The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 2016 Page: 5 of 12
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Friday
May 6, 2016
Sports
The Baytown Sun 5A
SPORTS CALENDAR
TODAY
Baseball Playoffs
Class 6A bl-dlstrlct
• Sterling at Pearland
Dawson, 7:30 p.m.
Class 5A bl-dlstrlct
• 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.
Track
BCA at TAPPS track meet
SATURDAY
Baseball playoffs
Class 6A bl-dlstrlct
• Pearland Dawson vs.
Sterling, 4 p.m.
I 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
I' If game 3 needed, 30 min-
-j utes after
{ Track
i BCA at TAPPS track meet
SPORTS BRIEFS
GCM to host
soccer camp
Goose Creek Memo-
rial will host a summer
soccer camp for boys and
girls from June 6-9 at the
GCM High School Sta-
dium. The camp will be
j conducted by GCM head
soccer coaches Roman
Huizar and William Free-
man, and is open to all
boys and girls who will
be in grades 4-9 in the
2016-’17 school year.
The camp will be held
from 5:30-7 p.m. each
evening. Players are re-
quired to provide their
own cleats, shin guards,
soccer ball and drinks.
Cost of the camp is $30.
Players can register from
5-5:30 the first day or by
mailing in their registra-
tion and check payable
to GCM Girls’ or Boys’
soccer, 6001 E. Wallis-
ville Road, Baytown, TX
77521.
For more information,
contact Huizar at 281 -
421-4400 ext. 50312
or by email at roman.
huizar@gccisd.net; or
contact Freeman at 281-
4214400 ext. 50329 or
by email at william.free-
man@gccisd.net
A&M assistant
sorry for tweets
Texas A&M assistant
coach Aaron Moo rehead
has apologized for a se-
ries of tweets about loy-
alty and accountability he
posted soon after a highly
touted quarterback recruit
announced he was break-
ing a verbal commitment
to the Aggies.
A few minutes after
Tate Martell from Bish-
op Gorman High School
in L.as Vegas tweeted
Wednesday night he was
reopening his recruit-
ment, Moorhead posted
“I feel sorry for ppl who
never understand loyal-
ty.”
Moorehead followed
with more critical tweets,
never naming Martell.
Soon after, another Ag-
gies recruit, receiver
Mannie Netherly from
Crosby, posted
that he was
his commi
► High school baseball playoffs
RSS to open bi-district round tonight
BY DOYLE BARLOW
doyte.bartow@baytownsun.com
Even though the Sterling Rang-
ers are banged-up and bruised,
they’re also unbent and unbowed.
And more importantly, unbeaten
in the playoffs.
The RSS baseball team will
open its second season tonight in
the bi-district round of the Class
6A playoffs, when the Rangers
travel to Pearland Dawson in the
first game of a best-of-3 series.
The contest is scheduled to start at
7:30 p.m.
Game 2 and Game 3, if needed,
are scheduled for Saturday, start-
ing at 4 p.m.
“We’re a little beat up. It’s been
a rough few weeks,” RSS head
coach Adam Shibley said. “But
we’re ready to go. I’m confident
we’ll have players step up when
it’s time."
The Rangers were dealt anoth-
er blow this week when they lost
starting first baseman Jeremy Sali-
nas to a head injury.
Salinas is currently in the con-
cussion protocol program, and
Shibley expects him to be avail-
able next week — provided the
Rangers advance to the area round.
"We’ve just got to find a way
to get through," Shibley said. “If
we do. we should have Jeremy
and Brandon (Ybarra) back next
week.”
Third baseman Ybarra has been
dealing with an ankle injury.
One thing Shibley is happy
about is the fact that the Rangers
have the home field advantage.
“To me, that is the most import-
ant thing," Shibley said. “We’ve
played well at home. We’re com-
fortable here, and we need to take
advantage of it.”
Righthander Payton Adams will
get the start on the hill for RSS.
Shibley expects Dawson to count-
er with lefty Drake Rainer.
"He mixes it up well and throws
a lot of off-speed stuff," Shibley
said.
Offensively, Dawson has
Patriots’ game
BY MKHAEL PINEDA
mtehaefpineda@baytownsun.com
Among all the area first round
playoff series, the Goose Creek
Memorial and Kingwood Park
Class 5A bi-district may be the
most intriguing.
The Patriots have posted a 17-6-
1 record this season and finished
as the District 22-5A Runner-up
to Port Neches-Grove with a 12-2
record. Kingwood Park enters with
a 17-11 record and third place fin-
ish in 21-5A. It also has a number
of players returning from a deep
playoff run last season. Mix in the
Patriots' own history of playoff
experience and this could wind up
being a memorable series.
“TTiey are clearly a good team,”
GCM head coach Brian Williams
said. “It is a good program with a
lot of kids back from a team that
went four rounds deep last year.
“I told the kids it’s a new season.
rhe records don’t matter and they
are excited." y
Williams said the one thing that
stuck out to him about the Pan-
thers in the pitching. Having seen
Kingwood Park twice, he was im-
pressed with their pitching depth.
"They have a ton of pitching,"
he said. “I think every kid on the
team can pitch, not throw. The first
four in the line-up can also hit and
they have some power.
“We are going to have to play
good defense and need good pitch-
ing. And we have to come up and
score some runs. We will have to
earn it."
Williams added the hitting will
come around, but the team will
have to play good defense. It will
also have to be able to overcome
setbacks and be willing to move
forward while reacting to adver-
sity.
“In the game, something will
Goose Creek senior Jaci
Chambers has signed with
Texas Lutheran University
where she will play volleyball.
Chambers was a three-year
starter as a setter and defen-
sive specialist. She helped lead
the Patriots to a 28-7 record
and the school’s first district
championship.
Chambers was named district
Co-Defensive Player of the
Year as well as GCM Defensive
Player of the Year. She set a
school record with 1,368 digs
and was Academic All-State.
Submitted photo
► TAPPS State Track & Field Meet
Baytown Sun file photo
Goose Creek Memorial’s Trey Stanley fires to the plate in an early-season game against Channelview.
GCM-Kingwood Park an intriguing matchup
happen that will not go our way
and we will have to react to it,” he
said.
Last season. Goose Creek Me-
morial advanced to the second
round where it fell to Fort Bend
Elkins in three games. Williams
said the team was one inning
away from a return trip to the third
round, which is the furthest the
Patriots have advanced in the nine
years the school has been open.
This year’s team boasts sev-
en seniors, many of whom have
played junior varsity baseball
since they were freshmen. Now it
is their time to make their final im-
print on the program.
“Regardless of what happens to-
morrow, we will have to win two
games,” Williams said. “It’s nice
the first game is at home. We have
load a great week of practice. The
kids are excited and I an excited
for them."
a lot of speed throughout the
lineup and an even mix of
right and left-handed hitters.
"You can’t really do a lot of sit-
uational pitching,” he said. “But
1 feel like our pitchers match up
well with them.”
RSS finished in second place
in District 21-6A with a mark of
9-3, while Dawson was third in
22-6A at 10-6. Two of three of the
Rangers’ district losses came to
undefeated and No. 2 Deer Park in
close contests.
“We talked about it today. If we
execute and take care of the de-
tails, we can play with any team in
the state," Shibley said.
Crosby seeking
to build on
prior success
in playoffs
BY MICHAEL PINEDA
mtehael.pineda@baytownsun.com
CROSBY—One thing about
success, it makes you hungry
for more.
That is the state of mind for
a Crosby baseball team that
has captured its second District
21-5A Championship in a row.
Ranked No. 13 in the state with
a 22-6 record, the Cougars are
setting their sights on taking
another step forward in postsea-
son play one year after reaching
the regional semifinals.
That journey begins tonight
at 7 p.m. when Crosby hosts
Lumberton. The series will
shift to Lumberton Saturday
with the second game and third
game if necessary beginning at
11 a.m.
“Lumberton has been kick-
ing and scratching to get in the
playoffs,” Crosby coach Chris
Wiggins said. "They will come
in with something to prove.
We know about the (Brandon)
Young kid, who has been strong
for them for several years. We
are not familiar with the other
ones."
Welcoming Lumberton will
be a team that finished district
play strong to capture the cham-
pionship over Barbers Hill.
“We are very excited,” Wig-
gins said. “We have a real
strong upper half of district.
You begin with a nine-team dis-
trict and have to play 16 games.
It’s absolutely important not
to get down if you drop one or
two."
Entering the playoffs, Crosby
is healthy and will lean on its
pitching staff.
It’s one of our strengths.”
Wiggins said. “We have three
good starters and guys that
come out of the bullpen."
The key for the Cougars will
be playing mistake-free. Four
of the team’s six losses have
been by one run where mis-
takes made a difference.
“Almost all otir losses come
down to beating ourselves on
the defensive side,” Wiggins
said. “Our staple is defense and
pitching wins games.”
The goal of the team is to
do something no one has done
before. Last year's team set
the bar higher advancing to the
fourth round.
“This year, the goal obvious-
ly is one up that,” Wiggins said.
“Our overall goal is to win a
state championship. If we can
continue to make that one step,
we are going to get there.
"One of the toughest regions
to get out of is the Houston
area, So obviously, whoever
makes it there has a shot."
BCA thrower looking for persoi
BY MICHAEL PINEDA
imchael.pineda@taytownsun.coni
It will fall on Romel Benavides
to represent Baytown Christian
Academy today at the TAPPS 3A
State Meet at Baylor University in
Waco.
Benavides, a senior, punched
his ticket for state last week at the
south regional meet in the discus.
Benavides finished fourth with a
' of 116-02.
One week earlier, he set a per-
sonal best in the district meet.
“I did really well in the district
meet,” Benavides said. “I threw
120-09, which was my personal
best.
“Last year, I finished third in
district and fifth in regional, one
place out of going to state. It has
been fun. 1 set a goal ofl 20 and
s throwers, as
reaching that i
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