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Tuesday
February 10, 2015
Sports
The Baytown Sun
Snow geese still hanging around lor late-season hunters
Acres of rice on both sides of the high-
way held a thin sheet of water from heavy
showers the day before. Mallards and pin-
tails were content, preening their down
with not the least bit of worry from passing
vehicles.
I cherished those days of my Chambers
County youth. Snow geese greeted us daily
as we rode to school, often flying within
shotgun range overhead as we stood beside
the flag pole to pray and say the Pledge of
Allegiance every Monday morning.
Rice fields surrounded our high school
baseball field, water-logging dozens of
slick, white pearls during the spring when
the fields were flooded after planting. A pair
of mottled ducks appeared every spring,
flushed daily as we lumbered through the
field to retrieve a foul ball.
It was a great place to grow up, especial-
ly if you loved ducks and geese.
In our hay day in the early 80s, Texas
produced 600,000-700,000 acres of rice.
Today, that number is less than a quarter of
what it used to be due to water restrictions
brought on by a five-year drought.
Urbanization is also a culprit. Rice
fields that once produced hundreds of
acres office and wintering habitat for
waterfowl, are now shopping malls,
gas stations, subdivisions and con-
crete parking lots.
Waterfowl have a tough time find-
ing water on concrete.
It is not total doom and gloom in
Texas. There are still acres of great
goose hunting, but the pic is shrinking.
Wharton, Colorado and southern portions
of Matagorda county' still hold huntablc
numbers of snow geese, you just have to
log more hours and miles to find them.
The good news is the Texas coast en-
joyed an increase in light geese this season,
according to biologists mid-winter counts.
A year ago, Texas saw less than 200,000
snow geese; however, the 2014 winter
counts estimated about 428,000 snows on
the coast, doubling production from a year
ago.
liven before counts confirmed it, sea-
BINK
GRIMES
soned hunters had sens'ed the in-
crease. Many outfitters had com-
mented they haven’t seen this many
geese in I0 years; and, according to
biologist’s records, they were right.
The average age of a snow goose
is.around eight years, but there are
many much older. I once harvested
a bird that was at least 15 years old,
according to the band report.
We hunted geese a little different-
ly by in the 70s, 80s and 90s. There were
no Sillosocks, full-bodied, flock-headed
fakes or flying geese on a stick, .lust white
sheets, trash bags, newspapers, or diapers
amid the two-foot stalks of a harvested rice
crop.
Try to shoot a snow goose like that now
and the geese will laugh you out of the.
field.
Now that the Light Goose Conservation
Order allows for a more liberal approach
of harvest, including'electronic callers,
unplugged shotguns and limitless harvest,
late-season waterfowlers have a reason to
postpone stashing their shotgun and camo
for another month.
Reports have been mixed since the
LOCO began Jan.26. Obviously, wind and
weather play a significant role in any goose
hunt. Sure, electronic callers level the play-
ing field somewhat, but the artificial call is
not the “magic pill” to fool a snow goose.
It still takes work, concealment, atten-
tion to detail and fields full of willing white
birds.
Foggy days have helped. The coast sees
more fog in February than any other month
as mild temperatures meet the dewpoint
between cold fronts.
If you intend to get a hunt or two in while
there are still solid concentrations of snows
on the coast, better hurry. Traditionally.
Texas snow geese get antsy and feel the
need to migrate north plus or minus five
days around Valentine’s Day.
Bink Grimes is a freelance writer,
photographer, author anil licensed cap-
lain(hinkgrimes(a.shcglohal.net).
Roadrunners defeat Rebels
Next up: Blinn
on Wednesday
BY KEELYNN HUTCHISON
sports@baytownsun.com
The Lee College Run-
nin’ Rebel basketball team
lost to the Angelina Road-
runners at home Saturday
night, 90-78.
Guard Shawn Smith led
the Rebels in scoring with
24 points. Ty Outlaw and
Isaiah Lewis were close be-
hind with 19 and 17 points
respectively.
Despite a solid offensive
showing, the lackluster Lee
defense led to their demise,
“We need a more collec-
tive effort on the defensive
end, we’re just jumping and
giving up way too many
points,” said Rebel head
coach Roy Champagne.
Down by 17 at the half,
the Rebels could not pull
off the victory-.
The Rebels gave up 38
free throw opportunities to
the Roadrunners who had
a free-throw percentage of
76.3. Lee College fell be-
low with only a 62.5 per-
cent in the same category.
“If we’re not letting them
score, we’re fouling them
and they’re making their
free throws," said Cham-
pagne. “It’s about being
disciplined on the defen-
sive end and being as active
as we can and helping each
other.”
Lee’s overall record is
13-12 and 6-8 in confer-
ence play. The Rebels play
Blinn College Wednesday
in Brenham. •
Tipoff is 7:30 p.m.
Cross Roads Amateur I oollmil League
Thunder fall to
Dark Knights
BY TRENT PADGETT
trent.padgett@baytownsun.com
Baytown Sun photo by Keelynn Hutchison
Lee College Rebel guard Shawn Smith makes his way.to the basket during the Rebels'
90-78 loss to Angelina College on Saturday night in Baytown.
HOUSTON No matter
what level, an expansion
football team in its first year
is expected to have some
growing pains.
The Baytown Thunder,
the latest expansion squad
in the Cross Roads Amateur
Football League, experi-
enced some of those pains
Saturday night, as they lost
their inaugural game on
the road to the Texas Dark
Knights, 16-8.
“A 16-8 score is not bad
against a team that is pro-
jected to go all the way this
year,” said Thunder head
coach Dale Henderson.
Running back Mark
Gray, a Sterling graduate,
paced the Thunder rushing
attack with 87 yards on 15
carries.
Linebacker Sonny Beck
led Baytown in tackles with
nine and defensive back
James Butter snared two in-
terceptions.
The first play was an
ominous beginning for
the Thunder, as the Dark
Knights tossed' a 63-yard
touchdown pass to go up
7-0.
"I think our team was
caught off guard on the first
play of the game.” Hender-
son said.
The Dark Knights
punched it in again on the
ground just before halftime
to go up 14-0.
After the two teams trad-
ed punts to start the second
half, the Thunder offense
got into a rhy thm, marching
the ball down the field and
scoring on a 17-yard run
by quarterback and ( rosby
graduate Rvan Fogarty.;
Gray converted a two-
point try to trim the Dark
Knight lead to 14-8.
Defense ruled the. rest
of the game. With 2:37
left on the clock. Fogarty
was called for intentional
grounding in the end zone,
which resulted in a safe-
ty and increased the Dark
Knight lead to 16-8
Baytown had one more
drive that started at its own
5-yard line w ith 54 seconds
left, but could not reach the
end zone before time ex-
pired.
Henderson said he’s look-
ing forward' to the I bun-
der's next matchup w ith the
Dark Knights on April l l.
“We didn’t give up. The
fact that we are a first year
team playing against a team
that made the playoffs last
year I would say we did
pretty well,” Henderson
said. “We held' them twice .
on goal-line stands and we
also moved the ball pretty
well. We found a few thing
we need to improve on but
other than that I think we
played well.”
The Thunder will trav-
el to Bay City Saturday to
face the Wharton County
Panthers < l -0) at Black Cat
Memorial Stadium. Kickoff
is set for 6 p.m.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 10, 2015, newspaper, February 10, 2015; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066181/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.