The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 59, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 2000 Page: 9 of 16
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Tide charts
OalvMton Bay
SatunfyJan.8
High tide...............1248 am.
LcwtiJe...............536am
High tide................S07am
Lowtide................531pm
(Sunrise 7:16am.; Sunset 5:38 pm.)
Sunday.Jan.9
High tide...............1215am.,
Lnvtide................5:10am.
Halide..............i.7:40am.
Lwtide................458 p.m.
(Sunrise 7:16 am.; Sunset 5:38 pm.)
FISHING REPORT
NORTH SABINE: Trout are good
under scattered bird action on Corkys
and Top Dogs. Trout are good on the
Louisiana shoreline in the afternoon
when the water warms on glow/char-
treuse and pumpkinseed/chartreuse
Nortgn Sand Eels. Redfish are good
under the birds.
SOUTH SABINE: Redfish are
very good at the jetties on live and
fresh dead shrimp and mullet. Floun-
der are very good near the Causeway
bridge on jigs and grubs tipped with
shrimp. Trout are good around Blue
Buck Point on chartreuse/white Top
Dogs.
BOLIVAR: Whiting, black drum
and sheepshead are fair to good on
dead shrimp and live mud minnows at
Rollover Pass. Flounder are good
around the cuts leading to the Gulf of
Mexico on jigs tipped with shrimp.
TRINITY BAY: Trout, redfish,
black drum and sheepshead are scat-
tered on live bait at the HL&P Spillway.
Strong north winds have dropped
water levels several feet below normal.
Before the front, trout were good at
Dow’s Reef on red shad and fire tiger
Bass Assassins.
EAST GALVESTON BAY:
Trout, black drum, and sheepshead
are fair at the HL&P warm water dis-
charge canal in Bad. Some fish also
showing up in the ship'channel.
Before the front, trout were good in 6-8
feet of water while drifting scattered
shell on fire tiger, glow/chartreuse and
plum/chartrguse Bass Assassins.
WEST GALVESTON BAY:
Trout are fair at Confederate Reef and
Green's Cut on five shrimp. Redfish
are fair to good in the deep holes in
Moses Lake on Shrimp and mullet.
Sheepshead are fair to good around
the railroad bridge and any other
structure on shrimp.
, TEXAS CITYrBlack drum, whit-'
ing and sheepshead are fair to good
from the piers off the dike on dead
shrimp. Rounder are fair on the shore-
lines on chartreuse jigs and mud min-
nows. Redfish are good on the drop-
offs near Moses Lake on cut bait.
Trout are in the deeper holes on red
soft plastics.
FREEPORT: Trout, redfish, and
Spanish mackerel are fair at the Quin-
tana jetties on shrimp. Redfish are fair
to good at the Surfside jetties. Redfish
and flounder are fair in Christmas Bay
and East Union on mud minnows and
shrimp. Sheepshead are good on
fresh dead everywhere.
EAST MATAGORDA: Trout are
fair to good in the harbor on red and
peart/chartreuse soft plastics bounced
against the bottom. Trout are also
good under the lights in clear strips of
water on avocado jigs and speck-rigs.
Deep shell reefs are also paying off for
open-bay drifters.
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Friday. Jan. 7
Basketball
Anahuac girts host Liberty, 6 p.m.
Lee girls host Humble, 7 p.m.
Sterling boys host Deer Park, 7 pm
Sterling girls at Beaumont Central, 7 pm
Lee boys host Mayde Creek, 7 p.m.
Barbers Hill girls at Huffman, 7:30 p.m.
Barbers Hill boys host Huffman, 7:30 pm
Tuesday. Jan.11
Basketball
Anahuac girls at Barbers Hill, 7:30 p.m.
Barbers Hill boys at Anahuac, 7:30 pm.
Lee girls at Sterling, 7 pm
Lee boys at Channelview, 7 pm.
Sterling boys host La Porte, 7 p.m.
Rebels fall to Trinity Valley 82-75
By JERRY MKHALSKY
Special To The Sun
Coming into Thursday night’s
contest, the Lee College Running
Rebels basketball team was 5-1
and just one game behind confer-
ence leader San Jacinto (7-0).
That was the good news. The
bad news was their opponent from
Trinity Valley was 4-2 and just a
game behind the Rebels.
The news got even worse as
Trinity Valley moved into a tie
with Lee College at 5-2 with an
82-75 victory at the Lee College
gymnasium.
The Rebels would find them-
selves down by as tfiany as 1$
points before making erne final run
in the closing mindtes, thanks in
large part to the shooting of Delvin
Spruel, who lead all scorers with
26 points —19 in the fecond half.
Spruel hit a couple of three
pointers to pull the Rebels close,
but missed one with 22 seconds
that could have cut the lead to
three points.
“We just waited too long to
nrike our move” said Lee College
head coach Roy Champagne.
“They1 came out with more intensi-
ty then we did.”
One of the problems that
plagued the Rebels was the play of
Cardinals point guard Jerome Hol-
man. “He idn their to per-
fection and added some key buck-
ets down the stretch,’’^Champagne
said.
, The Rebels started the game in
great shape and built a 17-8 lead
six minutes into the game, thanks
to the shooting of Draper Housley,
who scored nine of his 12 points to
help the Rebels open their nine-
point lead.
Silvester Simple hit a three-
pointer for Lee College at the 4:50
mark of the first half to keep the
lead for the Rebels at 29-25.
But Trinity Valley ended the half
on a 14-6 run and got a three-
pointer from Marcus Johnson (15
points) at the buzzer, sending the
Cardinals to the locker room with
a 39-35 lead.
Shawnson Johnson (14 points)
brought the crowd to its feet in the
opening minutes of the second half
with a slam dunk to keep the
Rebels within four. But the Cardi-
nals responded with a 7-0 run to
extend their lead to 52-41 with
15:10 to go, prompting a Cham-
pagne time out.
Trinity Valley’s lead stretched to
18, which would be their biggest
lead of the night, thanks to a Justin
Hassel tip-in.
But with less than four minutes
to go, Lee made its run as Sprue!
hit two treys to cut the deficit to
74-67 with 3:05 to go.
Two minutes later, Johnson got
another slam to cut it to six before
Spruel’s three wouldn’t drop and
after the Cardinals hit a couple pf
free throws.
The Rebels will look to move to
6-2 ih conference play Saturday as
they hit the road to face Paris
Junior College:
Delvin Spruel
takes a
jumper
against
Trinity Valley
on Thursday
night in the
Lee College
gymnasium.
Spruel led all
scorers with
26 points,
but the
Rebels fell to
Trinity Valley
82-75. The
Rebels’ next
game will be
Saturday at
Paris Junior
College.
Photo by David Mnot
OUHMH)KS
Wife learns to expect the worst in the outdoors
“Do you want to go fishing in
the Diversion Channel with Dad
and me tonight?” I courteously
asked my wife, Shelly, not expect-
ing an answer of “yes.”
“You do?” I remarked with
astonishment. “Better dress warm
—you know how cold you get on
the water.”
After several offerings for her to
back out, without hurting my feel-
ings, she exclaimed that this might
be die only time she got to spend
with me with all my guided hunt-
ing trips on the upcoming calen-
dar.
She is not nearly as crazed about
die outdoors as I, but gamers an
interest because her beloved hus-
band dreams and yearns for water-
thrashing, topwater blowups from
a 30-plus inch speckled trout,
cacophonous bellows from incom-
ing geese, and whistling wings and
wheezing from prom- dressed pin-
tails and green-headed bombers.
Her interests do not include
wading a bait-infested shoreline
for hours or shivering in waders
and camouflage waiting for water-
fowl to mistake your fakes for a
specie of their own.
So when she decides to take one
of her biannual trips with me, I
want it to be perfect. However, it
never aids up that way.
The first spring of our marriage
I had just purchased my first boat,
a 15-foot Alweld from a guy in
Shreveport I was still living in
East Texas at the time. Shelly and I
had decided that we were going to
pack a lunch and go boat riding on
Caddo Lake that Sunday afternoon
after church.
I had driven the boat before on
several occasions so I was checked
out on all the little quirks that go
along with dinghies. I dumped the
boat in the water and parked the
truck and trailer, with Shelly hold-
ing the boat by a rope at the
water’s edge.
We loaded and pushed off and I
began pulling to start the engine.
The 25-hp motor had an electric
start, but I did not bring a battery.
After several futile tugs and deep
breaths, Shelly began laughing, as
if to say, “here we go again.” I
began searching the boat for
answers, and there it was. A gas-
powered outboard engine has to
have gas to start The six gallon
tank was foil, but the fuel hose was
not attached and primed to foe
motor.
Needless to say, on foe next pull,
the engine purred.
It gets belter. As we tooled
around the lake, hack into Clinton,
Jackson’s Arm and other areas of
the lake under the canopy of
cypress, the water was abnormally
high due to foe flooding rains of
that spring. My GPS read that my
Duck hunters have
until Jan.23 to bag
one of these
species. Snow
goose hunters will
get their chance
with unplugged
shotguns and elec-
tronic calls Jan. 24
when the special
conservation season
resumes. All other
waterfowl seasons
will close Jan.23.
boat would top out around 32 mph
on a previous trip. Shelly and I
were bending around foe back
waters when we made a right to
get back into the river channel
around Devilh Elbow. With the
water as low as it is right now, you
can see foe stump that I splintered
by cutting the comer too short.
Shelly was thrown out of her chair,
flat on her back while I hit my
knees and tried to remain calm as
foe outboard howled from being J
kicked out of foe water. Her eyes
were as big as a full moon, but I
tried to play it off as no big deal.
The fact is ws hit the stump going
over 20 mph, and we hit it hard.
Surprisingly, there was no major
damage to foe motor.
Our next outdoor excursion
involved hunting. It was not
planned. A few days before, Guide
Jack Innmon and I had shot 120
snow geese with 10 other cus-
tomers on foe Fitzgerald Ranch
near Anahuac. I knew the path the
geese were flying from the roost to
foe marsh, and thought this would
be an opportune time to get Shelly
out and see foe firsthand excite-
ment of shooting white cacklers in
foe fog at roof-top levels.
This was a chance for me to
show off and can my 10-goose
limit quickly.
Wrong. Sure, foe geese flew
their pattern, low and very
shootable. But, every steel pellet I
shot bounced off the thick down of.
the snow geese. After 13 shots and
only erne goose, I told her I was
not wasting another shell. Wfe went
home and were back by 8:30 a.m.
She laughed the whole time as my
pride and chest deflated.
“ft’srey fault,” Shelly said.
“Every time I come something
bad happens.”
Bink Grimes can be reached via
e-mail at bgrimes@wcnet.net.
TEEN OF THE WEEK • Anderson
Jim Anderson
Jim Anderson says his parent’s encouragement to accom-
plish his own personal best in every task he undertakes is the
element that has contributed most to his success. Jim is the
son of John and Jeanie Anderson. He is Senior Class
Representative at Baytown Christian Academy. One of his
greatest achievements in high school is to be ranked num-
ber one in his class. He also made the All State Tournament
Team in soccer. Jim spends some of his time as Yearbook
Editor, Youth Leadership member at Second Baptist Church,
and as a Club Volleyball Coach. He has received the follow-
ing honors in high school: The Saint Award, Who’s Who in
American High School’s, DAR selection, Boy’s State
Nomination, and All American Christian Student. “I fed that
I’ve used my four years of high school in the best way
possible in order to prepare for my future.” His future goals
include attending a four-year university with a major in
medicine. .
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