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Thursday
May 5, 2016
Sports
The Baytown Sun 5
SPORTS CALENDAR
FRIDAY
Class 8A bl-dlstrict
• Sterling at Pearland
Dawson, 7:30 p.m.
Class 5A bi-district
• Kingwood Park vs.
Goose Creek Memorial, 5
p.m.
• Lumberton vs. Crosby, 7
p.m.
• Barbers Hill at Vidor, 6
p.m.
Softball Playoffs
Class SA Area Round
• Crosby vs. Angleton at
La Porte, 7 p.m.
• Barbers Hill vs. George
Ranch, Pearland High
School, 6:30 p.m.
Thick
BCA at TAPPS track meet
SATURDAY
Baseball playoffs
Class BA bi-district
• Pearland Dawson vs.
Sterling, 4 p.m.
If game 3 needed, 30 min-
utes after
Class SA bi-district
• Goose Creek Memorial
at Kingwood Park, 5 p.m.
If game 3 is needed, 30
minutes after
• Crosby at Lumberton, 11
a.m.
If game 3 needed, 30 min-
utes after
• Vidor vs. Barbers Hill, 1
p.m.
If game 3 needed, 30 min-
utes after
Softball Playoffs
• Crosby vs. Angleton at
La Porte, 2 p.m.
If game 3 needed, 30 min-
utes after
• Barbers Hill vs. George
Ranch, 11 a.m., Pearland
Dawson
If game 3 needed, 30 min-
utes after
Track
BCA at TAPPS track meet
SPORTS BRIEFS
Cowboys’ new
digs to have ring
FRISCO (AP) — The
new headquarters of the
Dallas Cowboys will
have a re-creation of the
team’s ring of honor that
will include cleat prints
of Roger Staubach and
Drew Pearson 50 yards
apart — the length of
their famous touchdown
play in a 1975 playoff
game.
The Hall of Fame Dal-
las quarterback and one
of his favorite receivers
put their prints in con-
crete Wednesday during
an event that also intro-
duced several restaurants
planned for The Star,
the practice facility and
planned mixed-use devel-
opment.
The Cowboys are ex-
pected to move football
operations to Frisco,
about 30 miles north of
Dallas, in August when
they return from training
camp in California.
The 21 members of the
Cowboys’ ring of honor
will have displays on the
sidewalks of the complex
near a 12,000-seat stadi-
um that will house Dallas’
indoor practices and high
school games.
Manziei booked,
posts bond
DALLAS (AP) —
Johnny Manziei has been
booked and posted bond
in a domestic violence
case, one day before the
former Cleveland Browns
quarterback faces his first
court hearing.
Manziei attorney Rob-
ert Hinton said Wednes-
day that die 23-year-old
quarterback presented
himself for booking and a
mugshot. Police in High-
land Park, a wealthy Dal-
las enclave that’s separate
from the city, released the
mugshot Wednesday af-
ternoon.
The Heisman Trophy
winner and former Tex-
as A&M star was indict-
ed by a grand jury last
month after his ex-girl-
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Barbers Hill is springing
forward under Westerberg
BY MICHAEL PINEDA
michael.pineda@baytownsun.com
MONT BELVIEU — A new
era is officially underway at
Barbers Hill as new head coach
Tom Westerberg has begun
spring drills.
The former Allen head coach
has changed wardrobes with the
intent of building a new Eagle
program. Drills began Monday
with an encouraging number of
athletes vying to make an im-
pact this upcoming season as
Barbers Hill prepares to com-
pete in a realigned District 21-
5A. The Eagles are coming off
of a 4-6 season under former
coach Ronnie Gage,
"The numbers are good, I’m
pleased with what we have,”
Westerberg said. “I knew there
were pretty good numbers here."
Barbers Hill is the only team
in the area conducting spring
drills this year. There are 18
workouts that must be com-
pleted within 30 days, Spring
football on The Hill will also
include a scrimmage. The learn-
ing curve has been cut down in
the athletic periods allowing the
coaching staff to focus on sev-
eral areas.
“We are looking at technique
and seeing who can do it and
who can’t,” Westerberg said.
"There are a lot of things we
are focusing on. We have been
teaching it for quite a while and
working on skill. Right now, it’s
about both the education and the
technique.”
It is also about finding the
round peg in the round hole.
Barbers Hill is moving past the
option attack and spreading
things out more. That means
some athletes finding positions
which better fit their talents.
“There is just a little big of
moving around," Westerberg
said. "Skyler Langelier is work-
ing some receiver and he was
a quarterback last year. Caden
Hendricks is moving from run-
ning back to receiver.”
The Eagles are also look-
ing for a quarterback to take
the wheel of the new offense.
During workouts Wednesday,
there were five different athletes
taking part in passing drills with
the possibility of another candi-
datejoining the mix..
“We have quite a few guys
that are working through there,”
Westerberg said. “There are two
sophomores who will be juniors
that are battling it out. We also
might get a kid front baseball.
"We are moving forward to
see what we have. There are
some baseball players still going
through the playoffs and hope-
fully we will not get them and
they go all the way.”
Heading east
Baytown Sun photo by Michael Pineda
Lee College sophomore Alondra Bautista signed a letter of intent to play volleyball for Bethune-Cook-
man University next season. From left, LC assistant coach Paige Jenkins Sorge, Bautista and LC head
coach Tracie Johnson.
LC sophomore going to the next level
BY MICHAEL PINEDA
michaeLpineda®baytownsun.com
In extending her collegiate career, Alondra
Bautista will return to familiar ground in Florida.
The Lee College sophomore recently signed
a letter of intent to play next season for
Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona
Beach. Bautista was an outside hitter for the
Rebels in her two years with the program. This
past season, Lee College went 22-10 as Bautis-
ta was named First Team All Conference. She
led the team in kills with 232.
Bautista, who arrived on the cam-
pus from Deltona, Florida, said she was
looking forward to returning to Florida.
Thankful for her teammates, Bautista said she
grew as a player at Lee College.
“I am looking forward to taking the skills I
have been working on and developing to the
next level,” she said. “My teammates, coaches
and competition helped prepare me to play well
next season.”
Bautista also said she grew in terms of inter-
acting with her teammates.
“I learned how become more of a leader on
and off the court and to inspire younger athletes
to never give up on their goals,” she said.
Baytown Sun photo by Lana Donath
A Barbers Hill receiver goes up for a pass
during spring workouts Tuesday at Bar-
bers Hill.
► HS softball playoffs
BH out for
redemption
against GR
BY NYU BARLOW
doyle.bartow@baytownsun.com
MONT BELV1EU — Barbers Hill will
continue its march in the Class 5A Region
3 Area softball playoffs when the Lady
Eagles take on George Ranch in a best-of-
three series starting Friday.
The first game will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday
at Pearland High School, with Game 2 at 11
a.m. Saturday at Pearland Dawson. Game
3, if needed, will follow 30 minutes later.
No. 9 Barbers Hill (24-4) should enter
the playoff series with a little added moti-
vation.
George Ranch handed the Lady Eagles
one of their only losses, 7-5, on the season
at the Katy ISD Tournament.
“This is definitely a shot at some redemp-
tion except the stakes are a lot higher,” said
Barbers Hill head coach Aaron Fuller. “The
girls know if they don’t play well, George
Ranch is definitely capable of beating us
and ending our season. We’re well aware
that one of our losses was to them.”
Both teams are coming off sweeps in the
bi-district round. Barbers Hill handled Vi-
dor, while George Ranch swept Galveston
Ball.
Fuller said he expects to go with Mea-
gan King in the circle, with either Kitty
Homberger or Jade Lewis in relief. The trio
combined to no-hit Vidor in their first play-
off game.
“We’ll go with Meagan and as long as
she’s throwing well, we’U stick with her,”
Fuller said. “After that, I’m not sure but it’s
nice to have options.
“We’re definitely going to have to score a
few runs. They scored seven on us the first
time and they have girls who can swing the
bat.”
The winner of the Barbers Hill-George
Ranch series will play the Nederiand-Ridge
Point series winner in the next round.
Eagles ready for second
season to get underway
BY MICJUEL PINEDA
micbael.pmecla®)baytownsunxom
MONT BELVIEU — The second sea-
son begins for Barbers Hill Friday as the
Eagles aim for an extended stay in the
postseason.
The District 21-5A runner-up boasts
a 21-6 record and No. 15 ranking in the
state. Standing between the Eagles and ad-
vancement into the area round is a Vidor
squad that went 13-10 this season.
The first game is at 6 p.m. Friday in Vi-
dor. The second and third game will be in
Mont Belvieu starting at l p.m.
“We don’t know a whole lot about
them” Barbers Hill coach David Denny
said. “Like always, we are going to focus
on what we do best.”
What the Eagles do know about Vidor
is enough to keep them focused. The Pi-
rates have a good No. 1 pitcher and a good
bullpen. Like most high schools, they also
have the ability get the bats rolling.
“We will go in expecting to do the best
we can do,” Denny said.
COMING FRIDAY
Playoffs previews for Sterling,GCM and Crosby
_____baseball teams _
advantage and capture the district crown.
“In the two losses, Humble and Gale-
na Park played very well and we played
very average,” he said. “We only had three
games in 21 days. It’s not an excuse and
we have played very well since.”
Denny said the lay-off has a greater im-
pact on the hitters as it is hard to simu-
late game pitching in the cage and on the
machine and keep a rhythm. The pitchers
are able to get their work in and Denny is
confident in a staff led by Bryan Taylor.
“We have a good lefty and 10 guys we
can run at you that are pretty good,” lie
said “We have to pitch well, play defense
and scotc runs.”
That balance will be a key for Barbers
Hill as it hopes:' ' ' “
Peterson leading relief
efforts in Palestine
BY JBN KBAWCZYNSKI
AP Sports Witter
MINNEAPOLIS — Adrian Peterson grew up in Pal-
estine, Texas, and has felt the support of its people as
he rose to prominence in the NFL and when he endured
the hardships that followed.
Now, in his hometown’s hour of need, the Minnesota
Vikings star is giving back to an area ravaged by flood-
ing last weekend.
Peterson is donating SI00,000 toward relief efforts
after six people died in Palestine when torrential rains
pounded the working class Texas town.
"You have a whole community who has supported
me through everything, my ups and my downs. They
know me to my core,” Peterson said cm Wednesday
from his home in Houston.
“They raised me in Palestine. So to see them affected
by a flood and to have life lost and people's life savings
and work just swept away within a span of hours, it
really hits me in the core.”
Among those who died were four c
school classmate and former i
terson’s. The rain dumped 7.5 !
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