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Monday
November 20,2000
Page IB
Sports
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BASEBALL
McNeese State to
hold baseball camp
McNeese State University
will hold its Top Prospects
Baseball Evaluation Camp for
Grades 9-12 on Dec. 2. It is a
one-day, pro-style workout
camp with complete player
evaluations by both Top
Prospects Baseball and college
recruiters. Pre-registration is
$75 and on-site registration is
$85 including a bat bag or T-
sMrt. For registraion, call
Michael Abshire (337) 855-
9022 or Tim Hendrix at (318)
325-5335.
Area Calendar
Today
Basketball
South Houston at Sterling girls,
7:30 p.m.
Dayton girls at Barbers Hill, 7:30 p.m.
Anahuac girls at Tarkington, 7:30
p.m.
Lee girls at Alvin, 3 p.m.
Crosby boys at Dickinson, 7:30 p.m.
Tennis
Lee College at Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi.
Tuesday
Basketball
wyrTriht^J^lfey DC at Lee College^
7:30 p.m. * • ■ - .
PA Jefferson at Sterling boys,
1:30 p.m.
Lee boys at Pasadena, 1 p.m.
Crosby girls at Sterling, 7:30 p.m.
Lee girls at Houston Smiley, 3 p.m.
Channelview boys at Dayton, 7:30
p.m.
Dayton girls at Beaumont Central,
7 p.m.
Thursday
Basketball
flf ahuac, Barbers Hill, Crosby girls
■Sr Lovelady Thanksgiving
Tournament, TBA.
Friday
Football
Class 5A Division II Area playoffs:
Lee vs. Aldine at Astrodome, 4:30
p.m.
Class 3A Division II Area playoffs:
Barbers Hill vs, Sweeny at
Pasadena, 7:30 p.m.
On Television
College Basketball
Arizona vs. Chaminade, 1 p.m., ESPN.
Massachusetts at Marquette, 6
p.m., ESPN2.
Louisville vs. Maryland, 8 p.m., ESPN.
Illinois vs. UNLV, 10:30 p.m., ESPN2.
Football
Washington at St. Louis, 8 p.m.,
ABC.'
Hockey
Tampa Bay at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.,
FSN. '
Motor Sports
CORR Off-Road Series, 10 a.m„
ESPN2*
ARCA Georgia Boot 400, 2 a.m„
ESPN."1
* — taped event.
owboys shutout for first time since 1991
By DAVID GINSBURG
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE—With a 17-0
halftime lead, Baltimore Ravens
coach Brian Billick didn’t want
to settle for just another victory.
He challenged his players to
annihilate the Dallas Cowboys.
“Let’s show them how
relentless we can be,” he said.
“That’s what champions are
made of.”
The Ravens finished what
they started as Jamal Lewis ran
for a career-high 187 yards
Sunday and Baltimore posted
its fourth shutout of the season,
27-0. It was the third straight
win for Baltimore, which is
one shutout short of matching
the NFL single-season record
held by the 1976 Pittsburgh
Steelers.
“Now it’s in reach,” said mid-
dle linebacker Ray Lewis, who
had a team-high seven tackles.
“We can taste it, we can smell
it. Why not just go for it?”
Trent Differ threw two touch-
down passes for the Ravens (8-
4), who showed no letdown fol-
lowing last week’s emotional
24-23 upset of the defending
AFC champion Tennessee
Titans.
Emmitt Smith was limited to
48 yards rushing, and Troy
Aikman passed for only 138
yards as the Cowboys (4-7)
were shut out for the first time
in 152 games since Sept. 15,
1991, a 24-0 loss to
Philadelphia.
“I think they’re an awfully
good defqpse, but I don’t think
anybody’s so good in this
league that an offense shouldn’t
be able to go out and score
some kind of points,” Aikman
said. “That’s a reflection on the
way we played as well.”
The Cowboys had only 192
yards, just five more than
Jamal Lewis gained on the.
ground, and Aikman threw
three interceptions. Dallas fin-
ished with 55 rushing yards on
14 carries.
“For us to win in this domi-
nating fashion says something
about us,” Billick said. “This is
a special group, defensively.
That organization stood for
excellence for so long,”
Lee begins shorthanded
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — Some
coaches may think they’ve
seen it all after numerous years
in the profession.
But Lee boys basketball
coach Jim Ledbetter is in an
unusual situation -entering his
20th season as head coach of
the Ganders. Seven expected
varsity players are still wearing
pads, cleats and helmets as the
Ganders football team heads
into the playoffs for the sixth
time in seven seasons.
Ledbetter usually waits only
on two or three football players
;$> joiarthe tjam, $r Lee%i,;
expecting to be shorthanded for’
the season’s first couple weeks.
Once- the foo%ll season
ends, seniors Hammond
Thomas (6-foot-1, forward),
Larry Lawrence (6-1, for-
ward), Jared Eikhoff (5-9,
guard), juniors J.C. Hunter (6-
2) and Carl Williams (guard)
and Nick Marshall (guard) are
expected to join the team.
“Once we get all our kids in,
we’re going to play an exciting
brand ofbasketball,” Ledbetter
said. “The kids understand the
situation. We just have to take
it one day at a time and get into
roles.”
Ledbetter plans to use a
more up-tempo brand of bas-
ketball. The Ganders haven’t
been to the playoffs since 1996.
“We have more quickness,”
Ledbetter said.> “We’ll have a
full-court defense with more
trapping to create offense off
defense. The best way to score
points is through defense.”
With just one player —
senior starting point guard
Brandon Pace — that saw a lot
of varsity action last year,
things may be rough during
that time. Crosby took advan-
tage of a shorthanded Lee
team in the season-opener 8.7-
56 Nov. 14. Pace, who aver-
aged 7 points a game last year,
did not play against Crosby,
Ledbetter also plans to use
senior Keiron Frazer (6-2, for-
ward), Mark Hagan (6-0,
Baytown Sun file photo
Brandon Pace goes up for a jump shot during a game last season. Pace averaged 7 points a game
last season for the Ganders.
guard), Karl Dobberstein (6-5,
center) and Roland Watts (6-
11, guard). He has moved up
Vernon Williams (5-8, guard),
Juan Lopez (6-2, forward),
Ganesh Ramjit (6-0, forward)
and freshmen Fred Bailey to
the varsity.
Lee graduated four starters,
including Andrew Queen from
last year’s 11-19 overall and 1-
9 last-place District 22-5A
team. Queen is redshirting at
Lee College this year.
The Ganders will play in
District 23-5A this year with
Sterling, Beaumont Central
and West Brook as well as Deer
Park and North Shore.
Ledbetter said the district
could be as tough as last year’s
that saw both. West Brook and
Central qualify for the playoffs.
Lee opens district play at
home against crosstown rival
Sterling on Jan. 16.
Contact G. Michael Graham
by e-mail at ggraham@bay
townsun.com or by phone at
(281)425-8024.
Sterling
takes aim
at playoffs
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — Last year in
Sam Priest’s first year as head
coach, the Sterling’s boys basket-
ball team had one of its best sea-
sons since the 1980s.
The Rangers were 19-2 in
nondistrict action but stumbled in
District 22-5A play, going 4-6
and failing to make die playoffs.
“We went through a two-and-
a-half-week-period where we lost
five games in a row,” Priest said
of last year's district schedule.
“We feelsome of those games we
shouldn’t have lost. Deep down, 1
think some of our kids were
pressing. We hope this year, the
kids don’t dwell, on the fact we
had a great year but didn’t make
the playoffs.” '
Priest said anything short of
the playoffs would be a disap-
pointment this year as well. Even
though the Rangers graduated 12
seniors, including Kevin Cooper
who now plays at Lee College,
three starters return. They are
seniors Deshun Allen (a 6-foot-2
forward all-district second-team-
er that averaged seven points and
9.6 rebounds a game), Richard
Hipolito (6-1 forward, 14.8
points, all-district first-team) and
Emmanual Griffin (5-10 guard,
all-district honorable mention,
6.2 assists, 3.5 steals, 4 or 5
points). However,. Allen and
Hipolito are out indefinitely,
although Hipolito is allowed to
play in the weekend’s Pasadena
Tournament.
- “I just tell everyone to be con-
fident,” Griffin said-, “We have a
great group of guys. If people ask
me, I tell them this is the year
we’re going to the playoffs.”
Priest wants his team to
advance for his seniors. The other
listed Sterling seniors are 5-10
forward Priest Burrell, 5-10
guard Joseph Jones, 6-0 forward
Rhari Tillis, 6-2 center Curtis
Short and 6-2 center Dave
Joseph.
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Lee’s Ganders find indoor ’Dome comforts to their ever-lovin’ liking
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HOUSTON —Don’t look
now, fellow Americans, but the
Lee Ganders are on a roll.
Make that rock and roll.
Snicker if you must at.Lee’s
skinny 6-5 record, but here’s a
mathematical equation even the
good people of Palm Beach
County, Fla., can understand.
Well, perhaps.
The six precious-as-gold vic-
tories have come in the
Ganders’ last seven games,
proving again that it’s not
Sports
Watch
Jim Finley
the rest of the way — uncork
pass after completed pass.
Three fastballs were good for
touchdowns.
In sum, Tate engineered a
14-for-20 day, good for 240
thing of beauty. At last report,
, ________________ the Wildcats, District 24-5 A
always how many you win, but co-champs, were seeking
when you win them. solace at their local taxidermist
Save a lackluster perfor- after a severe, 29-0 mugging
mance (spelled 1-o-s-s) against by Lee.
Beaumont Central, it’s been a If we wanted to be cute here
rocking good time, especially — and we always take our
in the last three weeks when work seriously — we’d be
^4)ick Olin’s team defeated tempted to say that the game
jmfosstown rival Sterling, uni- was not as close as the score
^Rrsally renowned North Shore indicates,
and now, in the sweet bye and Or in Olin’s own words:
bye, Clear Creek’s 9-2 “It’s just a great win. You
know, we came out and took
the opening kickoff and went
down and scored.
“I thought we threw the ball
Well and caught the ball well.
The defense did a great job.
The special teams were good.
“I mean, you know, we just yards, in one of his better per-
. played a good game.” formancbs of the year.
Wlldcats- Correct, and it opened the Carl Williams, J.C. Hunter
Win No. 6, played in “all the playoff elevator door to a sec- and Justin Morris made the
comforts of ’Dome,” was a ond round playoff tilt against catches that paid off with six
Aldine — a 13-10 winner over points — Morris’ being a sen-
Humble — at 4:30 p.m. Friday, sational one-handed magical
again in the ’Dome. act good for 8 yards and the
With the rain pelting down last touch,
on the rest of the world, the As usual, tough-guy Robert
and then did what he does best Aaron Medema, Alonzo Chapa each had a number of major,
and Charlie Fojt.
Olin said Medema “did a
nice j ob” when he stepped in
for starter Nick MeCamey,
who was injured in the early
going.
major plays and were all over
the Reliant joint.
All in all, it was, as coaches
like to say, a team effort.
A suave sportswriter wanted
to know if the Wildcat skin-
And did somebody mention ning was the most complete
defense? We believe so. game turned in by Lee this
Ricky Rodriguez intercepted season,
a pass to set-up the first touch- “Sure” Olin said. “Heck,
down. Clark McDowell made a yeah. No question.”
touchdown-saving tackle early We take that’ as a yes.
in the game with Lee in front Olin saw the big victory —
10-0. especially coming as it did in
Nursing that slim early lead, the Astrodome — another way.
Jason Hernandez blocked a “This is just gravy,” he
Ganders were taking die afore- Carr kept the opponents honest field goal. Not to be outdone, offered. “This is a reward for
mentioned opening kickoff and by contributing 68 yards on 16 the ever-present Rodriguez got the off-season (work), a reward
moving west by northwest for a carries. a field goal block of his own, for the summer and all fall.”
20-yard Justin Laird field goal. Moreover, a tip of the helping preserve the shutout. Gravy and rock ’n roll
It would be the smallest point Ganders’football hat should McDowell and Andy Those longtime Gander
offering of the afternoon. be lifted for such offensive line Hodges made a key stop on a favorites.
Sophomore gunslinger Drew standouts as Andy Linder, third-and-six. Sam Tijerina, Jim Finleys column appears on
Tate soon scored the first Jeremy Hernandez, Eric Quentin Foreman, DuJuan Monday and Thursday. His e-mail
touchdown on a 1-yard plunge, Calzoncinth, Chris Ramirez, Harris and Larry Lawrence addressispileyl4@aol.com.
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