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JH football ready for new league, challenges
letes over the summer he expects 8th grade campaign that finished went 3-5 in A ball and 3-3-1 in
5-1-1 at the 8th-grade level a kids get older the understanding
8th-grade coaches will get to Haney said. “We are very opti-
mistic that being back in a dis-
at a district championship with attacking on a stout offensive
ers to the title.
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SPORTS CALENDAR
ing in a death. Some would have offending boat’s motor restarted.
having served 20 years on the preferred the keys to the jail be It drove off, leaving them adrift in
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relying
on vets
Crosby
tennis
GCCISD costs up
to $7 after 5 p.m.
on game nights
Former NBA player and coach John Lucas speaks at Goose Creek Memorial High School as part of the VisitBay-
town.com Winslow Invitational, powered by Highlands Sports Association on Saturday. (submitted photo)
Delivering a message
Legends speak to
local hoop dreamers
comes from several things. First
off maturity from being a 7th
grader to an 8th grader. As the
He believes his team, Gentry,
Cedar Bayou and Baytown Ju-
release from probation of a man
convicted of a hit-and-run boating
case on Lake Buchanan result-
Horace Mann aims to change
the narrative after an 0-8 cam-
paign and head coach Claude
Garrison is optimistic that will
we have some new additions to
the program. I feel like this team
has a chance to make a splash.
“I feel we have gotten faster
and are starting to understand
At the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Commission in August, the sec-
ond annual Prosecutor of the Year
Award was presented to a gentle-
man named Wiley McAfee. He
goes by “Sonny” and is the Dis-
trict Attorney for Blanco, Burnet,
Llano and San Saba Counties.
TPWD created this award to
honor prosecutors that had been
particularly active in game, fish
and park enforcement cases. Mr.
McAfee’s district encompasses a
high population of white-tailed
Tuesday
September 3, 2019
a
work with athletes they’ve built
some success around as teams hit
the gridiron.
Highlands travels to Horace
ground for poachers.
McAfee was well -suited to be
a district attorney since he had
a law enforcement background,
The North Channel National
Conference football season be-
gins tonight as nine junior high
teams hold hopes of making a
run to a title.
A number of new faces dot the
7th grade teams’ rosters while
to slot into the secondary while
the team needs to work on its of-
fensive prowess via the ground
and air.
He also noted that his team,
Bay town Junior, Gentry and
Crosby should be favored to
challenge for the new league ti-
tle.
Michael Contreras takes over
at Baytown Junior which went
Woods, Water & Wildlife: The blue boat revisited
BY ALAN DALE
alan.dale@baytownsun.com
BY ALAN DALE
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BY ALAN DALE
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TODAY
TEAM TENNIS
REL at GCM, 3
Lamar at RSS, 3
Texas City at Crosby, 3:30
VOLLEYBALL
Lee College at Wharton
College, 6
Galveston at BCA, 6
Barbers Hill at Concordia
Lutheran, 6:30
RELatC.E. King, 6:30
GCM at Tarkington, 6:30
Deweyville at Anahuac, 6:30
Lumberton at Crosby, 6:30
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9,
year ago.
“They are starting to come
around,” Contreras said. “They
are getting each practice and
the retuning players are helping
THURSDAY
FOOTBALL
Splendora vs. REL, 7
Crosby at Manvel, 7
VOLLEYBALL
Eagle Heights at BCA, 6
Anahuac at YMBL
Tournament
North, Baytown Junior High is on the line and good speed and but they will need skill players to nior will be the biggest challeng-
Gentry head coach Steven assignments and responsibilities
Albritton will lead a squad that better.”
had gone fishing one night near Lindeman meticulously studied rector of the Texas Chapter of The
Eighth grade preview
Christopher Haney leads the
Cedar Bayou 8th graders who
come up after a 5-3 7th-grade ‘A’
team season and a 5-3 ‛B‛ team
campaign.
“This group has had great
practices up to this point,”
trict with Crosby, Dayton, and teach the new players.”
Mann, Gentry is at Barbers Hill both groups. We have good size line, according to their coach,
The Crosby Cougars ten-
nis team is hoping to make
the most of a potentially
difficult situation.
Sixth year head coach
Stephen Olmstead will
enter the campaign with a
roster thin on numbers, but
still plenty of optimism af-
ter a 5-3 season that saw
the Cougars finish sixth in
District 22-5A a year ago.
Six returners are back
including Layla Tovar,
who earned second-team
All-District last season
while Emily Daly earned
honorable mention.
“Both are going to be
playing up a few spots
higher on this year’s lad-
der but push each other in
workouts to do better,” Ol-
mstead said.
The one thing Olmstead
acknowledges is that his
roster will be young and/
or extremely new to Cros-
by varsity team which will
make the long-time coach
work from scratch.
“The boys will be almost
an entirely new squad with
only one returner,” Olm-
stead said. “The rest are
coming from sub varsity
last season. The kids will
work very hard to play
well in every match.”
A year ago they just
missed a bi-district spot as
Robert E. Lee eked out the
fourth and final spot. Ol-
mstead is pragmatic about
getting back in the post-
season.
“We are just going to
take it one match at a
time,” Olmstead said. “We
are in a very difficult dis-
trict and it will be a tough
match for us every week.”
Houston Police Force. This no
doubt aided in investigating and
preparing felony cases.
Several high-profile cases
have arisen in his district. One their graduation. One was a boy boating accidents and became an Wildlife Society, and author of
involved the conviction of an in- planning to attend A&M to study expert. Many tips and witnesses two books on Texas hunting.
John Jefferson is a lifelong
outdoorsman, former regulations
coordinator at Texas Parks and
Wildlife Dept., past executive di-
ed intervention programs that focus "I wanted to organize this to give
on education and enrichment, the children of Baytown access to
“The motivation is to let kids the same individuals that players,
know about this and just even reach coaches and children in Houston
one,” Winslow said. “It’s also about have access to,” Johnson said. “This
toxicated boater to be a game warden. They were were investigated. Posters asked
who crashed into expected to be home by a certain for infonnation. Time passed, but
a Marble Falls time but called their parents for no suspect surfaced.
police captain permission to stay a little longer. Ten years later, someone over-
during a holiday The fish had just started biting. heard a conversation at a party
weekend. Am- As they were fishing, a boat about a local man who once had
other case that roared through the darkness to- a blue boat that no one had seen
infuriated many ward them. It crashed over their lately. She called a game warden
come the challenges that society send, you can’t bring it back. You from people who have excelled at
can bring, especially with the added got to be able to be to understand the high school, collegiate and pro
pressure of being atop athlete. what you are putting out there and playing and coaching levels, only
Winslow, who was a part of the be accountable for it. enhances those messages, Ebow
legendary Phi Slama Jamma Cou- “I could take a lot of things be- said. “It was great for the communi-
gar teams in the mid-80s and a local cause I knew who I was and I grew ty to have all these different speak-
high school product out of Houston up around a lot of older people, lis- ers come from different parts of the
Yates High School, is the founder of tening to what different people had basketball world,” Ebow said. “Just
the Rickie O’Neal Winslow Devel- to say. My skin was really tough, to have the kids come out and hear
opment of Youth (Rowdy) Founda- but sometimes you got to take what different, opinionated voices is not
tion Inc - started in 2013 - which people throw at you and life chai- a bad thing.”
the next morning. The girl was jail and probation.
still in the fishing boat and later McAfee successfully opposed
remembered seeing a blue boat a motion for early release as a
striking them. Blue paint scrapes “model probationer”. He hadn’t
were also found on their fishing been D.A. during the first trial,
boat. She remembered hearing the Too bad he wasn’t.
of the gets better and we are able happen.
to get into more of the X’s and “This group is hard working
O’s.” and motivated to learn and get
Smith has 38 kids to work with better every day,” Garrison said.
and he notes the importance of “We have some good returning
regular attendance will only help young men from 7th grade and
It’s all about access.
That’s why the VisitBaytown.
com Winslow Invitational, pow- awareness, growth and fundamental is the first time we have had a panel
ered by Highlands Sports Associa- skills of the game. of this sort and magnitude come and
tion, took place this weekend with “The biggest challenge today is speak to the students of the Goose
a myriad of events including a sym- understanding the game. There are Creek school district.”
posium, camp and 3-on-3 basket- so many things getting in the way of Last year, Baytown hosted an
ball tournament that included three that opportunity. Today, they have AAU basketball tournament that
dozen youths. It also gave them the social media and you got a lot of hosted 42 teams from across the
opportunity to meet and interact AAU coaches in your ear preaching country, according to Johnson. He
with a handful of former NBA-con- how good you are. It’s also import- added that some former NBA play-
nected individuals including current ant to make sure they are grateful to ers were at the Toyota dealership in
Houston Rockets assistant and for- family.” Baytown to be a part of a meet and
mer player, John Lucas and former Winslow was a highly recruited greet event.
Houston Cougars basketball player prep player in his day, and he rec- Marcus Ebow, head coach of the
Rickie Winslow - father of current ognizes his time would have been Goose Creek Memorial boys bas-
NBA star Justise Winslow. much more difficult with those dis- ketball team said the event offered
Lucas, who battled addiction as tractions. different types of angles to be spo-
a younger man while coaching and "It would have been really hard ken about when it comes to keeping
playing and others, spoke to those because there is so much out there,” one’s personal orders in check.
in the audience about how to over- Winslow said. “Once you push “To have those messages come
at Crosby and Dayton travels to power at the running back and step up, he said.
Cedar Bayou with Barbers Hill fullback positions.” Highlands Junior High is ex-
South gets a by in the 8th-grade Haney has added some ath- pecting to bounce back from an
3-5. Seventh-year head coach B ball.
Trevor Smith feels this team “I think the 8th grade group
looks good through the presea- has matured and should definite-
son. ly have a better season than last
“We are light in numbers but year,” Albritton said. “They have
the talent is definitely there,” worked hard to get stronger and
Smith said. “I believe we can do faster and that should carry over
great things this year. Our growth onto the field.”
aims to eradicate illiteracy and lenges as well.”
expand computer know-how and City of Baytown, District 3 coun-
success among children and adults. cilman Charles Johnson helped get
They reach out to children, adoles- the event off the ground and was
cents and adults through coordinat- proud of what it offered.
| ________ | Texans was boat, knocking the girl uncon- the next day.
AUN the defacing of scious, knocking one boy into the The suspect broke down during
--nM boulders at En- water and killing the prospective the interrogation and confessed.
JEFFERSON chanted Rock game warden. The boy knocked His land was excavated and the
State Natural into the water was suffering from blue boat unearthed. Convicted,
Area. Guess the local water tower hypothermia when found alive he was sentenced to 100 days in
thrown away in that one. the dark.
Three popular Lampasas high A massive effort was launched
school kids - two boys and a girl by law enforcement. Warden Jim
Barbers Hill, we will have a shot Baytown Junior will center its the team make a push.
deer, Rio Grande turkeys and had already been painted.
several of the Highland Lakes But most recently, he success-
chocked full of game fish - fertile fully opposed a motion for early
FRIDAY
FOOTBALL
South Houston vs. GCM, 7
RSS at Aldine Nimitz, 7
BCA at Brazosport
Christian, 7
Montgomery at Barbers
Hill, 7:30
Anahuac at Edna, 7:30
Dayton at Galena Park,
7:30
Nine teams set for games. . .
The seventh-grade games
North Channel play; will take place with the same
Iys cp . . . matchups with the home fields
NICK Oil at • tonight reversed. All game times are set
for a 5 p.m. kickoff.
Individual game tickets
for all three Goose Creek
CISD individual high
school football games are
now on sale online.
Tickets for all games
scheduled for Stallworth
Stadium that are purchased
during the week of the game
will cost $5 for adult gener-
al admission and $3 for stu-
dent general admission up
until 5 p.m. on the night of
each individual game.
Adi tickets sold at Stall-
worth Stadium after 5 p.m.
the night of the game will
be $7. They can also be pur-
chased online after 5 p.m.
For GCM tick-
ets visit https://www.
eventbrite.com/o/goose-
cr eek-m emori al-high -
school-13644792601;
For Sterling tickets go to
https://www.eventbrite.
com/o/ross-s-sterling-
high-school-13645690845
and for REL tickets go to
https://www.eventbrite.
com/o/robert-e-lee-high-
school-13645762342.
Robert E. Lee hosts
Splendora 7 p.m. Thursday
while GCM hosts South
Houston, 7 p.m. Friday.
Barbers Hill ticket sales
will start on Wednesday
and end on Friday 4 p.m. of
each week.
Adult tickets are $5 and
student tickets are $3 at the
BHISD Tax Office.
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