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The Ross S. Sterling Rangers got so
close Friday night they could almost taste
the sweet nectar of what would have been
a well-deserved victory. But as is written
"3n the Bible of Football, the best team
.‘doesn’t always necessarily win.
, Certainly that was the case at
! Stallworth Stadium Friday night when
“DannyLong’s Rangers (1-4) dropped a
30-27 heartbreaker to the Alvin
Yellovyjackets in their last non-district
bout of the season.
it Certainly they deserved a better fate.
Certainly their time is coming.
,H But with just 3:29 remaining to be
„ played, Ryan Munro’s 23-yard field goal
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yvas no good — although it looked other-
wise — and the 4-1 Yellovyjackets, who
. .yvere extremely fortunate not to have their
.stingers surgically removed, held on for
- the victory.
", The field goal attempt came at the end
of Sterling ’s best drive of the season —
^ maybe the decade — a workman-like 74
. yards in 18 plays that carried to the six-
jyard line after Alvin had gone ahead by
{three on the first play of the fourth quar-
So well-heeled was the march, led
mosdy by the passing of Daniel Albus
• ..and the catching of Jeremy Williams,
, Justin James and Tony St. Julian, that it
..gobbled up more than eight minutes of
,Jhe clock. Just like Long designed and
.. engineered it on the blackboard.
, , But Ross didn't score.
“I thought it was the right time to go
•and tie the game,” Long said, “and let
-them (the Jackets) make a mistake on
• offense. They hadn’t moved the ball well
%in the second half other than the first
- drive.
“I felt like, tie it up, and they’d throw ,
the ball and take some chances.”
It’s hard to argue with that logic.
Giving the Rangers a chance to win was
what Long had in mind, and winning is
what the RossBoss is all about.
“I thought it was the right thing to do.
' Make the field goal and tie the game,”
the first-year Sterling coach explained.
“You know, had it been inside two min-
utes, maybe I would have went ahead and
went for it (the first down).”
Ross was facing fourth-and-two at the
time.
As it was, this was a game of big plays
for the Rangers, who Open District 22-5A
play Friday night opposite Robert E. Lee,
plays that kept them in the mix fighting
for a much-needed win. For instance:
" ’ • Albus teamed up with Williams for a
55-yard touchdown pass to knot the score
at 7-7.
• Trenton Gilbert scored on a 25-yard
run — thanks in part to a clearing Block
j by Albus — pushing Sterling to a 13-7
j lead.
; • Albus and Williams again hooked up
J on a sparkling 80-yard scoring toss to
J give the Ranges a 20-17 edge.
; _ • Gatson Murphy intercepted a Noah
J £arrasco pass and returned it 79 yards
■ for a touchdown, and Ross had a 27-17
leg up on the Jackets.
< So close and yet so far.
• What hurts even more is that the
! Rangers played hard. They hustled, they
! competed they got after the program.
J They did everything but win.
| Maybe more importantly, they came
j back from last week’s one-sided 48-14
j loss to Clear Lake, when a lesser team
J would have sacked it up for the season.
J Someone asked Long after the game if
; he were not pleased with his team’s effort
* despite the setback.
. “It's hard to be pleased when you don’t
! win,” he answered. “I know that I am
\ supposed to be, hut there are too many
! mistakes being made, and you can’t win
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See FINLEY on Page 3B
Texas tough: Horns rally past K-State
Big 12 Scoreboard
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
By JIM VEKTUNO
The Associated Press
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AUSTIN — Enough talk about
Texas being soft. The 13th-ranked
Longhorns showed they can gut out a
big win — and with a freshman lead-
ing the way.
Vince Young shook off a sore right
ankle to rally the Longhorns with his
running and passing and scored the
winning touchdown from a yard out on
fourth down with five minutes left as
No. 13 Texas beat No. 16 Kansas State
24-20 Saturday.
The Longhorns (4-1, 1-0 Big 12),
whose reputation suffered a beating
after a 38-28 home loss to Arkansas on
Sept. 13, will face No. 1 Oklahoma
next week in Dallas.
“This brings back the swagger,”
Texas tailback Cedric Benson said.
“We can get rid of the ‘soft’ talk.”
“We needed a tough win,” said Texas
coach Mack Brown. “We needed a
come-from-behind win. I’m proud the
guys did what they needed to do to
What the Longhorns needed was
someone to make big plays late to steal
momentum and win the game. They
got it all from Young.
The backup to starter Chance Mock
in Texas’ quarterback rotation, Young
led Texas to a second-quarter field goal
on his first drive but limped off the
field in pain after rolling his ankle on a
sack in the third.
He returned in the fourth to lead
Texas to the winning score after Mock
See LONGHORNS on Page 3B
On the home front
LC tennis’
Bula wins
HA tourney
By ROBBIE MAGNESS
The Baytown Sun
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m Baytown Sun photo/Robbie Magness
BAYTOWN CHRISTIAN RUNNING BACK Mikey Ryan 'drags a pair of Lutheran South defenders for a few extra
yards during first-quarter action Saturday in Baytown. BCA earned its first home victory, winning 360.
Ryan’s 3TD’s lift BCA to first win on home turf
By ROBBIE MAGNESS
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN — Mikey Ryan rushed for three
touchdowns, and the Baytown Christian defense put
the squeeze on Lutheran South as the Saints earned
a 32-0 decision and the first home victory for the
program.
“The shutout in the first home win was fun,” said
BCA coach Homar Ramirez. “Consecutive wins,
first home win, shutout, everybody got to play, good
crowd — things are coming together.”
Ryan found the end zone on runs of 2, 24 and 11
yards, all in the first half.
“We all played hard,” Ryan said. “They (Lutheran
South) came out and played a great game, but ...
we’ve been working hard every week. Coaches are
pushing us really hard and we did what they expect-
ed and we all played pretty well*) it was a good
game. ’" ”
Lee College’s Tatyana Bula swept to
the individual title of the ITA Fall
Regional Championship on Saturday.
Bula is the second straight touma-
meht champion (Diana Martin), and
she won it by knocking off Temple’s
Naika Piluso 6-2,6-3 in the semifinals
and Tyler’s Ina Weiding 6-2, 6-4 in the
final.
It was Weiding who had topped
Lee’s Medeja Egic in a 7-5, 6-7 match
Thursday, winning an 11-9 tiebreaker
to advance.
“I was disappointed after we lost
that semifinal match with Medeja,”
■ said Lee College coach Jason Haynes,
“but f saw the T^i&r girl play today, and
she’s a good little player.”
Egic had topped Cassidy Schubert
of North Central Texas 6-1, 6-0 in the
first round and Tyler’s Catalina
Castillo 6-1, 6-0 in the second to
advance to face Weiding.
Bula defeated Collin City ’s Brittanie
Blocker 6-0, 6-1 in the first round,
then fell to Tyler’s Jamie Doty, 6-1, 6-
0. She rallied to defeat teammate Lolie
Aguirre-Gomez 6-1, 6-2.
“I am excited that we added Tatyana
to the squad," Haynes said. “She is
something to watch, and she’s fun to
coach. She had a slight abdominal
muscle pull in the final, and you
couldn’t even tell to watch here. She
was a real trooper pulling through.”
The Lee doubles team of Egic and
Bula lost to the Tyler team of Castillo
and Dzehlan Memisi, 8-3, in the
semis. Egic and Bula won the third-
place match over Tyler’s Marissa
Brown and Erica Ramirez, 8-1.
Haynes said Egic did not play her
best tennis, possibly because she had
to sit around for a long time Saturday
See SAINTS on Page 3B
See TENNIS on Page 2B
BCA takes runner-up at
HISD volleyball tourney
By ROBBIE MAGNESS
The Baytown Sun
Baytown Sun photo/Meredith Darnell
Mr. Stix and Mr. Pitch
Tommy John and Larry Lanier show off the trophies they won at the
Softball Players Association National Championships in Plano Sept. 18-
20, John and Lanier, members of Texas Pride, competed in the Senior
AAA Division, 55 and older. During the contest portion, Lanier was
named Mr. Pitch, and John, Mr. Stix. Lanier, J.W. Perry and Larry
Seversen also participated in the All-Star game. Texas Pride will next
play at the AAA Masters World Championship Oct. 23-26 in Mobile, Ala.
The Baytown Christian volleyball
team finished as runner-up at the
HISD Tournament, falling in the final
to Kempner in four games Saturday at
Barnett Coliseum.
Ruth-Ann Feist and Sharon Green
combined for 36 kills in the final, but
Kempner took the 22-25, 25-20, 25-
20, 25-23 decision.
Robin Walker, who had a team-high
eight digs in the final, and Abigail
Allen and Sandy Dicus contributed
tremendous serve-receive passing the
entire tournament,
“Ironically, our ball control was as
it should have been,” said a disap-
pointed BCA coach Kelle Bond. "Wfe
had more service errors than we nor-
mally do which definitely takes away
from our momentum. We had too
many hitting errors, and we just never
got the momentum or kept it."
Baytown Christian was defending
its tournament title — sort of. BCA
won the tournament two years ago but
did not compete in it last year. Bond
said another championship trophy
was there for the taking.
“Kempner, not to take anything
away from them, but we didn’t play
like we could" Bond said. “That
makes it more disappointing."
On the upside, Bond said opposing
teams which stayed for the finals root-
ed for the Lady Saints, and other coach-
es and officials woe complimentary of
See VOLLEYBALL on Page 2B
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