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Saturday, October 4, 2003
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By ROBBIE MAGNESS
The Baytown Sun
LEAGUE CITY — Lee’s defense
put on an overpowering performance,
and quarterback Brian Johnson was
smooth as a riverboat gambler as the
Ganders spoiled Clear Brooks
Homecoming with a 36-0 victory
Friday at District Stadium.
The Gander defense, which entered
the game allowing 209 yards per con-
test, held the Wolverines to just 23
yards of offense in the second half and
78 overall. For the night, Clear Brook
was l-of-15 passing for 3 yards.
"It’s great,” said strong safety Will
Lewis of the shutout. “All the hard
work that we do during the week to
prepare for these teams, it’s great.
That’s what we work for is that zero up
there. That’s why we’re in the top 10 (in
Greater Houston defensive rankings),
and maybe we’ll move up this week.”
The Ganders broke the game open
with 23 points in the second quarter,
scoring on all four possessions of the
period and holding Clear Brook to
three-and out on its last three posses-
sions.
Michael Reed started the onslaught,
leaping high to haul in a 4-yard pass
from Johnson and angling his body to
get a foot down just inside the back of
the end zone for a 12-0 lead. He set up
the score with a 40-yard reception one
play earlier.
Rodriguez Jack duplicated the effort
minutes later, taking a Johnson pass 67
yards to the 10, then hauling in a 10-
yarder a pity later. Jack cleaned up
after himself with a two-point conver-
sion run for a 20-0 lead.
After a Kenrick Meade sack forced a
Wolverine punt, Lee drove 76 yards in
five plays. With second-and-4 at their
own 44, the Ganders ran a hook-and-
lateral play as Anthony Carr grabbed a
Johnson pass then flipped to Jack.
Altogether the play went for 22 yards
to the Clear Brook 34. Lee went that
distance a play later when Johnson
found Carr deep down the left side for
a 26-0 lead.
Clear Brook took over with 1:29 to
go in the half and made the mistake of
giving the Ganders another possession
with 47 seconds left Johnson drove the
team 51 yards to the Wolverine 5
before settling for a Tadeo Cavazos 22-
yard chip shot field goal and a 29-0
lead at halftime.
Clear Brook entered the game deter-
mined to control the defensive line of
See LEE on Page 2B
Wrong end of see-saw
STERLING'S JEREMY WILLIAMS (20) makes a play on an Alvin Yellowjacket
defender in the first half of the Rangers’ 30-27 loss Friday night at Stallworth
Stadium. The Rangers lost a see-saw battle to the Yellowjackets and had a
chance to tie the game in the last seconds.
Rangers drop heartbreaker to Alvin
By WHIT SNYDER
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN — Despite a
determined effort, the Sterling
Rangers dropped a close see-
saw contest to the Alvin
Yellowjackets at Stallworth
Stadium Friday night. '"1
Though proud of his team’s
resolve,v Ranger coach Danny
Long expressed disappointment
at his fourth loss of the season.
“It’s hard to be pleased when
you don’t win. I know that I’m
supposed to be, but there are too.
many mistakes being made," he
said.
Sterling trailed the
Yellowjackets 27-30 and had
possession of the football at the
Alvin 6-yard line with 3:20 left
in the game. But senior Ryan
Munro’s 23-yard field goal on
fourth down missed the target,
killing the Rangers’ last chance
to score.
It had taken the Rangers 19
plays and more than eight min-
utes to get into position for the
kick — the team’s most concert-
ed drive of the night.
“With that much time to go, I
felt it was the right time to tie
the game up and make them
make a mistake on offense,"
Long said. “They hadn’t moved
the ball well in the second half,
and I thought they might throw
the ball up, take some chances.
If it had been inside two minutes
I might have gone ahead and
gone for it."
Alvin running back Jeremiah
Garcia wiped out the last
Sterling hope.
After two penalties pushed
the Jackets into a second-and-17
at their own 14-yard line with
under a minute to go, Garcia
cracked off a 51-yard run all the
way down to the Ranger 35.
See STERLING on Page 2B
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STERLING’S GATSON MURPHY (45) returns an inter-
ception 79 yards for a touchdown in the first half as
teammate Kevin WoqdS'fS) follows.
Cubs push
Braves
to brink
■ Marlins top Giants
in 11th, series lead 2-1
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Mark Prior was
more than ready for his first playoff
start. He went out and pitched one of
the best games of his life.
Prior threw a two-hitter and out-
Today’s
games
■ New York .
(Clemens 17-9)
at Minnesota
(Lohse 14-11),
12:06 p.m.
(ESPN)
■ Oakland (Lilly
12-10) at Boston
(Lowe 17-7),
6:36 p.m.
(ESPN2)
■ San Francisco
(Schmidt 17-5)
at Florida (Willis
146), 12:06
p.m. (ESPN2)
■ Atlanta(Ortiz
21-7) at Chicago
(Clement 14-12),
3:18 p.m. (FOX)
pitched Greg
Maddux as the
Chicago Cubs
beat the Atlanta
Braves 3-1
Friday night to
take a 2-1 lead In
their best-of-five
NL playoff
series.
The Braves
will need to
wake up their
bats and start
catching the ball
, after making four
errors.
Atlanta led the
NL in. every
major hitting cat-
egory this sea-
son: batting aver-
age (.284), ■
homers (a fran-
chise-record 235) and runs (907,
another club mark), but the 23-year-
old Prior was simply too good.
He gave up only Marcus Giles’ sin-
gle to shallow right-center in the third
and Mark DeRosas pinch-hit double
leading off the eighth. Atlanta spoiled
the shutout when DeRosa moved up
on a groundout and scored on Giles’
sacrifice fly.
Prior, who won 18 games in his first
full major league season, walked four
and struck out seven.
The Cubs got to Maddux in the first
on Randall Simon's two-out, two-run
single that followed a key stolen base
and wild pitch. Aramis Ramirez added
a two-out RBI double in the eighth,
and Prior made it stand up.
See PLAYOFFS on Page 2B
Anahuac offense leads
way to win over rivals
By RANDY CUNMNGHAM possession ended with a 22-yard
Special to The Sun field goal by kicker John Wyble,
ANAHUAC — The Anahu&c giving Hamshire-Fannett their
quick-strike offense exploded °nly lead of the game,
for 21 second-quarter points en After ^ Anahuac offense
route to a 36-10 thrashing of stalled at the Longhorn 40,
archrivgl Hamshire-Fannett punter David Humphrey's quick
Friday night, placing the unde- kick pinned Hamshire-Fannett at
feated Panthers squarely at the their own 4-yard line. The
top of the District 21-3 A race. Panther defense then forced a
The Longhorns opened the Longhorn punt, which gave
scoring with 3:16 remaining in
the first quarter, as their first See ANAHUAC on Pqfe 2B
PEST AVABJffil
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ANAHUAC’S SALVADOR CERVANTES, Bryclen Rivon and Cade
Van Deventer bring down the Hamshire-Fannett quarterback
during the third quarter to stop a Longhorn drive. Anahuac
defeated HamshireTannett 36-10.
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Barbers Hill clamps
down on Cleveland
By ROBBIE MAGNESS Barbers Hill extended its dis-
Ttie Baytown Sun trict winning streak to 24 straight
Barbers Hill’s defense put the 8^y Shows led - offense
clamps on Cleveland, and the ^lat ran gj offensive plays.
Eagles ground out a 20-0 grinding out 23 first downs and
District 22-3A victory on the 253 rushing yards. Shows car-
road Friday. tied 39 dmeslbr 151 yards and
The Eagles held the Indians to three touchdowns
minus-3 passing yards and 62 Leading 7-0 at halftime, the
yards of total offense. The Eagles extended the lead on
Indians had just five first downs
for the contest. See EAGLES on Page 2B
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