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“Our kids will compete,” Toomer
said. “At times they are thinking and
The gloves will come off for Ster-
ling at 7 p.m. Friday night when it
travels to Challenger Stadium to
face Clear Creek. The Rangers have
played it close to the vest during its
two scrimmages in an attempt to
find some playmakers. Now that the
There is uncertainty on special
teams, which have not been live in
scrimmages. The coaching staff is
preparing the teams for the game.
One big factor for Sterling is con-
ditioning. Toomer said there was an
emphasis on it during the first half
of the week. Another factor will be
the defense’s ability to force the issue
Friday night. Toomer said his philos-
ophy is live by the blitz and die by
the blitz. Ability to provide pressure
will give the secondary an opportuni-
strides as he has adjusted to play-
ing at the varsity level. Lane has
improved on planting and heading
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appears to be the perfect season
opener for the Goose Creek Memo-
rial football program.
Submitted photo
The Sterling JV volleyball team finished runner-up in the GCCISD Tournament last week.
The Lady Rangers beat Tarkington and Crosby and fell to Huffman. The team coached by
Melanie Joseph was led by Laila Rojas, Rebecca Villarreal, Kaitlyn Guidry and Makaylah
Stephens.
Submitted photo by Kim Keefer
The GCM secondary reacts to a pass during a scrimmage against Hardin-Jefferson. The Patriots will look for big plays
tonight when they travel to Pasadena to play Sam Rayburn.
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have a pretty good squad led by the
offensive line. They have two re-
turning running backs and receivers.
They look like they are on the same
page and know what they want to
do.”
Toomer said the two teams are
similar on offense, which makes it
easier to prepare for. The Wildcats
Rayburn failed to win a game last along.”
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forward to roster
SAN ANTONIO (AP)
— The San Antonio
Spurs have signed Quin-
cy Pondexter, adding a
forward in the same week
veteran star Manu Gino-
bili announced his retire-
ment.
The 6-foot-7 Pondex-
ter spent last season with
the Chicago Bulls, aver-
aging 2.0 points and 1.2
rebounds in 8.5 minutes
in 23 games. The sev-
en-year NBA veteran out
of Washington has aver-
aged 5.0 points and 2.0
rebounds in 17.3 minutes
over 302 total games with
Oklahoma City, New Or-
leans, Memphis and Chi-
cago.
Ginobili announced his
decision to retire Mon-
day.
TODAY
Football
GCM at Pasadena Sam Rayburn,
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BCA at BVCHEA, 7
Volleyball
Dayton, Crosby at Santa Fe
Tournament
FRIDAY
Football
Westbury at Lee, 7 p.m.
Magnolia at BH, 7:30 p.m.
Tarkington at Anahuac, 7:30
Sterling at Clear Creek, 7:30
Friendswood at Dayton, 7:30
Crosby at New Caney
Volleyball
GCM at Lumberton, 6:30 p.m.
Huffman at BH, 6:30 p.m.
Crosby at Dayton, 7
Hull Daisetta at Anahuac, 4:30
Sterling at Lamar, 6:30 p.m.
Tennis
Dayton at Lee, 4
Clear Springs at Sterling, 3:30
Gross country
GCM girls at S. Houston, 8 a.m.
RSS at Village Park, 7:30 a.m.
“We will need better discipline
and avoid unnecessary penalties,”
Registration open
for v-ball league
The Texas Eastside
Volleyball Club will host
a developmental volley-
ball league for girls and
boys in the third through
sixth grade. The cost is
$80 and the league is at
Cedar Bayou Junior High
located at 2610 E. Elvinta
Street in Baytown.
The league is from
6:30 to 8 p.m. and starts
Sept. 4 and will take
place Sept. 11, 18 and 25.
Registration is available
online at www.texaseast-
sidevolleyball. com.
Manziel able to
return to action
MONTREAL (AP) —
Johnny Manziel is out
of the Canadian Football
League’s concussion pro-
tocol and is expected to
back up Antonio Pipkin
in the Montreal Alou-
ettes’ game Friday night
at Ottawa.
Manziel was cleared
to come off concussion
protocol Tuesday. The
Heisman Trophy-winning
quarterback has missed
two games.
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_______________________________________________________ is leading the Wildcats. Lane turned
Baytown Sun photo by Michael Pineda around the South Houston program
,, , and led it to a third-place finish in
The Sterling defense pursues a Pearland quarterback District 22-6A last season
during a scrimmage. The Rangers will open the season Fri- We have been looking at them,”
day against Clear Creek. Toomer said. “We scouted them in
HOUSTON — After the
Houston Astros wrapped
up their season series with
the Oakland Athletics on
Wednesday, manager A.J.
Hinch likened the last three
games to a heavyweight ti-
tle fight.
His Astros won two of
three to take the belt for
now, but he knows that
they’ll have to play well
down the stretch to fend
off the Athletics for the AL
West title.
“We have a lot of games
to play, a lot of games to
win,” Hinch said. “This
one feels like a big one ob-
viously to send them out of
town a little beat up from
the losses. But, also their
bullpen is a little beat up,
ours is, too. It felt like kind
of a heavyweight battle.”
The Astros gave the Ath-
letics just their second se-
ries defeat in their last 21
series when Tyler White
homered with one out in the
ninth inning to give Hous-
ton a 5-4 victory.
“It was a spirited series,
really closely fought,”
A’s manager Bob Melvin
said. “It was pretty evenly
matched, both teams are
playing really hard this
time of the year, which
you’d expect. If I’m a fan
watching these games, I’d
be pretty entertained.”
White, who also homered
Monday, sent a pitch from
Jeurys Familia (4-1) to the
seats in left field. The vic-
tory moves Houston 2 1/2
games ahead of Oakland
atop the AL West.
“You want to get a win
against those guys in any
way possible,” White said.
“It’s a good team but we
come out here and we battle
every day and we give our-
selves a chance to win and I
was just lucky enough to be
the guy today.”
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stakes are higher, Sterling will unveil like to run the ball and use it to set
more of the playbook. up the pass.
Both Clear Creek and Sterling During the scrimmages, the de-
have new coaches this season. Rob- fense has struggled in the secondary.
Fisher’s A&M debut tonight
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Coach Jimbo
Fisher makes his debut at Texas A&M on tonight night
against Northwestern State in what will be his team’s
only tuneup before a huge test against second-ranked
Clemson.
Fisher left Florida State for a 10-year, $75 million
contract with the Aggies that comes with the expecta-
tion that he’ll elevate Texas A&M into college foot-
ball’s elite.
The Aggies haven’t reached double-digit wins since
Johnny Manziel helped them to an 11-2 record in his
Heisman Trophy-winning season in 2012. They went
7-5 and 4-4 in the Southeastern Conference last season,
leaving them with plenty of work to do to.
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fense and will carry the team until not reacting. But now its time to turn
our defense catches up,” he said. them loose.”
The front end will need to help Challenger Stadium is located at
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During a scrimmage last week at receiver.
against Dayton, the Patriots let emo- Jones said sophomore running
tions get carried away at times and it back Brice Lane has also made
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season, going 0-8 and welcomes The coaching staff has also understand they have to play phys-
back seven starters. Having posted worked to clean up mistakes that ical Jones said. The physical play
one win in the last two seasons, the were made. He said the team did a will also extend to working against
Patriots are not about to take any- good job in the scrimmage of mak- the Rayburn receivers.
thing for granted and are preparing ing adjustments once problem areas Rayburn likes to move the ball on
for a hard-fought game. At 7 p.m. were identified. the ground and eat up clock out of
this evening at Veterans Memori- “The coaching staff is doing a the flex-bone. The Patriots will try
al Stadium, something will have to good job of adjusting and the kids to put Raybum in 3rd and long situ-
give. have responded,” he said. ations. Defensively, the Texans will
“They are big and physical,” The Patriots moved the ball bet- work out of a 3-4, similar to GCM.
GCM head coach Bren Jones said, ter toward the end of the scrimmage “They are not bad on defense,”
“They are fired up and we will have and want to pick up where they left Jones said. “The offensive line will
to be sure we execute.” off. Emerson Haywood and Reggie have to make their assignments.”
That includes maintaining com- Branch will both see time at quar- Veterans Memorial Stadium is at
posure and avoiding silly mistakes. terback and have also been a threat 2906 Dabney Drive in Pasadena.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 169, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 2018, newspaper, August 30, 2018; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1451125/m1/5/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.