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HOW TO REACH US
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ries or ideas for future sports sto-
ries? Contact Sports Editor Doyle
Barlow by phone at 281-425-8031
or send him an e-mail at sports®
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Today
Boxing
• Jose A. Santa Cruz vs.
Luis Arceo and Austin Trout
vs. Raul Munoz, TeleFutura, 7
p.m.
• Peterson vs. Garza,
ESPN2, 8 p.m.
• Jean P. Mendy vs. Anthony
HanshaW’and Nick Casal vs.
Jose Antonio Izquierdo, ,
Showtime, 10 p.m.
College basketball
• Rider at Marist, ESPNU, 6
p.m.
Pro basketball
• Dallas at San Antonio,
ESPN, 7 p.m. /
• Utah at Rockets, FSNH,.
7:30 p.m.
• Miami at Phoenix, ESPN,
9:30 p.m.
Progolf "
• PGA: Mercedes
Championships, Golf, 5 p.m.
Pro tennis
• Hopman Cup finals,
Tennis,. 3 a.m.
• Mondial Women’s
Hardcourts finals, Tennis, 7:30
p.m.
• Next Generation Adelaide
semifinals, Tennis, 9:30 p.m.
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Today
High school basketball
• Sterling girls vs. Lee girls
atLee College, 5:30 p.m.
• Sterling boys vs. Lee boys
at Lee College, 7 p.m.
• Barbers Hill girls at New
Caney, 4:30 p.m. (freshmen), 6
p.m. (JV), 7:30 p.m. (varsity)
• Crosby girls at C.E. King,
4:30 p.m. (freshmen), 6 p.m.
(JV), 7:30 p.m. (varsity)
• C.E. King boys at Crosby,
4:30 p.m. (freshmen), 6 p.m:
(JV), 7:30 p.m. (varsity)
• New Caney boys at
Barbers Hill, 4:30 p.m. (fresh-
men), 6 p.m. (JV), 7:30 p.m.
(varsity)
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B.E.LL to host
preseason clinic
Baytown East Little League
will be hosting a preseason
clinic Jan. 20. Several of
Baytown’s own professional
players, as well as coaches
from the Lee and Sterling high
school programs, will be con-
ducting lessons on hitting,
fielding, pitching, and catch-
ing. The clinic is open to ages
6-13 and costs $45 per child.
However registrations post-
marked by Jan. 3 will receive a
$5 discount. The clinic will be
held at the .Wayne Gray
Softball Complex located at
. 5117 N. Main from 12-3 p.m.
A host of other activities
will be going on as well
including a homerun derby,
raffle of autographed sports
memorabilia, and an autograph
session from 3-4 p.m. with
Channelview native Chris
Sampson of the' Houston
Astros.
The day will end with an
alumnus vs. celebrity softball
game. For more information
please contact Jessica Schrock
at 281-420-0072 or visit the
BELL website at
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Friday, January 5,2007
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Suleyman finds a home in Baytown
SEE BOXER • PAGE 8
LEE VS. STERLING AT LEE COLLEGE, 5:30 P.M. (GIRLS), 7 P.M. (BOYS)
A time to lead
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top amateurs in the world by winning one
European Championship and getting the silver
three times. Suleyman also, got silver at the 1995
World Championships.
Suleyman moved to Turkey in 1992 from
the rushing title.
Noting that Hornung was also a kick-
er, Tomlinson said, “To be able to break
that record that stood for 40 some years
by scoring touchdowns, 1 think for me
is a huge accomplishment. I think lead-
ing the league in rushing solidifies your
position as being a running back.”
AU of those are merely numbers —
impressive numbers, but just stats.
Tomlinson’s attributes go way beyond
that as a solid citizen and a player who
lets his on-field actions represent him.
“It couldn’t happen to a better person,
a man who is the face and the perfect
representative of the National Football
League,” fullback Lorenzo Neal said.
“He represents what every player
should be.”
Few players have approached what
Tomlinson achieved as San Diego won
SEE LT. • PAGE 8
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LaDainian Tomlinson, who set the
NFL single-season record for TDs
with 31 and rushed for a league-
high 1,815 yards, was named The
Associated Press NFL Most
Valuable Player.
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LaDainian.Tomlinson. SO
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MVP: L.T.
Record-setting LaDainian Tomlinson
of the San Diego Chargers ran away
with The Associated Press NFL Most
Valuable Player award Thursday the way completions for
he eluded defenders in leading his team
to the AFC’s best record (14-2) and a
favorite’s role for the Super Bowl;
“When you’re MVP of the league, it’s
a great accomplishment,” Tomlinson
said, adding the honor means “that I’ve
had a great year, that’s all, on a great
team.”
But with so much more on the hori-
zon, he hopes.
“I would feel so much better about
winning if we win the Super Bowl. It
would feel like it would be everything,”
Tomlinson said.
BY DOYLE BARLOW
doyle.barlow@baytownsun.com
Sterling’s Audri Garcia might only be a high
school junior, but she’s old enough to remember
the good, ol’ days. For her, they were only a
year ago.
It was only last season that Garcia was the
only underclassman to start on a talented, sea-
’ soned Lady Ranger team which featured four
seniors and posted a record of 29-4. So far this
season, RSS has struggled through growing pains,
as they’re off to a 6-13 mark and are 0-4 in District
21-5A play. As the only returning starter, Garcia
knows that part of her job now is to be a leader, not
just a complementary player.
Bk “I’m quiet and shy but I knew I had to step
out of my comfort zone and be a leader and
really focus on the team,” Garcia said.
“Last year I really looked up to the
seniors. It got to the point last year
where last year where 1 thought we
were going to win all the time and I
might have taken it for granted a
little bit.”
This season has made Garcia
appreciate winning even
Mk more and she’s very
optimistic about the
direction the Lady
Rangers are going
■B in for the rest of
? this campaign,
f ■ “We had to get
/ used to playing
Bk with each
■ J other,” she
f said.
“We’re
coming
NEW YORK — Spell this year s NFL ajso threw for two scores, had one of
the greatest seasons in NFL history. He
rushed for a league-high 1,815 yards on
348 carries, had 56 receptions for 508
yards and was 2-for-3 as a passer, both
- scores, giving the
Chargers running back six in his six-
year career, tying him for second
among non-quarterbacks.
“It just kind of got on a roll,”
Tomlinson explained. “Touchdowns, as
they say, come in bunches. That was
kind of the way it happened. It seemed
like once we started scoring that we
couldn’t stop.”
Of all his records and accomplish-
ments this year, L-T, said the highlights
were breaking Paul Hornung’s single-
season scoring record — Tomlinson fin-
ished with 186 points — and winning
Baytown. It is very quiet here.”
Suleyman has been training with Lopez for the
last three months. The two met each other a cou-
ple of years ago when he came out to Baytown to
work out and spar.
“We have a perfect style,” Suleyman said. “We
have a close relationship and my fighting style is
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BY MICHAEL PINEDA
michael.pineda@baytownsun.com
CROSBY — The Crosby girls soccer
team only has three starters returning
from the 2006 season
but still has their
sights set on the play-
'IjjWT' offs this season. The
Lady Cougars will be
jGr a defense-oriented
team early in the sea-
son, but will look for their offense to
catch up by the time District 21 -4A
rolls around.
“Defense is our strength,” CHS head
' coach Michael Keql said. “It will keep
us in a lot of games. The offense is
going to get there but right now we are
inexperienced.”
Crosby will enter the season with
only two seniors on the roster. The
bulk of the team lies in the junior and
sophomore class. Despite the youth
and inexperience, the Lady Cougars
have several positives to fall back on.
“The attitudes are a lot better, the
chemistry is better,” Keel said. “We
don’t have much size but we are quick.
It’s one team instead of 11 individuals.
They want to work together and they
want to improve?^
Junior goalkeeper Mackenzie Fowler
who is one of four captains on the
team will anchor the defense. Fowler
garnered all-district mention last sea-
son and received the most votes in the
voting for captaincy. t
“Mackenzie has started since her
freshman year,” Keel said. “She is the
quarterback, she directs everything.
She is vocal on the field and knows
what she is talking about.”
Fowler will receive help in the mid-
dle of the defense from backs Dana
Nassar and Amanda Franta. Both
Nassar and Franta are returning starters
from last season. Nassar will move
from the outside to sweeper and Franta
Tomlinson captures NFL MVP award
BY BARRY WILMER
AP Football Writer
with eight wins coming by knockout. He will have Olympics twice. The boxer then moved to the
his hands full against an up and coming boxer in United States in 2001 and has lived in the
Martinez, who is 11-0 with six knockouts. Houston area for most of that time. Suleyman
“They are looking for a test,” Juan Lopez, now lives in Baytown.
Suleyman’s trainer, said. “But we would like to “I feel blessed by God that I live in the United
think our guy is better. If he wins there is a possi- States,” Suleyman said. “I love Texas and 1 love
months.”
BY MICHAEL PINEDA
michael.pineda@baytownsiin.com '
BAYTOWN — Nurhan Suleyman has been „ ______________„______
around the world and then some. Now 35, the ex-. fessional'level he established himself as one of the
Olympic boxer has made a home in Baytown
where he is preparing for an upcoming bout
against Gabriel Martinez. The fight will be in
Odessa and will be broadcast on Telemundb on
Jan. 12th. ________________ _________
Suleyman will enter the fight with a 16-6 record Kazakhstan and represented Turkey in the
Lady Coogs
soccer team
look to
Suleyman’s trainer, said. “But we would like to
bility that he will fight on the main event in two
Although Suleyman has few fights on the pro-
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