Goodbye District 21-5A. Goodbye District 24-5A. Thanks for coming. We have some lovely parting gifts for you. Drive safely going home in this nasty weather.
Sincerely,
The UIL 2010 Region III Bracket
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As if the return of winter wasn't bad enough to have to endure, the teams from these districts had to endure long, cold trips home after losing their playoff games. Every one of them.
The most impressive showing in the opening round of the Class 5A Region III playoffs wasn't by a single team; it was by a pair of districts: 22-5A and 23-5A.
And it should be noted that Bellaire, the top team in the state, won their game by 65 points, while scoring 115 against Eisenhower. That's impressive, but wasn't completely unexpected.
The Fort Bend ISD is alive and well after the bidistrict round as Bush, Elkins, Dulles and Travis swept away Clear Springs, Clear Brook, and Galveston Ball, respectively. Ball came into their game with the Bulldogs as the district champs and a 21-5 record. The Tors jumped out to an early lead but Travis (20-9) fought back to pull out a 65-59 victory.
Clear Springs gave 23-5A champion Bush a big-time scare, but when their leading scorer Anthony Horton fouled out midway through the fourth quarter, Bush overcame an eight-point deficit in the last five minutes to win, 62-58.
People who watch the Fort Bend ISD all season staunchly hold to the belief that they play the best basketball in the area in 23-5A. Tuesday night's results will only add weight to their case.
The interesting thing is that they will at least have the opportunity to lay claim to dominance over another entire district in the area round, as the four teams from 22-5A dispatched the 21-5A entrants in the first round and will next face the 23-5A teams.
As impressive as 23-5A's dominance was, you could make the case that it wasn't surprising. Some of District 22-5A's wins might be categorized as very surprising.
On Monday night, Pearland held off North Shore for a one-point win in a nip-and-tuck battle. But the big surprise of the first round may have been 14-19 Dobie going to overtime to defeat 27-3 Port Arthur Memorial, the 21-5A champions, on Tuesday night, 71-68. The Titans came from behind to force the OT period but Dobie scored the only three points of the OT and took the air out of the ball to deflate Memorial's playoff hopes.
La Porte and Deer Park held serve as well, against Channelview and West Brook, and the 22-5A vs 23-5A was set.
In the area round, Pearland faces Travis, La Porte takes on Elkins, Deer Park will play Bush and Dobie draws Dulles.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
UH Cougar baseball and more recruiting news from Cinco Ranch
I'm excited to be doing some fill-in play-by-play work this weekend for ISP Sports and the University of Houston Cougar baseball network. The Coogs open their season at home against Texas State. Both teams have rosters stocked with Houston-area guys that I've watched over past few years and it will be fun to watch them at the collegiate level.
My buddy Jeremy Branham is the regular play-by-play guy for Cougar baseball, but he also calls UH women's basketball and is in Florida this weekend as they continue their conference season. So I'll keep the seat at Cougar Field warm for him.
You are invited to listen in...right here.
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Speaking of Cougars, we've received more signing updates on Cinco Ranch Cougars courtesy of campus athletic coordinator and head football coach Don Clayton.
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Offensive lineman Richard Glover has committed to play football for the Army Academy at West Point. Glover was a two-time first-team All-District selection for the state-semifinalist Cougars in 2009, while also being a finalist for the Houston Touchdown Club Offensive Player of the Year Award.
My buddy Jeremy Branham is the regular play-by-play guy for Cougar baseball, but he also calls UH women's basketball and is in Florida this weekend as they continue their conference season. So I'll keep the seat at Cougar Field warm for him.
You are invited to listen in...right here.
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Speaking of Cougars, we've received more signing updates on Cinco Ranch Cougars courtesy of campus athletic coordinator and head football coach Don Clayton.
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Offensive lineman Richard Glover has committed to play football for the Army Academy at West Point. Glover was a two-time first-team All-District selection for the state-semifinalist Cougars in 2009, while also being a finalist for the Houston Touchdown Club Offensive Player of the Year Award.
Seated: Mom (Erica), Richard, and Dad (Richard)
Standing: Jon Edwards (Offensive Coordinator), Quentin White (Offensive Line Coach), Tony Marsh (Offensive Line Coach), Bennett Johnson (Athletic Trainer), James Cross (Principal), and Don Clayton (Head Football Coach).
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Tight end Joe Norrell has committed to play football at Bryant University. Joe was a first-team All-District selection in 2009. Bryant University, located in Smithfield Rhode Island, will also be the destination next year for QB Trent Eckel from The Woodlands. Bryant participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA, to you old-timers).
Seated: Dad (Bob), Joe, and Mom (Lisa)
Standing: Shane Weaston (Assistant Coach), Jon Edwards (Offensive Coordinator), Jacob (younger brother), Shannon Valdivia (Counselor), Don Clayton (Head Football Coach), James Cross (Principal), and Ishan Rison (Tight Ends Coach).
We join in wishing these men continued success in college and beyond.
Monday, February 15, 2010
The Haka be praised! Trinity will play on Labor Day!
Rest easy, Houston high school football fans...North Texas pretentious melodrama is alive and well in the football ranks up in the Metroplex. And, to me, it is no surprise that it wears the black and red of Trinity High School in Euless.
Defending 5A-D1 state champ Euless Trinity will still participate in the 2010 Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series at Cowboys Stadium on Labor Day, even though they will have a short five-day turnaround for a Saturday district game that same week (the horror!). The Trojans had agreed to play in the early-season showcase against Shiloh Christian from Springdale, AR, before the UIL's realignment placed them in the nine-team District 6-5A.
Eight district games meant only two non-district matchups. An odd number of teams in the district meant that there would be one inactive team each week during district play, effectively eating up a bye week, so Trinity had to schedule a Zero Week game.
Head Coach Steve Lineweaver immediately commenced the agonizing and hand-wringing process of considering backing out the commitment to play on Labor Day (Week 1, second and final non-district game) in favor of a Friday or Saturday game the weekend before, but the team wanted to play. So they will. WHEW!
Before you shed tears for their misfortune, know this: David Smith's Klein Oak team did the same thing last season, without any of the fanfare or any of the media coverage. And facing Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Cypress Woods, they arguably had a much tougher two-game stretch than Trinity will.
As a coach -- or as Mike Gundy would say, a "man" -- there are some things you just do and accept the consequences, good or bad.
Trinity's Saturday game that week is against Richland, who aren't a walkover by any stretch of the imagination, but also aren't Southlake Carroll. The Trojans should manage enough strength to muster up two faux Haka dances in one week.
For my money, I will never see anything funnier than a red-headed freckle-faced 16-year-old kid from the mid-cities doing a tribal warrior's dance. And doing it wrong. Unless it's Mike Gundy going off on a reporter.
Defending 5A-D1 state champ Euless Trinity will still participate in the 2010 Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series at Cowboys Stadium on Labor Day, even though they will have a short five-day turnaround for a Saturday district game that same week (the horror!). The Trojans had agreed to play in the early-season showcase against Shiloh Christian from Springdale, AR, before the UIL's realignment placed them in the nine-team District 6-5A.
Eight district games meant only two non-district matchups. An odd number of teams in the district meant that there would be one inactive team each week during district play, effectively eating up a bye week, so Trinity had to schedule a Zero Week game.
Head Coach Steve Lineweaver immediately commenced the agonizing and hand-wringing process of considering backing out the commitment to play on Labor Day (Week 1, second and final non-district game) in favor of a Friday or Saturday game the weekend before, but the team wanted to play. So they will. WHEW!
Before you shed tears for their misfortune, know this: David Smith's Klein Oak team did the same thing last season, without any of the fanfare or any of the media coverage. And facing Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Cypress Woods, they arguably had a much tougher two-game stretch than Trinity will.
As a coach -- or as Mike Gundy would say, a "man" -- there are some things you just do and accept the consequences, good or bad.
Trinity's Saturday game that week is against Richland, who aren't a walkover by any stretch of the imagination, but also aren't Southlake Carroll. The Trojans should manage enough strength to muster up two faux Haka dances in one week.
For my money, I will never see anything funnier than a red-headed freckle-faced 16-year-old kid from the mid-cities doing a tribal warrior's dance. And doing it wrong. Unless it's Mike Gundy going off on a reporter.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Horrific accident will call attention to IOC, NBC
Warning: this post has absolutely nothing to do with Houston high school sports.
I feel compelled to write about the horrific accident near Vancouver that resulted in the tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili from the Republic of Georgia during an Olympic practice run for the luge competition on the same day as the opening ceremonies of these Olympic Games.
Nothing is harder to watch than the raw footage of the accident, especially when you realize you're viewing the exact moment that a person's life comes to an end, but I believe the thing that will define this tragedy is the way that it is dealt with publicly by the International Olympic Committee and their major broadcast partner, NBC.
The IOC is downright clandestine and they grant no re-broadcast or video rights to any other media organizations besides their official broadcast partners, which means that we will only get as much or as little information about the accident, the track safety, the measures being taken to prevent further accidents and any number of other related issues as the IOC wants us to have.
It will be interesting to see how the journalistic instincts of those reporting for NBC on these games will be challenged as questions come up about the safety of the athletes participating in the Games, and specifically the luge competition, even as the IOC will most certainly try to sweep this under the rug as much as possible. NBC's coverage will basically define whether they are, in fact, journalists first or nothing more than a 'state-controlled' propoganda machine for the IOC.
There had already been many questions raised about the safety of this track. There are concerns among those who are still scheduled to compete. People will want to know if the IOC, which portrays itself as the ultimate in humanitarian organizations, has done everything in its power to create the safest possible environment for its participants.
But if the IOC runs from the media at-large, who will ask them the tough questions?
I've always respected many of the anchors and reporters, from both the realms of sports and general news, who are working the Olympics for NBC this year and I will watch with interest to see if they become complicit in any soft-pedaling or if they risk 'biting the hand that feeds them' to ask the tough questions, speak out and speak up for the facts.
Before today, I had very little interest in the Vancouver Games. Sadly, someone had to die to pique that interest.
I feel compelled to write about the horrific accident near Vancouver that resulted in the tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili from the Republic of Georgia during an Olympic practice run for the luge competition on the same day as the opening ceremonies of these Olympic Games.
Nothing is harder to watch than the raw footage of the accident, especially when you realize you're viewing the exact moment that a person's life comes to an end, but I believe the thing that will define this tragedy is the way that it is dealt with publicly by the International Olympic Committee and their major broadcast partner, NBC.
The IOC is downright clandestine and they grant no re-broadcast or video rights to any other media organizations besides their official broadcast partners, which means that we will only get as much or as little information about the accident, the track safety, the measures being taken to prevent further accidents and any number of other related issues as the IOC wants us to have.
It will be interesting to see how the journalistic instincts of those reporting for NBC on these games will be challenged as questions come up about the safety of the athletes participating in the Games, and specifically the luge competition, even as the IOC will most certainly try to sweep this under the rug as much as possible. NBC's coverage will basically define whether they are, in fact, journalists first or nothing more than a 'state-controlled' propoganda machine for the IOC.
There had already been many questions raised about the safety of this track. There are concerns among those who are still scheduled to compete. People will want to know if the IOC, which portrays itself as the ultimate in humanitarian organizations, has done everything in its power to create the safest possible environment for its participants.
But if the IOC runs from the media at-large, who will ask them the tough questions?
I've always respected many of the anchors and reporters, from both the realms of sports and general news, who are working the Olympics for NBC this year and I will watch with interest to see if they become complicit in any soft-pedaling or if they risk 'biting the hand that feeds them' to ask the tough questions, speak out and speak up for the facts.
Before today, I had very little interest in the Vancouver Games. Sadly, someone had to die to pique that interest.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Looking for a wild, whacky district hoops race? Here's one...
Got the following from my buddy and CenTex 3A hoops guru, B.J. Walters. We often see these kinds of whacky finishes to football district races, but not as often in hoops.
Keep in mind when reading this that Class 3A districts still only get three playoff representatives. As you'll read, one of four teams in this central Texas district may tie for a district championship and not even make the playoffs.
I love this stuff! (Thanks again, B.J., for the info!)
The fun is just starting in 19-3A.
Just when we thought everything would be nice and tidy in 19-3A, with Mexia, La Vega, and Lorena all ranked in the TABC hoops rankings and two full games up on the pack, the district showed us what many Waco-area district fans already knew: this district is NEVER nice and tidy.
Groesbeck started the second half of district (with a record of) 2-3 and looking to be a spoiler. They beat a winless Connally team 64-38...no big deal right?
Then the Goats hit their stride, starting their game with #16 La Vega with a 25-5 run en route to a rather convincing 68-54 win at the Goat Gym. Spoiler role turned to hope.
Then they had to hit the road and play a team that they had not beaten in 28 tries, the Mexia Blackcats. Put the streak on top of having to go to very hostile Blackcat Gym, and it was 'uh-oh' time for the Goats, who were in a must-win. They ended the streak with a 67-65 overtime win.
Now we have a complete mess that has no chance of being decided any time soon. There are many different scenarios.
Here is what we do know: Robinson and Connally, I’m sorry, but this party isn’t for you.
La Vega and Lorena are 6-2, while Groesbeck and Mexia are 5-3. La Vega is in Mexia Friday, and Lorena is in Groesbeck on Tuesday, so here we go:
If Groesbeck and La Vega go 2-0 and Mexia and Lorena go 1-1, then:
1. La Vega
2T. Lorena
2T. Groesbeck (Tiebreaker or Flip for 2nd)
If Mexia and Lorena go 2-0, and Groesbeck and La Vega go 1-1, then:
1. Lorena
2T. Mexia
2T. La Vega (Tiebreaker or flip)
If La Vega and Lorena go 2-0 and Groesbeck and Mexia go 1-1, then:
1T. La Vega
1T. Lorena (Tiebreaker or flip)
3T. Groesbeck
3T. Mexia (Tiebreaker)
If Mexia and Groesbeck go 2-0 and Lorena and La Vega go 1-1, then:
1T. La Vega, Groesbeck, Lorena, Mexia
(This would result in a four-team tournament next weekend at a site TBD for three spots)
If you consider that manageable, then it’s not so bad. Either way, it is going to make for a fantastic finish in 19-3A.
Keep in mind when reading this that Class 3A districts still only get three playoff representatives. As you'll read, one of four teams in this central Texas district may tie for a district championship and not even make the playoffs.
I love this stuff! (Thanks again, B.J., for the info!)
The fun is just starting in 19-3A.
Just when we thought everything would be nice and tidy in 19-3A, with Mexia, La Vega, and Lorena all ranked in the TABC hoops rankings and two full games up on the pack, the district showed us what many Waco-area district fans already knew: this district is NEVER nice and tidy.
Groesbeck started the second half of district (with a record of) 2-3 and looking to be a spoiler. They beat a winless Connally team 64-38...no big deal right?
Then the Goats hit their stride, starting their game with #16 La Vega with a 25-5 run en route to a rather convincing 68-54 win at the Goat Gym. Spoiler role turned to hope.
Then they had to hit the road and play a team that they had not beaten in 28 tries, the Mexia Blackcats. Put the streak on top of having to go to very hostile Blackcat Gym, and it was 'uh-oh' time for the Goats, who were in a must-win. They ended the streak with a 67-65 overtime win.
Now we have a complete mess that has no chance of being decided any time soon. There are many different scenarios.
Here is what we do know: Robinson and Connally, I’m sorry, but this party isn’t for you.
La Vega and Lorena are 6-2, while Groesbeck and Mexia are 5-3. La Vega is in Mexia Friday, and Lorena is in Groesbeck on Tuesday, so here we go:
If Groesbeck and La Vega go 2-0 and Mexia and Lorena go 1-1, then:
1. La Vega
2T. Lorena
2T. Groesbeck (Tiebreaker or Flip for 2nd)
If Mexia and Lorena go 2-0, and Groesbeck and La Vega go 1-1, then:
1. Lorena
2T. Mexia
2T. La Vega (Tiebreaker or flip)
If La Vega and Lorena go 2-0 and Groesbeck and Mexia go 1-1, then:
1T. La Vega
1T. Lorena (Tiebreaker or flip)
3T. Groesbeck
3T. Mexia (Tiebreaker)
If Mexia and Groesbeck go 2-0 and Lorena and La Vega go 1-1, then:
1T. La Vega, Groesbeck, Lorena, Mexia
(This would result in a four-team tournament next weekend at a site TBD for three spots)
If you consider that manageable, then it’s not so bad. Either way, it is going to make for a fantastic finish in 19-3A.
CRHS announces another signing
More college signing news from Cinco Ranch High School, courtesy of campus athletic coordinator Don Clayton...
Amy Brodeur has committed to play at Stephen F. Austin to continue her soccer career at the next level.
We join the Cinco Ranch family in wishing her nothing but success both on and off the pitch.
Amy Brodeur has committed to play at Stephen F. Austin to continue her soccer career at the next level.
We join the Cinco Ranch family in wishing her nothing but success both on and off the pitch.
Seated: Dad (Anthony), Amy, and Mom (Susan)
Standing: John Crow (Boys Head Soccer Coach), Mickey Ventimilla-Miller (Girls Assistant Soccer Coach), Fredy Sanguinetti (Girls Head Soccer Coach), James Cross (Principal), Aaron Hoefer (Boys Assistant Soccer Coach), and Don Clayton (Athletic Coordinator).
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
And the realignment winners are...
As the dust settles from Monday's UIL realignment, who wound up as the big winners and who were the big losers in the Greater Houston area?
Today, let's pick 'em in Class 5A...
I think that if you are looking for winners, you need look no further than a little way out Highway 290 to the schools of Cy-Fair ISD. The entire 10-team district will be relocated back in Region III next year as District 17-5A and, no matter which sport you pick, you can make a case that things just got a whole lot easier for whichever CFISD schools make it into the playoff brackets.
With no disrespect intended toward the Alief ISD and Aldine ISD schools which will comprise neighboring 18-5A, all of the 'Cy' schools' football and baseball coaches probably breathed a collective sigh of relief on Monday when they realized that they won't see Round Rock schools in the first round and the likes of The Woodlands, College Park, any of the Klein ISD schools, etc., if they happen to survive that round.
Because of their geographic location on the northern outskirts of metropolitan Houston, the Cy-Fair schools always have to be prepared to go either to Region II or Region III at realignment time, depending on how the numbers fall out. But, given their history of successes on the field, it would be hard to argue that they aren't better off in Region III.
Cypress Woods made it to a football Region II championship game this past season, but Cy-Fair and Cypress Falls each made it at least that far on multiple occasions in Region III and the Golden Eagles played in a 5A Division 2 state championship game as a Region III representative in 2006. Baseball seasons were a little tougher, thanks to the Katys, Bellaires and Kingwoods of the region, but Woody Champagne led his Cy-Fair Bobcats to a state baseball championship out of Region III back in 2007.
Conversely, if you feel like anyone got the short end of the stick, you'd have to pity Kingwood and Atascocita. Not only do they get bumped from the friendly confines of Region III for Region II, but they also get ousted from their cozy surroundings in the Humble/Aldine district to be relocated into the Conroe ISD/Lufkin district. They'll annually see The Woodlands, College Park, Oak Ridge, Conroe and Lufkin in district play. Ouch!
The move was basically unavoidable when it became obvious that Humble was not going to have the enrollment numbers to stay in 5A. (They join Humble ISD schools Kingwood Park and Summer Creek in 4A next year.) And, because of their geographic location in relationship to the Conroe schools, the move was the most natural to make.
At the same time, District 14-5A, which was a small six-team district in recent years, now becomes a little bigger and stronger, too.
I have to confess that the first thing I thought of when I saw the make-up of this district was The Woodlands-Kingwood series in baseball. This revamped district should be a lot of fun for observers, if not for the teams involved.
The other 'losers' in the realignment would have to be Memorial and Strake Jesuit. Memorial, like Kingwood and Atascocita, find themselves in a school district (Spring Branch ISD) where the other high schools are seeing enrollment drop them to 4A levels (Stratford was already there at the last realjgnment but successfully petitioned to stay in 5A) and find themselves now grafted in with the Katy ISD schools.
Strake Jesuit, the lone Houston-area private-school UIL stepchild, will move to that district with Memorial. Strake is likely to spend its entire existence in the UIL shuffling from one district to another every other year--the proverbial 5A nomads.
There was room for one more team in the seven-team Alief/Aldine district and Strake is geographically close to the Alief ISD schools, but they will return instead to compete against the same Katy schools that welcomed them into UIL play as district mates back in 2004. That has to something akin to the welcome you could get in the 1980s at a Von Erich family Christmas gathering: reverse choke holds and body slams for everyone! (Don't you just love obscure references that hint at the writer trying just a little too hard to be clever?)
We'll offer some opinions on 4A winners and losers in the next post.
Today, let's pick 'em in Class 5A...
I think that if you are looking for winners, you need look no further than a little way out Highway 290 to the schools of Cy-Fair ISD. The entire 10-team district will be relocated back in Region III next year as District 17-5A and, no matter which sport you pick, you can make a case that things just got a whole lot easier for whichever CFISD schools make it into the playoff brackets.
With no disrespect intended toward the Alief ISD and Aldine ISD schools which will comprise neighboring 18-5A, all of the 'Cy' schools' football and baseball coaches probably breathed a collective sigh of relief on Monday when they realized that they won't see Round Rock schools in the first round and the likes of The Woodlands, College Park, any of the Klein ISD schools, etc., if they happen to survive that round.
Because of their geographic location on the northern outskirts of metropolitan Houston, the Cy-Fair schools always have to be prepared to go either to Region II or Region III at realignment time, depending on how the numbers fall out. But, given their history of successes on the field, it would be hard to argue that they aren't better off in Region III.
Cypress Woods made it to a football Region II championship game this past season, but Cy-Fair and Cypress Falls each made it at least that far on multiple occasions in Region III and the Golden Eagles played in a 5A Division 2 state championship game as a Region III representative in 2006. Baseball seasons were a little tougher, thanks to the Katys, Bellaires and Kingwoods of the region, but Woody Champagne led his Cy-Fair Bobcats to a state baseball championship out of Region III back in 2007.
Conversely, if you feel like anyone got the short end of the stick, you'd have to pity Kingwood and Atascocita. Not only do they get bumped from the friendly confines of Region III for Region II, but they also get ousted from their cozy surroundings in the Humble/Aldine district to be relocated into the Conroe ISD/Lufkin district. They'll annually see The Woodlands, College Park, Oak Ridge, Conroe and Lufkin in district play. Ouch!
The move was basically unavoidable when it became obvious that Humble was not going to have the enrollment numbers to stay in 5A. (They join Humble ISD schools Kingwood Park and Summer Creek in 4A next year.) And, because of their geographic location in relationship to the Conroe schools, the move was the most natural to make.
At the same time, District 14-5A, which was a small six-team district in recent years, now becomes a little bigger and stronger, too.
I have to confess that the first thing I thought of when I saw the make-up of this district was The Woodlands-Kingwood series in baseball. This revamped district should be a lot of fun for observers, if not for the teams involved.
The other 'losers' in the realignment would have to be Memorial and Strake Jesuit. Memorial, like Kingwood and Atascocita, find themselves in a school district (Spring Branch ISD) where the other high schools are seeing enrollment drop them to 4A levels (Stratford was already there at the last realjgnment but successfully petitioned to stay in 5A) and find themselves now grafted in with the Katy ISD schools.
Strake Jesuit, the lone Houston-area private-school UIL stepchild, will move to that district with Memorial. Strake is likely to spend its entire existence in the UIL shuffling from one district to another every other year--the proverbial 5A nomads.
There was room for one more team in the seven-team Alief/Aldine district and Strake is geographically close to the Alief ISD schools, but they will return instead to compete against the same Katy schools that welcomed them into UIL play as district mates back in 2004. That has to something akin to the welcome you could get in the 1980s at a Von Erich family Christmas gathering: reverse choke holds and body slams for everyone! (Don't you just love obscure references that hint at the writer trying just a little too hard to be clever?)
We'll offer some opinions on 4A winners and losers in the next post.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Cinco's Radcliffe chooses Rice
Cinco Ranch High School announced today that LB James Radcliffe has committed to play for the Rice Owls.
Radcliffe was a three-time All-District LB, as well as 17-5A Defensive Player of the Year, first team All-Greater Houston, and recognized on both the academic and on-the-field all-state teams. He was also a Cougar captain.
Radcliffe will join former Cougars John Gioffre, Bobby Kiesewetter, and Tanner Leland on the Rice roster.
Radcliffe was a three-time All-District LB, as well as 17-5A Defensive Player of the Year, first team All-Greater Houston, and recognized on both the academic and on-the-field all-state teams. He was also a Cougar captain.
Radcliffe will join former Cougars John Gioffre, Bobby Kiesewetter, and Tanner Leland on the Rice roster.
Seated: Jim (Dad), James, and Kris (Mom)
Standing: Chad Simmons (Defensive Coordinator), Chris Dudley (Inside Linebacker Coach), James Cross (Principal), Don Clayton (Head Football Coach), and Mike Flanagan (Outside Linebacker Coach).
Monday, February 1, 2010
Highlights of the UIL realignment
Several Houston-area teams will be more than mildly affected by the 2010-2012 district realignment announced by the University Interscholastic League this morning. Here are some of the changes:
- Class 5A Region II: Kingwood and Atascocita will move from Region III to join the Conroe ISD schools and Lufkin in District 14-5A.
- Cy Fair ISD schools move from Region II back to Region III to form one of two 10-team superdistricts in the region (along with Fort Bend ISD)
- Three of the four Spring Branch ISD schools drop from Class 5A to 4A. Stratford, Northbrook and Spring Woods will join the Magnolia ISD schools, Waller, Brenham and Montgomery in 17-4A.
- Memorial, the lone remaining Spring Branch ISD 5A school, will join the six Katy ISD schools and Strake Jesuit to make up District 19-5A.
- Alief ISD (three schools) and Aldine ISD (four schools) will compose arguably the most geographically-awkward district, 18-5A.
- Deer Park and La Porte, natural geographic rivals, are in separate districts for the first time in recent memory.
- HISD Westbury moves back from 4A to 5A to join other HISD schools in District 20-5A.
- Baytown Lee drops from 5A to 4A.
- Pearland moves back to 24-5A from 22-5A, replacing Galveston Ball, who drops to 4A.
- Humble and New Caney drop from 5A to District 18-4A with Caney Creek, Huntsville, Kingwood Park, Willis and new schools Summer Creek and Porter.
- Angleton and Brazosport will relocate to 23-4A to join the five other teams: Bay City, El Campo, Foster, Lamar Consolidated and Terry.
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