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STEEUHS MUNJGIPU LIBRARY
SPORTS
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Thursday, December 25,2008
TCU rallies to hand Boise State first loss of season
Broncos' defense in the fourth quarter.
SEE TCU • PAGE 2B
Aggie tough
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Student gets running start to recovery
SEE ROSE* PAGE 2B
BCA grad walks on with Galveston College
SPORTS BRIEFS
TV LISTINGS
Thursday
SEE WILSON • PAGE 2B
A
Ex-Gander
saves his best
for last game
as Cougar
Baytown Sun photo/Nicki Evans
Tim Rose, 12, in his Aggie-themed bedroom,shows off an autographed photo of former Aggie football coach R.C. Slocum and a
Christmas card from President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush, with Bush sporting an Aggie jacket.
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on to continue
his baseball
career with
Galveston
College.
BY BERNIE WILSON
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BY NICK CIOCI
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BY NICK CIOCI
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the walk-on test to make
the baseball team at
Galveston College.
“When we
Rogers by phone at 281-425-8031 Ellis said he wasn’t angry
or send him an e-mail at sports® at the time, and there was no
baytownsun.com. malicious intent on his part
full of life and thick of hair end of August,” Pastor Rose
with his cancer in remission.
But over at Houston’s Texas
Childrens Hospital, the news
wasn’t so good for another
Baytown family.
Marvin Rose, pastor of the
SAN DIEGO — Boise State's tricks
were no match forTCU's speedy, aggres-
sive defense.
Plus, the Homed Frogs had L.T. on
their side.
Joseph Turner scored on a 17-yard run
midway through the fourth quarter to
give the No. 11 Homed Frogs their first
lead of the night, which they preserved
for a 17-16 victory over No. 9 Boise
State in the Poinsettia Bowl.
"We just wore them down. They can't
last forever," Turner said.
Boise State (12-1) was trying to finish
BY DAVE ROGERS
dave.rogers@baytownsun.com
When the trick-or-treater
knocked at John Hunt’s door a
couple of months ago, family
members didn’t recognize
him.
“It’s me,” the boy said. “I’m
Dylan.”
Dylan Garcia, whom the
Hunts got to know so well last
fall when he was diagnosed
with cancer and the
chemotherapy left him thin,
bald and listless, is a totally
different 7-year-old boy now,
but one plus was that it hadn’t
gone to his brain.”
Timothy, an active young-
ster who has played in the
Baytown East Little League
since T-ball and was on the
BCA soccer team, has been
undergoing chemotherapy
ever since.
According to his family,
this type of cancer has a high
cure rate, but Timothy’s treat-
ment plan could last as long
as two years.
Hunt, a project manager for
Ex-Lee student and BYU football
player Michael Reed made sure to save
his best for last.
The senior had nine catches for 117
yards in the Cougars’ 31-21 loss to
Arizona in last Saturday’s Las Vegas
Bowl.
R
REED
Jet fined for
throwing snowball
FLORHAM PARK, N.J.
(AP) — New York Jets defen-
sive end Shaun Ellis was
fined $ 10,000 by the NFL for
throwing snow at fans follow-
ing the team’s loss at Seattle
on Sunday.
Several fans threw snow-
balls at New York players and
staff as they walked off the
field after the Seahawks’ 13-3
victory. As he approached the
walkway leading to the locker
room, Ellis reached into a pile
of snow, picked up a laige
chunk and tossed it into the
stands at Qwest Field, appear-
ing to hit at least a few fans.
No one was believed to have
ties? Contact sports editor Dave t*6611 injured.
Rogers by phone at 281-425-8031 Ellis said he wasn’t angry
Pro basketball
• New Orleans at
Orlando, ESPN, 11 a.m.
• San Antonio at
Phoenix, ABC, 1:30 p.m.
• Boston at L.A.
Lakers, ABC, 4 p.m.
• Washington at
Cleveland, TNT, 7:15 p.m.
• Dallas at Portland,
TNT, 9:30 p.m.
“It was a great feel-
ing to finish like
that,” Reed said. “I
just wish we could
have gotten the win
though, because that
is what is most
important.”
It was also Reed’s
best year overall. He
caught 49 passes for 589 yards and two
touchdowns for the 10-3,Cougars this
year.
Reed said one of his most memo-
rable things while being at BYU was
experiencing a snowstorm.
“It was terrible,” he said. “Being
from a place where it doesn’t snow
much made the experience pretty wild.
It was crazy how hard the wind blew
and how hard the snow fell. It makes
you slip all over the place.”
Reed said what he will miss the most
at BYU are all the friends and people
he has met there.
“I’m going to miss going out there
every day with them and being able to
dress as their football teammate,” he
said. “Also, I’ll miss going out there
for practice with them and preparing
for other teams with them all.”
The 6-foot, 1-inch, 201-pound Reed
had 133 catches for 1,613 yards and 10
touchdowns in his four-year BYU
career.
The senior receiver said his plans are
to train for the NFL after the holidays
are over.
“If it was my choice, I’d love to play
for the Cowboys,” he said. “But I will
take being able to play on any team.
“I’m just going to work on my 40
time, three cones, bench pressing 225
(pounds) as much as I can and work on
my vertical. Then I’ll just see what
happens.”
AP Photo/ldaho Statesman, Kerry Maloney
TCU safety Stephen Hodge comes down after an interception
intended for Boise State receiver Julian Hawkins in Tuesday’s game.
deserves it.”
Wilson, who helped
lead the Bulldogs to the
Baytown Christian state semifinals last year,
Academy coach Kade said the head coach at
Johnson said he wasn’t Galveston College, Javier
surprised to hear that Solis, liked his athleti-
Corti1 Wilson had passed cisrn when he tried out
late last summer.
“He said he liked my
bat,” he said. “He also
finally told me he liked my abili-
found a place for him to ty to track down balls in
go, I had no question in the outfield and the route
my mind he would make I took to them.”
the team,” Johnson said.
“After a coach saw the
dedication and attitude of during district and was
Corti, I knew he would
make it.
“I still have the mes-
sage saved from when he
named first-team all dis-
trict and first-team all
state.
Wilson said he feels his
called me to say he made attitude is something he
the team. He was all can bring to the
excited and I could tell it Whitecaps to help them
was a good feeling. He is
a good kid and he
said, “and we’d been to differ-
ent doctors and gotten many
different diagnoses. At first
they thought it was asthma,
then maybe scarlet fever.
“After we were sent to
Baker Road Baptist Church, Texas Childtens Hospital, he
and his wife Melinda, were was diagnosed with juvenile
getting the word that their 12- rheumatoid arthritis. His arm
year-old Timothy, a seventh- was locked in place and he
grader at Baytown Christian had pain all over his body. His
Academy, had been diagnosed fever spiked at Halloween and
v.ith cancer, specifically we took him back to TCH.
T-Cell “That’s when they told us
he had cancer. It had spread
pretty much all over his body,
said. "As long as you learn from it and plays on the winning drive, with Turner
become better for it down the road, we
can live with that."
It was the second time in five years
BSU lost a chance at a perfect season by
losing its bowl game. In 2004, it lost to J^U^standout who sjn his eighth
Louisville in the Liberty Bowl to finish ” " ””
11-1.
The Broncos took a 10-0 lead on Ian
Johnson's 20-yard touchdown run mid-
way through the first quarter, but their
high-scoring offense bogged down
against TCUs tough defense.
TCU (11-2) piled up yards if not
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13-0 for the second time in three seasons, points until finally wearing down the
"It's OK — you're not going to win Broncos' defense in the fourth quarter,
every time," BSU coach Chris Petersen The Homed Frogs moved 80 yards in 10
finishing it off by shedding a tackle
inside the 5-yard line and diving into the
end zone for a 17-13 lead.
LaDainian Tomlinson, the former
........'i season
with the San Diego Chargers, jumped in
celebration and pumped his fist near the
TCU bench.
It was a good night to be a Homed
Frog — current and past.
"Two top defenses, two top offenses in
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