good on shiners and jigs in the main channel. Catfish are fair on limblines.
FORK
Water lightly stained; 44-49 degrees; 0.81' low. Black bass are fair on Rat-L-Traps, medium diving crankbaits, suspending baits and firetiger spinnerbaits worked along main lake grass and around boathouses. Crappie are fair on minnows in 25-30 feet on deeper flats. Catfish are good on prepared baits in 25-30 feet.
LAKE O' THE PINES
Water stained; 44-49 degrees; 0.51' high. Black bass are slow to fair on Texas rigs, weightless flukes or 5" Yum Dingers and Rat-L-Traps. Crappie are fair to good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on nightcrawlers and cut shad. Bream are fair on red wigglers.
See the full report at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/action/reptmap.php?EcoRegion=PW.
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This past Monday was the first day allowed by the UIL for Softball practice.
Jan. 28, 2009 -- Local high school squads are focusing on the upcoming softball season. Linden Kildare and Hughes Springs girls will scrimmage Monday, Feb. 2nd.
Coaches are urged to send their schedules in to the Advocate for inclusion in weekly game posts.
Schedules may be sent to upshuradvocate@gmail.com, or faxed to 888-612-5656.
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A disappointing duck season ended Sunday the 25th. Warm weather, dry conditions and an absence of mallards combined to make the '08-'09 season one of the worst in a while.
NEWS RELEASE, Jan. 21, 2009 -- North Texas hunters saw a slow week to end the season, with very few mallards on the lakes, and drying backwaters chasing away the wood ducks.
To the south, results were better, with teals arriving in good enough numbers to cheer up an otherwise spotty season.
North Zone Duck:
The last weekend of duck season slowed to a crawl as hunters reported poor to fair results. Mallards never really showed in force which sent many hunters in search of divers and wood ducks. Drying sloughs and timber ponds send woodies elsewhere as many hunters reported resident wood ducks disappeared.
Canvasbacks, ringed-necks, scaup and a few teal made up the brunt of the bag for the last month of the season on area lakes and reservoirs. Dry conditions along the coast and along the IH-10 corridor made hunting tough for the second half of the season.
South Zone Duck:
The last two weeks of the season were steady as an influx of green-winged teal showed on the prairie and left a better taste in the mouths of hunters for what had been a lackluster season. Good numbers were posted near Eagle Lake, Chesterville, Wharton, Garwood and East Bernard.
Hunters in the marsh near Collegeport enjoyed steady hunts throughout the season. Hunters along the bay near Matagorda, Port O’Connor and Rockport got their redheads and pintails, but gadwalls and wigeons were noticeably absent. Lack of rain and higher salinity levels on the bay could have been a contributing factor.
Overall, goose hunting was solid throughout the season, though it slowed of late due to drying roost ponds which scattered flocks and sent them searching for more water.
An estimated 20-30 percent juveniles in the flock aided in decoying tremendously. Most flocks are feeding on green fields now, since most food sources are gone and most farmers have begun to plow fields for this year’s crop. The Light Goose Conservation Order began Jan. 26. Results were better than expected with fog and low clouds along the coast.
See the full report at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20090128a
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Eric Dixon's long distance display leads New Diana to win, 80-73.
BIG SANDY, TX., Jan. 27, 2009 -- The last time these two Eagle squads met, New Diana won a nail biter in the last minute, 47-44. Tuesday, Harmony didn't let New Diana off that easy.
The contest was nip-and-tuck from the opening buzzer. New Diana led by two at the end of the first frame, and Harmony had cut that lead to just one point at the end of the half, 36-35.
They followed the same pattern for the second half, with a four point Diana lead of 54-50 at the end of the third quarter vanishing to a tie, 67-67 at the end of four periods of play.
But Harmony was unable to match Diana in overtime play, being outscored 13-6 in the extra frame to seal a New Diana win, 80-73.
Almost half of New Diana's points came from senior guard Eric Dixon, who connected on five three pointers, and went 7 of 11 from the free throw line on his way to an eye-popping 34 point night. Dixon was followed by teammate Andy Hounsel with 12 points. Hounsel also made Harmony pay for their fouls, going 6 for 7 on free throws.
Harmony's player stats were not available.
Scoring by Quarter
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Tot |
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New Diana
| 19 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 80 |
| Harmony | 12 | 23 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 73 |
Box Scores
New Diana
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Eric Dixon 34
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Andy Hounsel 12
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Bo Yarborough 10
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Ryne Powell 5
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Tanner Manteufel 5
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Shay Bradley 4
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Coy Rowden 4
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Josh Gamel 4
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Taylor Ramsey 2
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New Diana, in third place in the district with a record of (6-2), next hosts the Elysian Fields Yellowjackets Friday. The 'Jackets are winless this year in district play.
Harmony, in fourth place at (4-4), next face the powerhouse Sabine Cardinals on the road. That game is also on Friday.
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Cardinals extend winning streak to 16.
HARLETON, TX., Jan. 28, 2009 -- The Sabine Cardinals opened the second half of district play Tuesday with a win on the road over the Harleton Wildcats, keeping it's district record perfect at 8-0.
The game, a rematch of the Jan. 2nd game that Sabine won 76-26, featured the outside shooting of Noah Jackson, who connected on four baskets from outside the arc.
Jackson led all scorers with 23 points, followed by fellow Cardinal Colton Kirk with 22. Tanner Beattie led the Wildcat scorers with 8 points.
Box Scores
| Sabine | Harleton |
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Jackson 23
| Beattie 8
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Kirk 22
| Williams 7
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Woodrell 13
| Lacy 5
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Byrd 5
| Spurr 1
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Montana 4
| Lloyd 1
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Kenna 2
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Sabine will look for it's 17th straight win when it hosts the Harmony Eagles (4-4) in district play, Friday. Sabine won an earlier match-up with the Eagles 78-57.
Harleton, (2-5) in the district, plays host to Winona Friday.
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Cardinals can't find poll traction, but the Wildcats do.
TABC RANKINGS, Jan. 26, 2009 -- The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches' rankings for 2A Boys basketball bobbled at the top this week, but it didn't help the Sabine Cardinals any.
Last week's #1, Ponder, dropped a game to seventh ranked Krum, but it only cost them one spot, as they fell to #2. Sabine, despite a blowout of Unino Grove, stayed locked in the fourth spot.
On the other hand, Tobin Reid's Big Sandy Wildcats benefited from losses by Roscoe, Mumford and Petrolia to make a four spot jump on the 1A-1 poll, up to fifth from the ninth spot.
2A Boys Rankings
Last Week This Week
1 Ponder (24-0) New Waverley (20-3)
2 New Waverley (18-3) Ponder (25-1)
3 Whitewright (20-1) Whitewright (22-1)
4 Gladewater Sabine (24-3) Gladewater Sabine (26-3)
5 Floydada (21-1) Krum (22-4)
6 Edgewood (18-5) Floydada (21-1)
7 Krum (20-4) Edgewood (20-5)
8 Spearman (18-2) Spearman (20-2)
9 Shallowater (14-4) Shallowater (17-4)
10 Newton (10-6) Newton (12-6)
1A-1 Boys Rankings
Last Week This Week
1 Cayuga (6-3) Cayuga (8-3)
2 Roscoe (15-2) Plains (18-1)
3 Mumford (21-1) Clarendon (15-4)
4 Plains (16-1) Wheeler (18-2)
5 Petrolia (17-3) Big Sandy (15-9)
6 Wheeler (14-1) Avery (21-2)
7 Clarendon (17-4) Detroit (20-5)
8 Avery (18-2) Petrolia (18-4)
9 Big Sandy (14-10) Bronte (21-2)
10 Detroit (18-5) Roscoe (16-3)
Sabine travels to Harleton Tuesday, and Big Sandy is on the road at Wascom.
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